Articles from Santa Clara University

Santa Clara University’s School of Engineering today announced the launch of a new interdisciplinary Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence (MSAI) program, designed to equip students with cutting-edge skills in AI technologies while emphasizing ethical responsibility and real-world application. The program will welcome its first cohort in Fall 2025.

Two visionary technology leaders, a champion of compassionate care, and a member of the Vatican dicastery are among the speakers who will take the stage at Santa Clara University’s five 2025 commencement ceremonies.

Santa Clara University is joining a widely used platform that serves thousands of California community college students, as a way to better inform and ease their ability to transfer to Santa Clara.

The Pope’s top leader directing the work of the Catholic Church as it becomes a more listening, open, and “synodal” body will headline a key conference at Santa Clara University on April 4.

Sister Francisca Ngozi Uti, HHCJ, who founded a center 25 years ago dedicated to the social, legal, and political equality of women in Nigeria, has been chosen as the $1 million 2024 Opus Prize Laureate. The Opus Prize is an annual humanitarian honor for social entrepreneurs who champion faith-filled solutions to persistent problems in their communities.

Santa Clara University has for the first time received the prestigious Diversity Champion designation from Insight Into Diversity magazine. This honor recognizes the growth, institution-wide support, and success of Santa Clara’s diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts—making it a role model for other institutions of higher learning.

Beginning next academic year, Santa Clara University has committed to meeting the full demonstrated financial need of admitted first-year students who qualify for Cal Grants, as well as those who graduated from the national Cristo Rey Network high schools.

Santa Clara University welcomed more than 1800 new undergraduate students to campus this weekend with festivities that included an after-dark dance party, welcome liturgy, and official affinity group receptions for students of different backgrounds and cultures.

Santa Clara University President Julie Sullivan announced today the appointment of Heather M. Owen J.D. ’03, Stanford University deputy athletics director/SWA (Senior Woman Administrator) as the next Broncos director of athletics. Owen, who earned a J.D. from Santa Clara University’s School of Law, is a former student-athlete and WNBA player and is an accomplished athletics administrator who has risen rapidly in positions of responsibility at Stanford Athletics over the past 15 years.

Following an extensive national search, Santa Clara University Provost and Executive Vice President James M. Glaser announced that Kendra V. Sharp has been appointed the next dean of the School of Engineering. She will begin her term in March 2025.

Three finalists have been chosen for the Opus Prize 2024, hosted at Santa Clara University. The finalists are faith-driven leaders of organizations working to welcome and support refugees to Romania; educate and support current and former prisoners in the U.S; and improve the safety and equitable treatment of Nigerian women.

Santa Clara University President Julie Sullivan announced the appointment of Fr. Matthew E. Carnes, S.J., Ph.D., ’03 M.Div, as Vice President of Mission and Ministry for Santa Clara University. Carnes is a Jesuit priest, University trustee, and renowned Georgetown professor and administrator in the field of political science and international affairs.

Sarahi Espinoza Salamanca ’24 has been selected as a 2024 Knight-Hennessy Scholar, a prestigious graduate program that prepares students to be purposeful leaders who address our world’s important challenges. An ethnic studies and sociology double major, Espinoza Salamanca joins 90 new scholars representing 30 countries and 45 graduate degree programs in Stanford’s seventh cohort.

Martin J. Jenkins ’77, California Supreme Court Associate Justice and former Judicial Appointments Secretary to California Gov. Gavin Newsom ’89, will be the keynote speaker at Santa Clara University’s 173rd commencement ceremony on June 15.

A delegation of leaders from Santa Clara University (SCU) and its Jesuit School of Theology (JST) are visiting Rome March 17-19 to meet with various senior Vatican leaders and leaders of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits).

Santa Clara University today celebrated a rare and prestigious milestone: the completion of its $1 billion Innovating with a Mission campaign, the largest comprehensive fundraising campaign in the University’s 173-year history.

Santa Clara University President Julie Sullivan today announced the appointment of James M. Glaser as executive vice president and provost at the University. The appointment follows a national search, and he will begin his term effective July 1, 2024.

The Opus Prize Foundation has selected Santa Clara University to host the 2024 Opus Prize, a $1 million annual award recognizing individuals or organizations devoted to addressing critical social issues in their communities.

For the third year in a row, INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine has awarded Santa Clara University its Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award. The award recognizes universities that demonstrably champion the creation of diverse and inclusive environments on campus.

Santa Clara University’s Board of Trustees has elected three veteran executives and an esteemed retired judge to join the ranks of the governing body of the 172-year-old Jesuit, Catholic University.

Santa Clara University alumnus Jason D. Buenrostro, Ph.D., has been named a 2023 MacArthur Fellow.

Agbonkhianmeghe E. (“Bator”) Orobator, S.J., the new dean of the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University (JST-SCU), will be among the 364 voting members at the 16th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops meeting this month in Rome.

U.S. News & World Report has ranked Santa Clara University No. 60 among national universities in the country, placing it among the top 15% of U.S. higher education institutions ranked by the publication.

Santa Clara University (SCU) is pleased to announce that it has partnered with The Posse Foundation, a nationwide college access and youth leadership development program, to offer full-tuition scholarships to select students with diverse backgrounds in/from the Los Angeles area.

