Rev. John J. Ryan, C.S.C., Ph.D.

Director of the William G. McGowan School of Business
Associate Professor of Business
King’s College
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania

An associate professor of business at King’s College since 1994, Fr. Ryan was appointed director of the William G. McGowan School of Business at King’s in 2004. During the summer of 2007 he was appointed Superior of the Holy Cross Community at King’s College..

Fr. Ryan’s areas of academic interest are: business ethics, moral leadership, work values, and organizational citizenship issues. He was a member of the business faculty at King’s when the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB International), the premier business school accrediting agency in the world, accredited the College’s William G. McGowan School of Business. 

He received his B.S. degree in accounting from Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. in 1971 and was employed at Gilbert/Commonwealth Associates, Inc. from 1971 through 1984 as a staff accountant, a general accounting supervisor, budget manager, business systems analyst, and business systems manager. He was awarded his M.B.A. degree from St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, Pa. in 1984 and served as a finance instructor at the University of Notre Dame in Notre Dame, IN in 1985.

He joined the Congregation of Holy Cross and was professed for the Eastern Province in 1986. He received his master of divinity (M.Div.) degree from the University of Toronto in Toronto, Ontario in 1989 and was ordained to the priesthood in 1990. 

Fr. Ryan continued his graduate studies in business administration and was awarded the Ph.D. degree in business administration from Temple University in Philadelphia, Pa. in 1998. He also rendered parish assistance in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia from 1990 through 1994. Since 1994, he has been a weekly celebrant at local parishes in the Diocese of Scranton. 

Fr. Ryan is a member of the Board of Directors for the Earth Conservancy, a not-for-profit corporation for conservation and land revitalization in the Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania as well as a councilor for the Eastern Province of the Congregation of Holy Cross. He was elected to the Stonehill College Board of Trustees in spring 2005.