BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF ROSEMONT'S PRESIDENT,
ANN AMORE, PH.D.
 

Since assuming the leadership of Rosemont College as its twelfth president on July 1, 2001, Dr. Ann M. Amore has infused the College’s campus with her ardent New York energy while working to renew its foundational vitality—to increase its enrollment, to strengthen its curriculum, and to expand its endowment records. Hers is an indefatigable commitment to the integrity of the Undergraduate Women’s College and to the coeducational programs in the schools of Continuing Studies and Graduate Studies.

Acting first as Director of External Communications and then as Vice President-College Relations at St. Francis College, Brooklyn Heights, New York, Dr. Amore brings twenty-three years experience in higher education to her post. Her skills garnered from her responsibilities at St. Francis College include those in the areas of fundraising, public relations, marketing, alumni relations, and special event planning. Additionally, her early career spanned work in government relations as Legislative Aide and Senate Tourism Committee Clerk, Office of Wisconsin State Senator, Jerome Martin, and as Director of Constituent Relations, Office of the Governor of the State of Wisconsin.

Born in New York City, Dr. Amore grew up in Long Island, New York. She credits her parents, Edward A. Amore and Anne Longo Amore, with shaping her love for education and for encouraging her study within the field of education itself. Inspired by her father’s dedicated service as a high school principal in Queens, New York, Dr. Amore solidified her own desire to assist others in their pursuit of an education and the opportunities an education so provides.

Dr. Amore received bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She holds a doctoral degree in English from New York University and an honorary doctoral degree from St. Francis College. Her dissertation entitled, Women of Perception in the Novels of Henry James, was published in 1996. Dr. Amore’s passion for American Literature, and in particular, for the writings of Edith Wharton and Henry James, has resulted in—in addition to her administrative capacities—an acceptance of a part-time teaching position at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an adjunct associate professor position at St. Francis College.

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