Engaged Faculty. The Core. The Rome Experience. Capstone. Our Catholic Faith. Examine UD more closely and you’ll find more answers to the question: Why UD?

Engaged Faculty. The Core. The Rome Experience. Capstone. Our Catholic Faith. Examine UD more closely and you’ll find more answers to the question: Why UD?
Four colleges offer creative, rigorous undergraduate and graduate programs that shape thoughtful, skilled and virtuous leaders in life and work.
Class is just the beginning of life at UD. From lectures to sporting events, from art to science, the campus overflows with laughter, camaraderie and inspiration at the beginning of this new school year.
“We give our thanks to those who had the UD vision, those who supported it, those who built it and those who continue to make it one of the best Catholic liberal arts schools in the country. Planning for the future of UD requires support. We are proud to be counted among the Golden Crusaders.”
“The culture our students are formed in is certainly a culture of ideas, but those ideas have and continue to take physical and institutional shape in Rome, and from there are circulated to the ends of the earth; verily, even deep into the heart of Texas.”
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The University of Dallas community gathered on Friday, Feb. 2, 2018, for the formal blessing and opening of Cardinal Farrell Hall, named after our former bishop of Dallas, previous chancellor and longtime friend of the university, Kevin Cardinal Farrell. The opening of the new student-focused building marks the completion of one of several capital projects, a part of a broader institutional effort to transform the university's Irving campus.
The Beatrice M. Haggerty Gallery proudly announces the opening of a two-person exhibition, "What Remains," featuring artists Rachel Meginnes and Assistant Professor of Ceramics Kelly O'Briant. The exhibition is curated by Penland Gallery Director Kathryn Gremley of the Penland School of Craft in North Carolina. In 2001, O'Briant received a two-year Core Fellowship from the Penland School of Craft, where Meginnes recently completed a three-year residency.
Beginning at the close of classes on Friday, Nov. 17. Residence halls will remain closed through Sunday, Nov. 26. Additionally, all university offices will close Nov. 22-24. LEARN MORE