Stephanie Russell, Executive Director, University Mission & IdentityStephanie Russell, Arts '83, is executive director of university mission and identity.

Reporting to the president, she is responsible for promoting the university's mission and Catholic, Jesuit identity, expressed in the search for truth, the discovery and sharing of knowledge, the promotion of a life of faith and the development of leadership expressed in service to others. Her responsibilities at the university, which she joined in 2001, include oversight of the Faber Center for Ignatian Spirituality and Campus Ministry. She maintains in her work a strong focus on core Catholic values and social teaching, the Ignatian spiritual and educational heritage , and interreligious dialogue as means for deepening the university’s mission.

Russell has worked for many Jesuit institutions, including 11 years as the provincial assistant for lay formation and social ministry with the Wisconsin Province of the Society of Jesus. She is a founding member of the Ignatian Associates, a lay community of more than one-hundred women and men who live and serve in the Ignatian tradition, and the Ignatian Colleagues Program, a comprehensive developmental program for administrators in Jesuit colleges and universities across the country.   In addition to her work at Marquette, she regularly directs retreats, writes and speaks on Ignatian topics.

Russell’s professional career has focused on pastoral ministry and education. She earned a bachelor's degree in social work from Marquette University and a master of arts in pastoral studies from St. Francis Seminary in Wisconsin. She was awarded an honorary doctorate in human letters from Spring Hill College in 2009.

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Identity: Catholic, Jesuit, private
Established: 1881
Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Undergraduate: 8,048
Postgraduate: 3,500
Campus: Urban, 90 acres
Athletics: 14 NCAA Division I teams (Big East)
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