Edward M. Walsh

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Edward M. (Ed) Walsh (born 1939) is a former president of the University of Limerick and held that post from its inception as the National Institute for Higher Education, Limerick, Ireland in 1972, through its transformation to a university in 1989 until his retirement in 1998, retaining the title of President Emeritus.

Dr Walsh is a native of Cork.

[edit] Education

Edward Walsh was a graduate of the National University of Ireland and received his doctorate at Iowa State University.

[edit] Tenure as President

Dr Walsh is credited with expanding the University of Limerick significantly from private sources at a time when government capital grants were scarce, using direct private donations and the creation of a university foundation. The University pioneered a form of weighted Grade Point Average in the Irish third-level context termed "Quality Credit Average". It also mandated participation in programmes such as cooperative education and overseas learning through European Union schemes such as the Erasmus programme.