Rev. Brian J. Shanley, O.P. ’80 will be installed as the 12th president of Providence College during a two-day inaugural celebration on Friday, September 30, and Saturday, October 1. The theme for Inaugural Weekend is “Sacred Truths, Transformed Lives, and Signs of the Times.”

A native of Warwick, R.I., Father Shanley was elected to a five-year term as president on February 1, 2005, and assumed office on July 1, 2005.

Plans for Inaugural Weekend are being carried out by a 16-member Inauguration Committee, chaired by Ann Manchester-Molak ’75, executive director of college relations and director of college events.

Father Shanley will be installed as president during the Installation Ceremony at 3:00 p.m. on September 30 in the Peterson Recreation Center. The celebration will continue with the Inaugural Ball at 7:00 p.m. in Peterson.

A full schedule of events is planned the next day, October 1. The Inaugural Convocation will begin at 11:00 a.m. on the terrace of the Smith Center for the Arts. The convocation will be highlighted by a keynote address by the Very Rev. J. Augustine DiNoia, O.P. ’65, undersecretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith at the Vatican in Rome, Italy.

The convocation also will feature the formal granting of promotion and tenure to faculty members and the presentation of the third annual Joseph R. Accinno Faculty Teaching Award to Dr. Vance G. Morgan, professor of philosophy and department chair. A luncheon will take place after the convocation on the quadrangle in front of the arts center.

The Inaugural Symposia—two hour-long, concurrent sessions at both 1:15 and 2:30 p.m.—will follow in the Smith Center for the Arts. The symposia will feature breakout sessions in each of the four areas representative of the College’s major academic divisions: the humanities, business, the sciences, and the performing and visual arts.

The first three symposia will consist of a presentation by a guest speaker followed by a roundtable discussion comprising the speaker, a PC faculty member, a prominent PC alumnus, and a PC student. The performing/visual arts symposium will include a formal presentation and performances by dancers and actors. Each symposium will incorporate the Inaugural Weekend theme.

An Inaugural Mass will be celebrated at 4:30 p.m. in St. Dominic Chapel, while the final event will be an Inaugural Student Barbecue at 6:00 p.m. on the Aquinas Hall quadrangle.

A link for Inaugural Weekend will be available shortly on the College's home page at www.providence.edu.