University of Dallas
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The University of Dallas is a private
, independent Catholic
regional university
located in Irving
, Texas
, established in 1956, which is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools
. According to U.S. News & World Report
, 80% of 2010 graduates participated in international programs, which is the sixth highest percentage of students from any higher education institution in the US
to study abroad.
The university comprises four academic units: the Braniff Graduate School of Liberal Arts
, the Constantin College of Liberal Arts, the College of Business, which includes the Graduate School of Management, and the School of Ministry. The undergraduate program was ranked 14th among 140 regional universities in the Western US
by U.S. News & World Report for 2011-2012. Dallas offers several master's degree
programs and a doctoral degree
program with three concentrations. There are 135 full-time and 104 part-time faculty
, and the school has a 12:1 student-to-faculty ratio.
dates from 1910 when the Western Province of the Congregation of the Mission (Vincentians) renamed Holy Trinity College
in Dallas, which they had founded in 1905. The provincial of the Western Province closed the University in 1928, and the charter reverted to the Diocese of Dallas. In 1955, the Western Province of the Sisters of Saint Mary of Namur obtained it to create a new higher education institution in Dallas that would subsume their junior college
, Our Lady of Victory College, located in Fort Worth. The Sisters, together with Eugene Constantin, Jr. and Edward R. Maher, Sr., petitioned the Diocese of Dallas to sponsor the University, though ownership was entrusted to a self-perpetuating independent board of trustees. "Bishop
Gorman, as chancellor
of the new university, announced that it would be a Catholic coeducational institution welcoming students of all faiths and races and offering work on the undergraduate level, with a graduate school to be added as soon as possible. The new University of Dallas opened to ninety-six students in September 1956 on a 1,000-acre tract of rolling hills northwest of Dallas."
The Sisters of Saint Mary of Namur, monks from the Order of Cistercians (Cistercians), friars
from the Order of Friars Minor
(Franciscans), and several lay professors formed the University's original faculty. The Franciscans departed three years later; however, friars from the Order of Preachers
(Dominicans) joined the faculty in 1958 and built St. Albert the Great Priory on campus. The Cistercians established Our Lady of Dallas Abbey in 1958 and Cistercian Preparatory School
in 1962, which are both adjacent to campus. The School Sisters of Notre Dame
arrived in 1962 and opened the Notre Dame Special School for children with learning difficulties in 1963 and a motherhouse
for the Dallas Province in 1964, which were both on campus. The Sisters moved the school to Dallas in 1985 and closed the motherhouse in 1987. The faculty now is almost exclusively lay and includes several distinguished scholars.
A grant from the Blakley-Braniff Foundation established the Braniff Graduate School in 1966 and allowed the construction of the Braniff Graduate Center. The Constantin Foundation similarly endowed the undergraduate college, and, in 1970, the Board of Trustees named the undergraduate college the Constantin College of Liberal Arts. The Graduate School of Management, begun in 1966, offers a large MBA program. Programs in art and English also began in 1966. In 1973, the Institute of Philosophic Studies, the doctoral program of the Braniff Graduate School and an outgrowth of the Kendall Politics and Literature Program, was initiated. The School of Ministry began in 1987. The College of Business, incorporating the Graduate School of Management and undergraduate business, opened in 2003.
Since the first class in 1960, University graduates have won significant honors, including 30 Fulbright awards. Accreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools
came in 1963 and has been reaffirmed regularly. In 1989, it was the youngest higher education institution to be awarded a Phi Beta Kappa chapter.
Kevin J. Farrell, D.D., bishop of the Diocese of Dallas, currently serves as the Chancellor. The office, held by a Catholic bishop per the constitution
of the University, is an unpaid, honorary position.
Previous chancellors include:
Thomas W. Keefe became President of the University of Dallas on March 1, 2010. Since taking office, the University's endowment has gone down by approximately $4 million, while the percentage of annual alumni giving is 11%.
Previous presidents include:
The University is located in Irving, TX on a 744 acre (301 hectare) campus
surrounded by highways and an industrial
and low-income multi-unit housing
area, 10 miles (16 km) from downtown
Dallas
and just southeast of the Las Colinas development; "it sits in a 50-mile by 10-mile rectangular phenomenon known as a slow-moving earthquake." The campus consists mostly of nondescript, brown-colored rectangular or otherwise box-shaped brick buildings. The Mall
is the center of campus, with the 187.5 feet-tall (57.15 meters) Braniff Memorial Tower as its focal point. Although the University is Catholic, its campus-exterior lacks almost any sacred art
. The Princeton Review cites the University of Dallas for having the 4th least beautiful campus of the colleges and universities it ranks.
A Dallas Area Rapid Transit
(DART) Orange-Line
light rail
station is scheduled to open near campus on July 30, 2012.
The 2011-2012 estimated charges, including tuition, room, board, and fees, for full-time undergraduates is $40,941.
82% of freshmen who began their degree programs in Fall 2009 returned as sophomores in Fall 2010. 63% of freshmen who began their degree programs in Fall 2004 graduated within 4-years.
Graduate
and Sciences
Humanities
Natural Sciences
Social Sciences
Professions
Artistic and Humanistic Professions
Applied Scientific and Technological Professions
(none)
Social Professions
. The university awards bachelor of arts
(B.A.) and bachelor of science
(B.S.) degrees.
. In the spring of 1973 in mid-semester, the school moved its campus to "Hotel La Villa", a hotel that catered to tour groups, which had a separate set of buildings that the University used. The school's campus is now a convent.
In 1990, the University purchased a villa southeast of Rome in the Alban Hills
. This campus was purchased to serve as the base of the University of Dallas Rome Program
. In June 1994, the newly renovated 12 acres (48,562.3 m²) property was inaugurated as the Eugene Constantin Rome Campus, and that fall it hosted its first students. Just south of Rome along the Via Appia, the campus includes a library, chapel, housing, a dining hall, classrooms, tennis courts, a swimming pool, an outdoor Greco-Roman theater, working vineyards and olive groves.
A 1966 grant from the Blakley-Braniff Foundation established the Braniff Graduate School of Liberal Arts. It administers master's degrees in many disciplines, including: American Studies, Art, English, Humanities, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, and Theology.
In 1973, the University initiated the Institute of Philosophic Studies, which was an outgrowth of the Kendall Politics and Literature Program, to administer the Braniff Graduate School of Liberal Arts' doctoral program. The interdisciplinary Ph.D. program offers concentrations in English
, Philosophy
, and Politics
and is the only one in the United States with a core curriculum in great books
.
offers masters degrees in Theological Studies (MTS), Religious Education (MRE), Catholic School Leadership (MCSL), Catholic School Teaching (MCST), and Pastoral Ministry (MPM). Classes are offered onsite during weeknights and online. The University of Dallas School of Ministry also is one of the few Catholic universities in the US that offer a comprehensive, four-year Catholic Biblical School (CBS) certification program. This program, which covers every book of the bible, is offered onsite and online in both English and Spanish. The CBS is the largest program of its kind among all Catholic universities in the U.S. based on 2007 enrollment numbers.
.
The John Paul II Theology Lectureship: In 2007, the Theology department announced that a donor had endowed a new lectureship to be named in honor of the late Pope John Paul II
.
