Timothy R. Scully

Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame, a fellow of the Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies, and currently serves as director of Notre Dame's Institute for Educational Initiatives, where he oversees the work of the Alliance for Catholic Education, the Center for Research on Educational Opportunity, and other education-related programs. He serves as a Fellow and Trustee of the University of Notre Dame. He has served as executive vice president of the University of Notre Dame from 2000 until 2003, where he held responsibility for the University's budget, endowment, as well as business operations and human resources. From 1994 until 2000, he served the university as vice president and senior associate provost. Fr. Scully serves as a member of the Trinity Foundation Board in Dublin and is a Fellow and Trustee of the University of Notre Dame, Australia. In 1979, Fr. Scully founded the Holy Cross Associates Program, an organization which has provided an opportunity for hundreds of young volunteers to serve the poor throughout the United States and Chile. Ordained a Holy Cross priest in 1981, he served his first years of priesthood in Santiago, Chile. He earned master's and doctoral degrees in political science from the University of California, Berkeley, after graduating summa cum laude from Notre Dame in 1976 and receiving his master of divinity degree in 1979.