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university in
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. Established in 1956, it is accredited by the
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. The university comprises four academic units: the Braniff Graduate School of Liberal Arts, the Constantin College of Liberal Arts, the Satish & Yasmin Gupta College of Business, and the School of Ministry. Dallas offers several master's degree programs and a doctoral degree program with three concentrations. As of 2017, there are 136 full-time faculty and 102 part-time faculty.


History

The University of Dallas' charter dates from 1910 when the Western Province of the
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(Vincentians) renamed Holy Trinity College in
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, which they had founded in 1905. The provincial of the Western Province closed the university in 1928, and the charter reverted to the
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. 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
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. 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. The University character was defined from its first day as being quite unlike the other Catholic universities of Texas and in fact unlike most Catholic colleges nationwide because of the understanding in Bishop Gorman of what a great University was supposed to be. This understanding came in great part from his own education in Europe between the wars at the Louvain, the Catholic University in Belgium often thought to be the greatest Catholic University in the world. "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
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(Cistercians), friars from the
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(Franciscans), and several lay professors formed the university's original faculty. The Franciscans departed three years later; however, friars from the
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(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
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in 1962, which are both adjacent to campus. The
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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 Gupta Graduate School of Management and undergraduate business, opened in 2003. Since the first class in 1960, university graduates have won significant honors, including 39
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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 ever be awarded a
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chapter. In 2015 the university applied for an exception to
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allowing it to discriminate based on
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for religious reasons. The university "cannot encourage individuals to live in conflict with Catholic principles" according to president Thomas Keefe. In 2016 the organization
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ranked the college among the worst schools in Texas for LGBT students. The university briefly considered a large expansion into adult education in 2017. That idea proved unpopular with many faculty and was shelved. President Thomas W. Keefe was hired from Benedictine University to serve as president. Like his predecessors, he quickly ran into controversy as he oversaw efforts to adapt the way the University operates to those associated with more conventional American Catholic colleges and universities. 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. Their complaint was over a proposal to add a new college within the university that it was believed would have watered down standards. After almost nonstop controversy and multiple efforts by Trustees to rein in the controversies, on Good Friday of 2018, after an extended and unexplained absence from work, the university's trustees voted to fire Keefe as university president effective at the end of the academic year.


The Role of the Cistercians

Bishop Thomas Gorman wrote as early as 1954 to Fr. Anselm Nagy, O. Cist. to ask the displaced Hungarian Cistercian fathers from the Monastery of Zirc, Hungary to come assist in founding the university. On the first day of classes in September 1956, 9 Cistercian fathers, half the entire faculty, were employed at the new university. The history of UD is connected to both those founding Cistercian priests and the many more Hungarians who would move to Dallas over the next decade and begin teaching at UD.


Guadalupe art print scandal

On February 14, 2008, an image of
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was removed without permission from the Upper Gallery of the Haggerty Art Village. The image, entitled "Saint or Sinner", was on loan from
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in
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as part of a larger exhibit of works by Murray State University students. The piece reportedly portrayed the Virgin Mary as a stripper. Immediate responses to the piece by students when it went on display were largely negative; to appease concerns, signage was put up warning students that "some items n displaymight be considered offensive." The university's president,
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, publicly condemned the theft. Reaction to Dr. Lazarus' statement prompted heated campus discussion and faced negative reception from online Catholic and conservative tabloids.


Governance and leadership

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
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voting member.
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, 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: #
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(1954–1969) # Thomas Ambrose Tschoepe (1969–1990) #
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(1990–2007) # Kevin J. Farrell (2008-2016) Previous presidents include: #F. Kenneth Brasted (1956–1959) #
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(1960–1962) #Donald A. Cowan (1962–1977) # John R. Sommerfeldt (1978–1980) #Robert F. Sasseen (1981–1995) #Milam J. Joseph (1996–2003) #
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(2004–2010) #Thomas Keefe (2010-2018) # Thomas S. Hibbs (2019–2021)


Campus

The university is located in
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, on a 744-acre (301 hectare) campus in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. The
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development is nearby. It is 10 miles (16 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
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(dubbed the Godfather of Texas modernism). The mall is the center of campus, with the 187.5 feet tall (57.15 meters) Braniff Memorial Tower as its focal point. Perhaps reflecting prevailing biases against mid-century modern architecture, ''
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'' once mentioned the University of Dallas as having the fourth-least beautiful campus among the America's top colleges and universities, along with several other campuses with abundant modern architecture. ''
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''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. A
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(DART) Orange Line light-rail station opened near campus on July 30, 2012. The campus is home to the Orpheion Theatre, a small Greek-style playing space built into a hillside. The theatre was constructed in 2003, and has since been used for a handful of mainstage and student productions.


