ADMINISTRATION
Comings and goings
New provost and vice president for Academic Affairs
The University’s new provost arrived on the Mission Campus in August. Dennis Jacobs comes to SCU from the University of Notre Dame, where he served as vice president and associate provost for undergraduate studies. At Santa Clara, Jacobs is tasked with providing leadership and management of all aspects of academic and student life programs, information services, and athletics.
Jacobs—who played jazz piano in college—sees his role as akin to that of a director of a jazz band: inspiring, summoning unique talents, and using the whole ensemble to create something unique. “In order to bring coherence and vision to the University,” he says, “the provost needs to recognize the diversity of strengths and talents across the campus—and leverage them strategically.” Deepa Arora 
Fr. Mick to lead the Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education
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| Michael McCarthy, S.J. '87.Photo by Charles Barry. |
Associate Professor Michael (Mick) McCarthy, S.J. ’87 has been tapped as the new executive director for the Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education. He’s taught at Santa Clara since 2003, with joint appointments in classics and religious studies, where he holds the Edmund Campion, S.J. endowed chair. For the past three years he has also directed SCU’s Catholic Studies program.
As his biography notes, McCarthy was “born in San Francisco in the 1960s, the youngest of six children in a fairly traditional Irish Catholic family. Since then, he has wrestled with one question that forms the backbone of his academic interests: How does one make sense of commitment to the Catholic-Christian tradition in a world which is dizzyingly complex and richly diverse in cultures?” Connie Coutain
After 34 years at SCU, Don Dodson bids farewell
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| Don Dodson. Photo by Charles Barry |
Wisdom, professionalism, and selflessness are a few of the attributes used to describe Professor of Communication Don Dodson, who stepped down this summer after more than three decades of service to the University. Seasoned administrator, wise counselor, dedicated community member, generous spirit, and gifted listener are a few more descriptors.
What role did Dodson play? A better question: What role did he not play?
He served the University as special assistant to the vice president for University Relations, director of research and academic development, associate vice president for academic affairs and university planning, vice provost for academic affairs, senior vice provost, and interim provost and vice president for academic affairs. Steven Boyd Saum
Spring/Summer 2013
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Features
Walk Across California
An epic journey whereby one foot is put in front of the other to discover, up close and personal, who and what and where is the Golden State.
Miller's Tale
To tell the story of Bob Miller ’67 is to tell the coming-of-age tale of Las Vegas itself. And it’s the chronicle of a man who served a decade as governor of Nevada. Quite a journey for the son of an illegal bookie from Chicago.
Blood. Sweat. Tears. Repeat.
Nina Acosta '82 was a tough enough cop to pass the test for the LAPD’s SWAT team. Then she learned the hard way about gender discrimination. So how did she do on Survivor?
Mission Matters
When justice is kidnapped
The 2013 Alexander Law Prize honors Chen Guangcheng, a Chinese civil-rights activist and attorney who protested government abuses—including excessive enforcement of the one-child policy—then escaped house arrest to the U.S. Embassy in Beijing.
Double trouble
Growing up tennis with Kelly Lamble ’13 and John Lamble ’13. And Bronco teams that are a force to be reckoned with nationally.
Keep the door open
For teaching and advising and a ministry that’s blessed this place for 48 years—paying tribute to Charles Phipps, S.J.
