Biography of Jacqueline Powers Doud

President
Mount St. Mary's College, Los Angeles

Jacqueline Powers Doud became the eleventh president of Mount St. Mary's College on July 1, 2000. Prior to her appointment, she served as provost, vice president of academic affairs and dean of faculty and professor of education. The first lay president of the College, she succeeded Sister Karen M. Kennelly, CSJ, who served as president from 1989 to 2000.

In her more than 20 years in senior administrative positions in higher education, Doud has led initiatives in academics, fiscal control, student affairs, campus and trustee development, and fundraising. This follows her nine years of teaching experience in French, humanities and education. A resident of Glendale, she has been married to Robert E. Doud, professor of philosophy at Pasadena City College, since 1977.

Doud received her B.A. in French from Mundelein College, Chicago in 1962. While she taught French full time at Mundelein College from 1967 to 1972, she earned her M.A. in French literature from the University of California, Berkeley in 1969. Beginning in 1975, she served at the University of La Verne as associate dean of the School of Arts and Sciences as well as assistant professor of humanities. Doud completed her Ph.D. in higher education from Claremont Graduate University in 1976. Her dissertation, “An Inquiry into the Effects of a College Education on the Attitudes, Competencies, and Behavior of Individuals,” became part of Investment in Learning: The Individual and Social Value of American Higher Education by Howard R. Bowen in collaboration with Clecak, Doud and Douglass (Jossey-Bass, 1977).

In 1978, Doud served as a consultant for the Council for the Advancement of Experiential Learning project on institutional development. Also in 1978, she served as a reviewer of research proposals for the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) and National Commission of Higher Education Management Studies (NCHEMS) outcomes project and auditor for the University of La Verne degree programs in Naples, Italy and in,  Athens, Greece for La Verne’s Ed.D. program. In 1979, she became dean of the School of Arts and Sciences and advanced to the rank of associate professor of humanities at the University of La Verne. While dean, she was selected as participant in the Claremont Higher Education Management Institute (CHEMI) program. In 1982, she again served as auditor for the University of La Verne's degree programs.

In 1984, Doud moved to Woodbury University where she became vice president of academic affairs, dean of the faculty, and professor of humanities. From August 1989 to January 1990 she held the position of interim president and participated in the Women Presidents’ Summit: The First National Conference of Women College and University Presidents, sponsored by the American Council on Education (ACE). During her Woodbury years she was instrumental, with the president, in effecting the move of the university from downtown Los Angeles to a full-service campus in Burbank.

In 1991, Doud moved to Mount St. Mary’s College as academic vice president and dean of the faculty and professor of education. Under a 1999 reorganization, she became provost of the College. While at Mount St. Mary’s College, Doud has served as member of accrediting teams for the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC). Doud has also served as a member of the WASC Substantive Change Committee, as a WASC commission fellow and staff associate, and chaired the WASC Interim Report Committee.  She was also a WASC consultant to St. John’s Seminary.

Doud is a member of the board of visitors of the School of Educational Studies at Claremont Graduate University (beginning fall 2000); member of the advisory board of the Skirball Institute on American Values; a charter member of California Concerns (Women Administrators in Higher Education in California) and the Higher Education Roundtable; and is past president of the Claremont Graduate University Alumni Council. She served on the advisory committee for the Women’s College at Santa Monica Community College and is a member of the American Association of Teachers of French, the American Association for Higher Education, and the American Association of University Professors.

Doud has received the following awards and fellowships: NDEA French Institute grant at Loyola University-Mundelein College, Chicago, and study abroad in Tours, France; Institut de Touraine, Workshop in Tours, France through a grant by the American Association of Teachers of French, Chicago; Hausam-Fisk Award for Distinction in Higher Education (first recipient) given by Claremont Graduate University; Citation for Outstanding Women in Management (Pomona); Alumni Award for Distinguished Service to Claremont Graduate University; the Distinguished Alumni Hausam-Fisk Lecturer in 1999, and a panel member for the inauguration of Claremont Graduate University’s president.