Rev. Dennis H. Holtschneider, C.M., Ed.D.
President
The Rev. Dennis H. Holtschneider, C.M., became DePaul University's 11th president on July 1, 2004. Since his inauguration, he has led the successful completion of the university's prior strategic plan and creation of its current six-year plan, VISIONtwenty12.
From 2000 to 2004, Fr. Holtschneider served four years as executive vice president and chief operating officer at Niagara University in Niagara Falls, N.Y., where he directed the university's strategic planning efforts and daily operations of the campus.
Prior to his role at Niagara, Fr. Holtschneider was assigned to St. John's University, where he served as an assistant professor of higher education in the Graduate School of Education and as the associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Fr. Holtschneider has led two national studies of American Catholic colleges and universities, examining trends in governance and leadership, and he consults on these matters with university boards of trustees and sponsoring religious congregations. He is the author and co-author of one book and numerous articles on U.S. higher education and Catholic higher education, as well as a frequent speaker on these topics.
His expertise has led to service on numerous external committees and boards. He is a member of the advisory board of the American Council on Education and a member of the National Leadership Roundtable on Church Management, which promotes excellence and best practices in management, finances and human resource development of the Catholic Church in the U.S. In addition, he currently serves as a trustee of Niagara University and the Chicago History Museum. He is also a member of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs Study Group on Chicago's Global Future and is a member of Mayor Richard M. Daley's Chicago 2016 Evaluation Committee and the Education Advisory Council of Chicago 2016, which is preparing a bid to bring the Olympics to Chicago.
A Detroit native, Fr. Holtschneider studied at Harvard University and received his doctorate in administration, planning and social policy in 1997 after writing a dissertation on the early history of financial aid in the United States. He has been a case researcher and writer for Harvard's schools of Education, Medicine and Public Health.
Fr. Holtschneider pursued his undergraduate education at Niagara, where he received a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1985. He studied for the priesthood at Mary Immaculate Seminary in Northampton, Pa., and was ordained in 1989.
After ordination, he served as director and then rector of the Vincentian Community's college seminary program at Ozone Park in New York City and taught theology at St. John's.
While in New York, Fr. Holtschneider was a clinical associate professor of higher education at the State University of New York at Buffalo, teaching one doctoral seminar each fall. He also is a faculty member and board member of the Boston College Institute for Administrators in Catholic Higher Education. He continues to teach at Boston College's summer Institute for Administrators in Catholic Higher Education and Villanova University's summer Church Management Institute.
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