Kathleen Getz, dean of Loyola University Maryland's Sellinger School of Business, has been named the 13th president of Mercyhurst University. The announcement was made Tuesday by Joe NeCastro, chairman of Mercyhurst's board of trustees and interim president of the university. The news comes just over three months after Michael T. Victor left the school. Victor, who served as president for a little more than five years, had announced in October that he intended to retire in June of this year. Ultimately, Victor left in February. "After a robust national search that yielded a diverse and talented pool of candidates, Dr. Getz emerged as a passionate and accessible leader who we believe is ideally suited to lead Mercyhurst into the future,” NeCastro said in a statement.