Creighton University

Rev. Daniel S. Hendrickson, SJ, PhD, is the 25th president of Creighton University; a position he has held since 2015.

Prior to serving as president, Fr. Hendrickson was Creighton student in the Jesuit Humanities Program in 1996, before returning to teach at the University from 2000 to 2003. He was elected to the Creighton Board of Trustees in 2013, elected president of Creighton in December 2014.

During his presidency, Creighton University has welcomed record-breaking first-year classes of more than 1,000 students each year, recorded a 99 percent outcome rate for graduates, opened a health sciences campus in Phoenix, and overseen nearly $200 million in scholarship dollars for Creighton students.

Fr. Hendrickson serves on the boards of Boston College and Xavier University; is the current chair of the BIG EAST Conference Board of Directors; and is a trustee of ILAC/Centro de Educación para la Salud Integral (CESI) in the Dominican Republic, and Jesuit Worldwide Learning (JWL).

A native of Fremont, Nebraska, Fr. Hendrickson holds a BA from Marquette University; an MA in philosophical resources from Fordham University; a Master of Divinity degree from the Jesuit School of Theology at Santa Clara University; and MA and PhD degrees from Columbia University.