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FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE:
MICHAEL ENGH, SJ, APPOINTED DEAN OF BELLARMINE COLLEGE OF
LIBERAL ARTS AT LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY IN LOS
ANGELES
March 25, 2004 – Michael E. Engh,
SJ, acting dean of the Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts at Loyola
Marymount University, has been appointed dean of the college,
effective June 1. Engh, who has been associated with LMU since
1988, was selected after a national search to head the university’s
largest college.
"As part of the Jesuit commitment to humanistic education,
Bellarmine College stands at the core of the university, and I am
pleased to make this announcement," said Robert B. Lawton, SJ,
president. "Fr. Engh’s long association with Jesuit education,
with Los Angeles, and with LMU created a compelling case for his
leadership as we implement our strategic plan goal of becoming one
of the nation’s distinguished Catholic institutions. The
university’s aspirations include many initiatives designed to
fulfill Bellarmine College’s promise to the city, the Church, and
greater society."
A third-generation Angeleno, Engh is an associate professor of
history at LMU and the institution’s unofficial historian. He
graduated from then-Loyola University of Los Angeles in 1972 and
was ordained a Jesuit priest in 1981. He completed his graduate
studies in the history of the American West at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison in 1987 and began teaching at LMU in 1988. He was
active in founding LMU’s Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Center for the
Study of Los Angeles and the university’s Center for Ignatian
Spirituality.
Bellarmine College has 1,900 students in 12 departments and 18
programs, with 140 faculty. "The college has much to
contribute to the education of our students for the advancement of
the community and for social justice," Engh said. "In
addition, our diverse study body has tremendous potential for
leadership and service."
Two of his priorities are to expand undergraduate research in
partnership with faculty research and to enhance service learning
opportunities in collaboration with LMU’s Center for Service and
Action. "We have a long tradition of service," he said,
" and now it’s our opportunity to bring these experiences into
the classroom. It’s important that our students be able to analyze
in the class what they learn in the community."
Engh co-founded the Los Angeles History Seminar at the Huntington
Library in 1991, a group he has co-chaired since its inception. He
is the author of Frontier Faiths: Church, Temple, and Synagogue in
Los Angeles (1992). He has published 18 articles or chapters in
books on the history of Los Angeles, the Catholic Church in the
American West, and the history of LMU, and has co-edited a
documentary volume, The Frontiers and Catholic Identities (1999).
His current project is a biography of Mary Julia Workman, a Los
Angeles social activist from 1890 to 1960.
Engh edited two publications of LMU’s Center for the Study of LA,
Fritz B. Burns and the Development of Los Angeles, by James T.
Keane (2000) and Richard Riordan and Los Angeles Charter Reform, by
Matthew J. Parlow and James T. Keane (2001). He served as co-chair
and organizer of the March 2002 conference at the Huntington
Library, "Behind the Cliches, Beyond the Hype: Race, Place and
Community in Los Angeles." He also has worked as a member of
the board of editors for the Western Historical Quarterly and
Southern California History.
Rector of LMU’s Jesuit Community from 1994 to 2000, Engh served on
the university’s Board of Trustees for six years and chaired the
presidential search committee that brought Fr. Lawton to LMU five
years ago. He is in his seventh year as a member of the school
board for Dolores Mission Grammar School in Boyle Heights.
About Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles
Founded in 1911, Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles is the
eighth largest of the nation’s 28 Jesuit colleges and universities.
With a strong base in the liberal arts, LMU serves more than 5,300
undergraduates and nearly 3,000 graduate students. LMU includes
four colleges: the Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts, the College
of Business Administration, the College of Communication and Fine
Arts, and the College of Science and Engineering, as well as the
School of Education, the School of Film and Television, the
Graduate Division, Continuing Education, and Loyola Law School. For
more information, visit the LMU website at www.lmu.edu.
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