The occupants of the top two administrative posts at Notre Dame
stepped down June 30. And one person is filling both jobs, temporarily.
As announced last summer, Father John I. Jenkins, CSC, succeeded
Father Malloy as president on July 1, 2005.
Earlier this year it was announced that Nathan Hatch, provost
since 1996, is leaving to become president of Wake Forest University
in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He started there July 1. Jenkins
will be acting provost until Hatch's replacement is hired.
In recent months four other individuals have been named to key
posts in the Jenkins administration:
-- Reverend Hugh R. Page Jr., Walter Associate Professor of
Theology, was appointed dean of First Year of Studies. He also
had been associate dean and director of undergraduate studies
in the College of Arts and Letters and director of the African
and African-American Studies Program. He becomes the first African
American to serve as a dean at Notre Dame. He succeeds Eileen
Kolman, who retired after 15 years as dean of FYS.
-- Hilary Crnkovich, formerly an executive in the Chicago office
of public relations and public affairs firm Burson-Marsteller,
was elected vice president for public affairs and communication.
The division includes Notre Dame Magazine. She succeeds
J. Roberto Gutiérrez, who stepped down in January.
-- Two people were appointed executive assistants to Jenkins.
One is Father Jim McDonald, CSC, '79, '84M.Div., former rector
of Saint George's College, a K-12 school in Santiago, Chile, sponsored
by the Indiana Province of the Congregation of Holy Cross. He
is also former associate dean for administration in the Law School.
The other is Frances Shavers '90, most recently manager of the
Community Education Academy at the University of Southern California.
She returns to Notre Dame after having been director of alumni
clubs and student programs in the Alumni Association in the early
1990s. In 1996 she was appointed the first coordinator of the
ND athletic department's Life Skills Program.
(July 2005)
