Marie Angelella George, Ph.D.
President, Cabrini College (Radnor, Pa.)
July 2008-Present

For Dr. Marie Angelella George, assuming the presidency of Cabrini College is a natural progression in a distinguished career in higher education and health care.

Dr. George was inaugurated on Nov. 15, 2008, and pledged to provide an educational experience to prepare students for lives as engaged, global citizens; to preserve the College's Catholic identity while welcoming persons of all faiths and cultural backgrounds; to strengthen the College's local and global partnerships; to provide students the skills necessary to address local and global injustices through Justice Matters, Cabrini's groundbreaking core curriculum; and to ensure that the College continues to focus on the common good.

Previously, Dr. George served as executive vice president at Saint Anselm College, where she was chief operating officer and second-in-command to the president. Dr. George oversaw six vice presidents and the directors of the New Hampshire Institute of Politics and Campus Ministry. An experienced strategic planner, Dr.George achieved remarkable results in implementing Saint Anselm's strategic plan, Aspirations in Liberal Arts Education, and in leading a campus master planning process for the college's 400-acre, 60+building campus.

At Saint Anselm, she also helped to secure both private and federal support for new initiatives in civic education and community service, including the establishment of the Civic Leadership Academy at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics; the English for New Americans Program at the Meelia Center for Community Service; and the launch of Learning Liberty, a curricular and co-curricular initiative to prepare students for lives of enlightened and engaged citizenship.

As vice president of planning and institutional research at the University of Scranton, Dr. George made history as the school's first female vice president. Under Dr. George's leadership, a strategic plan and campus master plan were finalized. Prior to her appointment as vice president, she served in several administrative positions at the university, was a tenured faculty member and served as chair for the Department of Health Administration and Human Resources.

Dr. George was a member of the faculty at King's College in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., and was associate director of the Institute of Gerontology at College Misericordia in Dallas, Pa. She served as corporate vice president of human resources and director of education and training at Mercy Health System in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., where she coordinated the introduction and implementation of a quality improvement process and labor-management councils.

Dr. George serves on the Board of Trustees at the University of Scranton. She formerly served on the boards of the Greater Manchester Family YMCA (N.H.), Catholic Social Services, and the Greater Wilkes-Barre Area Labor Management Council; and as a Commonwealth Board Member of the Medical College of Pennsylvania. She was the founding president of the Northeast PA Society for Human Resource Management, also serving on SHRM state and national boards. She was a peer reviewer for the Academy of Human Resource Development and Academic Planning Council of the Society for College and University Planning.

Dr. George earned a doctorate in organizational leadership at the University of Pennsylvania, a master's degree in counseling at the University of Scranton, and a bachelor's degree in mathematics at College Misericordia. She earned lifelong certification as a Senior Professional in Human Resources, and has published in the areas of higher education marketing, faculty development, and human resource development. She is a member of Delta Epsilon Sigma.

Dr. George and her husband, Francis, have a son, Francis Jr., who resides in New Hampshire with his wife, Selena.