John B. Creeden, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

John B. Creeden

20th-century American Jesuit educator

Date of Birth: 12-Sep-1871

Place of Birth: Arlington, Massachusetts, United States

Date of Death: 26-Feb-1948

Profession: Catholic priest, academic administrator

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About John B. Creeden

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  • Creeden (September 12, 1871 – February 26, 1948) was an American Catholic priest and Jesuit, who served in many senior positions at Jesuit universities in the United States.
  • Born in Massachusetts, he attended Boston College, and studied for the priesthood in Maryland and Austria.
  • He taught at Fordham University and then Georgetown University, where he was made Dean of Georgetown College in 1909, and simultaneously served as Principal of Georgetown Preparatory School. Creeden became President of Georgetown University in 1918.
  • Largely shaped by the First World War, during his presidency, the School of Foreign Service was founded, for which he was awarded the Medal of Public Instruction from the President of Venezuela.
  • In order to support the post-war enrollment boom, he also expanded the size of the campus, and established the university's first endowment, to support major campus improvements.
  • He proposed a transformation of the campus that would involve building a new quadrangle of neo-Gothic buildings, but this vision was thwarted by the Depression of 1921.
  • Creeden undertook a major reform of the university's organization, which included relocating Georgetown Preparatory School to a new campus, installing Jesuit regents to oversee each of the professional schools, and placing the Law School under his direct control, where he initiated a drastic improvement in the school's curriculum and admissions standards. Following the end of his presidency in 1924, he returned to Boston College, where he briefly became Dean of the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, before founding Boston College Law School in 1926 and serving as its first regent until 1939.
  • At the same time, he served as regent of Georgetown Law School from 1929 to 1939.
  • In his final years, he was a spiritual counselor at Jesuit schools in Western Massachusetts, and then became Dean of Boston College's Evening Division, which later became the Woods College of Advancing Studies.

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