Father Jenkins to succeed Father Malloy as Notre Dame president

Published: 2004-05-03

NOTRE DAME, Ind. (CNS) -- Holy Cross Father John I. Jenkins will become the 17th president of the University of Notre Dame after Holy Cross Father Edward A. Malloy steps down as president at the end of his current term on June 30, 2005. Father Jenkins, a vice president and associate provost at Notre Dame since July 2000, was elected to a five-year term by the university's board of trustees April 30. He is an associate professor of philosophy and has been a member of the Notre Dame faculty since 1990. In a statement, Patrick McCartan, chairman of the board of the trustees, praised Father Malloy for "his 17 years of exceptional leadership and ... all the significant advancements made by the University of Notre Dame during his tenure." McCartan said Father Jenkins' "superb academic credentials ... will be of critical importance to realization of our aspiration to become one of the great research universities of the world with a distinctly Catholic character."

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