Niagara University official to head DePaul University in Chicago

Published: 2004-07-19

CHICAGO (CNS) -- Vincentian Father Dennis Holtschneider, formerly executive vice president at Niagara University in western New York, begins his new duties in July as president of DePaul University in Chicago. He succeeds Vincentian Father John P. Minogue, DePaul's president since 1993, who announced in the fall of 2003 that he would be stepping down in June. With an enrollment of nearly 24,000 students, DePaul identifies itself as the largest Catholic university in the United States and the seventh-largest private U.S. university. Father Holtschneider, 42, was born in Detroit and studied at Harvard University, where he received his doctorate in administration, planning and social policy in 1997. Ordained a Vincentian priest in 1989, he has worked at all three universities sponsored by his religious community in the United States: St. John's in Jamaica, N.Y., Niagara and now DePaul.

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