Frances Sweeney PhD

Frances Sweeney, PhD is Vice President for Mission at Saint Mary’s College of California. She is also a Professor of Spanish Applied Linguistics. Her work focuses on mission integration across the college, including the question of what it means to be a liberal arts, Lasallian, Catholic university.

In her role, she collaborates across the college to support Lasallian internal and external programming, and she has helped develop initiatives that include a national summer institute of Lasallian diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging and an SMC Religious Diversity committee. She also helped establish the Catholic Institute for Lasallian Social Action (CILSA) and other programs and committees connected to mission and support structures for different affinity groups.