The Landregan Lectureship: In 1999, the Institute for Religious and Pastoral Studies, which grew into becoming the School of Ministry, established an annual lecture in honor of Steven T. Landregan for his distinguished service to the Catholic Church in North Texas.
The Eugene McDermott Lectureship: In 1974, the university established the Eugene McDermott Lectureship, an endowed lecture series created in honor of Eugene McDermott, the late scientist, businessman, civic leader, and philanthropist.
Graduate
Men's sports
Women's sports
Club
Faculty
Chancellor Charles V. Grahmann
called the departure a "blessing." He said, "we are changing the direction of the program." According to Grahmann, the Institute's then administrators had become, "advocates of an ideal orthodoxy and built walls that no one could penetrate." Under the direction of Director Bushman, the IRPS had enjoyed the support of several bishops, including Bishop Edward Slattery in Tulsa, Cardinal Francis George in Chicago, and Cardinal Raymond Burke
, then Bishop
of La Crosse
and currently Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura
. Since the departures in 2001, the IRPS, under the leadership and direction of Dean Brian Schmisek, was refounded as the School of Ministry, hired scholars to replace those who resigned, and has become larger and, to some, more successful than it was in 2001.
was removed from the Upper Gallery of the Haggerty Art Village. The image, entitled "Saint or Sinner", was on loan from Murray State University
in Kentucky
and reportedly portrayed the Virgin Mary as a stripper. Responding to the incident, President Frank Lazarus
released the following statement:
"By committing an intrinsically evil act before the administration has had a reasonable chance to formulate a response, this theft severely damages the prospects of dealing with this issue in a measured and rational manner as befits the dignity of a university community. Nevertheless, I will respond in a timely fashion to the substantive issues surrounding the display of this work of art in view of our Catholic character, our religious values, and the urgent question of the proper meaning of academic freedom."
Reaction to Dr. Lazarus' statement prompted heated campus discussion. Opinions ranged from support of academic freedom to open hostility towards the university's administration and calls for the president to resign. Some Catholic students questioned whether the theft was actually an "intrinsically evil act", arguing that it was within the prerogative of a Catholic student to remove an image that desecrates the Mother of God.
. The school was scheduled to open in the Fall of 2009. As with the establishment of the Business School, student and faculty reaction to the new School of Pharmacy ranged from support to grave concern over maintaining the University's identity as a liberal arts institution.In 2008 the University suspended the establishment of the Pharmacy School. Administrators cited the financial downturn initiated by the Global financial crisis of 2008–2009 as the central reason for abandoning the proposed program.
, homosexuality
, and the ordination of women to the priesthood
. Patrick F. Fagan, father of five UD alumni, authored a commentary titled "Trouble at the University of Dallas?" where he expressed concerns regarding such faculty. President Thomas Keefe defended his administration's decision to push forward with the program at the express request of the Bishops of Dallas and Fort Worth, who stated that there is a desperate need for a pastoral ministry program in North Texas and the approved program, as it has been proposed to them, meets that need.
The issues of orthodoxy raised in Fagan's article, and the subsequent unanimous Board approval, met with outrage and resistance among certain students, families, and alumni of the University. Using social networking sites and email, students promulgated the article to their families and friends, including several public figures who actively support UD. Organizations such as EWTN, The Catholic Tide, RealClearPolitics
, The Ruth Institute, CatholicCulture.org, the Cardinal Newman Society
, and the Knights of Columbus Texas State Council posted the story to their websites. Several Catholic news agencies ran investigative reports on the story, including the Catholic News Agency
and the National Catholic Register
. The situation also attracted the attention of ABC affiliate WFAA Channel 8 News who interviewed President Keefe about the situation and asked him to clarify his "I would have punched them out" comment, made in reference to those who sent him angry emails about the School of Ministry faculty. On March 22, 2011, The University News ran several pieces covering the situation that included remarks from both Dean Brian Schmisek and Patrick Fagan. Schmisek comments that "the idea that we are somehow heretical is so outrageous that it's really laughable." In the same article, Fagan issued his own response, stating that "the Chancellor who is also the local ordinary, his fellow bishop on the board, and the president have all put their reputations on the line that the school will be thoroughly Catholic...I trust them, and they have the grace of state."
In response to the crisis, President Keefe has stated that "everything in the blog is being investigated" and that the issues will be dealt with.
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, independent Catholic
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regional university
University
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located in Irving
Irving, Texas
Irving is a city located in the U.S. state of Texas within Dallas County. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the city population was 216,290. Irving is within the Dallas–Plano–Irving metropolitan division of the Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington metropolitan area, designated...
, Texas
Texas
Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...
, established in 1956, which is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools
Southern Association of Colleges and Schools
The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools is one of the six regional accreditation organizations recognized by the United States Department of Education and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation...
. According to U.S. News & World Report
U.S. News & World Report
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, 80% of 2010 graduates participated in international programs, which is the sixth highest percentage of students from any higher education institution in the US
United States
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to study abroad.
The university comprises four academic units: the Braniff Graduate School of Liberal Arts
Liberal arts
The term liberal arts refers to those subjects which in classical antiquity were considered essential for a free citizen to study. Grammar, Rhetoric and Logic were the core liberal arts. In medieval times these subjects were extended to include mathematics, geometry, music and astronomy...
, the Constantin College of Liberal Arts, the College of Business, which includes the Graduate School of Management, and the School of Ministry. The undergraduate program was ranked 14th among 140 regional universities in the Western US
Western United States
.The Western United States, commonly referred to as the American West or simply "the West," traditionally refers to the region comprising the westernmost states of the United States. Because the U.S. expanded westward after its founding, the meaning of the West has evolved over time...
by U.S. News & World Report for 2011-2012. Dallas offers several master's degree
Master's degree
A master's is an academic degree granted to individuals who have undergone study demonstrating a mastery or high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice...
programs and a doctoral degree
Doctorate
A doctorate is an academic degree or professional degree that in most countries refers to a class of degrees which qualify the holder to teach in a specific field, A doctorate is an academic degree or professional degree that in most countries refers to a class of degrees which qualify the holder...
program with three concentrations. There are 135 full-time and 104 part-time faculty
Faculty (academic staff)
In North American English, faculty is the academic staff of a university: senior teachers, lecturers, and/or researchers. The term is most commonly used in this context in the United States and Canada, and generally includes professors of various rank: assistant professors, associate professors,...
, and the school has a 12:1 student-to-faculty ratio.
History
The University of Dallas' charterUniversity charter
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dates from 1910 when the Western Province of the Congregation of the Mission (Vincentians) renamed Holy Trinity College
Holy Trinity College
Holy Trinity College may refer to:*Holy Trinity College, Hong Kong*Holy Trinity College, Cookstown in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland*Holy Trinity College, Philippines in Puerto Princesa City, Philippines...
in Dallas, which they had founded in 1905. The provincial of the Western Province closed the University in 1928, and the charter reverted to the Diocese of Dallas. In 1955, the Western Province of the Sisters of Saint Mary of Namur obtained it to create a new higher education institution in Dallas that would subsume their junior college
Junior college
The term junior college refers to different educational institutions in different countries.-India:In India, most states provide schooling through 12th grade...
, Our Lady of Victory College, located in Fort Worth. The Sisters, together with Eugene Constantin, Jr. and Edward R. Maher, Sr., petitioned the Diocese of Dallas to sponsor the University, though ownership was entrusted to a self-perpetuating independent board of trustees. "Bishop
Bishop
A bishop is an ordained or consecrated member of the Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight. Within the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox Churches, in the Assyrian Church of the East, in the Independent Catholic Churches, and in the...
Gorman, as chancellor
Chancellor (education)
A chancellor or vice-chancellor is the chief executive of a university. Other titles are sometimes used, such as president or rector....
of the new university, announced that it would be a Catholic coeducational institution welcoming students of all faiths and races and offering work on the undergraduate level, with a graduate school to be added as soon as possible. The new University of Dallas opened to ninety-six students in September 1956 on a 1,000-acre tract of rolling hills northwest of Dallas."
Friar
A friar is a member of one of the mendicant orders.-Friars and monks:...
from the Order of Friars Minor
Franciscan
Most Franciscans are members of Roman Catholic religious orders founded by Saint Francis of Assisi. Besides Roman Catholic communities, there are also Old Catholic, Anglican, Lutheran, ecumenical and Non-denominational Franciscan communities....
(Franciscans), and several lay professors formed the University's original faculty. The Franciscans departed three years later; however, friars from the Order of Preachers
Dominican Order
The Order of Preachers , after the 15th century more commonly known as the Dominican Order or Dominicans, is a Catholic religious order founded by Saint Dominic and approved by Pope Honorius III on 22 December 1216 in France...
(Dominicans) joined the faculty in 1958 and built St. Albert the Great Priory on campus. The Cistercians established Our Lady of Dallas Abbey in 1958 and Cistercian Preparatory School
Cistercian Preparatory School
Cistercian Preparatory School is a Roman Catholic school for boys located in Irving, Texas, in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Dallas. Serving grades five through twelve , the school has a population of about 350 boys...
in 1962, which are both adjacent to campus. The School Sisters of Notre Dame
School Sisters of Notre Dame
School Sisters of Notre Dame is a worldwide order of Roman Catholic nuns devoted to primary, secondary, and post-secondary education. Their life in mission centers on prayer, community life and ministry...
arrived in 1962 and opened the Notre Dame Special School for children with learning difficulties in 1963 and a motherhouse
Motherhouse
The term motherhouse is used by religious Orders and religious congregations to designate the principal house or community for that group. It can be either for the entire institute or for a region....
for the Dallas Province in 1964, which were both on campus. The Sisters moved the school to Dallas in 1985 and closed the motherhouse in 1987. The faculty now is almost exclusively lay and includes several distinguished scholars.
A grant from the Blakley-Braniff Foundation established the Braniff Graduate School in 1966 and allowed the construction of the Braniff Graduate Center. The Constantin Foundation similarly endowed the undergraduate college, and, in 1970, the Board of Trustees named the undergraduate college the Constantin College of Liberal Arts. The Graduate School of Management, begun in 1966, offers a large MBA program. Programs in art and English also began in 1966. In 1973, the Institute of Philosophic Studies, the doctoral program of the Braniff Graduate School and an outgrowth of the Kendall Politics and Literature Program, was initiated. The School of Ministry began in 1987. The College of Business, incorporating the Graduate School of Management and undergraduate business, opened in 2003.
Since the first class in 1960, University graduates have won significant honors, including 30 Fulbright awards. Accreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools
Southern Association of Colleges and Schools
The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools is one of the six regional accreditation organizations recognized by the United States Department of Education and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation...
came in 1963 and has been reaffirmed regularly. In 1989, it was the youngest higher education institution to be awarded a Phi Beta Kappa chapter.
Governance and leadership
The University of Dallas is governed by a board of trustees, which currently is chaired by Francis P. Hubach, Jr., J.D. According to the University's by-laws, the bishop of Dallas is an ex-officio voting member.Kevin J. Farrell, D.D., bishop of the Diocese of Dallas, currently serves as the Chancellor. The office, held by a Catholic bishop per the constitution
Constitution
A constitution is a set of fundamental principles or established precedents according to which a state or other organization is governed. These rules together make up, i.e. constitute, what the entity is...
of the University, is an unpaid, honorary position.
Previous chancellors include:
- Most Rev. Thomas Kiely GormanThomas Kiely GormanThomas Kiely Gorman was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Reno from 1931 to 1952, and Bishop of Dallas from 1954 to 1969.-Biography:...
, Hist.Eccl.D. (1954–1969) - Most Rev. Thomas Ambrose TschoepeThomas Ambrose TschoepeThomas Ambrose Tschoepe was the second Roman Catholic bishop of San Angelo, Texas and the fifth bishop of Dallas, Texas....
, D.D. (1969–1990) - Most Rev. Charles Victor GrahmannCharles Victor GrahmannCharles Victor Grahmann is the former sixth Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Dallas, Texas.-Biography:...
, D.D. (1990–2007)
Thomas W. Keefe became President of the University of Dallas on March 1, 2010. Since taking office, the University's endowment has gone down by approximately $4 million, while the percentage of annual alumni giving is 11%.
Previous presidents include:
- Dr. F. Kenneth Brasted (1956–1959)
- Dr. Robert J. MorrisRobert J. MorrisRobert John Morris was an American anti-Communist activist who served as chief counsel to the United States Senate Subcommittee on Internal Security from 1951 to 1953 and from 1956 to 1958, was President of the University of Dallas and founded the now-defunct University of Plano.-Biography:Morris...
(1960–1962) - Dr. Donald A. Cowan (1962–1977)
- Dr. John R. Sommerfeldt (1978–1980)
- Dr. Robert F. Sasseen (1981–1995)
- Msgr. Milam J. Joseph (1996–2003)
- Dr. Frank LazarusFrank LazarusFrancis M. Lazarus, Ph.D. is the provost and vice president for academic affairs at Assumption College in Worcester, Massachusetts. He began this position on June 15, 2010.He was most recently the president of the University of Dallas in Irving, Texas. Dr...
(2003–2009)
Campus
Campus
A campus is traditionally the land on which a college or university and related institutional buildings are situated. Usually a campus includes libraries, lecture halls, residence halls and park-like settings...
surrounded by highways and an industrial
Industry
Industry refers to the production of an economic good or service within an economy.-Industrial sectors:There are four key industrial economic sectors: the primary sector, largely raw material extraction industries such as mining and farming; the secondary sector, involving refining, construction,...
and low-income multi-unit housing
Multi-family residential
Multi-family residential is a classification of housing where multiple separate housing units for residential inhabitants are contained within one building or several buildings within one complex. A common form is an apartment building...
area, 10 miles (16 km) from downtown
Downtown
Downtown is a term primarily used in North America by English speakers to refer to a city's core or central business district ....
Dallas
Dallas, Texas
Dallas is the third-largest city in Texas and the ninth-largest in the United States. The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is the largest metropolitan area in the South and fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States...
and just southeast of the Las Colinas development; "it sits in a 50-mile by 10-mile rectangular phenomenon known as a slow-moving earthquake." The campus consists mostly of nondescript, brown-colored rectangular or otherwise box-shaped brick buildings. The Mall
Esplanade
An esplanade is a long, open, level area, usually next to a river or large body of water, where people may walk. The original meaning of esplanade was a large, open, level area outside fortress or city walls to provide clear fields of fire for the fortress' guns...
is the center of campus, with the 187.5 feet-tall (57.15 meters) Braniff Memorial Tower as its focal point. Although the University is Catholic, its campus-exterior lacks almost any sacred art
Sacred art
Sacred art is imagery intended to uplift the mind to the spiritual. Sacred art involves the ritual and cultic practices and practical and operative aspects of the path of the spiritual realization within the bosom of the tradition in question....
