The Devoted: She spent her life transforming Trinity. So where does Pat McGuire -- and the university she rebuilt -- go from here?
Pat McGuire is more than an endearing chief executive admired by her students and staff. She is known throughout the region as the woman who saved Trinity Washington University, by rebuilding a dying Catholic women's college into a multifaceted university that has reached out to the black and Hispanic women of Washington. She is among the longest-serving college presidents in the area -- having marked her 20th anniversary last summer. And, during those two decades, she has overcome the distrust and push-back of some alumnae over a bankrupt business model to teach Washington an object lesson in the education of urban students. Daniel de Vise, The Washington Post, Feb. 14, 2010