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| motto = ''Veritatem, Justitiam Diligite''<ref name="resource.udallas">{{cite web|title=University of Dallas: 2016–2017 Bulletin |publisher =University of Dallas|year=2016|location=Irving, TX|page=3 |url=http://udallas.edu/offices/registrar/_documents/Bulletin%202016_2017_Web2.pdf|access-date=February 25, 2017}}</ref>
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After students voiced criticism, signs were put up to warn visitors that "some items [on display] might be considered offensive."<ref name=":5" /><ref name=":6" /> The university's president, [[Frank Lazarus]], publicly criticized the theft.{{Citation needed|date=November 2023}} Reaction to Lazarus' statement prompted heated campus discussion, was discussed online on Catholic blogs and in conservative tabloids.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2008-02-27|title=UD: The Mother of Jesus as Stripper|url=https://www.nationalreview.com/phi-beta-cons/ud-mother-jesus-stripper-candace-de-russy/|access-date=2020-10-20|website=National Review|language=en-US}}</ref>
After students voiced criticism, signs were put up to warn visitors that "some items [on display] might be considered offensive."<ref name=":5" /><ref name=":6" /> The university's president, [[Frank Lazarus]], publicly criticized the theft.{{Citation needed|date=November 2023}} Reaction to Lazarus' statement prompted heated campus discussion, was discussed online on Catholic blogs and in conservative tabloids.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2008-02-27|title=UD: The Mother of Jesus as Stripper|url=https://www.nationalreview.com/phi-beta-cons/ud-mother-jesus-stripper-candace-de-russy/|access-date=2020-10-20|website=National Review|language=en-US}}</ref>

=== Unsuccessful bid for 'Student Leaders for Racial Progress' ===
In 2020, an undergraduate's efforts to establish a club called Student Leaders for Racial Justice was tabled by university governance. Thirteen faculty members signed a petition to drop the initiative, objecting that the club could polarize the campus. The faculty petition stated that the student's initiative, which also called for "safety zones" on campus, presumed inappropriately that the university's students were fundamentally divided.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Redden |first=Elizabeth |title=Struggling to Be Heard |url=https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/12/07/after-students-propose-racial-justice-club-some-professors-deem-it-divisive |access-date=2024-11-09 |website=Inside Higher Ed |language=en}}</ref>


==Governance and leadership==
==Governance and leadership==
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The University of Dallas is governed by a board of trustees. According to the university's by-laws, the Bishop of Dallas is an [[Ex officio member|ex-officio]] voting member.
The University of Dallas is governed by a board of trustees. According to the university's by-laws, the Bishop of Dallas is an [[Ex officio member|ex-officio]] voting member.


[[Edward J. Burns|Edward Burns]], Bishop of the Diocese of Dallas, currently serves as the chancellor.<ref name="resource.udallas_a">{{Citation |title=University of Dallas: 2016–2017 Bulletin |publisher=University of Dallas |year=2016 |location=Irving, TX |page=12 |url=http://udallas.edu/offices/registrar/_documents/Bulletin%202016_2017_Web2.pdf |access-date=February 25, 2017}}</ref> The office, held by a Catholic bishop per the constitution of the university, is an unpaid, honorary position.
[[Edward J. Burns|Edward Burns]], Bishop of the Diocese of Dallas, currently serves as the chancellor.<ref name="resource.udallas_a">{{Citation |title=University of Dallas: 2016–2017 Bulletin |publisher=University of Dallas |year=2016 |location=Irving, TX |page=12 |url=http://udallas.edu/offices/registrar/_documents/Bulletin%202016_2017_Web2.pdf |access-date=February 25, 2017}}</ref> The office, held by a Catholic bishop as stipulated by the constitution of the university, is an unpaid, honorary position.


