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Rev. Mark T. Cregan, C.S.C.
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Rev. Mark T. Cregan, C.S.C. is the ninth president of Stonehill. A 1978 graduate of the College, he took office in 2000. Since becoming president, Rev. Cregan has worked diligently on several key fronts.

He has enhanced the College's already strong academic profile and has actively engaged the faculty in this initiative. He has also modernized the College's governance structure, making it more responsive and effective.

In addition, he has built on Stonehill's many ties to the community by reaching out to the College's neighbors and friends with renewed vigor. The Council of Independent Colleges elected Rev. Cregan to its Board of Directors in 2005 for a one-year term. 

Active in all areas of Stonehill life, Rev. Cregan also teaches a course on non-profit law at the College. He is a frequent contributor to the campus newspaper, The Summit. 

Before being appointed president of Stonehill, Rev. Cregan served as the pastor of Sacred Heart Parish, a large inner-city parish in the Bronx, N. Y. In that position, he was the chief administrative officer responsible for schools, buildings, outreach programs, pastoral activities, finances and fund-raising. He helped to turn the parish's annual deficit into a surplus, created a school advisory board to help with fund-raising, special projects and curriculum and established a quasi endowment for future projects.

In addition, Rev. Cregan provided leadership to the Archdiocese of New York's community development efforts, which produced over $100 million in affordable subsidized housing. While administering Sacred Heart Parish, Rev. Cregan also maintained a general practice law office, serving low income clients with immigration, family, estate and real estate problems.

Rev. Cregan holds a master of divinity degree from the University of St. Michael's College at the Toronto School of Theology (University of Toronto). He is a former member of the Board of Trustees at the University of St. Michael's College.

Rev. Cregan holds a juris doctor degree from Brooklyn Law School. He is licensed to practice law before the U.S. Supreme Court, in the State of New York and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the District of Columbia, the United States District Courts for the Districts of Puerto Rico and Massachusetts, the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, and the U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit. From 1990 until 1992, he served as Law Clerk to the Honorable Jose A. Fuste, United States District Judge, San Juan, Puerto Rico. From January 1993 to the present, he has maintained a private practice of law with offices in New York and in Massachusetts; representing clients in the areas of Immigration, Elder, Tax and Family Law as well as serving as counsel to tax exempt organizations. In May 2005 he received an Honorary Doctor of Laws from the New England School of Law.

Born in Jersey City and raised in Newark, N.J., Rev. Cregan graduated from Seton Hall Preparatory School, West Orange, N.J. in 1975. He joined the Congregation of Holy Cross in 1975 and was ordained a Catholic priest in 1983. He is active in the administrative life of the Eastern Province of the Congregation of Holy Cross.

In his free time, he enjoys reading, music, sports and travel. In addition to English, he speaks Spanish fluently and has reading knowledge of Portuguese, Italian, French and Latin.