Former Gu President Lands Provost Post

The Rev. Edward Glynn, the Gonzaga University president who resigned in May under pressure from the university’s board of trustees, has accepted a high-level post at the University of Massachusetts in Boston.

Effective Aug. 18, Glynn becomes acting provost for the university, which serves 12,000 students. Gonzaga has 4,500 students.

Glynn, a 61-year-old Jesuit, was chosen from several candidates for the one-year contract as UMB searches for a permanent provost, said spokeswoman Annmarie Lewis Kerwin.

“His untimely departure from Gonzaga was not a concern,” Kerwin said. “The timing may not have been good for Gonzaga, but it was great for us.”

The move reunites Glynn with another former Gonzaga administrator, Edmund Toomey, who holds the position of UMB’s executive assistant chancellor. Toomey was vice president for student life at Gonzaga in 1977 when Glynn was academic vice president.

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