Previous chancellors include:
Previous chancellors include:
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{{see also|Orpheion}}
{{see also|Orpheion}}
[[File:Carpenter Hall front.JPG|thumb|left|Carpenter Hall, one of the original buildings on the campus of the University of Dallas, before its demolition in 2018.]]
[[File:Carpenter Hall front.JPG|thumb|left|Carpenter Hall, one of the original buildings on the campus of the University of Dallas, before its demolition in 2018.]]
The university is located in [[Irving, Texas]], on a 744-acre (301 hectare) campus in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex.<ref name="ci.irving" /> The [[Las Colinas, Irving, Texas|Las Colinas]] development is nearby. It is 10 miles (16&nbsp;km) from downtown Dallas. The campus consists mostly of mid-century modernist, earth-toned brick buildings set amidst the native Texas landscape. Several of these buildings were designed by the well-known Texas architect [[O'Neil Ford]], dubbed the Godfather of Texas modernism.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Sisson |first1=Patrick |title=O'Neil Ford: Texas's godfather of modern architecture |url=https://www.curbed.com/2017/8/23/16171140/oneil-ford-midcentury-modern-architect-texas |access-date=May 21, 2019 |work=Curbed |publisher=Curbed |date=August 23, 2017}}</ref><ref>See Mary Carolyn Hollers George, ''O'Neil Ford, Architect'' (College Station, Tex.: Texas A&M University Press, 1992), 154, 236, 238.</ref> The mall is the center of campus, with the 187.5 feet tall (57.15 meters) Braniff Memorial Tower as its focal point.
The university is located in [[Irving, Texas]], on a 744-acre (301 hectare) campus in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex.<ref name="ci.irving" /> The [[Las Colinas, Irving, Texas|Las Colinas]] development is nearby. It is 10 miles (16&nbsp;km) from downtown Dallas. The campus consists mostly of mid-twentieth-century modernist, earth-toned brick buildings set amidst the native Texas landscape. Several of these buildings were designed by the well-known Texas architect [[O'Neil Ford]], dubbed the Godfather of Texas modernism.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Sisson |first1=Patrick |title=O'Neil Ford: Texas's godfather of modern architecture |url=https://www.curbed.com/2017/8/23/16171140/oneil-ford-midcentury-modern-architect-texas |access-date=May 21, 2019 |work=Curbed |publisher=Curbed |date=August 23, 2017}}</ref><ref>See Mary Carolyn Hollers George, ''O'Neil Ford, Architect'' (College Station, Tex.: Texas A&M University Press, 1992), 154, 236, 238.</ref> The mall is the center of campus, with the 187.5 feet tall (57.15 meters) Braniff Memorial Tower as its focal point.


[[File:SB Hall with Braniff Tower.jpg|thumb|SB Hall on the University of Dallas campus, seen with the Braniff Tower in the background]]
[[File:SB Hall with Braniff Tower.jpg|thumb|SB Hall on the University of Dallas campus, seen with the Braniff Tower in the background]]
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''[[The Princeton Review]]'' claimed the University of Dallas had the fourth-least beautiful campus among the America's top colleges and universities.<ref name="princetonreview" /> ''[[Travel + Leisure]]''{{'}}s October 2013 issue lists it as one of America's ugliest college campuses, citing its "low-profile, boxy architecture that bears uncanny resemblance to a public car park," but noting that a recent $12 million donation from alumni Satish and Yasmin Gupta would bring new campus construction.<ref>[http://www.travelandleisure.com/slideshows/americas-ugliest-college-campuses/3 "America's Ugliest College Campuses"], ''Travel + Leisure'', October 2013.</ref>
''[[The Princeton Review]]'' claimed the University of Dallas had the fourth-least beautiful campus among the America's top colleges and universities.<ref name="princetonreview" /> ''[[Travel + Leisure]]''{{'}}s October 2013 issue lists it as one of America's ugliest college campuses, citing its "low-profile, boxy architecture that bears uncanny resemblance to a public car park," but noting that a recent $12 million donation from alumni Satish and Yasmin Gupta would bring new campus construction.<ref>[http://www.travelandleisure.com/slideshows/americas-ugliest-college-campuses/3 "America's Ugliest College Campuses"], ''Travel + Leisure'', October 2013.</ref>


A [[Dallas Area Rapid Transit]] (DART) [[Orange Line (Dallas Area Rapid Transit)|Orange Line]] light-rail station opened near campus on July 30, 2012.<ref>{{Citation| title = Orange Line Facts
A [[Dallas Area Rapid Transit]] (DART) [[Orange Line (DART)|Orange Line]] light-rail station opened near campus on July 30, 2012.<ref>{{Citation| title = Orange Line Facts
| publisher = Dallas Area Rapid Transit| url = http://www.dart.org/factsheet/orangeline/| access-date =September 23, 2011}}</ref>
| publisher = Dallas Area Rapid Transit| url = http://www.dart.org/factsheet/orangeline/| access-date =September 23, 2011}}</ref>


The campus is home to the [[Orpheion]] Theatre, a small Greek-style performance space built into a hillside in 2003.
The campus is home to the [[Orpheion]] Theatre, a small Greek-style performance space built into a hillside in 2003. Most plays are performed in the Drama Building.

