Michael S. Brophy Ph.D., M.F.A., President
Dr. Michael Brophy serves as the sixth president of Marymount College in Rancho Palos Verdes, California. Founded by the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary in 1932, Marymount College is a Catholic liberal arts college that offers students two-year and four-year degrees. Marymount also offers lifelong learning programs that serve Southern California residents.
Prior to his appointment at Marymount College in 2006, Dr. Brophy served as Campus Executive Officer and Dean of the University of Wisconsin-Baraboo/Sauk County, Dean of Students & Associate Provost at Long Island University-Southampton (NY), Dean of Enrollment Management at the State University of New York College of Technology at Canton, and Director of Enrollment Management at The Sage Colleges (NY). As a Noel Levitz enrollment management consultant he worked with the Kentucky, Indiana and Louisiana community and technical college systems. In these positions Dr. Brophy led successful academic, enrollment management, fundraising, and student life programs, producing enrollment increases at The Sage Colleges, Long Island University, and the State University of New York, and new academic, cultural, and campus facility programs at the University of Wisconsin.
Dr. Brophy served as a tenured member of the University of Wisconsin Colleges English faculty and has taught English and Film at The Sage Colleges, Long Island University, the Winchester School of Art (UK), the University of Wisconsin-Baraboo/Sauk County and Marymount College. He was awarded a Fulbright to teach and study in Bulgaria in 2003 and he led a Cuban Arts and Culture course to Cuba for the University of Wisconsin in 2004. Dr. Brophy has presented to a wide variety audiences on the higher education issues of access, student recruitment and retention, Catholic colleges, and leadership.
As a pianist, Dr. Brophy has accompanied university students, faculty, and choirs and performed in faculty and student recitals. An accomplished filmmaker, Dr. Brophy’s three films have been featured at film festivals around the world. His first feature film, “Tina and Lance,” won the Best Feature award at the New York Capital Film Festival and his documentary, “Night for Day: The XP Story,” was featured at the International Scientific Film Festival in Budapest, Hungary. Two of his screenplays were selected to the Independent Feature Project Market (NYC) in 2001 and 2002.
Dr. Brophy holds a Ph.D. in Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an M.F.A. in writing from Long Island University (NY), and B.A. and M.A. degrees in music and English, respectively, from The College of Saint Rose (NY). Dr. Brophy resides in Rancho Palos Verdes, California with his wife, Tara, and their three children, Sullivan, Myles, and Ella.
