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MUScoop => Hangin' at the Al => Topic started by: ZiggysFryBoy on August 31, 2010, 01:34:22 PM
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http://www.marquette.edu/presidentialsearch/ (http://www.marquette.edu/presidentialsearch/)
congrats to PRN. now get warriors back. ;D
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MILWAUKEE – Rev. Scott R. Pilarz, S.J., president of the University of Scranton, Tuesday was named the 23rd president of Marquette University. He will assume his duties in summer 2011, succeeding Rev. Robert A. Wild, S.J., who announced in March that he would retire next year after 15 years as Marquette president.
The Marquette Board of Trustees unanimously elected Pilarz at a special board meeting Tuesday. Marquette bylaws require that a Jesuit lead the university. Pilarz is one of the eight Jesuits who serves on the Marquette Board of Trustees, which he has done since September 2009.
In announcing the selection, Board Chair Darren Jackson said, “Father Pilarz demonstrates enormous passion for the mission of Catholic, Jesuit education and boasts a record of accomplishment, both as an educator and as a leader, that speaks directly to Marquette’s commitment to excellence. He is the right person to lead our continued growth as one of the nation’s top Catholic universities.”
“Marquette enjoys a national reputation for its pursuit of academic excellence and for the way its students, faculty and alumni live out the principles of Catholic, Jesuit education,” said Pilarz. “I have tremendous respect for Father Wild and the remarkable accomplishments of the entire Marquette community during his presidency. The opportunity to lead this institution at a time of such momentum and promise is both exciting and humbling. As difficult as it will be to leave the community I have grown to love at Scranton, I am honored to have been chosen.”
A respected teacher and scholar, Pilarz, 51, became Scranton’s 24th president in 2003, following his service at Georgetown University, where he spent six years on the English faculty before being asked, in 2002, to serve for one year as interim University Chaplain, a position that included membership in the President’s Cabinet. He was chosen by the graduating class of 1999 to receive the Edward B. Bunn, S.J., Award for Faculty Excellence, an award that recognizes outstanding teaching and service. In 2002, he was recognized by the Georgetown Alumni Association with the William Gaston Award for Outstanding Service. In 2009, he received Georgetown’s John Carroll Award, which honors alumni whose achievements exemplify the traditions and ideas of the university.
During his time at Scranton, the university has earned national recognition for academic quality, community engagement and student success, achieving record admissions and undertaking the largest construction projects in its more than 120 year history. Guided by a 2005-2010 Strategic Plan – Pride, Passion, Promise: Shaping Our Jesuit Tradition, Scranton constructed a new campus center, sophomore residence hall and campus green space. A new residence hall and fitness center complex and an $83 million unified science center are set for completion in the fall of 2011.
Pilarz has provided dedicated support for research by new faculty, developed the President’s Colloquy for Presidential Scholars, and established seminars focused on Jesuit education. The university’s progress has been supported by the Pride, Passion, Promise Campaign, the goal for which was raised in January from $100 to $125 million in response to its success. While at Scranton, he has continued to teach a course each semester.
“Marquette is thrilled to have recruited a Jesuit with Father Pilarz’s academic credentials as a teacher and scholar, his dynamic approach to change and growth and his deep commitment to the importance of the liberal arts in higher education,” said Mary Ellen Stanek, immediate past chair of the Marquette Board of Trustees who chaired the Presidential Search Committee. “I believe we have found in Father Pilarz a superstar who will continue the momentum Marquette has had during Father Wild’s tenure.”
Father Pilarz is the author of a book, Robert Southwell, S.J., and the Mission of Literature 1561-1595: Writing Reconciliation, and has written numerous articles on Southwell, an English poet, John Donne and medieval drama. He has served as a lecturer in the philosophy department of Sts. Peter & Paul Seminary at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, and was appointed to the English faculty of St. Joseph’s University in 1994, before joining the Georgetown faculty in 1996. He was one of 38 individuals profiled by Ronald Shapiro in The New York Times bestseller Dare to Prepare: How to Win Before You Begin, citing his successful approach to fund raising and leadership as a university president. In 2010, he was awarded an Honorary Degree from King’s College, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
A native of Camden, N.J., Pilarz entered the Society of Jesus in 1981 and was ordained a priest in 1992. He received his bachelor’s degree in English from Georgetown University, and a master’s degree in philosophy from Fordham University, New York. He received masters’ degrees in divinity and theology from the Weston School of Theology, Cambridge, Mass. He went on to earn a Ph.D. in English at the City University of New York.
