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Francis H. Delaney Jr., the College’s former director of
financial aid, has been named “Director of Financial Aid
Emeritus.” Delaney served as financial aid director from
1970 until 1998. During his tenure, he developed innovative
family loan programs and planning services for parents, automated
the financial aid department and devised a financing policy
that allowed students to purchase personal computers.
Delaney also served as assistant to the president for
special projects. In that capacity, he managed planning and analysis committees
and projects, including
the committee to review faculty tuition benefits, the committee on administrative
performance and development, and long-range planning for athletic programs.
He acted as the representative of the president to various governmental and
professional associations.
After receiving his bachelor of arts degree in English from Utica (N.Y.) College,
Delaney earned his master’s degree in English and education from Syracuse University.
In 1981, he received his Ph.D. in higher education administration from Boston
College. He earned a certificate from the Institute for Educational Management
at Harvard University in 1984.
Before arriving at Holy Cross, Delaney served as the
associate director of admissions at Utica College, where he coordinated the design
of a computerized
admissions record system and established the Martin Luther King scholarship
program.
In 1986, Delaney was awarded a fellowship by the American
Council on Education. He spent the 1986-87 academic year at Brown University,
working with senior
academic and administrative officers on a variety of projects dealing with
financial, academic and policy planning functions. He was one of only 31 fellows
selected from more than 200 nominees in this national competition.
Elected a fellow in the Society for the Advancement
of Financial Aid Management in Higher Education, Delaney also served as president
of the Massachusetts
Association of Financial Aid Administrators, secretary of the Conference of
Jesuit Financial Aid Officers, and member of the Scholarship Advisory Committee
of the Massachusetts Board of Regents.
He has published articles in such journals as the MASFAA Newsletter and
the Journal of Student Financial Aid and has delivered professional
papers, lectures and presentations to dozens of panels and association
meetings across the country. A recognized expert in the area of
student aid, Delaney
has presented testimony to the United States Committee on Labor
and Human Resources and served on the advisory board of the Massachusetts
Education
Loan Authority.
In 1987, he was an invited guest of the Republic of China’s Ministry of Education.
A consultant to the America Council on Education, the
Association of Independent Colleges and Universities of Massachusetts, the Association
of Jesuit Colleges
and Universities, and University Loan Services, Delaney has also advised several
colleges and universities throughout New England on matters of financial aid
and education financing.
“Frank was a great asset to Holy Cross,” says Rev. Michael C. McFarland, S.J.,
president of the College. “His work in the financial aid department over the
years enabled thousands of students to afford a first-rate education. He modernized
so many of our procedures. Holy Cross faculty and administrators miss him and
we wish him the best.”
A long-time resident of Grafton, Mass., Delaney currently
resides in Oceanside, Calif., with his wife, Nina.
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