Michael Engh

Michael Eric Engh (born December 14, 1949) is an American Jesuit priest, academic and historian. He was the 28th President of Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, California from January 5, 2009, to June 30, 2019.

Biography Engh is a third generation Californian. He wrote a letter to the university's faculty and staff stating that he and the university "studied how the school can structure its medical insurance plans in 2014 to be compliant with federal and California laws and regulations while representing its values as a Jesuit university". Neither the Affordable Care Act or California law mandate employers to cover elective abortions. The faculty senate of the university took a vote and declared Engh's resolution invalid, but the final decision rests with the board of trustees of the school.

The decision to drop coverage for abortions violated the California constitution and was overturned by the state of California's Department of Managed Health Care in 2014.

Works authored Engh has written on the role of the Catholic Church in the settlement of colonial California by the Spanish. He has also authored works on the history of Los Angeles. One of his best known works is Frontier Faiths: Church, Temple, and Synagogue in Los Angeles, published in 1992.