USD Magazine, Spring 1995

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USD Names Alice B. Hayes President~elect

F ollowing a careful, year-long search process, Alice B. Hayes was elected to the presidency of the University of San Diego by the USD board of trustees on Dec. 16. Hayes, executive vice president, provost and a professor of biology at Saint Louis University in St. Louis, Mo., will succeed Author E. Hughes, who completes 24 years of service when he retires on June 30. "USD has found in Alice Hayes a gift– ed executive, educator and scholar with the vision and values to lead this univer– sity into the next century," says Daniel W. Derbes, chairman of the board of trustees. "This is a growth experience for me, but a very positive one," Hayes told a large group of faculty, administrators and students at a Dec. 19 news conference in Shiley Theatre. "Everything that I have looked at about this university has been so good." Hayes, 56, joined Saint Louis University in 1989 after 27 years at Loyola University of Chicago, where she served as vice president for academic affairs (1987-89), associate academic vice president (1980-87), dean for the natural sciences (1977-87) and chairper– son of the department of natural science (1969-1977) . From 1960-1962, she conducted mycology research for the Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium. Hayes is on the boards of trustees of The Pulitzer Publishing Company, the St. Louis Science Center, The Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis and Catholic Charities. She has been a mem– ber of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Space Biology Program and has served on advisory pan– els of the National Science Foundation.

She has won awards for leadership and service from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society and the Holocaust Memorial Foundation, among others. A biologist with a Ph.D. in biological sci– ences from Northwestern University - where she was a National Science Foundation Fellow - Hayes has pub– lished numerous books and articles on the natural sciences and on Catholic higher education. As part of the People– to-People Citizen Ambassador Program, she participated in botanical delegations to South Africa, the People's Republic of China and the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

USD Board of Trustees Chairman Danial W. Derbes and President Author E. Hughes join President-elect Alice B. Hayes at the Dec. 19 news conference announcing Hayes' election.

The search for Hughes' successor involved representatives from faculty, staff, administrators, students, alumni and trustees. Soon after Hughes announced his retirement in the fall of 1993, the board of trustees established a presidential search committee and a pres– idential selection committee, both chaired by Joanne C. Warren, vice chair of the board of trustees. The search committee directed the search for candidates, reviewing all appli– cations, conducting preliminary inter– views and narrowing the field to the finalists. The finalists then came to cam– pus for intensive two-day visits in which they met with faculty, students, alumni, trustees, administrators and staff in a series of interview sessions. With feed– back from the campus community, the selection committee made the final rec– ommendation to the members of the board of trustees, who then voted their final decision. The board unanimously elected Hayes, who will take the helm July 1 as only the second person to lead the university since the 1972 merger of the College for Men and the College for Women.

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