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 Rev. Julio Giulietti, S.J. President Wheeling Jesuit University The Rev. Julio Giulietti, S.J. accepted Wheeling Jesuit University's invitation to serve as the eighth president of the university in February, 2007, and officially began his duties in August, 2007. He succeeded the Rev. Joseph R. Hacala, S.J., who resigned due to health reasons the previous fall.. Giulietti grew up in New York City and was ordained a priest in the Society of Jesus on May 26, 1972. Most recently, he was the director of the Center for Ignatian Spirituality at Boston College, where he worked primarily with faculty and staff in spirituality and personal development. He also directed the Intersections Faculty and Staff Seminar, a semester long 30 hours seminar begun through a Lilly Foundation grant, and follow-up sessions to the seminars and offered an undergraduate theology course each semester, "The Christian Spirituality of Ignatius Loyola" and "Ignatius Loyola and Discernment: A Seminar on Vocation and Profession." He has graduate degrees in theology, comparative religions and counseling, and completed a doctorate degree at the Weston Jesuit School of Theology in Cambridge, Mass Giulietti has more than 25 years of experience in working with international programs and higher education. For eight years, he served at Boston College where he taught in the theology department, helped design the inter-departmental academic minor, "Faith, Peace and Justice," and prepared and placed graduating students for two years of service in South America and the Middle East through the Boston College International Volunteer Program. He has also been the director at Georgetown University's Center for Intercultural Education and Development (CIED). As director of Georgetown CIED, he oversaw the mission, which was designed to administer international programs aimed at improving the quality of life of socio economically disadvantaged people. CIED operates in 16 countries in Central America, the Caribbean, Eastern Europe, and Southeast Asia. Retreats and lectures on Ignatian spirituality, Eastern spirituality and lay ministry in the USA, Asia and South America have long been part of Giulietti's ministry. He has served on a number of boards and was a consultant to the Daughters of Charity Health Care System. Presently, he serves on the boards of the National Catholic Reporter Newspaper and Partners in Health. Other experience includes communication, leadership and management training for a variety of professionals in developing countries. He also spent six years working with college students in Japan. |