=== Student newspaper ===
Names of the student paper since the first issue in 1957 have included the following: ''The Shield, The Outgribe, The University News,'' and currently ''The Cor Chronicle''.<ref>{{Cite web |date=1977-10-28 |title=The University News (Irving, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, October 28, 1977 |url=https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1218458/ |access-date=2024-11-14 |website=The Portal to Texas History |language=English}}</ref>


==Enrollment==
==Enrollment==
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==Academics==
==Academics==
===Core curriculum and traditional liberal education===
===Core curriculum and traditional liberal education===
The university has resisted a focus on "trades and job training" and pursued the traditional ideas of a [[liberal arts education]] according to the model described by John Henry Newman in ''[[The Idea of a University]]''. The university's "Core Curriculum" is a collection of approximately twenty courses (two years) of common study covering philosophy, theology, history, literature, politics, economics, mathematics, science, art, and a foreign language.<ref name="Classes in the Core">{{cite web|title=Classes in the Core|url=http://www.udallas.edu/constantin/core-curriculum/|access-date=25 October 2013}}</ref> The curriculum includes a slate of required courses which cover specific texts, permitting professors to assume a common body of knowledge and speak across disciplines.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Great Books|url=http://www.udallas.edu/constantin/core-curriculum/books.php}}</ref> Classes in these core subjects typically have an average class size of 16 students to permit frequent discussion.<ref name="Classes in the Core" /> Dallas is one of 25 schools graded "A" by the [[American Council of Trustees and Alumni]] for a solid core curriculum.<ref>{{cite web|title="A" List|url=http://www.whatwilltheylearn.com/a-list|access-date=February 25, 2017}}</ref>
The university has resisted a focus on "trades and job training" and pursued the traditional ideas of a [[liberal arts education]] according to the model described by John Henry Newman in ''[[The Idea of a University]]''. Donald and [[Louise Cowan]] were instrumental in developing and implementing the university's "Core Curriculum,"<ref>{{Cite web |title=Humanities Curriculum |url=https://www.macmillaninstitute.org/humanities-curriculum |access-date=2024-11-02 |website=The MacMillan Institute |language=en-US}}</ref> a collection of approximately twenty courses (two years) of common study covering philosophy, theology, history, literature, politics, economics, mathematics, science, art, and a foreign language.<ref name="Classes in the Core">{{cite web|title=Classes in the Core|url=http://www.udallas.edu/constantin/core-curriculum/|access-date=25 October 2013}}</ref> The curriculum includes a slate of required courses which cover specific texts, permitting professors to assume a common body of knowledge and speak across disciplines.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Great Books|url=http://www.udallas.edu/constantin/core-curriculum/books.php}}</ref> Classes in these core subjects typically have an average class size of 16 students to permit frequent discussion.<ref name="Classes in the Core" /> Dallas is one of 25 schools graded "A" by the [[American Council of Trustees and Alumni]] for a solid core curriculum.<ref>{{cite web|title="A" List|url=http://www.whatwilltheylearn.com/a-list|access-date=February 25, 2017}}</ref>


