Antoine Garibaldi
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Antoine Michael Garibaldi | |
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| 6th President of Gannon University | |
| In office June 2001 – June 2010 | |
| Succeeded by | Keith Taylor |
| 25th President of University of Detroit Mercy | |
| In office June 2011 – June 2022 | |
| Succeeded by | Donald B. Taylor |
| Personal details | |
| Born | September 26, 1950 |
| Spouse | Carol Jupiter Garibaldi[1] |
Antoine Michael Garibaldi is president emeritus and distinguished university professor of University of Detroit Mercy. He was the 25th and first lay president of the University of Detroit Mercy in Detroit, Michigan. He was the school's first African-American president and the first openly African American president of any Jesuit university.[2]
Garibaldi attended St. Joan of Arc Grammar School and St. Augustine High School for eighth grade in New Orleans, Louisiana, his hometown. He then entered seminary with the Josephites at Epiphany Apostolic College in Newburgh, New York, in 1964. After leaving the Josephites, he graduated with a bachelor's degree in sociology and a minor in philosophy from Howard University in 1973. He obtained his PhD in Educational Psychology in 1976 from the University of Minnesota and was the third African American to do.[3]