Kathleen Vouté MacDonald, Ed.D., has been Dean
of the College of Professional Studies, St. John's University,
since 1994. Her responsibilities include the leadership of over
4,200 students, 300 full-time and part-time faculty, college
operations on two campuses as well as the oversight of the
University's Instructional Television Center. Under Dr. MacDonald’s
management, the college provides popular programs such as:
communication arts field (advertising, public relations, television
and film studies, journalism, photojournalism and dramatic arts),
criminal justice, computer science, hospitality management, legal
studies, and sport management. Recently she has expanded the
college’s mission with new degrees in such cutting-edge disciplines
as: healthcare informatics, computer security systems and homeland
and corporate security. Besides new associate and bachelor’s degree
programs, she has established the graduate degree programs of the
college, Master of Professional Studies in Criminal Justice
Leadership, Master of Science in International Communication and
Master of Professional Studies in Sport Management. The strong
combination of traditional liberal arts, business and
career-oriented majors helps to make the College of Professional
Studies, as Dr. MacDonald likes to say, the "jewel" of the
University.
Dr. MacDonald's varied educational background provides a
substantial framework for her leadership role at St. John's. Her
degrees, which include a BS in Oriental Studies from Columbia
University, MA in Sociology of Education and Ed.D. in Higher and
Adult Education from Columbia University Teachers College, are
supplemented by Japanese language and studies as a result of
expertise developed during seven years residence in Japan. In
addition to her educational administrative roles in such
institutions as Cornell University School of Labor Relations,
Polytechnic University and St. John's, Dr. MacDonald has taught at
a number of private and public higher education institutions
including two universities in Tokyo, Japan. Her special interest in
the field of entrepreneurship, developed during the completion of
her MBA in Management, led her to begin a successful
entrepreneurial venture, Colleges/Careers, Inc. This business,
owned and operated by Dr. MacDonald, offered professional academic
counseling to high school students and their parents.
The wide range of Dean MacDonald's knowledge and her
professional experience in New York, California and Tokyo have
greatly contributed to the recent expansions in the College of
Professional Studies. Both professionally and personally, Dean
MacDonald has remained committed to higher education.