Enrollment

Undergraduate *1,471 students *44% in-state; 55% out-of-state; 1% international *98% full-time *56% female; 44% male *99% age 24 and under *78% Catholic *27% minority The 2019–2020 estimated charges, including tuition, room, board, and fees, for full-time undergraduates is $59,600. This is an increase from the 2016–2017 academic year of $54,976. 81% of freshmen who began their degree programs in Fall 2014 returned as sophomores in Fall 2015. 66% of freshmen who began their degree programs in Fall 2009 graduated within 4-years. Graduate *1,071 students *31% full-time *38% Catholic


Academics


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 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. The curriculum not only includes a slate of required courses, but includes specific standardized texts, which permit professors to assume a common body of knowledge and speak across disciplines. Classes in these core subjects typically have an average class size of 16 students to permit frequent discussion. Dallas is one of 25 schools graded "A" by the
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for a solid core curriculum. There is a similar Core Curriculum for graduate studies in the Braniff Graduate School of Liberal Arts.


Undergraduate

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 Bachelor of Arts (BA) and Bachelor of Science (BS) degrees. UD offers a five-year dual degree program in
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, in collaboration with
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. In 1970, the university started a study abroad program in which Dallas students, generally sophomores, spend a semester at its campus southeast of
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in the
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along the
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. In June 1994, the property was renovated and renamed the Eugene Constantin Rome Campus. It includes a library, a chapel, housing, a dining hall, classrooms, a tennis court, a bocce court, a swimming pool, an outdoor Greco-Roman theater,
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s, and olive groves.


Graduate programs

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. The Ann & Joe O. Neuhoff School of Ministry offers master's degrees in Theological Studies (MTS), Religious Education (MRE), Catholic School Leadership (MCSL), Catholic School Teaching (MCST), and Pastoral Ministry (MPM). The University of Dallas School of Ministry offers 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.


Rankings

Undergraduate *Ranked No. 9 in the nation as the least LGBT friendly by Princeton Review in 2017 and 15th in 2018 *Ranked No. 12 among Western regional universities by ''U.S. News & World Report'' (2022 edition). *Ranked No. 15 among master's universities by ''
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'' (2015 edition). *Ranked No. 64 among Western regional universities on the
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(2012 edition). *Ranked No. 225 on ''
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'' list of America's Best Colleges (2019 edition). *Listed as one of the 126 best colleges in the Western United States by ''The Princeton Review''. *Earned an A-grade on the 2011 "
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" project of the
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. *Endorsed by the
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, a conservative Catholic association. (Twenty schools in the US received such an endorsement). * A 1998 book of conservative college recommendations, ''Choosing the Right College'', strongly endorsed the University of Dallas. Graduate *The Department of Art was ranked No. 191 by the ''U.S. News & World Report's'' Best Graduate School Rankings 2016. *The 2010
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Assessment of Research-Doctorate Programs in the US 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: 76-89/90; politics: 100-105/105. *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.


Research

The on-campus editorial offices of
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have been publishing a book series of medieval Latin texts with facing English translations. The goal of the series is to build a library that will represent the whole breadth and variety of medieval civilization. The series is open-ended; as of May, 2016, it has published 21 volumes.


Haggerty Art Village

The Braniff Graduate School of Liberal Arts features a small, graduate art program, located in Haggerty Art Village. Haggerty Art Village is separated from the rest of campus by a wooded grove, and the social atmosphere around the village is considerably different from the rest of the university. Haggerty Art Village itself features printmaking, painting, sculpture, and ceramics facilities, though graduate students are not bound to a single medium, and receive their degree as a broader "art" classification. The program is small, with only 16 graduate art students. The University's gallery is named after Beatrice Haggerty who helped form the Art Village. Haggerty's involvement with the art program came after her daughter Kathleen was seriously injured in an auto accident. The Haggerty gift of the first art building in 1960 was engineered for her therapy. Haggerty suggested to her husband
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that the new university could benefit by a small building for sculpture. In return, their daughter had access to the needed therapeutic work. Beatrice Haggerty simultaneously cultivated partnerships and future opportunity for the university's art program to flourish. After the completion of the
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in Wisconsin, Haggerty again donated to fund the building of the first art building at the University of Dallas in 1960. It is currently one of six structures that make up the Haggerty Art Village. In 1994 a fundraising campaign was launched for the completion of more buildings to change the existing structures into a proper village. The funds would renovate the older art buildings, add a multipurpose art history building, a new sculpture facility, and an art foundations building.


Media

The student newspaper is ''The University News,'' published weekly on Wednesdays both in-print and online. The yearbook, first published in 1957, is ''The Crusader''. ''Ramify,'' the official journal of the Braniff Graduate School of Liberal Arts, has been published since 2009. ''OnStage Magazine'' has been operated by the Drama Department since 2016. ''The Mockingbird'', a student-ran and student-funded publication, began monthly printing in September 2020. 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. The Office of Advancement publishes ''Tower Magazine'' for alumni on a twice yearly basis, usually in Summer and in Winter.


