Darlene Weaver, Ph.D. is Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs. She joined the University in July 2023 as provost, where she has led transformation throughout the academic enterprise, including strengthening the university's financial performance and implementing decision support. Her focus on student success includes increasing student accessibility, improving student retention, expanding programs for first-generation and underresourced students, implementing holistic advising, and extending experiential learning opportunities throughout the student body. She has supported faculty scholarship through the creation of the Office for Academic Research and improved learning spaces with attention to technology and innovation. She continues to champion curricular improvements, including cultivating new programs and majors.
Dr. Weaver previously served as associate provost for academic affairs and professor of theology at Duquesne University, and she spent 11 years at Villanova University, where she earned tenure and was promoted to associate professor. She was also a visiting assistant professor at Georgetown University.
Her academic expertise is in ethics, and she holds a faculty appointment in the Department of Religious Studies. She is the author of dozens of articles and two monographs. In addition to serving on several boards in the Dayton region and beyond, Dr. Weaver is an associate editor for the Journal of Religious Ethics and is a former series co-editor for the Moral Traditions series at Georgetown University Press.