Pilarz serves on the boards of Boston College, Scranton Tomorrow and Scranton Preparatory School and as president of the board of Camden Catholic High School, from which he graduated. From 2007 to 2010 he represented the 28 schools that are part of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities on the American Council on Education Board of Directors. His professional memberships include the Academy of American Poets, the John Donne Society, the Renaissance Society of America, the Shakespeare Association of America, the Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society, the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences and the Modern Language Association.
He is the son of Joseph and Joan Pilarz, Voorhees, N.J. His sister, Susan, and brother-in-law, Joseph Lappin, reside in Lewisville, Texas, with their two children, Carly and Joey.
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I just heard that the new Marquette president is going to be Father Scott Pilarz who is currently the president of University of Scranton. Anyone know anything about him?
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Edit: This is the email to alumni.
Dear Marquette Community:
With great pride and enthusiasm, the Board of Trustees announces that we have elected Rev. Scott R. Pilarz, S.J., as the 23rd president of Marquette University. He will succeed the Rev. Robert A. Wild, S.J., who announced in March that he would retire next year after 15 years as Marquette president. You can read the official university news release here. (http://www.marquette.edu/presidentialsearch/)
The input offered by the more than 500 individuals, including alumni, parents and friends, who participated either online or in listening sessions, contributed to the development of a Presidential Profile that, in turn, guided our search. The Marquette community played an integral role in shaping our future, as people shared their dreams and hopes for Marquette’s next president: a commitment to academic excellence and to students. A belief in our Catholic, Jesuit mission and our call to “be the difference” in the world. A sense of our proud history and traditions, including in athletics.
The Marquette community set a high bar for us, as did the precedent of Fr. Wild’s tremendous leadership. We can say with confidence that Fr. Pilarz is the right person to lead Marquette University at this moment as we, as a community, pursue ever-greater heights of excellence, faith, leadership and service.
He will assume his duties in summer 2011. We look forward to the chance you’ll have to get to know and welcome him, just as he gets to know the extended Marquette family. In the meantime, please read a message from Fr. Pilarz. (http://www.marquette.edu/alumni/enews/about-23.php)
We Are Marquette.
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http://www.marquette.edu/presidentialsearch/ Bio, etc. is on the page.
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Edit: man, you mods are on point today :D
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http://www.marquette.edu/presidentialsearch/ (http://www.marquette.edu/presidentialsearch/)
congrats to PRN. now get warriors back. ;D
You mean we actually are capable of doing national searches? /Rimshot
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You mean we actually are capable of doing national searches? /Rimshot
Where else but at the University of Scranton would a national search logically conclude? If only we could have hired their bball coach as part of the package any talk of MU not being a "destination" school would have been quashed forever.
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a Pollack from South Jersey????
doesn't have enough z's in his last name, though.
either way,
I'm on board!
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dwade must have had to sign off on the decision yesterday before it became official
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I can't wait to see this president transform Marquette as he did Scranton. Their online classes have earned them a lot of recognition and perhaps this will be the next step towards showing the dinosaurs who have opposed online based classes what the future reality of education really is.
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You mean we actually are capable of doing national searches? /Rimshot
Well, he's on MU's Board of Trustees.
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I bet he drives a camaro
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Congratulations on a GREAT hire. He will take Marquette to the next level.
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His dog, Jack, is the same Jack that was the Georgetown mascot from 99-03
http://traditions.georgetown.edu/jack/
http://www.marquette.edu/presidentialsearch/questionsandanswers.php
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His dog, Jack, is the same Jack that was the Georgetown mascot from 99-03
http://traditions.georgetown.edu/jack/
http://www.marquette.edu/presidentialsearch/questionsandanswers.php
Pilarz is to Jack as Wade is to IU Shorts
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Great pick for president. You guys got a good one and yes the former jack the bull dog is his pet and he took him with him to scranton, and now I'm sure he'll follow him to marquette.
