First Saint Katherine College Provost Announced and Begins September 1

SAN MARCOS, Calif. - Aug. 17, 2015 - PRLog -- We are thrilled to announce the appointment of Margaret T. Bailey, Ph.D., M.B.A. to the Position of Provost. She joins us after 16 years at Point Loma Nazarene University where she served as Vice Provost for Program Development and Accreditation.

Dr. Bailey has over 30 years of administrative and financial management experience in academia, nonprofit management, government, shipping and energy industry. In addition, she has over 22 years of academic experience at the graduate and undergraduate levels. She has very strong financial skills as evidenced by an M.B.A. from University of California, Berkeley, a Ph.D. in Business from the University of Southern California, and her former position as financial analyst with Southern California Edison. Her strongest skills are in the area of strategic planning for continuous improvement, designing administrative processes, systems analysis, and financial analysis.

Her appointment further strengthens the administrative leadership at the College. Welcome Dr. Bailey!

Saint Katherine College is an undergraduate college of liberal arts and sciences that focuses its integrative, interdisciplinary teaching in the core areas of Composition, English Language and Literature, American Government and History, Economics, Business, and the Sciences as part of general education and instruction in concentration-specific degree requirements. Outstanding teaching and research - with relevance to the practical world and Christian witness as guiding principles - is our primary purpose - Inquiry Seeking Wisdom. We aim to graduate creative and compassionate leaders.

College programs encompass several degree-granting programs, as well as interdisciplinary collaborations, laboratories, and programs whose work cuts across traditional departmental boundaries. We realize these aims in a singularly collegial, interdisciplinary atmosphere, while educating outstanding students to become creative members of society. All students complete a six-semester interdisciplinary core, one semester of college algebra, one semester of introductory statistics and critical problem solving, two semesters of science, one semester of Orthodox Christian theology and one semester of New Testament.

Saint Katherine College is independent, coeducational, not-for-profit and privately endowed. The College admits students of all religious and faith backgrounds. All classes are taught by experienced faculty who have earned terminal degrees or posses substantial experience in their academic field.