The esteemed Jesuit theologian, speaker, and leader, Agbonkhianmeghe E. Orobator, S.J., STL ’98, Hon. ’12, will become the new dean of the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University (JST-SCU) on Aug. 15. He is currently president of the Jesuit Conference of Africa and Madagascar, responsible for leading the inter-provincial mission of the Society of Jesus in the region.

Santa Clara University is proud to announce that five Broncos, all from the class of 2023, have received Fulbright U.S. Student Program grants for the 2023-2024 academic year.

Santa Clara University will hold its inaugural Native American Symposium on Friday, May 5, 2023, from 9:30 AM - 4:30 PM. Guests can attend in person or via live stream.

It was another record-breaking year, as Broncos from across the country came together to support Santa Clara University’s 10th Annual Day of Giving (DoG). In a stampede of generosity and care, alumni, students, faculty, staff, and friends donated nearly $5.5 million to support the University’s vision of educating citizens and leaders of competence, conscience, and compassion to build a more humane, just, and sustainable world.

Greg Boyle, S.J., STL ’86, who has devoted the last 50 years of his life to serving, educating, employing, and accompanying former gang members in Los Angeles, will be the keynote speaker at Santa Clara University’s 172nd commencement ceremony June 17.

Santa Clara University has hired higher-education and nonprofit-industry professional Zenobia Lane to be the University’s first human resources vice president— a role she has held on an interim basis since August 2022.

Santa Clara University has hired veteran financial executive Wilson Garone as its vice president for finance and administration, starting May 30.

These days more than ever, when a business owner needs advice, the optimal team to provide it includes both legal and business professionals.

Santa Clara University School of Law has hired its first-ever senior director for diversity, equity and inclusion, Thiadora (Dori) Pina, currently a clinical professor and director of the school’s externship program.

Longtime bioscience entrepreneur and Santa Clara University leader Thane Kreiner and his husband Steven Lovejoy ’78 have announced plans to donate the remainder of their estate—assets currently worth $3.7 million—to benefit two impact-driven programs at Santa Clara University.

Santa Clara University has named Kelly Capen Douglas to serve as general counsel. Douglas, who will start April 24, will be the chief legal officer, responsible for managing and overseeing all legal affairs for the university and serving as the primary legal advisor to the Board of Trustees. As a member of President Julie Sullivan’s Cabinet, Douglas will also serve as an advisor to the President and manage the university's legal, contracting, policy, risk management, and compliance functions.

Santa Clara University (SCU) is proud to join the American Talent Initiative (ATI), a collective whose members aim to enroll 50,000 additional talented low- and moderate-income students at colleges and universities with strong graduation rates by 2025.

Santa Clara University announced today that Lawrence Lokman has been named vice president of marketing and communications. Lokman will report directly to Julie Sullivan, president of Santa Clara University, and serve on the president’s leadership team with responsibility for all brand, marketing, public relations, social media, and stakeholder communications.

On Friday, October 7th, Santa Clara University celebrated the historic inauguration of Julie H. Sullivan, Ph.D., the first woman and the first layperson to lead the university in its 171-year history.

Santa Clara University ranked No. 55 in the 2022-2023 Best National Universities by U.S. News & World Report. The University was also ranked No. 14 nationally for Best Undergraduate Teaching.

Santa Clara University has received its largest gift ever to support collaborative and interdisciplinary research among students, faculty, and schools on campus.

Advancing climate resilience solutions through social entrepreneurship is the primary goal of a three-year initiative announced today by Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship and Chevron. The project aims to further climate-smart agriculture, safe water, and reliable low-carbon energy to vulnerable communities in Asia Pacific through customized support to high potential social enterprises.

In the middle of Santa Clara University’s record-breaking Day of Giving on April 6, the community was treated to two surprises:

Santa Clara University’s part-time Master of Business Administration (MBA) program and four MBA concentrations—in entrepreneurship, marketing, finance, and business analytics—each notched gains in the latest U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate Schools report, released today.

Three Santa Clara University students will participate in a historic video conference this Thursday with His Holiness Pope Francis. They will discuss issues of importance to the Catholic Church and the world, including communion, migration, and care for our planet.

The Silicon Valley Executive Center (SVEC) at Santa Clara University’s Leavey School of Business today announced the third cohort of its pioneering Black Corporate Board Readiness (BCBR) program, which welcomed its first cohort in February.

Larry Sonsini, senior and founding partner of the law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, was elected to a three-year term as chairman of the Santa Clara University Board of Trustees. He replaced John M. Sobrato, ‘83, who completed his term on June 4, 2021.

Santa Clara University honored its undergraduate Class of 2021 with an in-person celebration and a virtual commencement ceremony over two days this weekend.

Behavioral-finance pioneer and Santa Clara University professor Meir Statman and his wife, retired manager and longtime mental health volunteer Navah Statman MBA ’84, are donating $3 million to advance faculty excellence at Santa Clara University’s Leavey School of Business.

Santa Clara University has named Ed Grier, a veteran global operations executive and business-school leader, to be the next dean of Santa Clara University’s Leavey School of Business.