. The Princeton Review cites the University of Dallas for having the 4th least beautiful campus of the colleges and universities it ranks.
A Dallas Area Rapid Transit
Dallas Area Rapid Transit
The Dallas Area Rapid Transit authority is a transit agency based in Dallas, Texas . It operates buses, light rail, commuter rail, and high-occupancy vehicle lanes in Dallas and 12 of its suburbs...
(DART) Orange-Line
Orange Line (Dallas Area Rapid Transit)
The Orange Line will be a 14 mile mass transit light rail line in Dallas, Texas operated by the Dallas Area Rapid Transit system. It will operate in addition to the currently existing , and lines...
light rail
Light rail
Light rail or light rail transit is a form of urban rail public transportation that generally has a lower capacity and lower speed than heavy rail and metro systems, but higher capacity and higher speed than traditional street-running tram systems...
station is scheduled to open near campus on July 30, 2012.
Enrollment
Undergraduate- 1,337 students
- 43% in-state; 54% out-of-state
- 99% full-time
- 51% female; 49% male
- 23% non-white
- 97% age 24 and under
- 82% Catholic
The 2011-2012 estimated charges, including tuition, room, board, and fees, for full-time undergraduates is $40,941.
82% of freshmen who began their degree programs in Fall 2009 returned as sophomores in Fall 2010. 63% of freshmen who began their degree programs in Fall 2004 graduated within 4-years.
Graduate
- 1,506 students
- 26% full-time
- 34% Catholic
Departments
HumanitiesHumanities
The humanities are academic disciplines that study the human condition, using methods that are primarily analytical, critical, or speculative, as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural sciences....
and Sciences
Humanities
- Department of ClassicsClassicsClassics is the branch of the Humanities comprising the languages, literature, philosophy, history, art, archaeology and other culture of the ancient Mediterranean world ; especially Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome during Classical Antiquity Classics (sometimes encompassing Classical Studies or...
- Department of EnglishEnglish studiesEnglish studies is an academic discipline that includes the study of literatures written in the English language , English linguistics English studies is an academic discipline that includes the study of literatures written in the English language (including literatures from the U.K., U.S.,...
- Department of HistoryHistoryHistory is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians...
- Department of Modern Languages
(Includes FrenchFrench languageFrench is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
, GermanGerman languageGerman is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
, ItalianItalian languageItalian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...
, and SpanishSpanish languageSpanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
) - Department of PhilosophyPhilosophyPhilosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational...
- Department of TheologyTheologyTheology is the systematic and rational study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truths, or the learned profession acquired by completing specialized training in religious studies, usually at a university or school of divinity or seminary.-Definition:Augustine of Hippo...
Natural Sciences
- Department of BiologyBiologyBiology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy. Biology is a vast subject containing many subdivisions, topics, and disciplines...
- Department of ChemistryChemistryChemistry is the science of matter, especially its chemical reactions, but also its composition, structure and properties. Chemistry is concerned with atoms and their interactions with other atoms, and particularly with the properties of chemical bonds....
- Department of MathematicsMathematicsMathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...
- Department of PhysicsPhysicsPhysics is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.Physics is one of the oldest academic...
Social Sciences
Social sciences
Social science is the field of study concerned with society. "Social science" is commonly used as an umbrella term to refer to a plurality of fields outside of the natural sciences usually exclusive of the administrative or managerial sciences...
- Department of EconomicsEconomicsEconomics is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek from + , hence "rules of the house"...
- Department of PoliticsPoliticsPolitics is a process by which groups of people make collective decisions. The term is generally applied to the art or science of running governmental or state affairs, including behavior within civil governments, but also applies to institutions, fields, and special interest groups such as the...
- Department of PsychologyPsychologyPsychology is the study of the mind and behavior. Its immediate goal is to understand individuals and groups by both establishing general principles and researching specific cases. For many, the ultimate goal of psychology is to benefit society...
Professions
Artistic and Humanistic Professions
- Department of ArtArtArt is the product or process of deliberately arranging items in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect....
- Department of DramaDramaDrama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" , which is derived from "to do","to act" . The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a...
- Department of JournalismJournalismJournalism is the practice of investigation and reporting of events, issues and trends to a broad audience in a timely fashion. Though there are many variations of journalism, the ideal is to inform the intended audience. Along with covering organizations and institutions such as government and...
- School of MinistrySchool of MinistryThe University of Dallas School of Ministry began in 1987 as the Institute for Religious and Pastoral Studies , offering masters degrees in theological studies and religious education...
- Department of MusicMusicMusic is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...
Applied Scientific and Technological Professions
(none)
Social Professions
- College of BusinessBusinessA business is an organization engaged in the trade of goods, services, or both to consumers. Businesses are predominant in capitalist economies, where most of them are privately owned and administered to earn profit to increase the wealth of their owners. Businesses may also be not-for-profit...
- Department of EducationEducationEducation in its broadest, general sense is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people lives on from one generation to the next. Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts...
Undergraduate
Undergraduate students are enrolled in the Constantin College of Liberal Arts, the College of Business, or the School of MinistrySchool of Ministry
The University of Dallas School of Ministry began in 1987 as the Institute for Religious and Pastoral Studies , offering masters degrees in theological studies and religious education...
. The university awards bachelor of arts
Bachelor of Arts
A Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin artium baccalaureus, is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences, or both...
(B.A.) and bachelor of science
Bachelor of Science
A Bachelor of Science is an undergraduate academic degree awarded for completed courses that generally last three to five years .-Australia:In Australia, the BSc is a 3 year degree, offered from 1st year on...
(B.S.) degrees.
Rome Program
The University started its Rome Program in 1970. The Program is a semester abroad in which (generally) sophomores spend a semester in Rome. The University has had its campus at a number of locations over the years. It was first at a Notre Dame convent in 1970-1971. By 1972, the campus was in the "International Center", a sprawling complex on the Via della Pisana outside the Grande Raccordo Anulare (G.R.A.)Grande Raccordo Anulare
The GRA or Grande Raccordo Anulare is a toll-free, ring-shaped orbital motorway, 68,2 km in circumference that encircles Rome...
. In the spring of 1973 in mid-semester, the school moved its campus to "Hotel La Villa", a hotel that catered to tour groups, which had a separate set of buildings that the University used. The school's campus is now a convent.
In 1990, the University purchased a villa southeast of Rome in the Alban Hills
Alban Hills
The Alban Hills are the site of a quiescent volcanic complex in Italy, located southeast of Rome and about north of Anzio.The dominant peak is Monte Cavo. There are two small calderas which contain lakes, Lago Albano and Lake Nemi...
. This campus was purchased to serve as the base of the University of Dallas Rome Program
University of Dallas Rome Program
The University of Dallas Rome Program is a study-abroad program that is an integral part of the University of Dallas Undergraduate program. Since the 1970s, the University of Dallas has offered students the opportunity to spend a semester of study-and-travel based out of Rome, Italy. Originally it...
