Michael J. Garanzini, S.J. | |
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23rd President of Loyola University Chicago | |
In office June 1, 2001 – June 30, 2015 | |
Preceded by | John J. Piderit, S.J. |
Succeeded by | John Peter Pelissero (interim) |
Personal details | |
Born | St. Louis, Missouri | September 24, 1948
Residence(s) | Chicago, Illinois, US |
Alma mater | Saint Louis University University of California, Berkeley |
Profession | Jesuit priest |
Website | Office of the President |
Michael J. Garanzini, S.J. (born September 24, 1948, in Saint Louis, Missouri) is an American priest in the Society of Jesus of the Roman Catholic Church. He currently serves as President of both the International Association of Jesuit Universities and the US-based Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities. From 2001 until 2015, Garanzini served as the twenty-third President of Loyola University Chicago in Chicago, Illinois, a member of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities.
Biography
[edit]Garanzini graduated from Saint Louis University with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology in 1971, the same year that he entered the Society of Jesus. After spending years around the country and in Rome during his training and early years as a Jesuit, Garanzini received a doctorate in psychology and religion in 1986 from the University of California, Berkeley. Later that year, he returned to Saint Louis University, teaching as an associate professor of psychology and later serving as academic vice president. Garanzini was invited to Fordham University to serve as a visiting professor of counseling in 1998, and went on to work at Georgetown University until his presidency at Loyola. He has also taught at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome and at Regis College (now Regis University) in Denver.[citation needed]
Garanzini is the author of The Attachment Cycle: An Object Relations Approach to the Healing Ministries (1988), Meeting the Needs of Dysfunctional Families (1993), Child-Centered Schools: An Educator's Guide to Family Dysfunction (1995).
Garanzini previously served as a member of the Fairfield University Board of Trustees.[1]
On July 1, 2015, Garanzini accepted appointment to the Chicago Board of Education.[citation needed]
Loyola University Chicago
[edit]During Garanzini's tenure as president of Loyola University Chicago, he has brought the university out of debt in a few[vague] years. He has also initiated construction projects on both of Loyola's city campuses.
In 2015, Garanzini announced his intention to step down after fourteen years of leading Loyola. He intended to remain as chancellor, an advisory role to the president focused on matters of mission and institutional advancement.[citation needed]
Awards
[edit]Garanzini was inducted as a laureate of The Lincoln Academy of Illinois and awarded the Order of Lincoln by the governor of Illinois in 2018.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Fairfield University Board of Trustees Archived 2009-05-01 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "2018 Laureates Announced". The Lincoln Academy of Illinois. Retrieved May 31, 2018.
- 1948 births
- Living people
- American people of Italian descent
- 20th-century American Jesuits
- 21st-century American Jesuits
- Loyola University Chicago faculty
- Saint Louis University alumni
- University of California, Berkeley alumni
- Saint Louis University faculty
- Regis University faculty
- Fordham University faculty
- Georgetown University faculty
- Members of the Chicago Board of Education
- Presidents of Loyola University Chicago
- New York University alumni