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Cheryl A. McConnell, Ph.D., responds to audience applause moments after being named as St. Joes 29th president at a public announcement held March 10 in the Cardinal Foley Campus Center on Hawk Hill. James M. Norris ’85, chair St. Joes Board of Trustees (center) and Daniel Joyce, S.J., director of the Office of Mission Programs (right), accompanied McConnell during the announcement. PHOTO: MADELINE WILLIAMS

First woman named as president of St. Joe’s

Mia Messina and Hannah Pajtis March 11, 2023

Board of Trustees elects Cheryl McConnell, Ph.D. to lead the university  St. Joe’s has named Cheryl A. McConnell, Ph.D., as the university’s 29th president, effective immediately. McConnell...

Data from “The Gender Gap in Nonprofit Boardrooms. GRAPHICS: EMILY GRAHAM 20/THE HAWK

Report shows lack of women on board of trustees

Emily Graham November 12, 2019

A recent study conducted by the Women’s Nonprofit Leadership Initiative (WNLI) on the gender gap in boardrooms of higher education institutions in the Philadelphia area reported the St. Joe’s board...

Representation on college boards

Representation on college boards

The Hawk Staff November 12, 2019

The lack of female diversity in positions of power On the St. Joe’s board of 35 trustees, 7 are women. And the chair of the board, Edward J. Moneypenny, graduated from St. Joe’s in 1964, only six years...

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