牧师. Justin Daffron, S.J. was named Interim Provost and Senior Vice President of Strategy for MG游戏官方网站 for the 2023-24 academic year. He brings a wealth of higher education administrative experience to his post, having most recently served as Interim President Select for the 2022-23 academic year and the Vice President for Mission and 身份 at MG游戏官方网站 from July 2019 to May 2022.  He previously held top posts at fellow Jesuit universities Saint Louis University, 芝加哥洛约拉大学和斯普林希尔学院.

His key strengths are innovative thought leadership and vision, 对建立mg游戏试玩的热情, and desire to accompany students through a transformational experience. 在他的职业生涯中, he has built relationships that foster philanthropic investment, 具备管理人力和财政资源的能力,  提倡正义, 多样性, 公平与包容. 多样性, 公平与包容 initiatives have long been important to him and over the course of his career, he has been responsible for bringing in a total of over $5 million in grants to create systems of support for low-income and first-generation students. 

在MG游戏官方网站, Daffron served as a critical member of President Tania Tetlow’s leadership team, 从2019年4月开始. In 2019-2020, he engaged the entire Loyola community in the 任务优先级考试, a self-study process conducted at the request of the Superior General of the Society of Jesus and with the support of the Jesuit Provincials in the United States and the 耶稣会学院协会 and 大学 (AJCU). 这是对大学耶稣会士的详尽探索, Catholic identity resulted in the successful reaffirmation of Loyola’s Jesuit Catholic identity by the Society of Jesus. 

自然, the self-study process of the Examen heavily overlapped development of the university’s strategic plan, 勇气与创造力2020. 达芙蓉神父在计划的制定中发挥了关键作用, jointly leading a trustee task force to advance ideas for long term strategies that would have the potential for strengthening Loyola’s reputation and financial position. He also co-chaired a board strategic planning committee that authored 21世纪的洛约拉—an action plan to address future institutional challenges and opportunities in response to the global pandemic.

作为宣教和事工副会长, Father Daffron led a committee that completed the design of the planned $6 million St. 依纳爵教堂和本森耶稣会中心, created a formation program for the 校董会 in Jesuit Catholic identity and 多样性, 公平与包容, 教本科生伊格那爵灵修. He also provided interim executive leadership for online education for 18 months, making way for a new Dean of 在线 Learning and the future City College.

在加入新奥尔良洛约拉之前, Father Daffron served as Special Assistant to 总统 of Saint Louis University, 他在哪里制定了增长战略, 特别是在卫生领域, and a strategic plan for transformative undergraduate education.  芝加哥洛约拉大学, as Associate Provost for Strategic Planning and Academic Services, he led a task force positioning the university for the future; he also served as the Vice President for 进步, 领导筹款和校友关系.  At Spring Hill College, he was Assistant to the Vice President for 学生事务.

Father Daffron has served on the boards of Xavier University in Ohio, Spring Hill College and a number of Jesuit high schools around the country, 即:圣. 伊格内修斯大学预科, 圣心学院, 洛约拉学院, 克里斯多雷耶稣会高中, 和斯特莱克耶稣会大学预科. 目前, 他是圣心学院的学校牧师, 新奥尔良, 及时救助圣母神殿的牧师助理, 也是NOLA准备志愿服务队的成员.

A 以优等成绩毕业者 business graduate of Centenary College, Father Daffron did his novitiate training at St. 路易斯安那州大考托的查尔斯学院. 他拥有St. Louis University, a Master of Divinity from the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley, Calif. 和Ph值. D. in higher education administration from Loyola University Chicago, where he wrote his dissertation “Jesuits working in higher education: Satisfaction with the core curriculum at American Jesuit 大学 and 大学.”