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Fr. Gary and Kevin discuss this week’s guest speakers and their diverse expertise and experiences that they will be bringing to our conversation as we interrogate “The Value in a University.”
Aisling MacRunnels is the Chief Business and Growth Officer at Synack, a cybersecurity company she co-founded that is based in Silicon Valley. Originally from Greystones, County Wicklow, she left Ireland at the age of 18 to attend university at Mount Saint Mary’s in Maryland. MacRunnels is highly involved with the Notre Dame ESTEEM program, an interdisciplinary master’s program for STEM graduates transitioning into business and entrepreneurship. She speaks to the cohort yearly, sharing her insights from Silicon Valley and advice on entrepreneurship, emphasizing authenticity, problem-solving, and passion over money as motivation. Read one of her latest speeches from the ESTEEM and IDEA Center’s game day Innovation Rally here.
Rev. Dave Tyson, C.S.C., was elected President of Holy Cross College in 2017. A member of the Notre Dame class of 1970, Fr. Tyson has served in a variety of faculty and staff positions at Notre Dame since, including as an assistant and associate professor in the Department of Management, St. André Bessette Director of Nonprofit Professional Development at Mendoza College, executive assistant to Notre Dame President Emeritus Father Theodore Hesburgh, C.S.C., and as Vice President for Student Affairs. In 1990, he was elected the President of the University of Portland, a Holy Cross sister institution of Notre Dame, where he served for 13 years.
Kathleen Sprows Cummings is the Director of the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism. She is also a professor of American Studies and History at Notre Dame, and an affiliated faculty member in Gender Studies, Italian Studies, and the Nanovic Institute for European Studies. “The church canonizes saints in large part because the faithful need their stories.,” said Professor Cummings. “St. John Newman’s story is exceptionally relevant today, offering avenues for Catholics to think about the purpose of the University, the role of faith in public life, and the place of religion in a fractured modern world.”
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