Dr. Joseph P. McGinn has been named the new president of St. Stephen's University. Image: SSU
St. Stephen’s University has named Dr. Joseph McGinn as its new president.
He brings over twenty years of academic leadership to the position he starts this month.
The school’s Board of Governors made the announcement on Friday.
“Dr. McGinn brings a wealth of experience and contacts from his long career in the USA and a passion for making a difference in smaller universities. We are excited to see how his fresh perspective will build on our rich heritage and open up new possibilities for St. Stephen’s University,” noted Board of Governors Chair, Carol Macdonald.
McGinn hails from Winnipeg, Manitoba but spent part of his childhood in Nova Scotia before his family moved back to western Canada.
“While coming to St. Stephen’s University marks a new adventure for me and my wife, Jeanne, it is also a homecoming in many ways. It’s extremely exciting to be making a home once again in the Maritimes and to be providing leadership for a truly unique Canadian university,” explained President McGinn. “From my first interactions with colleagues and students at St. Stephen’s and now, as we dive into the work at hand, I have felt the warmest of welcomes and an inspiring ethos that bodes well for what we can accomplish together. I am honored and humbled to take up this leadership post in such good company.”
He studied philosophy and history at St. Paul’s Collège at the University of Manitoba, before completing a Master’s degree in Philosophy at the University of Waterloo, and studying as a Commonwealth Scholar at Edinburgh University, Scotland.
Dr. McGinn completed his Ph.D. at Penn State University and was a full professor of philosophy and director of the Global Honors Program at Lock Haven University, in Pennsylvania, before becoming dean of the Honors College at Towson University, Maryland.
He served as vice-president for academic affairs and provost at the University of Maine at Farmington and, most recently, taught philosophy and ethics at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.
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