Tricia Day, J.D., is a labor and employment lawyer with more than 25 years of experience in labor relations and human resources. She has held strategic leadership positions and played major roles in policy development and implementation. As vice president for human resources she serves as a member of the President’s Cabinet and is responsible for all aspects of human resources including compensation, benefits, employee relations, recruitment, hiring and retention, training, organizational development and performance management. Prior to joining the University, she served as a consultant on labor relations and employment issues and held chief labor relations officer positions at the transit authorities in Boston and Philadelphia and at the Massachusetts Port Authority.

Dr. Conniff has served as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences since 2010. The College of Arts and Sciences is Scranton’s largest undergraduate college, housing programs in the sciences, the humanities, and the social and behavioral sciences, as well as the Special Jesuit Liberal Arts Honors Program and the University Honors Program.

Previously, Dr. Conniff was dean of the College of Humanities and Behavioral Sciences at Radford University in Radford, Va. Prior to that, he was a professor and chair of the Department of English at the University of Dayton in Dayton, Ohio.  Dr. Conniff’s academic areas of expertise and research are modern poetry, prison writing, and religion and literature. He has published more than two dozen articles in academic books and scholarly journals on these topics as well as literacy, Latin American literature, service-learning, and Catholic higher education. He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Ohio Humanities Council, the Forum on the Catholic Intellectual Tradition Today and Campus Compact, among others.

Dr. Gretchen J. Van Dyke is an Associate Professor of Political Science at The University of Scranton, where she has taught International Relations and American Government since 1994.  Following her undergraduate degree at Trinity College, Washington, D.C. and three years working in the House of Representatives on Capitol Hill, Dr. Van Dyke completed both a M.A. and a Ph.D. in Foreign Affairs at the University of Virginia, focusing on the development of national security policy during the Kennedy Administration.  Dr. Van Dyke teaches an array of electives, including: U.S. Foreign and National Security Policy, War and Peace, Genocide, International Humanitarianism, European Foreign Policy, the European Union, Women in the Global Community, and the American Presidency. 

Her research interests include national security decision making and policy implementation as well as the pedagogy of International Relations, specifically the value of active and experiential learning as it relates to civic education, engagement, and citizenship.  She recently completed the Ignatian Colleagues Program, an 18-month formation program in Ignatian spirituality and Jesuit education offered to senior administrators and faculty leaders by the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities.