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Patricia McGuire (born 1952) is the 14th president of
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in Washington D.C.; she was appointed president in 1989. She is credited with successfully transitioning the institution from one that primarily served elites and was on the verge of collapse to one that primarily caters to underprivileged students, mostly local black and Hispanic women.


Early life and career

A native of Philadelphia, McGuire graduated from Merion Mercy Academy, in Merion, Pennsylvania. She earned her bachelor of arts degree ''
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'' in political science from Trinity College, now
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, in 1974 and her law degree from the
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in 1977. McGuire was the Assistant Dean for Development and External Affairs for Georgetown University Law Center, where she was also an adjunct professor of law teaching courses in tax exempt organizations. She also was project director for Georgetown's D.C. Street Law Project as well as a legal affairs commentator for the
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newsmagazine '' 30 Minutes'' and Washington TV Channel 5’s talk show, ''Panorama'', hosted by
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.


Trinity presidency

McGuire is credited with the transformation of Trinity. Under her leadership, Trinity has nearly doubled its enrollment, expanded academic programs, completed its first successful capital campaign, became a university in 2004, and built the 2004 Washington Business Journal’s award-winning $20-million Trinity Center for Women and Girls in Sports, a state-of-the-art athletic center. McGuire has focused on meeting the educational needs of the Washington, D.C., community and today, Trinity educates more D.C. Public School graduates than any other private university in the city and in the nation. During McGuire’s tenure, Trinity’s institutional accreditation was affirmed in 1996 and 2006 by the
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; in 2006 the Visiting Team report noted, “Transformed over the last two decades by dramatic changes and courageous and deliberate embracing of ‘paradigm shift,’ the University has remained remarkably faithful to its rich tradition, the founding vision of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur: the special commitment to women, to the primacy of the liberal arts and to the Catholic intellectual, moral and social justice tradition.” During McGuire’s presidency, Trinity also secured accreditation from the National Council for Accreditation for Teacher Education (NCATE) for its education programs and from the
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(CCNE) for Trinity’s RN-to-BSN program. McGuire also established an academic program at THEARC (Town Hall, Education, Arts and Recreation Campus) in Southeast Washington, making Trinity the only university to offer college degrees east of the
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in D.C.


Boards and other activities

McGuire is currently a member of the boards of directors of the Greater Washington Board of Trade, the
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, the Washington Metropolitan Consortium of Universities, the
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, the Women’s College Coalition, the UNIFI Mutual Holding Company and Acacia Life Insurance Company, and Goodwill of Greater Washington. She is slated to join the boards of the
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and United Educators in 2008. She serves on advisory boards and committees of the
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of the Nation’s Capital and the National Postsecondary Education Cooperative of the
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. Prior service includes the boards of the Eugene and Agnes Meyer Foundation, the
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, and Elderhostel, as well as vice chair of the Commission on Higher Education of the
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, and chair of the Commission on Lifelong Learning of the
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. In 2006, McGuire served on the independent advisory panel on governance for the
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. In 2000, D. C. Mayor Anthony Williams and the D.C. Financial Control Board appointed President McGuire to a special term on the Education Advisory Committee overseeing the D.C. Public Schools. In June 1998, Treasury Secretary
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appointed McGuire to serve as a member of the first-ever citizens’ advisory panel on coinage, the 8-member Dollar Coin Design Advisory Committee, which recommended the image of
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, and the College of St. Elizabeth. In 2007 the Greater Washington Board of Trade honored McGuire as the “Leader of the Years,” one of only six women ever to receive this annual award from this regional business organization. Washingtonian magazine named her a Washingtonian of the Year in 1993; Washingtonian has also recognized her on lists of the “100 Most Powerful Women in Washington” and “150 Most Powerful People in Washington”. The
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included her among the Women Who Mean Business award recipients in 2006. She has received honors and awards from the Girl Scouts of the Nation's Capital,
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, the Ignatian Solidarity Network, Ward 5 in Washington, and other civic and educational organizations.


Testimony, speeches and articles

President McGuire has given testimony before
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and
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committees on a range of topics in higher education. She writes and speaks on a wide variety of topics concerning higher education and her articles have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Baltimore Sun, Trusteeship, the LA Times and other publications. Unique among presidents in the Washington region, she also maintains a
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on Trinity's website through which she offers commentary on contemporary issues.For instance the Trinity blo
"On Lies and the Truths We Must Tell", 12 feb. 2017
about the Trump Administration and Presidential Counselor Kellyanne Conway (former Trinity student).


References


Selected testimony, speeches and articles



The Presidency, The American Council on Education's Magazine for Higher Education Leaders article, Fall 2007
Report Card on Tax Exemptions and Incentives for Higher Education: Pass, Fail or Need Improvement?
Tuesday, December 5, 2006 Testimony before the Senate Finance Committee
Remarks for the Women's History Month Program
of the Federal Triangle Partnership, Tuesday, March 14, 2006
Testimony Before the Council of the District of Columbia Committee on Education
Libraries and Recreation, Concerning Higher Education Financial Assistance, September 22, 2005
Remarks from Wells College Commencement
May 28, 2005

Remarks for the Centennial * Convocation of the College of New Rochelle, March 23, 2004

Merion Mercy Academy, in Merion, Pennsylvania, June 1, 2003

Published by the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities Current Issues in Catholic Higher Education publication, Winter 2003

Remarks to the Class of 2002 of Georgetown College, Georgetown University Commencement, May 18, 2002

Remarks for Middle States Conference of Chief Academic Officers, March 22, 2002


External links


Trinity Washington University


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C-SPAN ''Q&A'' interview with McGuire, March 7, 2010
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