. In June 1994, the newly renovated 12 acres (48,562.3 m²) property was inaugurated as the Eugene Constantin Rome Campus, and that fall it hosted its first students. Just south of Rome along the Via Appia, the campus includes a library, chapel, housing, a dining hall, classrooms, tennis courts, a swimming pool, an outdoor Greco-Roman theater, working vineyards and olive groves.
Braniff Graduate School of Liberal Arts
In 1973, the University initiated the Institute of Philosophic Studies, which was an outgrowth of the Kendall Politics and Literature Program, to administer the Braniff Graduate School of Liberal Arts' doctoral program. The interdisciplinary Ph.D. program offers concentrations in English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
, Philosophy
Philosophy
Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational...
, and Politics
Politics
Politics is a process by which groups of people make collective decisions. The term is generally applied to the art or science of running governmental or state affairs, including behavior within civil governments, but also applies to institutions, fields, and special interest groups such as the...
and is the only one in the United States with a core curriculum in great books
Great Books
Great Books refers primarily to a group of books that tradition, and various institutions and authorities, have regarded as constituting or best expressing the foundations of Western culture ; derivatively the term also refers to a curriculum or method of education based around a list of such books...
.
School of Ministry
The University of Dallas School of MinistrySchool of Ministry
The University of Dallas School of Ministry began in 1987 as the Institute for Religious and Pastoral Studies , offering masters degrees in theological studies and religious education...
offers masters degrees in Theological Studies (MTS), Religious Education (MRE), Catholic School Leadership (MCSL), Catholic School Teaching (MCST), and Pastoral Ministry (MPM). Classes are offered onsite during weeknights and online. The University of Dallas School of Ministry also is one of the few Catholic universities in the US that offer a comprehensive, four-year Catholic Biblical School (CBS) certification program. This program, which covers every book of the bible, is offered onsite and online in both English and Spanish. The CBS is the largest program of its kind among all Catholic universities in the U.S. based on 2007 enrollment numbers.
Lectureships
The Aquinas Lectureship: The Aquinas lecture series, begun in 1983, is an annual event sponsored by the Department of Philosophy in which notable philosophers address contemporary topics in the spirit of Thomas AquinasThomas Aquinas
Thomas Aquinas, O.P. , also Thomas of Aquin or Aquino, was an Italian Dominican priest of the Catholic Church, and an immensely influential philosopher and theologian in the tradition of scholasticism, known as Doctor Angelicus, Doctor Communis, or Doctor Universalis...
.
The John Paul II Theology Lectureship: In 2007, the Theology department announced that a donor had endowed a new lectureship to be named in honor of the late Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II
Blessed Pope John Paul II , born Karol Józef Wojtyła , reigned as Pope of the Catholic Church and Sovereign of Vatican City from 16 October 1978 until his death on 2 April 2005, at of age. His was the second-longest documented pontificate, which lasted ; only Pope Pius IX ...
.
The Landregan Lectureship: In 1999, the Institute for Religious and Pastoral Studies, which grew into becoming the School of Ministry, established an annual lecture in honor of Steven T. Landregan for his distinguished service to the Catholic Church in North Texas.
The Eugene McDermott Lectureship: In 1974, the university established the Eugene McDermott Lectureship, an endowed lecture series created in honor of Eugene McDermott, the late scientist, businessman, civic leader, and philanthropist.
Rankings
Undergraduate- Ranked #14 among Western regional universities by U.S. News & World Report.
- Ranked #33 among master's universities by the The Washington MonthlyThe Washington MonthlyThe Washington Monthly is a bimonthly nonprofit magazine of United States politics and government that is based in Washington, D.C.The magazine's founder is Charles Peters, who started the magazine in 1969 and continues to write the "Tilting at Windmills" column in each issue. Paul Glastris, former...
. - Ranked #75 among Western regional universities on the Webometrics Ranking of World UniversitiesWebometrics Ranking of World UniversitiesThe Webometrics Ranking of World Universities, also known as Ranking Web of World Universities, is ranking system for the world's universities based on a composite indicator that takes into account both the volume of the Web contents and the visibility and impact of these web publications...
. - Ranked #103 on ForbesForbesForbes is an American publishing and media company. Its flagship publication, the Forbes magazine, is published biweekly. Its primary competitors in the national business magazine category are Fortune, which is also published biweekly, and Business Week...
list of America's Best Colleges. - Ranked as one of the best Western colleges by The Princeton Review.
- Earned an A-grade on the "What Will They Learn?" project of the American Council of Trustees and AlumniAmerican Council of Trustees and AlumniThe American Council of Trustees and Alumni is a non-profit organization whose stated mission is to "support liberal arts education, uphold high academic standards, safeguard the free exchange of ideas on campus, and ensure that the next generation receives a philosophically rich, high-quality...
. - Ranked as one of 26-best studio art programs in the US by ParadeParade (magazine)Parade is an American nationwide Sunday newspaper magazine, distributed in more than 500 newspapers in the United States. It was founded in 1941 and is owned by Advance Publications. The most widely read magazine in the U.S., Parade has a circulation of 32.2 million and a readership of nearly 70...
. - Ranked the 4th least beautiful campus and the 9th most LGBTLGBTLGBT is an initialism that collectively refers to "lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender" people. In use since the 1990s, the term "LGBT" is an adaptation of the initialism "LGB", which itself started replacing the phrase "gay community" beginning in the mid-to-late 1980s, which many within the...
-unfriendly college by The Princeton Review.
Graduate
- A survey of political theory professors published in the journal Political Science & PoliticsPS Political Science & PoliticsPS: Political Science & Politics provides critical analysis of contemporary political phenomena and is the journal of record for the discipline of political science reporting on research, teaching, and professional development...
ranked the doctoral concentration in politics 28th out of 106-surveyed programs in the US specializing in political theory. - The Department of Art was ranked #164 by the U.S. News & World Report's Best Graduate School Rankings.
- The Graduate School of Management was unlisted in rankings of business schools in U.S. News & World Report, BusinessWeekBusinessWeekBloomberg Businessweek, commonly and formerly known as BusinessWeek, is a weekly business magazine published by Bloomberg L.P. It is currently headquartered in New York City.- History :...
, Forbes, The EconomistThe EconomistThe Economist is an English-language weekly news and international affairs publication owned by The Economist Newspaper Ltd. and edited in offices in the City of Westminster, London, England. Continuous publication began under founder James Wilson in September 1843...
, and the Financial TimesFinancial TimesThe Financial Times is an international business newspaper. It is a morning daily newspaper published in London and printed in 24 cities around the world. Its primary rival is the Wall Street Journal, published in New York City....
. - The doctoral concentration in philosophy was unlisted in The Philosophical Gourmet ReportPhilosophical Gourmet ReportThe Philosophical Gourmet Report edited by Philosophy and Law professor Brian Leiter — in response to the Gourman Report — is a ranking of philosophy departments in the English-speaking world, based on a survey of philosophers who are nominated as evaluators by the Report's Advisory...
rankings. - U.S. News & World Report did not publish the ranks for the doctoral concentrations in English and politics because they were below the cutoff.
- The 2010 National Research CouncilUnited States National Research CouncilThe National Research Council of the USA is the working arm of the United States National Academies, carrying out most of the studies done in their names.The National Academies include:* National Academy of Sciences...
