May 9, 2011. Rev. Philip Boroughs, S.J., of Georgetown, will become College's 32nd president in January 2012

WORCESTER, Mass. -The College of the Holy Cross Board of Trustees has elected Rev. Philip L. Boroughs, S.J., as the College's 32nd president.

Fr. Boroughs, currently vice president for mission and ministry at Georgetown University, will assume office at Holy Cross in January 2012. Fr. Boroughs, 61, who has served as a member of the Holy Cross Board of Trustees since 2008, has been professionally involved in Jesuit higher education for 20 years as a faculty member and administrator at Gonzaga, Seattle, and Georgetown universities. He was appointed in 2003 to his current post as Georgetown's first-ever vice president for mission and ministry. There, he is the only Jesuit serving as a senior university administrator

Prior to coming to Georgetown, Fr. Boroughs served as the rector of the Jesuit Community at Seattle University where he was also a faculty member in the School of Theology and Ministry and an administrator (1992-2001). Previously, he taught religious studies at Gonzaga University (1989-91), served as the assistant novice director for the Oregon Province of Jesuits (1980-82), and was a parish priest at St. Leo Church in Tacoma, Wash. (1978-80). He is a former member of the Board of Trustees at the University of San Francisco.