A Woman with a Global Perspective
by Kari Sayers Ariane Schauer, new Vice President of Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty at Marymount College. “She’s amazing,” is a comment often heard when the conversation turns to Dr. Ariane Schauer, the new Vice President of Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty at Marymount College. In addition, says Dr. Michael Brophy, Marymount’s president, “She is loyal, authentic, and perseverant [and] has been instrumental in implementing the college’s new four-year degree program.” Truly, in a world of mediocrity, it’s refreshing to meet a woman with such a unique perspective and intelligence. Half Afghan and half Swedish, she was born in Hamburg, Germany, and lived in Afghanistan and England before coming to the United States in 1979 to finish her last year of high school at the French Lycee in Culver City. Her mother and father met as students in Switzerland. He was studying engineering and she languages. “The first language the two of them had in common was French, so I grew up speaking French at home,” Schauer says. “Wherever I was, in London, in Hamburg or in Afghanistan, I always went to small French schools that provided continuity throughout all this travel.” Her parents and a…
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