There is a similar core curriculum for graduate studies in the Braniff Graduate School of Liberal Arts.<ref>{{cite web |title=IPS Core Curriculum |url=http://www.udallas.edu/braniff/academics/phd/ips_core_curriculum.php |access-date=25 October 2013}}</ref>
There is a similar core curriculum for graduate studies in the Braniff Graduate School of Liberal Arts.<ref>{{cite web |title=IPS Core Curriculum |url=http://www.udallas.edu/braniff/academics/phd/ips_core_curriculum.php |access-date=25 October 2013}}</ref>
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===Periodicals===
===Periodicals===
The student weekly newspaper is ''The Cor Chronicle''. The yearbook, first published in 1957,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Crusader {{!}} Joe Staler Student Publications Collection {{!}} University of Dallas|url=https://digitalcommons.udallas.edu/yearbook/|access-date=2020-10-19|website=digitalcommons.udallas.edu}}</ref> is titled ''The Crusader''. ''Ramify,'' the official journal of the Braniff Graduate School of Liberal Arts, has been published since 2009.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Ramify {{!}} About|url=http://www.ramify.org/about.php|access-date=2020-10-19|website=www.ramify.org}}</ref> ''OnStage Magazine'' has been operated by the Drama Department since 2016. ''The Mockingbird'', a student-run and student-funded publication, began monthly printing in 2020.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Feltl|first=Elsa|title="The Mockingbird" magazine takes flight {{!}} The University News|url=http://udallasnews.com/2020/09/09/the-mockingbird-magazine-takes-flight/|access-date=2020-10-19|website=udallasnews.com|language=en-US}}</ref> Since 2011, the Phi Beta Kappa liberal arts honor society has published the ''University Scholar'' once a semester to showcase essays, short stories, poems, and scientific abstracts of the university's undergraduates.<ref>{{Cite web|title=University Scholar Journal|url=https://udallas.edu/constantin/academics/programs/english/university-scholar/index.php|access-date=2020-10-19|website=udallas.edu}}</ref>
The student weekly newspaper is ''The Cor Chronicle''. The yearbook, first published in 1957,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Crusader {{!}} Joe Staler Student Publications Collection {{!}} University of Dallas|url=https://digitalcommons.udallas.edu/yearbook/|access-date=2020-10-19|website=digitalcommons.udallas.edu}}</ref> is titled ''The Crusader''. ''Ramify,'' the official journal of the Braniff Graduate School of Liberal Arts, has been published since 2009.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Ramify {{!}} About|url=http://www.ramify.org/about.php|access-date=2020-10-19|website=www.ramify.org}}</ref> ''OnStage Magazine'' has been operated by the Drama Department since 2016.<ref>{{Cite web |title=OnStage |url=https://udallas-ir.tdl.org/collections/e3ba61b7-d21c-4719-a518-b85864b89cc6 |website=University of Dallas Constantin College of Liberal Arts}}</ref> ''The Mockingbird'', a student-run and student-funded publication, began printing in 2020.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Feltl|first=Elsa|title="The Mockingbird" magazine takes flight {{!}} The University News|url=http://udallasnews.com/2020/09/09/the-mockingbird-magazine-takes-flight/|access-date=2020-10-19|website=udallasnews.com|language=en-US}}</ref> Since 2011, the Phi Beta Kappa liberal arts honor society has published the ''University Scholar'' once a semester to showcase essays, short stories, poems, and scientific abstracts of the university's undergraduates.<ref>{{Cite web|title=University Scholar Journal|url=https://udallas.edu/constantin/academics/programs/english/university-scholar/index.php|access-date=2020-10-19|website=udallas.edu}}</ref>


===Tuition===
===Tuition===
For an on-campus student, the cost of attendance for the 2019–2020 school year is $59,600. For an off-campus resident in Texas, the cost of attendance for the 2019–2020 school year was $55,640. For a student living with parents or relatives, the cost of attendance for the 2019–2020 school year was $51,340.<ref name="Cost of Attendance">{{cite web|url=https://udallas.edu/offices/finaid/undergrad-fa/udergrad-cost-attend/index.php|title=Cost|website=Udallas.edu}}</ref>
For an on-campus student, the cost of attendance for the 2019–2020 school year was $59,600. For an off-campus resident in Texas, the cost of attendance for the 2019–2020 school year was $55,640. For a student living with parents or relatives, the cost of attendance for the 2019–2020 school year was $51,340.<ref name="Cost of Attendance">{{cite web|url=https://udallas.edu/offices/finaid/undergrad-fa/udergrad-cost-attend/index.php|title=Cost|website=Udallas.edu}}</ref>

