vocation with John Jenkins, C.S.C.

How can we discern our callings? Fr. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C. is a professor of philosophy and the President Emeritus of the University of Notre Dame.  Elected in 2005 as Notre Dame’s 17th president, Father Jenkins served four terms in his position before stepping down in May 2024. He has been committed to combining teaching and research excellence with a cultivation of the deeper purposes of Catholic higher education. 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.” Father Jenkins earned undergraduate and advanced degrees from Notre Dame, a doctorate of philosophy from Oxford University, and a master of divinity and licentiate in sacred theology from the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley.