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Timothy Trainor Appointed 26 President of Mount St. Mary’s University
The Board of Trustees of Mount
St. Mary’s University announced the
permanent appointment of Timothy
Trainor, Ph.D., as president of the
university. Trainor, who has been
serving in an interim capacity over
the past year, was the unanimous
selection of both the Board of
Trustees and the cross-campus
Selection Committee.
“Since his appointment last
summer, Tim and his wife, Donna,
have become true members of
our Mount family,” said Board
Chair Mary D. Kane, C’84, in
announcing the appointment at this
weekend’s Alumni Reunion. “Tim
has harnessed the energy of all of
those who love the Mount to build
remarkable forward momentum
for the university. He has helped to
improve trust, build community, and
enhance communication across the
campus. On behalf of the board, I’m
thrilled to make Tim’s appointment
permanent and pledge that he will
have the board’s continued support
as we work together to chart a
course for the Mount.”
“The permanent appointment of
President Trainor is great news for
Mount St. Mary’s and builds upon
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with his arrival also overseen
last year,” said improvements
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William E. Lori, which are poised
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Baltimore, who is largest in Mount
also a university history, with
board member the incoming
and chancellor freshman class
of Mount St. expected to top
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“In his time (a 24 percent
serving in an increase over
interim capacity, last year). In
President addition, the
Trainor’s freshman-to-
leadership sophomore
has brought a retention rate is
renewed energy and collaboration likely to be the highest in years at
within the entire Mount community greater than 80 percent. Trainor has
that has positioned the university on also launched a capital campaign,
a course for growth and success.” Forward! Together As One, with a
“From the moment we first goal to raise $30 million.
visited campus, Donna and I could Academic achievements this past
feel the warmth and strength of year include three new academic
this community,” said Trainor. programs, new academic leadership,
“The Mount is a special place and an articulation agreement with
having had the opportunity to work Frederick Community College,
closely with colleagues over the last the three student Fulbright award
year, I know the university’s future winners, and securing a $1 million
is bright. Together, we’ve tackled donation to create the Palmieri
challenges and worked hard to Center for Entrepreneurship and
have the kind of community, rich hiring its new director. Outside
in Catholic values, that enables our the classroom, Trainor approved
students to develop into the next efforts to elevate the women’s rugby
leaders of our society. It’s an honor program to a varsity-level sport,
to receive this vote of confidence the return of varsity men’s soccer,
from the university and the board, and expansion of rosters for several
and to know that our work together existing Division I teams.
will continue.” Prior to joining the Mount in
During Trainor’s tenure as August 2016, Trainor served a
interim president, he has focused thirty-three-year-career in the Army,
the community on keeping students retiring as a Brigadier General,
at the center of everything the with his final six years as dean of
Mount does and on a list of shared the Academic Board at the United
priorities, while developing a States Military Academy, West
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Point, New York. In this role, he
was the chief academic officer,
leading more than 800 faculty
and staff across 13 departments
and 23 centers that provide a core
curriculum and 40 different majors
in engineering, basic sciences, math,
humanities and social sciences to
4,400 students. U.S. News & World
Report ranks West Point as one of
the top 25 National Liberal Arts
Colleges in the nation.
As chief academic officer,
he was also responsible for
governance and planning in
regard to faculty, curriculum,
accreditation, master planning,
athletics, and class committees.
He has published extensively on
innovative leadership, systems
engineering, operations research,
and decision-making. He also
has broad experience in strategic
planning, outreach to alumni, and
involvement with the Middle States
Commission on Higher Education
as an evaluation team chair. He
also played a role in supporting the
recent successful West Point capital
campaign.
Prior to his appointment as
dean of the Academic Board,
Trainor spent four years a professor
and head of the Department of
Systems Engineering and three
years as director of the Engineering
Management Program, both at
West Point.
Trainor earned his doctorate in
industrial engineering from North
Carolina State University, an MBA
from the Fuqua School of Business
at Duke University and a B.S. from
the United States Military Academy.
He and his wife, Colonel (Retired)
Donna Brazil, are the parents of
three children: Cory, Daniel, and
Zachary.