== Arts ==

=== Drama Department ===
Patrick and Judy Kelly built up the UD drama program beginning in 1972. The first productions were in a former cafeteria, which after adaptations was named the Margaret Jonsson Theater. As part of the opening festivities in November of 1972, actor [[Charles Siebert]] held a speech.<ref>{{Cite web |date=1972-11-16 |title=Siebert Eggceptional (Outgribe, Vol. 3, No. 4, Ed. 1) |url=https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1224433/m1/1/zoom/?q=theater&resolution=6&lat=3493.3356226610676&lon=3922.1547810869993 |access-date=2024-11-13 |website=The Portal to Texas History |place=Irving, Texas |page=1 |language=English}}</ref> Patrick Kelly directed sixty productions in over forty years at the university. Students [[Peter MacNicol|Peter MacNichol]] and [[Christopher Evan Welch]] went on to successful acting careers.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2009-04-27 |title=The Kellys: A Life in the Theater, Doubled |url=https://artandseek.org/2009/04/27/a-life-in-the-theater-doubled/ |access-date=2024-11-09 |website=Art&Seek |language=en-US}}</ref> Patrick Kelly retired in 2009, but later directed Pinter's ''[[The Birthday Party (play)|The Birthday Party]]'' at Dallas's [[Undermain Theatre]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2012-05-04 |title=Theater: Patrick Kelly returns to Dallas spotlight with ‘The Birthday Party’ |url=https://www.dallasnews.com/arts-entertainment/architecture/2012/05/04/theater-patrick-kelly-returns-to-dallas-spotlight-with-the-birthday-party/ |access-date=2024-11-09 |website=Dallas News |language=en}}</ref>


==Notable people==
==Notable people==
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*[[Carl E. Olson|Carl Olson]] – journalist
*[[Carl E. Olson|Carl Olson]] – journalist
*[[Mackubin Thomas Owens]] – university administrator
*[[Mackubin Thomas Owens]] – university administrator
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*[[Tan Parker]] – politician and businessman
*[[Margot Roosevelt]] – journalist
*[[Margot Roosevelt]] – journalist
*[[Gary Schmitt]] – co-founder of the [[Project for the New American Century]]
*[[Gary Schmitt]] – co-founder of the [[Project for the New American Century]]
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*[[Michael Neeb]] – businessman
*[[Michael Neeb]] – businessman
*[[Rosemary Odinga]] – entrepreneur and activist
*[[Rosemary Odinga]] – entrepreneur and activist
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*[[Tan Parker]] – politician and businessman
* [[:th:ฐิฏา รังสิตพล มานิตกุล|Thita Rangsitpol Manitkul]] – former Deputy Secretary in Thailand's [[Ministry of Defence (Thailand)|Ministry of Defence]]<ref> https://www.gotoknow.org/posts/661280</ref>
*[[Susan Orr]] Traffas – government official
*[[Susan Orr]] Traffas – government official


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Not to be confused with University of Texas at Dallas or University of North Texas at Dallas.

University of Dallas
MottoVeritatem, Justitiam Diligite[1]
Motto in English
Love Ye Truth and Justice[1]
TypePrivate university[2]
Established1956[3]
Religious affiliation
Roman Catholic[2]
Academic affiliations
ACCU[4]
CIC[5]
NAICU[6]
Endowment$100 million (2021)[7]
ChancellorEdward J. Burns
PresidentJonathan J. Sanford
Academic staff
136 full-time, 102 part-time[8]
Undergraduates1,447 (2023) [9]
Postgraduates1,042 (2023) [9]
Location
Irving
,
Texas
,
United States[2]

32°50′42″N 96°55′33″W / 32.8451074°N 96.925807°W / 32.8451074; -96.925807[10]
CampusUrban;[2] 744 acres (301 hectares)[11]
Other campusesMarino, Lazio
ColorsNavy and White[12]
   
NicknameCrusaders[13]
Sporting affiliations
NCAA Division III – SCAC (non-football)
Websitewww.udallas.edu

The University of Dallas is a private Catholic university in Irving, Texas. Established in 1956, it is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.[14]

The university comprises three academic units: the Braniff Graduate School of Liberal Arts, the Constantin College of Liberal Arts, and the Satish & Yasmin Gupta College of Business.[15] Dallas offers several master's degree programs and a doctoral degree program with three concentrations.[16] As of 2017, there were 136 full-time faculty and 102 part-time faculty.[8]

History

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20th century

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The University of Dallas' charter 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.[17][18] 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 St. 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.[19] 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.[20] The university opened with an initial class of ninety-six students in 1956.[20]

The university's character was intended to be unlike other Catholic universities in Texas. Bishop Thomas Gorman had plans to shape it in the manner of Louvain, the Catholic university in Belgium where he himself had studied and which was considered an elite institution in his day.[21]

The Sisters of St. Mary of Namur, Cistercian monks, Franciscan friars, and several lay professors formed the university's 1956 faculty.[20] The Franciscans departed three years later; professors 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[22] and Cistercian Preparatory School in 1962,[23] which are both adjacent to campus. The School Sisters of Notre Dame arrived in 1962 and opened a school for children with learning difficulties in 1963[24] and a motherhouse for the Dallas Province in 1964,[25] both on campus. The sisters moved the school to Dallas in 1985 and closed the motherhouse in 1987. The faculty is now almost exclusively lay.

Braniff Graduate School, the Graduate School of Management, and programs in art and English all 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 Gupta Graduate School of Management and undergraduate business, opened in 2003.

Since the first class entered in 1960, university graduates have won 39 Fulbright awards.[26][27]

Accreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools came in 1963 and has been reaffirmed regularly.[14] In 1989, it was the youngest institution of higher education ever to be awarded a Phi Beta Kappa chapter.[28]

21st century

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In 2013, the Princeton Review ranked the university as the 15th-most LGBT-unfriendly school in the United States.[29]

Two years later, the university applied for an exception to Title IX allowing it to discriminate based on gender identity for religious reasons. The university "cannot encourage individuals to live in conflict with Catholic principles," according to president Thomas Keefe.

In 2016, the organization Campus Pride ranked the college among the worst schools in Texas for LGBT students.[30]

President Thomas W. Keefe was hired from Benedictine University to serve as president.[31] Like his predecessors, he quickly ran into controversy.[32][33][34]

In 2017, Keefe's leadership was strongly and publicly challenged by over half the faculty and thousands of alumni members of an independent alumni group called UD Alumni for Liberal Education.[35][36][37][34] Their complaint was over a proposal to add a new college within the university that it was believed would have low standards.[38]

After intense controversy and multiple efforts by trustees, on Good Friday of 2018, after Keefe's extended and unexplained absence from work, the university's trustees voted to fire him, effective at the end of the academic year.[39][37]

Seal

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The outer circle of the university's seal is an alteration of verse 8:19 of the Book of Zechariah, "Veritatem tantum et pacem diligite", which means "Love truth and peace." The university's motto replaces pacem with justitiam, and so may be translated as "Love truth [and] justice." In the center of the seal is a Triquetra interwoven with a triangle as a double symbol of the Holy Trinity and a Fleur-de-lis which symbolizes the Cistercians. It also includes two crusader shields which depict the (left) Lone Star of Texas and (right) the torch of liberty and learning. The wavy lines near the bottom represent the Trinity River (Texas)[40]

The Role of the Cistercians

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The founding faculty of the University of Dallas, including the nine Cistercian Fathers from Zirc, Hungary

Bishop Thomas Gorman wrote as early as 1954 to Abbot Anselm Nagy to ask the displaced Hungarian Cistercian fathers from the Monastery of Zirc to assist in founding the university. On the first day of classes in September 1956, nine Cistercian fathers, at that point half of the entire faculty, were employed at the new university.[41] The history of UD is connected to both those founding Cistercian priests and many more Hungarians who taught there in the first decades.[42]

Guadalupe art print scandal

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On February 14, 2008, an image of Our Lady of Guadalupe was removed without permission from the Upper Gallery of the Haggerty Art Village. The image, "Saint or Sinner," was on loan from Murray State University in Murray, Kentucky as part of a larger exhibit of works by Murray State students.[43][44] The piece reportedly portrayed the Virgin Mary as a stripper.

After students voiced criticism, signs were put up to warn visitors that "some items [on display] might be considered offensive."[43][44] The university's president, Frank Lazarus, publicly criticized the theft.[citation needed] Reaction to Lazarus' statement prompted heated campus discussion, was discussed online on Catholic blogs and in conservative tabloids.[45]

Unsuccessful bid for 'Student Leaders for Racial Progress'

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In 2020, an undergraduate's efforts to establish a club called Student Leaders for Racial Justice was tabled by university governance. Thirteen faculty members signed a petition to drop the initiative, objecting that the club could polarize the campus. The faculty petition stated that the student's initiative, which also called for "safety zones" on campus, presumed inappropriately that the university's students were fundamentally divided.[46]

Governance and leadership

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As of 2022, the president is Jonathan J. Sanford, an American philosopher who previously served as the school's provost.

The University of Dallas is governed by a board of trustees. According to the university's by-laws, the Bishop of Dallas is an ex-officio voting member.

Edward Burns, Bishop of the Diocese of Dallas, currently serves as the chancellor.[47] The office, held by a Catholic bishop as stipulated by the constitution of the university, is an unpaid, honorary position.

Previous chancellors include:

Previous presidents include:

Campus

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See also: Orpheion
Carpenter Hall, one of the original buildings on the campus of the University of Dallas, before its demolition in 2018.

The university is located in Irving, Texas, on a 744-acre (301 hectare) campus in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex.[11] The Las Colinas development is nearby. It is 10 miles (16 km) from downtown Dallas. The campus consists mostly of mid-twentieth-century modernist, earth-toned brick buildings set amidst the native Texas landscape. Several of these buildings were designed by the well-known Texas architect O'Neil Ford, dubbed the Godfather of Texas modernism.[50][51] The mall is the center of campus, with the 187.5 feet tall (57.15 meters) Braniff Memorial Tower as its focal point.

SB Hall on the University of Dallas campus, seen with the Braniff Tower in the background
Braniff Graduate Center designed by O'Neil Ford

The Princeton Review claimed the University of Dallas had the fourth-least beautiful campus among the America's top colleges and universities.[52] Travel + Leisure's October 2013 issue lists it as one of America's ugliest college campuses, citing its "low-profile, boxy architecture that bears uncanny resemblance to a public car park," but noting that a recent $12 million donation from alumni Satish and Yasmin Gupta would bring new campus construction.[53]

A Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) Orange Line light-rail station opened near campus on July 30, 2012.[54]

The campus is home to the Orpheion Theatre, a small Greek-style performance space built into a hillside in 2003. Most plays are performed in the Drama Building.

Student newspaper

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Names of the student paper since the first issue in 1957 have included the following: The Shield, The Outgribe, The University News, and currently The Cor Chronicle.[55]

Enrollment

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Undergraduate[56][57]

  • 1,447 students
  • 55% in-state; 44% out-of-state; 1% international
  • 98% full-time
  • 56% female; 44% male
  • 98% age 24 and under
  • 74% Catholic
  • 36% minority

The 2023–2024 estimated charges, including tuition, room, board, and fees, for full-time undergraduates is $65,240.

Graduate[56]

  • 1,042 students
  • 41% minority
  • 36% Catholic

Academics

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Core curriculum and traditional liberal education

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The university has resisted a focus on "trades and job training" and pursued the traditional ideas of a liberal arts education according to the model described by John Henry Newman in The Idea of a University. Donald and Louise Cowan were instrumental in developing and implementing the university's "Core Curriculum,"[58] a collection of approximately twenty courses (two years) of common study covering philosophy, theology, history, literature, politics, economics, mathematics, science, art, and a foreign language.[59] The curriculum includes a slate of required courses which cover specific texts, permitting professors to assume a common body of knowledge and speak across disciplines.[60] Classes in these core subjects typically have an average class size of 16 students to permit frequent discussion.[59] Dallas is one of 25 schools graded "A" by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni for a solid core curriculum.[61]

There is a similar core curriculum for graduate studies in the Braniff Graduate School of Liberal Arts.[62]

Undergraduate

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Undergraduate students are enrolled in the Constantin College of Liberal Arts, the Satish & Yasmin Gupta College of Business, or the Ann & Joe O. Neuhoff School of Ministry. The university awards bachelors’ degrees in arts and sciences.

