The following members of the Boston College faculty make up the Institute for the Liberal Arts' governing board:

Mary Crane
Thomas F. Rattigan Professor, English Department, Director

Jeffrey Bloechl
Associate Professor of Philosophy

Thomas Chiles
Professor of Biology

James Keenan, S.J.
Founders Professor of Theology

Stephanie Leone
Associate Professor of Fine Arts

Carlo Rotella
Professor of English, Director of the Lowell Humanities Series

Juliet Schor
Professor of Sociology

Min Song
Associate Professor of English, Asian American Studies

Martin Summers
Associate Professor of History, AADS