The Rev. Edward Aloysius Malloy, C.S.C. (born May 3, 1941), nicknamed "Monk", served from 1987 to 2005 as the 16th president of the

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Biography

Edward Malloy was born on May 3, 1941 in Washington, D.C. He attended Archbishop Carroll High School, where he was part of a basketball team that included John Thompson and Tom Hoover. During his senior season, the team started a 55-game winning streak. He received a B.A. and an M.A. in English from the

in 1963 and 1967 and an M.A. in

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in 1969. As an undergraduate at Notre Dame, he was on the basketball team, but he never started. He was ordained as

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in 1970, and he received a PhD in

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from

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in 1975.

Presidency of the University of Notre Dame

In 1974, he started teaching at Notre Dame. In 1986, he was elected by the trustees as Vice-President and Associate Provost. He served as President from 1987 to 2005. Father Malloy sits on the Board of Trustees of Vanderbilt University and the

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, the University of St. Thomas and the

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. He has served in leadership roles as chair of the

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(ACE), the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges (AGB), and Campus Compact, and has been an active participant on the Business-Higher Education Forum, the general council of the International Federation of Catholic Universities (IFCU), the board of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (ACCU), the board of directors of the

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(NAICU), the National Committee on Higher Education and the Health of Youth, the board of advisors of The Bernardin Center for Theology and Ministry at

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, the board of directors of the

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Foundation, and the editorial advisory board of ''The Presidency'', the magazine of the American Council on Education. He has been a member of the advisory board of the

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and

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(NCCC), a founding director of the

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, member of the board of governors of the Boys and Girls Clubs of America, and a member of the State of Indiana Community Service and Volunteer Committee and the Indiana Commission on Community Service (

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). He is a recipient of the

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Balfour Silver Anniversary Award. He has been a member of the National Advisory Council on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, President George H. W. Bush's Advisory Council on Drugs, the Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America, and the Governor's Commission for a Drug-Free Indiana. He currently serves on the board of directors of the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at

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, for which he has chaired commissions on Substance Abuse Among America's Adolescents and on Substance Abuse at Colleges and Universities. He currently is co-chair of the subcommittee on college drinking of the

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, a component of the

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, and for CASA, he now chairs the National Commission on Substance Abuse and Sports. He recently served as chair of the Sports Wagering Task Force established by the NCAA. He has served the Catholic Church on the Vatican Secretariat for Non-Believers, the Ex Corde Ecclesiae and Bishops-Presidents committees of the

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, the

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, and the

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. He serves on the board of the National Leadership Roundtable on Church Management. He is a member of the

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and the Society of Christian Ethics.

Bibliography

* * * *Biography ''Monk's Tale'' in three volumes: ** ** **Malloy, Edward A. (2016). ''Monk's Tale: The Presidential Years 1987-2005.'' Monk's Tale Volume 3. University of Notre Dame Press. p. 456. .

References

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