NEW YORK – In an era where more and more Catholic universities are turning to lay leadership, the University of Notre Dame will stick with its tradition of appointing a priest-president from the Congregation of the Holy Cross, the religious order to which the university’s founder belonged.
Notre Dame graduate and longtime faculty member Father Robert Dowd will take over as the university’s next president, effective July 1. He will succeed Father John Jenkins, who announced in October that he would step down from the position at the end of the 2023-2024 academic year.