UD offers a five-year dual-degree program in electrical engineering in collaboration with The University of Texas at Arlington.[63]

In 1970, the university started a study-abroad program in which Dallas students, generally sophomores, spend a semester at the university’s campus southeast of Rome in the Alban Hills along the Via Appia Nuova.[64]

Graduate programs

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The Braniff Graduate Center on the campus of the University of Dallas, one of the buildings designed by Texas architect O'Neil Ford.

The Braniff Graduate School of Liberal Arts administers master's degrees in American Studies, art, English, humanities, philosophy, politics, psychology, and theology, as well as an interdisciplinary doctoral program with concentrations in English, philosophy, and politics.

The Satish and Yasmin Gupta College of Business is an AACSB-accredited business school offering a part-time MBA program for working professionals, a Master of Science program, a Doctor of Business Administration (DBA), Graduate Certificates, graduate preparatory programs, and professional development courses.

Rankings

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Academic rankings
Master's
Washington Monthly[65]80
Regional
U.S. News & World Report[66]12 (West)
National
Forbes[67]225

Undergraduate

  • Ranked No. 9 in the nation as the least LGBT friendly by Princeton Review in 2017 and 15th in 2018[68]
  • Ranked No. 12 among Western regional universities by U.S. News & World Report (2022 edition).[69]
  • Ranked No. 15 among master's universities by The Washington Monthly (2015 edition).[70]
  • Ranked No. 64 among Western regional universities on the Webometrics Ranking of World Universities (2012 edition).[71]
  • Ranked No. 225 on Forbes list of America's Best Colleges (2019 edition).[72]
  • Listed as one of the 126 best colleges in the Western United States by The Princeton Review.[52]
  • Endorsed by the Cardinal Newman Society, a conservative Catholic association.[73][74]

Graduate

  • The Department of Art was ranked No. 191 by the U.S. News & World Report's Best Graduate School Rankings 2016.[75]
  • The 2010 National Research Council Assessment of Research-Doctorate Programs in the US[76] 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;[77] philosophy: 76–89/90;[78] politics: 100–105/105.[79]
  • A 2010 survey of political theory professors published in the journal Political Science & Politics ranked the doctoral concentration in politics 29th out of 106-surveyed programs in the US specializing in political theory.[80]

Research

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The on-campus editorial offices of Dallas Medieval Texts and Translations published 21 volumes as of May, 2016.[81]

Periodicals

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The student weekly newspaper is The Cor Chronicle. The yearbook, first published in 1957,[82] is titled The Crusader. Ramify, the official journal of the Braniff Graduate School of Liberal Arts, has been published since 2009.[83] OnStage Magazine has been operated by the Drama Department since 2016.[84] The Mockingbird, a student-run and student-funded publication, began printing in 2020.[85] Since 2011, the Phi Beta Kappa liberal arts honor society has published the University Scholar once a semester to showcase essays, short stories, poems, and scientific abstracts of the university's undergraduates.[86]

Tuition

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For an on-campus student, the cost of attendance for the 2019–2020 school year was $59,600. For an off-campus resident in Texas, the cost of attendance for the 2019–2020 school year was $55,640. For a student living with parents or relatives, the cost of attendance for the 2019–2020 school year was $51,340.[87]

Arts

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Drama Department

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Patrick and Judy Kelly built up the UD drama program beginning in 1972. The first productions were in a former cafeteria, which after adaptations was named the Margaret Jonsson Theater. As part of the opening festivities in November of 1972, actor Charles Siebert held a speech.[88] Patrick Kelly directed sixty productions in over forty years at the university. Students Peter MacNichol and Christopher Evan Welch went on to successful acting careers.[89] Patrick Kelly retired in 2009, but later directed Pinter's The Birthday Party at Dallas's Undermain Theatre.[90]

Notable people

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Alumni

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Intellectuals, artists and entertainers

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Business, politics and public affairs

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Religious leaders

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Athletes

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Faculty

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The university's full-time, permanent faculty have included the following scholars:

Notable visiting or part-time faculty have included:

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Further reading

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  • University of Dallas: 50 Years of Vision & Courage, 1956–2006 (Irving, Tex.: University of Dallas, 2006). ISBN 978-0-9789075-0-1. 165 pp.
  • The University of Dallas honoring William A. Blakley (Irving, Tex.: University of Dallas, 1966). 19 pp.
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