Sister Peg Albert Named 10th
President
of Siena Heights University
ADRIAN, MI [05/15/06]--During a press conference on April 12 in Adrian,
Mary Margaret (Peg) Albert, OP, PhD, was named the 10th president
of Siena Heights University (SHU). Sister Peg, who is currently the
executive vice president at Barry University in Miami Shores, Florida,
becomes the first Adrian Dominican Sister to be appointed president
of the University since 1969. She succeeds Richard Artman, PhD, as
president.
A 10-member search committee, as well as a search firm, recommended
the hiring of Sister Peg. The SHU Board of Trustees and the Adrian
Dominican Congregation both approved her hiring. Sister Peg has
served as Barry’s closest advisor to the president since 1994,
and also has been a SHU board member since 2002. Siena Heights is
an Adrian Dominican sponsored institution.
“Trustees are overwhelmingly grateful that a candidate of
Sister Peggy Albert’s caliber is available to us at this time,”
said Father J. Patrick Murphy, CM, chairman of the SHU Board of
Trustees. “She is uncommonly qualified by her experience,
credentials and demeanor. She has the added distinction of being
steeped in the values of Siena Heights University as a member of
the Adrian Dominican community.”
Sister Peg received a bachelor’s degree in sociology from
Wayne State University in 1975 and master’s and doctoral degrees
in social work from Barry in 1982 and 1988, respectively. She completed
her post-doctoral work at the Institute for Educational Management
at Harvard Graduate School of Education in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
An associate professor of social work, Sister Peg served as a counselor
at Barry for 12 years. She was named Barry’s associate vice
president for student services in 1988. In 1994, she was promoted
to executive vice president at Barry, another Adrian Dominican sponsored
institution.
Her most recent — and most challenging — work was to
guide the newly purchased Barry University School of Law in 2001.
Serving as it chief administrator, Barry’s law school earned
provisional accreditation from the American Bar Association in 2002
— one of only two law institutions in the nation founded and
headed by women to earn that distinction.
Sister Peg has been an Adrian Dominican Sister for more than 31
years. Known as a service-oriented professional, her guiding words
are: “If you can wake up every morning and say, ‘How
can I be of service today?’, and at the end of the day, you
know that you have served, then it’s been a good day.”
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Siena Heights University is a coeducational institution accredited
by the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association
of Colleges and Schools. Siena Heights University was founded in the
liberal arts tradition, offering associate's, bachelor's and master's
degrees.
The university is headquartered in Adrian, Michigan with degree completion
centers in Ann Arbor, Battle Creek, Benton Harbor, Jackson, Lansing,
Monroe, Port Huron and Southfield, and a Theological Program in partnership
with the Diocese of Lansing. |