New Presidents Selected for
Clarke College, Carmel High School


 

BVM leaders of two schools with long congregational legacies are stepping down this spring, and their successors have been announced.


Catherine Dunn, BVM presents a copy of the Mary Frances Clarke icon to Joanne Burrows, SC, PhD, during a news conference on Feb. 2 announcing Joanne's selection as the new president of Clarke College.

Catherine Dunn, BVM (Catherine Michele) will leave the Clarke College presidency in June after 22 years as president. Clarke was founded in 1843 by BVM founder Mary Frances Clarke.

Joanne Burrows, SC, PhD will be the college's next leader. A Sister of Charity of Cincinnati, she is currently chief academic officer at St. Mary-of-the-Woods College, Terre Haute, Ind. She previously held positions at Indiana State University, Terre Haute; Holy Names College, Oakland, Calif.; and Mt. St. Joseph College, Cincinnati.

She holds a doctoral degree in higher education from The Ohio State University and a M.A. in philosophical and systematic theology from the Graduate Theological Union and Jesuit School of Theology, Berkeley, Calif.

 

After ten years as president of Carmel High School, co-sponsored by the BVM congregation, Mary Fran McLaughlin, BVM (Virginia) has resigned. Her successor will be Judith Mucheck, effective July 1.

Judith is currently Superintendent of Schools for the Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta, where she oversees 15 elementary and three high schools. She was previously Assistant Superintendent of Schools for Secondary Education there, where she had responsibility for the total formation of two Catholic high schools.

She holds a M.A. in Secondary Education from the University of Dayton, and is a PhD candidate in Educational Policy Studies from Georgia State University. Her BS is in Biology and Secondary Education.


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