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Jesuit Father Michael E. Engh, acting dean of the Bellarmine
College of Liberal Arts at Loyola Marymount University, has
been appointed dean of the college, effective June 1.
A third-generation Angeleno, Father Engh is an associate
professor of history at LMU and the institution's unofficial
historian. He graduated from then-Loyola University of Los
Angeles in 1972 and was ordained a Jesuit priest in 1981.
He began teaching at LMU in 1988, and he was active in founding
LMU's Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Center for the Study of Los
Angeles and the university's Center for Ignatian Spirituality.
Bellarmine College has 1,900 students in 12 departments
and 18 programs, with 140 faculty. "The college has much to
contribute to the education of our students for the advancement
of the community and for social justice," Father Engh said.
"In addition, our diverse study body has tremendous potential
for leadership and service."
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of his priorities are to expand undergraduate research in
partnership with faculty research and to enhance service-learning
opportunities in collaboration with LMU's Center for Service
and Action. "We have a long tradition of service," he said,
"and now it's our opportunity to bring these experiences into
the classroom. It's important that our students be able to
analyze in the class what they learn in the community."
Father Engh co-founded the Los Angeles History Seminar at
the Huntington Library in 1991, a group he has co-chaired
since its inception. He is the author of Frontier Faiths:
Church, Temple, and Synagogue in Los Angeles (1992). He has
published 18 articles or chapters in books on the history
of Los Angeles, the Catholic Church in the American West,
and the history of LMU. His current project is a biography
of Mary Julia Workman, a Los Angeles social activist from
1890 to 1960.
Rector of LMU's Jesuit Community from 1994 to 2000, Father
Engh served on the university's Board of Trustees for six
years. He is in his seventh year as a member of the school
board for Dolores Mission School in Boyle Heights.
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