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President
12.15.2025
Schools face high cost of losing international
students
UD President Eric F. Spina discusses how our campus, community and country benefit from welcoming international students — and by not welcoming them, we stand to lose a lot. This commentary originally appeared Nov. 26, 2025, in the Dayton Daily News.
President
10.27.2025
Welcome Home, Father
Jim
What kind of life is worth living? For more than eight decades, Father Jim Heft, S.M., has wrestled with that question, even as he’s lived what I and many others would portray as a life chock-full of meaning.
President
10.14.2025
A Vote of
Confidence
They take no salary for their service. And the Marianist members have vowed to live in poverty. Yet these dedicated servant-leaders on the University of Dayton’s Board of Trustees committed an astonishing $91 million to the We Soar campaign.
President
10.6.2025
Advising, the UD
Way
As of fall 2025, every incoming undergraduate has been paired with a holistic advisor, a dedicated guide who walks with them from move-in day to graduation. This new initiative is about helping students find their calling and live it.
President
9.30.2025
Dayton's Future Is
onMain
“It’s a party!” announced emcee Sharon (Davis) White ‘78 as she greeted an overflow crowd of community champions who had gathered under a huge tent on mostly vacant land dotted with bulldozers and filled with dreams.
President
9.24.2025
Much
Thanks
Thank you. And you. And you, over there — thank you, too. Ultimately, there are so many to thank in Flyer Nation. Everyone played a role in the success of the We Soar campaign. And we're not done yet.
President
9.3.2025
Faith. Fellowship.
Food.
"Let’s celebrate our past with gratitude, our present with joy and our future with hope. Here’s to 175 years of faith, community and learning — and to the next chapter we will write together," University of Dayton President Eric F. Spina told faculty and staff at UD's annual picnic.
President
8.27.2025
Summer
Diary
True or false? Life at the University of Dayton in the summer moves at a slower pace until the adrenaline rush of a new academic year kicks in at the end of August. I might have marked that one as “true” until I looked at my calendar.
President
7.22.2025
Exceeding Our Wildest
Expectations
I will never forget the very first One Day, One Dayton. We set an ambitious goal: 1,850 gifts in just 24 hours. In all honesty, we had no idea what to expect, but hour after hour, Flyer Nation kept giving and giving and giving, exceeding our wildest expectations.
President
6.25.2025
It's How We Build
Community
In Dayton’s Twin Towers neighborhood, the seeds of community engagement are taking root — literally.