Assessment of Research-Doctorate Programs in the USUnited States National Research Council RankingsThe United States National Research Council conducts a survey and compiles a report on United States Research-Doctorate Programs approximately every 10 years, although the time elapsed between each new ranking has exceeded 10 years. Data collection for the most recent report began in June of 2006;...
ranked the University of Dallas' doctoral concentrations at or near the bottom (survey-based quality score) of those surveyed in the US: English: 116-119/119; philosophy: 82-90/90; politics: 105/105.
Athletics
Interscholastic (NCAA Division III - Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference)Men's sports
- BaseballBaseballBaseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...
- BasketballBasketballBasketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
- Cross CountryCross country runningCross country running is a sport in which people run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and earth, pass through woodlands and open country, and include hills, flat ground and sometimes gravel road...
- GolfGolfGolf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
- LacrosseLacrosseLacrosse is a team sport of Native American origin played using a small rubber ball and a long-handled stick called a crosse or lacrosse stick, mainly played in the United States and Canada. It is a contact sport which requires padding. The head of the lacrosse stick is strung with loose mesh...
- Soccer
- Track & Field
Women's sports
- Basketball
- Cross Country
- Lacrosse
- Soccer
- SoftballSoftballSoftball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of 10 to 14 players. It is a direct descendant of baseball although there are some key differences: softballs are larger than baseballs, and the pitches are thrown underhand rather than overhand...
- Track & Field
- VolleyballVolleyballVolleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...
Club
- Men's RugbyRugby footballRugby football is a style of football named after Rugby School in the United Kingdom. It is seen most prominently in two current sports, rugby league and rugby union.-History:...
(Texas Rugby Union, Collegiate Division II)
Media
The University of Dallas' student newspaper is The University News and its yearbook is The Tower.Residence life
55% of undergraduate students live on campus. On campus residency is required of all students who have not yet attained senior status or who are under 21 and are not married, not a veteran of the military or who do not live with their parents or relatives in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. These requirements change from year to year depending upon the size of the incoming freshman class; for instance, in 2009, all students with senior credit standing were required to live off campus. Freshmen live in traditional single-sex halls, while upperclassmen live in co-ed accommodation.Notable People
Alumni- L. Brent Bozell III - Founder of Media Research CenterMedia Research CenterThe Media Research Center is a content analysis organization based in Alexandria, Virginia, founded in 1987 by conservative activist L. Brent Bozell III...
and Fox News political commentator - Robert BundaRobert BundaRobert "Bobby" Bunda is a former Democratic member of the Hawaii Senate, representing the 22nd District from 1994 through 2010, when he resigned his position in a bid for Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii...
- Hawaiian politician - Oscar CantúOscar CantuOscar Cantú is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He currently serves as the Auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of San Antonio...
- Auxiliary bishopAuxiliary bishopAn auxiliary bishop, in the Roman Catholic Church, is an additional bishop assigned to a diocese because the diocesan bishop is unable to perform his functions, the diocese is so extensive that it requires more than one bishop to administer, or the diocese is attached to a royal or imperial office...
of the Archdiocese of San Antonio. - John C. EastmanJohn C. EastmanJohn C. Eastman is an American law professor and politician. He is the Donald P. Kennedy Chair in Law and former Dean at Chapman University School of Law. in Orange, California...
- Chairman of the Board, National Organization for MarriageNational Organization for MarriageThe National Organization for Marriage is a nonprofit political association established in 2007 to work against legalization of same-sex marriage in the United States, specifically to pass California Proposition 8 banning same-sex marriage in California... - Joe G. N. Garcia - Pulmonary scientist and physician
- John H. GibsonJohn H. GibsonJohn Holden Gibson II is a Texas businessman and former senior official in the United States Department of Defense. He has been chief financial officer, chief operating officer, and managing director for several companies including a national consulting group...
- Senior Defense Department official and business executive - Ernie HawkinsErnie HawkinsErnie Hawkins is an American acoustic blues guitar player, singer, recording artist, and educator, who has a Ph.D. in phenomenological psychology....
- Blues guitarist and singer - Jason HendersonJason HendersonJason Henderson is a writer of computer games, novels and several comic book series.He is the writer of the young adult novel series Alex Van Helsing from HarperCollins and the comic book series Sword of Dracula from Image Comics, Strange Magic from Marvel Comics, and Soulcatcher...
- Fantasy novelist - Tadashi InuzukaTadashi Inuzukais a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan, a Senator in the House of Councillors of the Diet . A native of Tokyo, he graduated from Rikkyo University and received a master's degree from the University of Dallas in the United States...
- Japanese politician and diplomat - Emmet FloodEmmet FloodEmmet Flood was Special Counsel in the George W. Bush Administration. He was part of the White House Counsel Office in the Executive Office of the President . He is a partner at Williams and Connolly LLP. Flood was a law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia prior to being named Deputy...
- Special Counsel to President George W. BushGeorge W. BushGeorge Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000....
, 2007-2008 - Anita JoseAnita JoseDr.Anita Jose is an Indian born educator, business strategist, and essayist in the field of business management and policy. Her research has included a focus in the areas of organizational strategy, international management, and business ethics/corporate social responsibility...
- Professor, business strategist, essayist - Katherine, Crown Princess of YugoslaviaKatherine, Crown Princess of YugoslaviaKatherine, Crown Princess of Yugoslavia, also named Katherine Karađorđević , is the wife of Alexander, Crown Prince of Serbia.Katherine was educated in Athens and Lausanne, Switzerland. She studied business at the University of Denver, Colorado and the University of Dallas, Texas...
- wife of Alexander, Crown Prince of YugoslaviaAlexander, Crown Prince of YugoslaviaAlexander II Karadjordjevic, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia , is the former crown prince of the former Kingdom of Yugoslavia and the head of the House of Karadjordjevic. Alexander is the only child of former King Peter II of Yugoslavia and Princess Alexandra of Greece and Denmark... - Peter MacNicolPeter MacNicolPeter MacNicol is an American actor. He may be best known in films for his roles of Janosz Poha in Ghostbusters II, Stingo in Sophie's Choice, Thomas Renfield in Dracula: Dead and Loving It and David Langley in Bean...
- actor, notable performances include GhostbustersGhostbustersGhostbusters is a 1984 American science fiction comedy film directed by Ivan Reitman and written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis. The film stars Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, and Rick Moranis and follows three eccentric parapsychologists in New York City, who start a...
, Ally McBealAlly McBealAlly McBeal is an American legal comedy-drama series which aired on the Fox network from 1997 to 2002. The series was created by David E. Kelley, who also served as the executive producer, along with Bill D'Elia...
, and Fox's 2424 (TV series)24 is an American television series produced for the Fox Network and syndicated worldwide, starring Kiefer Sutherland as Counter Terrorist Unit agent Jack Bauer. Each 24-episode season covers 24 hours in the life of Bauer, using the real time method of narration...
. - Patrick MadridPatrick MadridPatrick Madrid , is an American Catholic author, radio host, apologist, the host of several EWTN television and radio series, and the publisher of Envoy Magazine....
- author, radio host - Jayne MansfieldJayne MansfieldJayne Mansfield was an American actress working both in Hollywood and on the Broadway theatre...
