UD’s new president wants to get word out that UD is a 'national leader in Catholic higher education'

b Dr. Darlene Weaver has been named as the University of Dayton's 20th president. /b (Sarina Tacovic/University of Dayton / Contributed)The University of Dayton’s next president Darlene Weaver will be the first woman to lead the school in its 176 year history. She’s currently UD’s provost and executive vice president of academic affairs. Weaver recently spoke with WYSO’s Jerry Kenney and said, while she didn’t start out to serve as an administrator, she learned that her passion for education would be an asset.This interview has been edited for length and clarity.Weaver: I was a creative and professional writing major as an undergrad, a Pell grant recipient who relied on that assistance from the federal government and scholarships and so forth to get through college. I went to graduate school and studied ethics, and then landed a position at Georgetown University as a faculty member. So all of my career has been in Catholic higher education. But I worked my way from the ranks of a vi