Kathleen A. Getz

Dr. Kathleen A. Getz is the 13th president of Mercyhurst University, assuming the office on July 12, 2021.

A mission-driven servant leader with 18 years of senior experience in major business schools, including 10 years at Catholic universities, Getz began her tenure at Mercyhurst by meeting with her colleagues across campus.

Getz previously served as the dean of the Sellinger School of Business and Management at Loyola University Maryland, a Jesuit Catholic institution whose business school is home to nearly 2,000 students, 55 full-time faculty, and 13 full-time staff. Before that, she was dean of the Quinlan School of Business at Loyola University Chicago, one of the largest Catholic universities in the United States, and senior associate dean for academic affairs at the Kogod School of Business at American University.