{"id":2482,"date":"2011-02-11T16:10:53","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T16:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/news\/2011\/02\/towey-named-president-of-ave-m.php"},"modified":"2011-02-11T16:10:53","modified_gmt":"2011-02-11T16:10:53","slug":"towey-named-president-of-ave-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2011\/02\/towey-named-president-of-ave-m","title":{"rendered":"Towey Named President of Ave Maria University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(RNS) Domino&#8217;s Pizza magnate Tom Monaghan has stepped down from leading the conservative Catholic university he founded near Naples, Fla., and named the former director of the White House faith-based office as president.<br \/>\nMonaghan&#8217;s Ave Maria University on the edge of the Everglades will be headed by Jim Towey, who once served as Mother Teresa&#8217;s U.S. lawyer and headed President George W. Bush&#8217;s Office of Faith-based and Community Initiatives from 2002-2006.<br \/>\nMonaghan, 73, who has poured millions of his personal fortune into the school he founded in 1998, stepped down from the day-to-day operations as CEO and will assume the post of chancellor.<br \/>\n&#8220;The start-up phase is over, a strong foundation is now in place, and now we must go about the difficult work of building the best Catholic liberal arts university in America,&#8221; Towey said in a statement.<br \/>\nAfter leaving the White House, Towey served as president of Saint Vincent College, a small Catholic college outside Pittsburgh, until last summer.<br \/>\nTowey succeeds Nicholas J. Healy, who has served under Monaghan as the school&#8217;s president since 2002.<br \/>\n&#8220;Really, for us as a board, they&#8217;ve done the impossible,&#8221; Board of Trustees chairman Michael Timmis told the Naples Daily News. &#8220;They&#8217;ve created a university out of tomato fields. 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