Half of the elected members must be clerics, with at least 18 of them members of the U.S.
The University is governed by a 50-member board of trustees: 48 elected and two members-the president and the chancellor, who is always the archbishop of Washington, D.C-by virtue of their position. More than 110 former Catholic University students have entered religious life over the past decade. The school’s Catholic identity has also been enhanced by strengthening the campus ministry and by hiring professors and staff members who reflect Catholic identity. In addition, he made the University a standard-bearer for other institutions to follow with his announcement in 2011 that student residence halls would no longer be co-ed. John Garvey became the University’s 15th president in 2010, after several years as dean of Boston College Law School. The Harvard-educated legal expert has earned much respect with his public defense of Catholic institutions from the Obama administration’s violations of religious liberty.
The University’s mission statement reads in part: “As the national university of the Catholic Church in the United States, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the Holy See, The Catholic University of America is committed to being a comprehensive Catholic and American institution of higher learning, faithful to the teachings of Jesus Christ as handed on by the Church.”
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