During his time as President of Providence College, he likewise served as a member of the Providence College Board of Trustees and Corporation (with prior service as chair of the Board's Strategic Planning Committee). He has also been a member of the executive committee of the American Catholic Philosophical Association and formerly served as regent of studies for the Dominican Province of St. Joseph, during which time he held a seat on the Provincial Council, a body of 12 Dominican Friars serving as cabinet-level advisors to the prior provincial. He advised the Prior Provincial on all matters pertaining to the intellectual and academic life of the province.