- actress and model, mother of actress Mariska HargitayMariska HargitayMariska Hargitay is an American actress, best known for her role as New York City sex crimes Detective Olivia Benson on the NBC television drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, a role that has earned her multiple awards and nominations, including an Emmy and Golden Globe.The daughter of actress... - Trish MurphyTrish MurphyTrish Murphy is an Austin-based singer-songwriter.- Music career :Trish Murphy grew up in Houston, Texas, the daughter of a struggling musician and songwriter. After earning a Bachelor's Degree in philosophy at the University of Dallas, she formed a duo—Trish and Darin—with her brother Darin Murphy...
- singer-songwriter - Carl Olson - American journalist and Catholic writer
- Susan OrrSusan OrrSusan Orr headed the United States Children's Bureau, a federal agency organized under the United States Department of Health and Human Services' Administration for Children and Families, Administration for Children and Families, as Associate Commissioner.In October 2007, the Bush administration...
- Former Head of the United States Children's BureauUnited States Children's BureauThe United States Children's Bureau is a federal agency organized under the United States Department of Health and Human Services' Administration for Children and Families. Today, the bureau's operations involve improving child abuse prevention, foster care, and adoption... - Mackubin Thomas OwensMackubin Thomas OwensMackubin Thomas Owens is an American military historian and conservative political figure. He is currently the Associate Dean of Academics for Electives and Directed Research and Professor of Strategy and Force Planning for the Naval War College, as well as a contributing editor to National...
- Assistant Dean of Academics for Electives, Naval War CollegeNaval War CollegeThe Naval War College is an education and research institution of the United States Navy that specializes in developing ideas for naval warfare and passing them along to officers of the Navy. The college is located on the grounds of Naval Station Newport in Newport, Rhode Island... - Gary SchmittGary SchmittGary James Schmitt served as executive director and president of the New Citizenship Project. He was the executive director of the Project for the New American Century from 1998 to 2005...
- Co-founder of the Project for the New American CenturyProject for the New American CenturyThe Project for the New American Century was an American think tank based in Washington, D.C. that lasted from 1997 to 2006. It was co-founded as a non-profit educational organization by neoconservatives William Kristol and Robert Kagan... - Brantly WomackBrantly WomackBrantly Womack is a distinguished politics professor at the University of Virginia.He is also Honorary professor at Jilin University , and at East China Normal University .-Books:...
- Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs, University of VirginiaUniversity of VirginiaThe University of Virginia is a public research university located in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, founded by Thomas Jefferson... - Eric McLuhanEric McLuhanEric McLuhan is the son of well-known media theorist Marshall McLuhan and co-authored with him the books The Laws of Media and Media and Formal Cause....
- internationally known media theorist and son of Marshall McLuhanMarshall McLuhanHerbert Marshall McLuhan, CC was a Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar—a professor of English literature, a literary critic, a rhetorician, and a communication theorist... - L. M. Kit CarsonL. M. Kit CarsonL. M. Kit Carson is an American actor and screenwriter.He is the oldest son of Minor Lee and Louise Carson; his brothers include David Lee Carson, born 1943, and Carl Fletcher Carson, born 1945...
'67 - actor and screenwriter
Faculty
- Mel BradfordMel BradfordMelvin E. "Mel" Bradford was a conservative political commentator and professor of literature at the University of Dallas....
- Professor of English - Louise CowanLouise CowanLouise Cowan born Louise Shillingburg , is a Texas-born critic and teacher, and wife of the late physicist, teacher, and university president Donald Cowan . In the past, she has taught at Texas Christian University and Thomas More College of Liberal Arts...
- Professor of English - Willmoore KendallWillmoore KendallWillmoore Kendall was an American conservative writer and Professor of political philosophy.-Biography:Kendall was born in 1909 to a blind minister in Oklahoma. He learned to read at age two, graduated from high school at 13, from the University of Oklahoma at 18, and published his first book at 20...
- Professor of Politics, co-founder of National ReviewNational ReviewNational Review is a biweekly magazine founded by the late author William F. Buckley, Jr., in 1955 and based in New York City. It describes itself as "America's most widely read and influential magazine and web site for conservative news, commentary, and opinion."Although the print version of the... - Wilfred M. McClayWilfred M. McClayWilfred M. McClay is an American historian, a noted conservative public intellectual, and SunTrust Bank Chair of Excellence in Humanities at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga....
- Associate Professor of History - Christian Norberg-SchulzChristian Norberg-SchulzChristian Norberg-Schulz was a Norwegian architect, architectural historian and theorist.He was born in Oslo. He is the father of singer Elizabeth Norberg-Schulz....
- McDermott Visiting Professor - Andrey PonochevnyAndrey PonochevnyAndrey Ponochevny is a prize-winning pianist born in Minsk, Belarus on December 31, 1976. He graduated at the Belarussian State Academy of Music in 2001, and soon afterward was awarded the Bronze Medal at the XIII Tchaikovsky competition. Mr. Ponochevny, who had settled in the American scene after...
- Adjunct Instructor in Music - Gerard WegemerGerard WegemerGerard B. Wegemer is a professor at the University of Dallas and the Director for . He has published many articles and books on Thomas More and is a member of the Board of Editors for Moreana, the international journal on Thomas More and his times...
- Professor of English, Founder of the Center for Thomas More Studies - Thomas G. WestThomas G. WestThomas G. West is Professor of Politics at Hillsdale College, beginning in the Fall of 2011.West previously taught at the University of Dallas from 1974 to 2011....
- Professor of Politics - Frederick WilhelmsenFrederick WilhelmsenFrederick Daniel Wilhelmsen was an American philosopher and professor in the Thomist tradition. He also helped found Christendom College and taught at the University of Dallas for many years. He was a founding editor of Triumph magazine. He also taught at Santa Clara University for many years...
- Professor of Philosophy and Politics - Robert E. WoodRobert E. WoodRobert Elkington Wood was a U.S. Army Brigadier General and businessman best known for his leadership of Sears, Roebuck and Company.- Early life :...
- Professor of Philosophy, editor of American Catholic Philosophical QuarterlyAmerican Catholic Philosophical QuarterlyThe American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly is a peer-reviewed academic journal sponsored by the American Catholic Philosophical Association. It was founded in 1927 as The New Scholasticism and adopted its current title in 1990. The journal publishes articles and book reviews covering the entire... - Eric VoegelinEric VoegelinEric Voegelin, born Erich Hermann Wilhelm Vögelin, was a German-born American political philosopher. He was born in Cologne, then Imperial Germany, and educated in political science at the University of Vienna. He became a teacher and then an associate professor of political science at the...
- Visiting Professor of Politics - Marshall McLuhanMarshall McLuhanHerbert Marshall McLuhan, CC was a Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar—a professor of English literature, a literary critic, a rhetorician, and a communication theorist...
- Visiting Professor and McDermott Chair (1975)
Controversial decisions
IRPS faculty departures
In 2001, the entire full-time staff of the Institute for Religious and Pastoral Studies (IRPS) program, including the director Douglas Bushman and associate directors Timothy Herrman and David Twellman, resigned and moved to Ave Maria CollegeAve Maria College
Ave Maria University - Latin American Campus ' is a branch campus of Ave Maria University in Florida, United States. It is located in the small town of San Marcos, Carazo, Nicaragua...
