On Saturday, May 18, 2013, more than 100 School of Ministry continuing education and graduate program students celebrated the completion of their coursework at our annual graduation mass and pinning ceremony. Certificates and pins were presented to those students who successfully completed the four-year advanced biblical studies program of the Catholic Biblical School as well as those who completed the three-year Spanish Certificate in Pastoral Theology. School of Ministry graduate students who successfully completed their degrees, also received pins in anticipation of their commencement ceremony, which took place on Sunday, May 19th. Rev. Msgr. Greg Kelly, Vicar for Clergy for the Diocese of Dallas and University of Dallas Trustee, celebrated the mass.
On Feb. 25 and 26, seven UD students traveled to Austin with Director of Undergraduate Admissions and Enrollment Michael Probus, BA '12 MBA '15, to advocate for continuing and/or increasing Tuition Equalization Grant (TEG) money.
+ Read MoreMike Kiegerl's youngest daughter, Christine, would have graduated from UD in the Class of 1994, but just before her graduation, she was struck by an impaired truck driver and died instantly. Kiegerl and his wife, Peggy, established the Christine S. Kiegerl Memorial Scholarship in their girl's memory in 1997.
+ Read MoreUD students not only read St. Augustine's "Confessions" in Rome, traveling to Ostia to marvel at the place in which, according to Book IX, St. Augustine and his mother, St. Monica, had a joint mystical vision of God — they also travel 4.4 miles from the Irving campus to read the text with residents of South Irving.
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