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My fear that the new president wouldn't understand the importance of maintaining the investment in the Basketball program is somewhat relieved by this hire.
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Scranton?
The choice must have been between him or Michael Scott, the "Office" manager.
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The real question is whether he'll take us from U.S. News' NIT rating into U.S. News' NCAA rating.
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Inside info. I hear he is planning on living in the dorms to be "among the students". Also, he still has the old Georgetown dog, and is bringing him to MU. Heard this from a high up person in university advancement, so I'm pretty sure its legit.
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Inside info. I hear he is planning on living in the dorms to be "among the students".
(http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm232/mintkiller/facepalm.jpg)
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I just heard that the new Marquette president is going to be Father Scott Pilarz who is currently the president of University of Scranton.
Another eastern PA recruit but this one went to prep school first to ready himself for the BE.
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My fear that the new president wouldn't understand the importance of maintaining the investment in the Basketball program is somewhat relieved by this hire.
For sure... loved this quote:
"Probably most importantly, the Board made it clear to me that being a college basketball fan was basically a prerequisite for the job. Luckily, I was able to clear that hurdle easily. You’re going to see me at Marquette games."
http://www.marquette.edu/presidentialsearch/questionsandanswers.php
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AIN'T NO PARTY LIKE A SCRANTON PARTY!
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(http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm232/mintkiller/facepalm.jpg)
Every res hall does need a hall minister.
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While true, only 3 halls (and one apt) currently have SJ's in house: Fr. Majka in Schroeder, Fr. Zeps in Cobeen, and Fr. Leonhardt in McCabe (Fr. Zagone is also the HM of Humphrey Apt, but rarely does anything with the students).
The truth is that it takes a special kind of Jesuit to be able to stay in the halls long term...even Fr. Majka needed to leave OD so he could have a more secluded apt in Schroeder...though I believe Fr. Zeps has been a HM for quite a long time and Fr. Andy was the HM at McCormick for a while too.
Halls where the Jesuits would live along the same hallway/floor as students (Mashuda, OD, Carpenter, I think Abbottsford) just don't work as well. Straz or McCormick are possibilities as the staff apts are pretty set off from the rest of the students.
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I don't envy any of the hall ministers or hall directors who put up with our crap in McCormick and Schroeder. We made their life hell.
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McCormick was a better place because of Rick Abert and Bill Pauly. Sorry to hear that Jesuit in residence is no longer the norm, but I can imagine it was a harder life.
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Whatever happened to the famous song-writing Jesuit, Dan Schutte?
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Fat chance an outsider will have any pull to get the name changed back. He will tow the line and be a good ol company boy just like Wild
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Whatever happened to the famous song-writing Jesuit, Dan Schutte?
Left the priesthood, got married. In CA?
Best church song ever: "Glory and Praise to our God"
2nd best: anything done by SLU Jesuits
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Left the priesthood, got married. In CA?
currently the Composer-In-Residence at University of San Francisco
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Schutte
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Interview of our president-elect. Definitely worth the watch :)
http://www.youtube.com/v/9Mr-Wlc0wPo
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Inside info. I hear he is planning on living in the dorms to be "among the students". Also, he still has the old Georgetown dog, and is bringing him to MU. Heard this from a high up person in university advancement, so I'm pretty sure its legit.
You will also see him doing beer bongs at various parties in Renee Row this school year to be "among the students."
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Left the priesthood, got married. In CA?
Best church song ever: "Glory and Praise to our God"
2nd best: anything done by SLU Jesuits
I thought Schutte was a member of the St. Louis Jesuits, and that song was also done by them. My parents have a few of their albums, they are actually really good musicians and song writers.
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Great pick for president. You guys got a good one and yes the former jack the bull dog is his pet and he took him with him to scranton, and now I'm sure he'll follow him to marquette.
Next time we play GT, we'll have to dress Jack up in some MU gear and have him on court.
Going to have to tone down the "Wring out a hoya" signs though. :-\