Anna Maria president leaving for N.Y. campus
Jack Calareso
Jack Calareso, the president of Anna Maria College in Paxton, will be leaving to take on a similar role at a Catholic college on Long Island.
St. Joseph’s College, in Patchogue, N.Y., announced today that Calareso will become its next president effective July 1, and will be the first non-religious leader of the school since it was founded in 1916.
“Dr. Calareso comes to St. Joseph’s College highly recommended by many of his colleagues across the country,” said Chris Drewes, chair of the college’s board of trustees. “He is a strong leader with a stellar academic background, and is well positioned to lead the College into the future from a position of strength.”
Calareso, president at Anna Maria since 2007, is a Boston native who began his career in Catholic education as a seventh and eighth grade teacher and director of religious education in Rochester, N.Y. He also served as a teacher and a school administrator in Madison, Wis., and in 1982, was named director of Catholic education and superintendent of schools for the Diocese of Green Bay. He began his career in higher education in 1989 by accepting a faculty position at the College of St. Rose in Albany, N.Y. By the time he left seven years later, he had been promoted, tenured, named dean of the School of Education, and, finally, provost and vice president for academic affairs. In 1996, he became vice president for academic affairs at Merrimack College in North Andover. He served as president of Ohio Dominican University in Columbus and Briar Cliff University in Sioux City, Iowa, before coming to Anna Maria.
“I have a strong belief in and commitment to quality higher education in the tradition of private, independent colleges,” Calareso said in the St. Joseph's statement. “It is clear that St. Joseph’s values and promotes academic excellence, intellectual inquiry, a respect for all people, the search for truth and a commitment to an educational experience that balances liberal education and career preparation.”
St. Joseph’s, which also has a campus in Brooklyn, has 4,529 undergraduate and 825 graduate students, according to its website.
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