DePaul University welcomed three additions to its Board of Trustees, including one of the nation’s foremost experts on higher education, a national leader of the financial services industry and a Catholic priest who is one of the world’s leading authorities on Vincentian values and their impact on the modern world.

Arthur E. Levine, 57, president and professor at Teachers College of Columbia University in New York, and Bertram L. Scott, 54, executive vice president of product management at TIAA-CREF, were elected on Nov. 19. The Rev. Robert P. Maloney, C.M., 66, who presently participates in international Vincentian projects and serves as a consultant on religious life to the Holy See, was elected in May and attended his first meeting this month.

"It is both a great honor and a reflection of DePaul’s growing reputation that three nationally-respected leaders in their fields have chosen to help guide the university’s future," said the Rev. Dennis H. Holtschneider, C.M., DePaul University president. "We highly value the educational, financial and Vincentian expertise they will bring to our Board of Trustees."

Levine is one of the nation’s leading researchers and writers on the topic of higher education. Prior to joining Teachers College, he served as chair of the Higher Education Program and the Institute for Educational Management at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education, following a seven-year tenure as president of Bradford College in Massachusetts. He also is a former senior fellow at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

A winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Levine is currently working on a five-year study of the nation’s schools of education, and the first volume of the study’s findings, "Educating School Leaders," was released last spring. He has served as a consultant to more than 250 colleges and universities and has received dozens of academic leadership awards and honors, as well as 16 honorary degrees.

The most recent of Levine’s 10 books is "When Hope and Fear Collide: A Portrait of Today’s College Student." His commentaries on education have appeared in some of the nation’s top news and education trade papers, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Chronicle of Higher Education and Education Week. Levine holds a Ph.D. in sociology and higher education from the State University of New York at Buffalo and a bachelor’s degree in biology from Brandeis University.

Scott, a national leader in the financial industry, oversees TIAA-CREF’s product management group, which includes pension programs, individual wealth management, individual protection programs, education savings, institutional asset development and business development. He joined the company in 2000 as president of TIAA-CREF Life Company, the organization’s insurance division. Before joining TIAA-CREF, he was president and chief executive officer of Horizon Mercy, a joint Medicaid managed care program initiative by Mercy Health Plan of Pennsylvania and Blue Cross/Blue Shield of New Jersey. He also has served as vice president of managed care operations for Prudential Insurance Company.

In 2004, Scott was honored by Black Enterprise magazine as one of the "75 Most Powerful Blacks in Corporate America," and in 2002 was named as one of "The 50 Most Powerful Black Executives in America" by Fortune magazine. He was named as CEO of the Year by the New Jersey NAACP in 2000.

Scott graduated with a bachelor of arts degree from DePaul’s School for New Learning (SNL) in 1980. He serves on SNL’s Advisory Council and received the college’s David O. Justice Award in 2002.

In addition to his work with DePaul, Scott, who resides in Charlotte, N.C., also serves on the boards of Becton Dickinson Corporation, the American Heart Association, the United Way of Central Carolinas, the American Council of Life Insurance and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Maloney is a former Superior General of the Congregation of the Mission in Rome, Italy, and a former member of the Vatican’s "Council of 18" and the pontifical council Cor Unum. He also served as an Apostolic Visitor for the Vatican in India in 2004. He served as a missionary for the Church in Panama, and served as a trustee for two other Vincentian universities, Niagara University and St. John’s University in New York.

A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., Maloney also is the author of four books on Vincentian topics, including "The Way of Vincent de Paul," "He Hears the Cry of the Poor," "Seasons in Spirituality," and "Go: On the Missionary Spirituality of St. Vincent de Paul," as well as numerous articles on spirituality, most of which have been published in Review for Religious and America magazines. He received a Ph.D. in moral theology from Catholic University in Washington, D.C., and was ordained to the priesthood at Mary Immaculate Seminary in Northampton, Pa.

DePaul is the largest Catholic university in the nation and is one of the ten largest private universities in the United States. A richly diverse population of 23,148 students attends classes on two city and four suburban campuses.