Biography of Marc M. Camille, Ed.D.
President, Albertus Magnus College
Dr. Marc M. Camille is in his second year serving as the 14th President of Albertus Magnus College in New Haven, Connecticut. His twenty-nine year career includes nearly two decades of senior administrative experience at Catholic colleges, and his leadership for Albertus Magnus is inspired by the distinct, values-based Catholic mission and Dominican tradition.
Dr. Camille’s first year as president was marked by an ambitious agenda of engaged listening, meeting with members of the Albertus trustees, faculty, staff, students, parents, alumni, and friends, as well as numerous corporate, civic, religious, and education leaders throughout the Greater New Haven area. In Dr. Camille’s first year, Albertus Magnus College took initial steps toward realizing its bright future. Applications to the first-year class increased by nearly 40% to a new record total, and the incoming class was the largest in a decade, nearly 50% larger than the previous year’s. Annual giving donors and contributions increased, and as part of his inauguration events through gifts exceeding $250,000, the new Silver Horn Scholarship was created to assist enrolled students who fall into financial hardship with completing their Albertus degrees. Improvements to campus facilities also commenced: refreshing Dominican Hall, the first-year student residence; opening a new East Hartford campus for Albertus adult student programs; a new campus coffee shop, featuring Starbucks; launching an intramural sports and wellness program; and opening the new Shea Softball Complex.
The 2018-19 academic year, Dr. Camille’s second as president, has seen the College community embark upon a shared strategic visioning and planning process, setting its sights on 2025, the Centennial for Albertus Magnus College. A new undergraduate major in Urban Studies and a master’s degree in Public Administration were launched, and five new full-time faculty members were hired. Also this year, the College received two Federal Grants totaling more the $2.3 million to support commitments to the success and wellbeing of every student. Important facilities enhancements continue, including a campus-wide solar panel installation and a comprehensive renovation of the Hubert Campus Center, designed to foster engagement between and among students, faculty, and staff and including new lounge and study spaces, wellness and fitness spaces, community gathering and presentation space, new dining spaces, and a second floor rooftop patio featuring outdoor seating. In addition, Dr. Camille’s second year featured the start of varsity field hockey, and varsity swimming and ice hockey teams begin in 2019.
Prior to his election as President at Albertus, Dr. Camille served as Vice President for Enrollment Management and Communications at Loyola University Maryland and supervised the offices of undergraduate and graduate admission, financial aid, institutional research, and university marketing and communications. He came to Loyola in 2006 after serving as Dean of Admission and Financial Aid at Xavier University in Ohio. Under his leadership at Loyola, first-year class applications increased more than 75%, the acceptance rate decreased, the yield rate increased, and first-year class size increased by more than 20%; first-generation, Pell Grant recipient, and student of color enrollments more than doubled; and Loyola’s financial aid discount rate remained below national and competitor benchmarks.
In addition to his enrollment management and marketing expertise, Dr. Camille’s career includes leadership experience chairing institution-wide strategic planning, leading annual and long-term enrollment and revenue forecast planning, conducting market research for new academic program development, chairing executive level searches in academic affairs and intercollegiate athletics, capital campaign cabinet membership, and serving as an institutional reaccreditation peer evaluator for the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. The author of “Ethics and Strategic Enrollment Management” in Jossey-Bass’ Handbook of Strategic Enrollment Management, Dr. Camille is a frequent and sought-after speaker at national enrollment management, marketing, and business officer conferences.
Dr. Camille earned his Bachelor’s degree in English from Rollins College, his master’s degree at the University of Miami, and his doctorate in higher education management from the University of Pennsylvania. He has two children, Katie, a senior at Loyola University Maryland, and Ryan, a sophomore at the College of the Holy Cross.