Board gives Malloy 5 more years
By MIKE CONNOLLY
News Writer
The Board of Trustees voted May 5 to renew Father Edward Malloy's contract for five more years as University president.
The Board also elected Patrick McCartan as the new chair of the board and made outgoing chair Andrew McKenna a life trustee.
"It's nice to have a vote of confidence from the trustees," Malloy said. "I said thank you very much and now I will just get back to doing what I was doing."
The Board conducted an evaluation of Malloy's 13 years as president before the vote. An important factor considered by the Board in evaluation of Malloy was his expansion of the international program at Notre Dame. In the past few years, the University has opened new facilities in Dublin and London. The London program will also expand to include a summer program in 2001.
While the face of campus has changed greatly because of the construction of new dorms, a new bookstore and the Campus Ministry building that will open in the fall, Malloy lists the expansion of scholarship opportunities as his greatest accomplishment. In his next term, Malloy hopes to expand the scholarship endowment and create more chaired professorships.
"I think scholarship has dominated the last few years," he said. "One of the things that we have been successful in our campaign is emphasizing people and programs and not buildings. Even though the things that people notice are the buildings and there have been significant building projects, for me that is just a small part of what we have accomplished."
Malloy will also oversee the next University-wide review and the creation of a new 10-year plan next year.
"I will be articulating things as time goes on but that will be the big University-wide effort to identify what are goals should be for the next few years of our history," he said.
McCartan earned an honorary doctorate of laws from the University last year and has served on the board since 1989. He is the managing partner of Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue law firm and is a University Fellow.
McKenna, who will receive the Laetare medal Sunday at Commencement, retires as chair after serving on the Board for the last 20 years. The Board under McKenna oversaw the opening of the new London program building, rejected the amendment of the non-discrimination clause to protect homosexuals and turned down membership in the Big Ten Conference.
All News Stories for Friday, May 19, 2000
