Articles & Interviews
Igniting Partnerships
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce, December 6, 2023
“We are fortunate to be in L.A., a region synonymous with creativity and imagination. Here, disruption spurs innovation, and transformation emerges from creative collaborations.” Read more >>
Should College Presidents Criticize Political Candidates?
Inside Higher Ed, June 26, 2023
"This notion of higher education brainwashing our students is dangerous because it misrepresents higher education and its purpose, its people, its practice. It misrepresents the rising generation and makes them look like empty vessels waiting to be filled with knowledge.” Read more >>
I’m a university president. Here’s what Florida’s Gov. DeSantis doesn’t get about college students
Miami Herald, June 5, 2023
"This generation of young people — Gen Z as they are commonly known, but whom I call the Solidarity Generation — requires no prodding by college professors to stand up for social justice or oppose systems of oppression." Read more >
What Does Gen Z Want From Education?
EdSurge Podcast, April 18, 2023
"Students are looking for something different from teachers and professors as they prepare to enter political and civic life, and that means educators need to change the way they support students when it comes to political engagement." Read more or listen to the podcast >
In Students We Trust: The Solidarity Generation
Jesuit Higher Education: A Journal, November 2021
"As the most diverse group in America's history, the post-Millennial generation — often labeled “Gen Z,” but what I refer to as the Solidarity Generation — is emboldened by its profound care for one another, proclivity for purpose, and its interconnectivity and access to information." Read more >
Where Will the Recall Lead?
September 22, 2021
LMU President Timothy Law Snyder, Ph.D., sat down with Professor Jessica Levinson of LMU Loyola Law School and Professor Fernando Guerra of the Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Center for the Study of Los Angeles for an insightful discussion to consider what the recall election means for the future of elections in California, including the 2022 election, permanent vote by mail, and recall reform. Listen now >
The purposeful is political: Gen Z bowls over their doubters
The Hill, November 14, 2020
"Much has been made of Gen Z’s activism — so much so that I call them the “Solidarity Generation.” Their zeal for unity and social justice is broadsiding the status quo and holding institutions and people in power accountable. Read more >
An Ignatian Relighting of Contemporary Higher Educational Fires
Conversations on Jesuit Higher Education Magazine, April 23, 2020
"A sense of crisis is in the air: the presumed irrelevance of higher education, particularly of the liberal arts, with declarations that higher education is a bubble about to burst." Read more >
Tonight's debate almost didn't happen, but democracy thrives through honest exchange of ideas
The Hill, December 19, 2019
"Loyola Marymount University is proud to host the Sixth Democratic Presidential Primary Debate. We almost lost the opportunity — more than once — for the very reason we want to host it: because our society exhibits increasing difficulty in navigating disagreement and honoring differences while pursuing solutions that benefit everyone." Read more>
Money Lessons from a Paper Route
Centsai, May 29, 2018
"We're taught that money is a personal matter — that it's rude to ask someone's age, weight, or salary. Unfortunately, this sense of privacy might prevent us from having honest conversations about financial literacy." Read more >
What Laura Ingraham and America Don't Get About the Post-Millennial Generation
Medium, April 12, 2018
"Laura Ingraham just returned to Fox News after a weeklong leave and about 50 percent fewer advertisers following her taunt of Parkland shooting survivor and activist David Hogg. Her return should inspire Americans to reexamine our attitude concerning the post-Millennial generation." Read more >
Necessary Companions: Faith and Reason
Jesuit Higher Education, December 2017
"Can faith and reason exist, free of mutual companionship? If we restrict ourselves to a traditional scientific method when pondering questions of the universe and close the door to theological data and human thought, we may be rendering inaccessible the majority of what exists." Read more >
Growing L.A. Tech Scene Bets on Entertainment Beyond Cat Videos
Bloomberg News, May 25, 2016
"You have a lot of chip-level nerdy stuff in Silicon Valley, but what you have here is media, creativity, content creation," said Timothy Law Snyder, president of the 9,300-student university. "We just got lucky. This is the neighbor we've been waiting for for years." Read More >
Higher Ground: Interview with President Snyder
LMU Magazine, December 11, 2015
"As president, you're trying to create conversations. An important question within any institutional culture is 'How open are we to new ideas?' When somebody presents something new, we as a community should ask ourselves, 'how might we respond to that?' If we're quick to judge, we can miss the opportunity to experience the idea in full.' We need to look at the idea through the mind of the person presenting it, so that we can see the value as its ideator sees it. From there, we can make connections, correlating ideas thematically. At LMU, culturally, we need to be more thematic than we have in the past. We have a vast cauldron of ideas and conversations that any institution must have an thrive on. We need to find a way to enable them toward common goals." Read More >
Burning Questions with Timothy Law Snyder
Los Angeles Loyolan, April 8, 2015
"What I love about LMU are, first, its missions. It's Jesuit and Marymount missions are very appealing to me. I've worked in jesuit education..." Read More >
A Conversation with President-Elect Timothy Law Snyder
LMU Magazine, April 2, 2015
"We don't just educate well, we educate with purpose. And we have the incredible academic freedom to think and talk about anything, and to forge faith with reason. Not many places do that, and only the Jesuits do all the above." Read More >
Timothy Law Snyder chosen to lead Loyola Marymount University
Los Angeles Times, March 29, 2015
"The Loyola Marymount University Board of Trustees has selected a former administrator from another Jesuit institution to lead the Los Angeles campus, officials announced Friday. Timothy Law Snyder will be the 16th president when he takes over in June." Read More >