Academic Leadership

Team Members

The Most Rev. Timothy Broglio, JCD

Chancellor

Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio was born in 1951 in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, and attended Catholic schools in Cleveland, Ohio. Archbishop Broglio was ordained to the priesthood (for the diocese of Cleveland) on 19 May 1977 in the Chapel of the Immaculate Conception of the North American College, Rome.

Marianne Evans Mount, PhD

President

Marianne Evans Mount became president of Catholic Distance University in 2008. She has served in a variety of leadership positions since the founding of CDU in 1983 as a catechetical institute offering paper-based correspondence courses.

Elizabeth Shaw, PhD

Associate Dean for Accreditation

Dr. Shaw is Associate dean for accreditation and also teaches at both the undergraduate and graduate level.

Alissa Thorell, MTS

Faculty Governance Council Chair

Professor Thorell holds an MTS in Theology, Biotechnology, and Ethics from the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family Studies.