Dulle to Serve as Jesuit Center Exec. Director
Tim Dulle, Ph.D., was recently hired as The University of Scranton’s executive director of the Jesuit Center. Dr. Dulle is a graduate of Fordham University, Rockhurst University and Boston College who previously worked at Saint Louis University. All four institutions, like Scranton, are members of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities.The University of Scranton’s nationwide search for its next executive director of the Jesuit Center recently concluded with the appointment of Tim Dulle, Ph.D., a longtime scholar and expert on U.S. Jesuit higher education.
Dr. Dulle most recently served as the Manresa Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow at Saint Louis University in Missouri. There, he taught a course, “Ignatian Spirituality and Service,” and played an active role in SLU’s Center for Ignatian Service.
Dr. Dulle received a doctorate in the history of Christianity from Fordham University. He completed his undergraduate and graduate studies at Rockhurst University and Boston College, respectively. His experience as an instructor, in addition to Saint Louis University, includes teaching in Sacred Heart University’s Catholic Studies Department.
“The Jesuit Center assists The University of Scranton in keeping its Catholic and Jesuit character at the center of the educational enterprise,” the Jesuit Center’s mission statement reads. “Dedicated to advancing the University’s strategic vision of ‘providing a superior, transformational learning experience’ for its students, the Center does this by: 1. Fostering faculty and staff appreciation in the Jesuit higher education mission; 2. Supporting faculty teaching and scholarship that advances the University’s Catholic and Jesuit character; 3. Promoting Ignatian spirituality within an interreligious context.”
Established in 1888 and entrusted in 1942 to the Society of Jesus, The University of Scranton is one of 27 Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities, including all three of Dr. Dulle’s alma maters.
