University president Rev. E. William Beauchamp, C.S.C., has announced the appointment of Michael Andrews as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. Andrews has served as interim dean since August and holds the McNerney-Hanson Chair in Ethics. Andrews earned his undergraduate degree in systematic theology from Georgetown University in 1986, a master’s degree in philosophy of religion from Yale University in 1988, a Ph.L./M. Phil. in Greek and medieval metaphysics from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome in 1994, and a doctorate in philosophy from Villanova University in 2002. He came to the University of Portland in 2011 from Seattle University, where he was the dean of the Matteo Ricci College of Humanities and a faculty facilitator of the Sullivan Leaders Student Scholarship Program. Andrews was appointed interim dean when Rev. Stephen Rowan returned to the Archdiocese of Seattle to assume the role of Superintendent of Catholic Schools.
The College of Arts and Sciences is home to the largest number of students enrolled at the University—more than 1,250 students. It houses 32 degree programs within 20 departments and programs of study, with popular majors including biology, Spanish, psychology, English, communication studies and chemistry.
For more information contact the president’s office at 7101 or simek@up.edu.