University President John DeGioia announced Tuesday that Interim Dean Chester Gillis has been selected to serve as the permanent Dean of Georgetown College. Gillis was previously Chair of the Theology Department at Georgetown, and has been a member of the faculty since 1988.
“I’m flattered and humbled,” Gillis said. “I’m grateful for the confidence of President DeGioia and the faculty, and I want to serve in the same manner as my noble predecessors.”
Dean Gillis’ predecessor, Jane McAuliffe, left Georgetown to become the eighth President of Bryn Mawr College, a women’s college in Pennsylvania, last summer.
In cooperation with Provost James O’Donnell, Gillis said he would like to examine the curriculum of Georgetown College and the possibility of new minor programs. He also expressed a desire to create “more porous lines between the schools” and to forge a partnership between the science departments in the College and Georgetown Medical School.
Dean Gillis will not be teaching during the next academic year, but he indicated that he would like to return to academic life.
“I love teaching and I would miss the classroom,” Gillis said.
