Sexual Assault Awareness Week
Sept. 18, 2011
Dear Colleagues:
I want to share with you a letter I sent to all Marquette students this afternoon. I want both you and our students to know how important I consider the issue of sexual violence on college campuses. We know that it is an issue nationwide; incidents on our own campus made it very clear that we needed to make changes and to be more proactive in addressing it.
While the university moved forward on many changes prior to my arrival in August, sexual violence and our university response was one of my first priorities. The letter that follows outlines both what has been done and actions I am taking. I want to extend my personal appreciation to our colleague, Janine Geske, Distinguished Professor of Law, for her leadership in helping us develop a more comprehensive response to sexual violence in our community.
I also offer a special thanks to all those faculty and staff who provide support to victims and survivors of sexual assault — and to all our students. In the months ahead we will offer campus-wide training for faculty and staff on this important issue. Working together, I believe we can help shift the culture on campus and become a model for other colleges and universities, in the Ignatian spirit of cura personalis.
As always, I hope you will share any ideas you may have with me.
Scott R. Pilarz, S.J.
President
Office of
the President
Rev. Robert A. Wild, S.J., to serve as interim president
The Board of Trustees has chosen Rev. Robert A. Wild, S.J., to lead Marquette University as interim president. Wild, who served as president of Marquette from 1996 to 2011, will take over for Rev. Scott R. Pilarz, S.J., who announced on Sept. 20, that after 10 years as a university president at Marquette University and the University of Scranton, he was resigning to pursue other apostolic opportunities.
Father Pilarz will assist Father Wild with the transition, while traveling back and forth to the East coast to care for his ailing father, which he noted in a letter to the Marquette community on Sept. 25. Father Wild is concluding his duties with the Wisconsin Province and will take over as interim president on Oct. 16.
Wild will serve as interim president until August 2014. A new permanent president is expected to be in place for the 2014-15 academic year.
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