Background
Higgins, Sister Therese was born on September 29, 1925 in Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States. Daughter of James C. and Margaret M. (Lennon) Higgins.
college president literature educator
Higgins, Sister Therese was born on September 29, 1925 in Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States. Daughter of James C. and Margaret M. (Lennon) Higgins.
AB cum laude, Regis College, 1947. Master of Arts, Boston College, 1959. Doctor of Humane Letters, Boston College, 1993.
Doctor of Philosophy, University Wisconsin, 1963. Doctor of Humane Letters, Emmanuel College, 1977. Doctor of Humane Letters, Lesley College, 1991.
Postgraduate in literature and theology, Harvard University, 1966. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Northeastern University, 1982. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Bentley College, 1992.
Doctor of Laws (honorary), Regis College, 1994.
Joined Congregation of Sisters of St. Joseph, Roman Catholic Church, 1947. Assistant professor English, Regis College, Weston, Massachusetts, 1963-1965, assistant professor, 1965-1967, associate professor English literature, from 1968, president, 1974-1992, also trustee, vice president development, 2003—2005. Consultant, 1995—2010.
Book reviewer Boston Globe, 1965—2010.
Trustee Waltham (Massachusetts) Hospital, 1978—1985, Cardinal Spellman Philatelic Museum, 1976—1992. Member Massachusetts Governor's Commission on Status Women, 1977—1979. Member National Catholic Educational Association, American Association of University Women, Modern Language Association, American Association of University Professors, Association Indiana Colleges and Universities Massachusetts (executive committee), New England Colleges Fund, NEASC (commission).