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| | William Leahy, SJ, Named President |
 | | Leahy, 47, brings to Boston College a broad background in scholarship and administration at Marquette, a Jesuit co-educational institution in Milwaukee with a student enrollment of 10,651. |
 | | Leahy has devoted considerable energy to the strengthening of the university's undergraduate liberal arts programs, to integrating intellectual excellence, religious commitment and service, and to helping to identify and strengthen graduate level programs targeted by the university for distinction. |
 | | Leahy will join an institution that draws students from all 50 states and 91 foreign countries, has annual operating revenues of $350 million, assets of more than $1 billion and an endowment of more than $500 million, among the largest of any college or university in the nation. |
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