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A former public school administrator, Avalos has overseen legal compliance at a number of Texas schools during her career.
Among other interests, Haven writes often about the late philosopher and previous McDermott lecturer René Girard.
Boston, an awarded attorney and author, presented findings from his recent book, “How the Best Did It: Leadership Lessons From Our Top Presidents.”
The conference will be held on Jan. 21, 2025, under the theme, “Architects of Education: How Best to Unlock Student Potential.”
Attendees gathered to share ideas, learn from experts and commemorate UDallas’ longstanding reputation as a nationally recognized institution for outstanding cybersecurity education.
The partnership aims to equip Catholic educators in the Chicago area for roles as Catholic school principals through degree and certificate programs.
Over the next few weeks, a group of students from both Constantin College and the Satish & Yasmin Gupta College of Business will be preparing to participate in a hackathon.
The University of Dallas has expanded its full-tuition scholarship opportunities for undergraduate applicants for admission in the fall of 2025.
After receiving her undergraduate and doctoral degrees from the University of Dallas, Mary Mumbach, BA ’70 PhD ’77, went on to co-found the Thomas More College of Liberal Arts and the Honors Program of Magdalen College.
Since it launched, the SMIF has grown at a rate outpacing the standard return on investment — and given finance students an edge.
Catholic evangelist and author Sr. Josephine Garrett, CSFN, BA ’03, will address the University of Dallas at Commencement 2025.
The Grefenstette Faculty Scholars Program seeks scholars from all academic areas to join discussions on the responsible use of digital technology and its intersection with religious or theological studies.
Over the summer, workers were busy renovating some of the most beloved learning and gathering spaces on campus.
The GCAB comprises leaders and alumni from various professional backgrounds who provide guidance and insight to the college’s leadership team.
The University of Dallas ranks in the top ten in lists of the happiest colleges, best value colleges in the West, and most rigorous undergraduate programs in America.
YCP Belong+ members enjoy tuition scholarships for graduate programs in the Satish & Yasmin Gupta College of Business or the Braniff Graduate School of Liberal Arts.
The University of Dallas is launching two new graduate degree programs: the Master of Leadership and the Master of Science in data science and artificial intelligence.
The University of Dallas Board of Trustees has appointed three new members: Frank Muller, Fanny Sheumaker, BA ’88 MBA ’91, and Tan Parker, BA ’93.
“The University of Dallas is proud to serve the Church’s mission of advancing the common good through teaching, scholarship and religious formation,” said Vice President of Enrollment Andrew Ellison.
As the 2024-25 school year begins, the University of Dallas welcomes new faculty members and congratulates returning members on their promotions.
The PCAOB Scholars Program awards scholarships to outstanding students enrolled in undergraduate or graduate accounting degree programs.
The Cowan-Blakley Memorial Library was one of just 50 institutions around the country to receive a recent grant from Theatre Communications Group (TCG).
The University of Dallas is the only Catholic university to receive an A+ grade from the American Council of Trustees and Alumni.
The Institute for Homiletics at the University of Dallas has reached its goal of establishing a $7.5 million permanent endowment, a key need in the effort to improve preaching in the Catholic Church.
The students leading UD's annual day of community service invite locals to volunteer or request help for their homes.
Having led the K-12 Curriculum Project of the Saint Ambrose Center since 2021, William Perales replaces Andrew Ellison as director this month.
Andrew Ellison, current director of the St. Ambrose Center for Catholic Liberal Education and Culture, will move to a new role on March 1.
Students of local Catholic schools are eligible for automatic admission through the Crusader Promise.
Nancy Cain Marcus, MA ’00 PhD ’03, previously served as United States Ambassador and Public Delegate to the United Nations.
The publication collects and communicates research conducted by Gupta College of Business faculty members.
Andreas Widmer is an author, former member of the Swiss Guard and current director of the Ciocca Center for Principled Entrepreneurship at The Catholic University of America’s Busch School of Business.
“To build a classical movement within the Jewish educational community, we must have teachers trained in the texts and pedagogy of classical learning,” said program director Rabbi Mitchell Rocklin.
For Pat and Judy Hooker, graduate school is a team sport.
The annual ceremony celebrates faculty members who show excellence in both research and teaching, as well as those who are retiring.
The University of Dallas is working with the Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia to establish a convent on campus.
The Crusader Scholarship is open to all high school seniors who apply to UD.
IRVING, Texas (Jan. 5, 2024) — The Quest, a television series developed by the University of Dallas as seen on the global Catholic network EWTN, has been adapted for radio and will begin airing...
After having served as interim dean of the Braniff Graduate School of Liberal Arts since January of 2023, Professor of Politics Richard J. Dougherty, MA ’89 PhD ’93, has been appointed dean.
The Homeschool Scholarship is a $5,000 annual scholarship awarded to one exemplary high school student applying to the University of Dallas.
Ashton Ellis, PhD, comes to the University of Dallas after nearly 10 years in fundraising at Hillsdale College.
Thanks to a Braniff student, the language of the Gospels comes alive every Monday in Anselm 224.
It took the Center for Thomas More Studies 20 years to complete the “Essential Works of Thomas More.” Now, the conference is researching More’s oeuvre piece by piece.
All first-year students admitted to the University of Dallas for the fall of 2024 will be eligible to receive a grant if they have siblings in college.
As a panelist, Hunt explored questions facing catechists today, including the relationship between catechesis and evangelization.
The Institute for Homiletics has received a supplemental grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. to further its work with the “Into Deeper Waters: Renewing Liturgical Preaching To Reach Young Catholics” initiative.
“Adoro Te” is a collaborative effort to seed the National Eucharistic Revival with artistic, theological and philosophical reflections.
“The Quest: The Way of Beauty” is a collaborative effort of UD faculty in several disciplines, including art, theology, modern languages and literature.
The relics of St. Pio of Pietrelcina will visit the University of Dallas on Sept. 20.
The University of Dallas welcomes new faculty members in various disciplines and congratulates others on their promotions.
“My father is in prison because he spoke truth to power for decades,” Sebastien told U.S. lawmakers in May.
Beloved classics professor and Due Santi fixture Peter Hatlie, PhD, is retiring from his leadership roles as vice president, dean and director of the Rome Program this year.
Richard D. Kelly, MTS ’00, said the gift reflects his desire to see future generations of students benefit from the excellent faculty who greatly impacted his own faith and formation as a lay Catholic.
The annual program immerses students in Spanish language, poetry, culture and Catholic mysticism.
More than two dozen members of the University of Dallas community have arrived in Europe in advance of World Youth Day.
For four years now, the Constantin Scholars Program has used great literature to teach writing skills and facilitate “ah-ha moments” among incoming first-generation students.
Thanks to the generosity of supporters of the University of Dallas, UD has finished the fiscal year with several target goals exceeded.
Hunt holds a PhD in religious education from Fordham University and has taught in UD’s Department of Theology since 2018.
Father Joseph Paul Albin, OP, current rector of the Church of the Incarnation and chaplain of the University of Dallas, will be leaving UD at the end of June.
Several new appointments and changes in university staff have taken place recently.
Professor of Management J. Lee Whittington, Ph.D., has taught at the college since 2000.
“After earning my degrees, the doors blew right open for my career,” Wofford says.
As of today, over 1,900 University of Dallas alumni have banded together in the Forging Our Future challenge, unlocking a $200,000 challenge gift from an anonymous alumni couple.
Alexa Hassell, BA ’23, used to take rosary walks around campus as a freshman. Last month, the Exodus Retreat gave her a chance to pray by the statue of Our Lady of Guadalupe one last time as a student.
The gift will provide scholarships to one student from each undergraduate class every year on the basis of merit, need and leadership.
Timothy Shah, Ph.D., distinguished research scholar of the Politics Department, will deliver a plenary speech on Catholic integralism.
Current freshman Clarice Miller knew in high school that she wanted to attend a Catholic university. But after some time at her first choice, Miller knew she hadn’t yet found the challenge she was looking for.
The Truman Scholarship is the foremost graduate scholarship in the country for aspiring public servants.
For the third year in a row, the University of Dallas ranked No. 6 in the U.S. News and World Report’s annual list of Best Regional Universities West. UD also remained on the Princeton Review's Best Colleges list.
After joining the university in 2019, Ron Scrogham, MA, MLS, served as the reference and serials librarian before his appointment to the interim deanship last October.
Patricio Rodriguez cherishes a sight that cannot be photographed: the afterimage of a crater pool, lingering blue and spectral in his eye over the peak of the Volcán Poás.
Eidt’s book retells the fairy tales plainly but authentically, bringing students into “the ongoing great conversation” of German as soon as possible.
Thanks to Fregoso, Weisbruch and the givers of Charity Week — from Penny War veterans to Mall jailbirds — LBWDC can help a few more babies grow up in love.
Parens is president of the Association for Core Texts and Courses. He will address the Trivium's place in the liberal arts at the ACTC's conference this month.
Biology professor Inimary Toby, Ph.D., will lead an upcoming conference on artificial intelligence and its research potential.
After undergraduate alumni banded together late last year to unlock a $100,000 grant as part of the Forging Our Future initiative, alumni leaders are setting their sights on the next goal of...
According to a third-party study, the University of Dallas is one of just seven schools in America that challenge their students to explore the full variety of the liberal arts.
A former clerk under Justice Antonin Scalia, Paul Clement served as U.S. Solicitor General from 2005 to 2008 under President George W. Bush. He has argued 112 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, often involving major issues of religious freedom.
Reserved for professors that show devotion to both their students and their scholarly projects, the two awards recognize exemplary research and teaching skill.
The University of Dallas will reinstate the standardized test requirement for undergraduate applicants for the 2024-25 academic year, becoming one of the first colleges or universities in Texas to announce a move away from the ‘test optional’ model implemented by most schools as a result of the COVID pandemic in 2020.
The University of Dallas has appointed Luciana Hampilos assistant general counsel. Hampilos, who served as the university’s Director of the Office of Civil Rights and Title IX since 2020, began her new role on Jan. 26.
The Satish and Yasmin Gupta College of Business at the University of Dallas has extended its global accreditation from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB).
Ryan T. Anderson, Ph.D., who is the university’s first St. John Paul II Fellow in Social Thought and has held the position since 2019, will give a lecture on natural law on Feb. 16. Anderson’s...
The University of Dallas recently named Inelda Acosta, Ed.D., pHCLE, the University’s Director of the Office of Civil Rights and Title IX.
Former Democratic Congressman Daniel Lipinski, who represented Illinois’ Third District in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2005-2021, has been named Pope Leo XIII Fellow on Social Thought at the University of Dallas.
David Hoffmann, the University of Dallas’ men's soccer coach since 2003, became the winningest coach for all sports in UD history with his 161st win last year, surpassing the record held by Rich Gaffney, former athletic director and baseball coach.
The Institute for Homiletics at the University of Dallas was recently awarded a $1 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. to help renew liturgical preaching and better reach Catholic youth and young adults. The Institute is a collaborative endeavor of The Catholic Foundation (Dallas) and the University of Dallas.
Alumni couple Bainard and Christine Cowan named the scholarship in honor of Bainard’s parents, UD legends Donald and Louise Cowan, and for Louise’s parents, Will and Ouita Shillingburg, whom Bainard described as staunch supporters of education.
The University of Dallas (UD) announced the appointment of reference librarian and adjunct French instructor Ron Scrogham as interim dean of libraries and research of the Cowan-Blakely Memorial Library, and the appointment of longtime Politics Professor Richard Dougherty, Ph.D. ’93 M.A. ’89, to serve as interim dean of the Braniff Graduate School of Liberal Arts.
The University of Dallas will host the 7th annual Catholic Bar Association (CBA) Conference, “Catholic Lawyers: Upholding the Rule of Law,” Oct. 13-15, 2022. "Our members are looking forward to being on the campus of one of our nation’s premier Catholic institutions of higher learning,” said Peter H. Wickersham, CBA president.
The University of Dallas recently earned high marks of excellence from leading publications – including moving up to the #2 spot for “Best Value” among U.S. News & World Report’s "Best Colleges" in the West, as well as The Princeton Review’s Best 388 Colleges and “America’s Top Colleges” by Forbes.
The University of Dallas welcomes more than a dozen new faculty members this 2022-23 academic year. Their knowledge and insights will further enrich student learning in many disciplines, including art, biology, chemistry, computer science, economics, English, mathematics, philosophy, physics, and Spanish.
The University of Dallas welcomed the 421 members of Class of 2026 to campus last week, the second largest incoming class in its 66-year history. About 49% come from outside of Texas, representing 38 states and 270 cities, and international students from as far away as Vietnam.
The University of Dallas Board of Trustees recently appointed Most Rev. Daniel Flores, S.T.D, BA ’83 MDiv ’87, Bishop of the Diocese of Brownsville, Texas, Mary Rice Hasson, Tom Craddick and Charles LiMandri as its newest members. The board also honored two long-serving trustees as they concluded their service, Cardinal Kevin Farrell and Mary Manning, at their June meeting.
Widowed at age 30, Joy (Davis) Kirsch, BA ’85, didn’t really know how to move forward. She was already a financial planner and had worked with many widows,...
In July, Peter Hedlesky, BS ’21, reaffirmed his acceptance to the Department of Defense (DOD) SMART Fellowship program. Hedlesky is spending this summer...
Marty Sheridan, BA ’77, shared a unique bond with her youngest nephew, Tim Sheridan. Like Marty, Tim had red hair, so when Marty was with Tim and his family,...
The theme of President Jonathan J. Sanford’s inaugural year as the University of Dallas’ 10th president – Arete: Renewing Culture through Educational Excellence – befits a...
We sat down with Associate Professor of Theology Christopher Malloy, Ph.D., to discuss his new book, False Mercy: Recent Heresies Distorting Catholic Truth. What do you mean by...
Lyn Pavel had eclectic careers in both the tourism industry and law enforcement before turning his attention to academia as a community college professor of management. Although...
Gwendolyn Loop, BA ’21, recently received the Polking Family Fellowship for the newest Notre Dame Law School class. With this fellowship, the de Nicola Center...