Chancellor Charles V. Grahmann
Charles Victor Grahmann
Charles Victor Grahmann is the former sixth Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Dallas, Texas.-Biography:...
called the departure a "blessing." He said, "we are changing the direction of the program." According to Grahmann, the Institute's then administrators had become, "advocates of an ideal orthodoxy and built walls that no one could penetrate." Under the direction of Director Bushman, the IRPS had enjoyed the support of several bishops, including Bishop Edward Slattery in Tulsa, Cardinal Francis George in Chicago, and Cardinal Raymond Burke
Raymond Leo Burke
Raymond Leo Burke is an American Cardinal of the Holy Roman Church. He is the current Cardinal Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, having previously served as Archbishop of St...
, then Bishop
Bishop
A bishop is an ordained or consecrated member of the Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight. Within the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox Churches, in the Assyrian Church of the East, in the Independent Catholic Churches, and in the...
of La Crosse
Roman Catholic Diocese of La Crosse
The Roman Catholic Diocese of La Crosse covers an area of west-central Wisconsin, including the city of La Crosse and 19 counties: Adams, Buffalo, Chippewa, Clark, Crawford, Dunn, Eau Claire, Jackson, Juneau, La Crosse, Marathon, Monroe, Pepin, Pierce, Portage, Richland, Trempealeau, Vernon, and...
and currently Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura
Apostolic Signatura
The Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura is the highest judicial authority in the Catholic Church...
. Since the departures in 2001, the IRPS, under the leadership and direction of Dean Brian Schmisek, was refounded as the School of Ministry, hired scholars to replace those who resigned, and has become larger and, to some, more successful than it was in 2001.
Guadalupe art print scandal
On February 14, 2008 an image of Our Lady of GuadalupeOur Lady of Guadalupe
Our Lady of Guadalupe , also known as the Virgin of Guadalupe is a celebrated Catholic icon of the Virgin Mary.According to tradition, on December 9, 1531 Juan Diego, a simple indigenous peasant, had a vision of a young woman while he was on a hill in the Tepeyac desert, near Mexico City. The lady...
was removed from the Upper Gallery of the Haggerty Art Village. The image, entitled "Saint or Sinner", was on loan from Murray State University
Murray State University
Murray State University, located in the city of Murray, Kentucky, is a four-year public university with approximately 10,400 students. The school is Kentucky’s only public university to be listed in the U.S.News & World Report regional university top tier for the past 20 consecutive years...
in Kentucky
Kentucky
The Commonwealth of Kentucky is a state located in the East Central United States of America. As classified by the United States Census Bureau, Kentucky is a Southern state, more specifically in the East South Central region. Kentucky is one of four U.S. states constituted as a commonwealth...
and reportedly portrayed the Virgin Mary as a stripper. Responding to the incident, President Frank Lazarus
Frank Lazarus
Francis M. Lazarus, Ph.D. is the provost and vice president for academic affairs at Assumption College in Worcester, Massachusetts. He began this position on June 15, 2010.He was most recently the president of the University of Dallas in Irving, Texas. Dr...
released the following statement:
"By committing an intrinsically evil act before the administration has had a reasonable chance to formulate a response, this theft severely damages the prospects of dealing with this issue in a measured and rational manner as befits the dignity of a university community. Nevertheless, I will respond in a timely fashion to the substantive issues surrounding the display of this work of art in view of our Catholic character, our religious values, and the urgent question of the proper meaning of academic freedom."
Reaction to Dr. Lazarus' statement prompted heated campus discussion. Opinions ranged from support of academic freedom to open hostility towards the university's administration and calls for the president to resign. Some Catholic students questioned whether the theft was actually an "intrinsically evil act", arguing that it was within the prerogative of a Catholic student to remove an image that desecrates the Mother of God.
Cancellation of the School of Pharmacy
In 2007, the University of Dallas Board of Trustees voted for the addition of a School of PharmacySchool of Pharmacy
The School of Pharmacy is a constituent college of the University of London. It was founded by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain in 1842 as the College of the Pharmaceutical Society, and was granted a royal charter in 1952. In 1926 it became a school of the University of London...
. The school was scheduled to open in the Fall of 2009. As with the establishment of the Business School, student and faculty reaction to the new School of Pharmacy ranged from support to grave concern over maintaining the University's identity as a liberal arts institution.In 2008 the University suspended the establishment of the Pharmacy School. Administrators cited the financial downturn initiated by the Global financial crisis of 2008–2009 as the central reason for abandoning the proposed program.
School of Ministry undergraduate major in Pastoral Ministry
On March 4, 2011, the University's Board of Trustees unanimously approved a new undergraduate major in pastoral ministry proposed by the School of Ministry. The decision came on the heels of a heated controversy surrounding the proposal. A few School of Ministry faculty were accused of opposing official Catholic teaching on issues such as relativismRelativism
Relativism is the concept that points of view have no absolute truth or validity, having only relative, subjective value according to differences in perception and consideration....
, homosexuality
Homosexuality
Homosexuality is romantic or sexual attraction or behavior between members of the same sex or gender. As a sexual orientation, homosexuality refers to "an enduring pattern of or disposition to experience sexual, affectional, or romantic attractions" primarily or exclusively to people of the same...
, and the ordination of women to the priesthood
Ordination of women
Ordination in general religious usage is the process by which a person is consecrated . The ordination of women is a regular practice among some major religious groups, as it was of several religions of antiquity...
. Patrick F. Fagan, father of five UD alumni, authored a commentary titled "Trouble at the University of Dallas?" where he expressed concerns regarding such faculty. President Thomas Keefe defended his administration's decision to push forward with the program at the express request of the Bishops of Dallas and Fort Worth, who stated that there is a desperate need for a pastoral ministry program in North Texas and the approved program, as it has been proposed to them, meets that need.
The issues of orthodoxy raised in Fagan's article, and the subsequent unanimous Board approval, met with outrage and resistance among certain students, families, and alumni of the University. Using social networking sites and email, students promulgated the article to their families and friends, including several public figures who actively support UD. Organizations such as EWTN, The Catholic Tide, RealClearPolitics
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, The Ruth Institute, CatholicCulture.org, the Cardinal Newman Society
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, and the Knights of Columbus Texas State Council posted the story to their websites. Several Catholic news agencies ran investigative reports on the story, including the Catholic News Agency
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and the National Catholic Register
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. The situation also attracted the attention of ABC affiliate WFAA Channel 8 News who interviewed President Keefe about the situation and asked him to clarify his "I would have punched them out" comment, made in reference to those who sent him angry emails about the School of Ministry faculty. On March 22, 2011, The University News ran several pieces covering the situation that included remarks from both Dean Brian Schmisek and Patrick Fagan. Schmisek comments that "the idea that we are somehow heretical is so outrageous that it's really laughable." In the same article, Fagan issued his own response, stating that "the Chancellor who is also the local ordinary, his fellow bishop on the board, and the president have all put their reputations on the line that the school will be thoroughly Catholic...I trust them, and they have the grace of state."
In response to the crisis, President Keefe has stated that "everything in the blog is being investigated" and that the issues will be dealt with.
Further Reading
- Sweet, David, ed. University of Dallas: 50 Years of Vision & Courage, 1956-2006. (2006). 165 pp.
- University of Dallas. The University of Dallas honoring William A. Blakley. (1966). 19 pp.