Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C.
President, University of Notre Dame
Date: Thursday, Feb. 29
Time: 7 p.m. ET
Location: Stewart Center’s Fowler Hall
This event is free and open to the public with a general admission ticket.
Elected in 2005 as the University of Notre Dame’s 17th president, Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., was reelected by the university’s board of trustees to a fourth five-year term, effective July 1, 2020. As president, he has devoted himself to fostering the university’s unique place in academia, the church, the United States and the world.
Father Jenkins has been committed to combining teaching and research excellence with a cultivation of the deeper purposes of Catholic higher education. While pursuing academic distinction, he has brought renewed emphasis to Notre Dame’s distinctive mission, rooted in the tradition of the Congregation of Holy Cross, the university’s founding community, to educate the whole person — mind, body and spirit — to do good in the world.
These commitments have been made manifest in the university’s dedication to excellence in undergraduate education in the classroom and beyond, while simultaneously building a reputation as a preeminent global research institution — all in the context of Notre Dame’s Catholic identity.
In his inaugural address in 2005, Father Jenkins articulated the vision that Notre Dame would be “one of the preeminent research institutions in the world, a center for learning whose intellectual and religious traditions converge to make it a healing, unifying, enlightening force for a world deeply in need.”
In 2023, under Father Jenkins’ leadership, the university was invited to join the Association of American Universities, a consortium of the nation’s leading public and private research universities, making it the only religiously affiliated university in the nation to be so honored.
Notre Dame secured almost $216 million in research awards in fiscal 2023, up from $95.8 million in 2013, and is now among the fastest-growing research universities in the nation. Funding was distributed over 824 awards, the most ever in one year.
Recognizing the high cost of education, Notre Dame has dramatically increased financial aid over the past 15 years, meeting 100% of demonstrated financial need for every student. The university provides more than $200 million in aid for undergraduates, a number that has doubled in the past decade, with 60% of all students receiving aid.
During the last decade, Notre Dame, in partnership with local civic and industry leaders, has played a leading role in a regional strategy that has secured over $130 million in grants for economic development activities.
