4.12.18 – Kevin Quinn

Dr. Kevin Quinn is Aquinas College’s eighth president. He became president in 2017.

President Quinn is new to Aquinas but has dedicated the majority of his career to Catholic higher education. He comes to Aquinas from St. Norbert College in De Pere, Wisconsin. Dr. Quinn was named the founding dean of the Schneider School of Business and Economics in 2014, and has been at St. Norbert College since 1994.

Prior to the inauguration of the Schneider School, President Quinn served as the College’s associate academic dean, as associate dean of the social sciences, and coordinator for the economics discipline. He led the successful revitalization of St. Norbert College’s general education curriculum, and served as the founding director of the Sport and Society Conference Series co-produced with the Green Bay Packers.

President Quinn earned a B.S. in 1983 in Physics and Mathematics from Loyola University in Chicago, an M.B.A. in Marketing and Economics from the University of Illinois-Chicago (UIC) in 1989, and a Ph.D. in energy and environmental economics from UIC.

Prior to earning his Ph.D., President Quinn worked in the private sector in aerospace and medical imaging industries. A native of the Chicago area, Dr. Quinn taught at Loyola and at UIC before arriving at St. Norbert. His primary research focus during the past number of years has been in the field of sports economics. One of his books, Sports and Their Fans, which examines the history, economics and culture of the relationship between spectator and sport, grew out of material that he had gathered for his Econ 340 students.

Kevin and his wife Terry have been married for more than 30 years