Sr. Mary Ann Bader,
President
37 years experience in education
8 years at MPS

• 10 years - teacher
• 13 years – teacher and principal
• 6 years – Director of Teacher Personnel for the Diocese of Erie
• 8 years - president at MPS
• B.A. - Mercyhurst College
• M.A. -  Duquesne University
• Additional studies at Clarion University, Dayton University, Wilkes University, Edinboro University
• PA certified in administration, elementary education and music
• Several Erie Diocesan committees
• Several Sisters of Mercy committees
• Institute of the Sisters of Mercy Chapter Delegate 1995, 1999, 2005
• Sisters of Mercy leadership team 2004-2007
• Current board memberships:  DuBois Regional Medical Center, Network for Mercy Education, MPS Board (ex officio)
• Past board memberships:  Mercy Center of the Arts, Mercy Center for Women
• Recipient of Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice Papal Honors by Pope John Paul II, 1996
• Recipient of Archbishop John Mark Gannon Lifetime Achievement Alumni Award by DuBois Central Catholic High School, 2001

• Principal: June 1998 – present
• Assistant  Principal: June 1996 – 1998
• Years at MPS: 1972 – 1976, 1985 – present
• Saint Mary’s College
  • Undergraduate work:  Philosophy and Psychology
• San Diego State University
  • Graduate work : philosophy
• Edinboro University of PA
• Teaching certificate
• Leadership Erie
• Taft Institute
• International Baccalaureate coordinator @ MPS  1986 – 2000
• Faculty representative to the MPS Board of Trustees
• Coordinator of PREVENT program (prevention of & intervention as a result of adolescent suicide)
• Publications:
  • Prevent booklet  1986
  • Momentum magazine  1987
• Presenter at NCEA/ New Orleans
• Moderator:
  • MPS Bike club
  • Model United Nations 1972 – 76, 1986 – 2000
  • PAIU Academic competition 2008 – 10

• Dean of discipline for 11th/12th grades
• Academic dean       
• Chair of academic council
• Master’s degree from Middlebury College
• PA Instructional II teaching certificate     
• Member of curriculum development/renewal leadership team               
• Internal coordinator for Mercyhurst Prep’s Middle States accreditation, leading the school stakeholders in developing and executing long-range strategic plans for student achievement
• Involved in evaluation of strategic plans at other educational institutions as member of Middle States validation teams
• Named recipient of outstanding faculty service award
• Published in Momentum: The Official Journal of the National Catholic Educational Association, February/March 2004
• Published in The Pennsylvania State Modern Language Association Bulletin Vol. LXVI, Fall 1987
• Presented numerous workshops for Mercyhurst Prep faculty and at the Conference of the Pennsylvania State Modern Language Association
• former adjunct professor at Mercyhurst College
• Former Spanish teacher, college prep, honors, and IB programs; developed and taught summer school program for Spanish; former moderator of Spanish club, Spanish conversation club, and Spanish immersion weekend; organized and chaperoned study abroad summer program
• Former public school teacher
• Former faculty school board representative
• Former master teacher
• Former chair of foreign language department

• Master’s degree in English
• IB Theory of Knowledge instructor
• IB Extended Essay supervisor
• Former adjunct instructor, Gannon University
• Past fellow, NWPA Summer Writing Institute
• Shorelines advisor
• University of Chicago Outstanding Teacher Award 2008

Teaching Assignment: Theory of Knowledge-IB

• Assistant Principal and Activities Director since 1995
• Chairperson of MPS Activities Council
• Prepared the school’s Crisis Response Plan, chair of the Crisis Response Team
• Represented Erie area schools on the PIAA District 10 Committee for 10 years.
• Former Athletic Director
• Girls’ basketball head coach for 17 years
• Teams won PIAA State Championships in 1986 (Erie’s first girls’ basketball championship) and 1991
• Inducted Metro Erie Chapter Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame in 2002.
• Recognized by WBCA for 300 career victories
• Recipient of Erie County Farms Women in Sports Foundation Award for Outstanding Contribution to Women’s Sports
• Named Erie’s outstanding coach of high school female athletics in the  Erie Times “Best of the Century” series
• Organized and led a student trip to Russia and Sweden in 1988
• Started and coached MPS first cross-country team
• Three sons (Matthew, Joshua and Eric) are Mercyhurst Prep graduates