Residence life

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 either in the University's co-ed dormitory or off-campus. There are five traditional halls for freshmen students. Jerome, Augustine and Gregory halls are all-female halls. These halls were last renovated in 1998, 1995, and 2014 respectively. Theresa and Madonna halls are all-male halls. These halls were renovated in 2000 and 1999 respectively. Clark Hall is the only co-ed dormitory and was built in 2010. The final hall is O'Connell Hall. Renovated in 2010, O'Connell Hall housing is based upon campus population housing needs for any given year. This hall may house new students, continuing students or a combination of both by floor if necessary.


Tuition

The cost of attendance for the University of Dallas is dependent on the student's commuter status. 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 is $55,640. For a student living with parents or relatives, the cost of attendance for the 2019–2020 school year is $51,340.


Criticism

The University of Dallas was criticized for a 2015 commencement ceremony in which speaker
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attributed the "destruction of the family" to
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, saying that paganism and gay acceptance constituted anti-Christian bigotry taking over America. The ''
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'' ranked the university as the 15th most LGBT-unfriendly school in the United States.


Notable people


Alumni

Notable alumni include:


Intellectuals, artists and entertainers

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- Political theorist *
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- Philosopher, physician and bioethicist (Director of the Albert Gnaegi Center for Health Care Ethics) at St. Louis University *
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- Founder of
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political commentator *
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- Actor and screenwriter * Elizabeth (Betsy) DiSalvo, née James - Scholar in interactive computing and learning sciences and professor at
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. *
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- Constitutional law scholar and
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official * Joe G. N. Garcia - Pulmonary scientist, medical researcher, academic administrator (at
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) and physician * Henry Godinez - Scholar of Latino theater at
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- American film actress known for '' The Mechanic'' (2011), ''
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'' (2009) and ''
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Ernie Hawkins Ernie Hawkins (born Ernest Leroy Hawkins, 1947, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American acoustic blues guitar player, singer, songwriter, recording artist, and educator. Hawkins, along with fellow bluesmen Stefan Grossman and Roy Bookbinde ...
- Blues guitarist and singer *
Jason Henderson Jason Douglas Henderson (born September 4, 1971) is an American 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 '' Sw ...
- Best-selling fantasy novelist and comic book author * Thomas S. Hibbs - Philosopher and Honors College Dean at
Baylor University Baylor University is a private Baptist Christian research university in Waco, Texas. Baylor was chartered in 1845 by the last Congress of the Republic of Texas. Baylor is the oldest continuously operating university in Texas and one of the fir ...
, former President *
Andy Hummel John Andrew Hummel (January 26, 1951 – July 19, 2010) was an American bassist and singer-songwriter best known as the bass player of Big Star.
- Bassist and songwriter for power-pop band
Big Star Big Star was an American rock band formed in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1971 by Alex Chilton (vocals, guiar), Chris Bell (vocals, guitar), Jody Stephens (drums), and Andy Hummel (bass). The group broke up in early 1975, and reorganized with a new l ...
*
Emily Jacir Emily Jacir ( ar, املي جاسر) is a Palestinian artist and filmmaker. Biography Jacir was born in Bethlehem in 1973, Jacir spent her childhood in Saudi Arabia, attending high school in Italy. She attended the University of Dallas, Memph ...
- Palestinian-American artist and activist *
Anita Jose Anita Jose (born 1960-1970s) is an Indian-born educator, business strategist, Professor of Management at Hood College, and essayist in the field of business management and policy.http://www.mediate.com/people/personprofile.cfm?auid=720 Life and ...
- Professor, business strategist, essayist * Joseph Patrick Kelly - Literary scholar focused on the works of
James Joyce James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, poet, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of ...
*
Peter MacNicol Peter MacNicol (born April 10, 1954) is an American actor. He received a Theatre World Award for his 1981 Broadway debut in the play ''Crimes of the Heart''. His film roles include Galen in ''Dragonslayer'' (1981), Stingo in ''Sophie's Choice'' ( ...
- Actor, notable performances include ''
Ghostbusters ''Ghostbusters'' is a 1984 American Supernatural fiction, supernatural comedy film directed and produced by Ivan Reitman, and written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis. It stars Bill Murray, Aykroyd, and Ramis as Peter Venkman, Ray Stantz, and ...
'', '' Ally McBeal'', and Fox's '' 24'' *
Patrick Madrid Patrick Madrid (born November 8, 1960) is an American Catholic, author, and radio host. His many books include ''Why Be Catholic?'' (Penguin Random House), ''Life Lessons: 50 Things I Learned in My First 50 Years'' (Ignatius Press), and ''How to ...
– Author, radio host and Catholic commentator *
William Marshner William Harry Marshner is a retired Emeritus Professor of Theology at Christendom College in Front Royal, Virginia. He is a former Chairman of the Theology Department and a Founding Professor, who created that institution's theology and philosophy ...
- Ethicist and theologian *
John McCaa John McCaa (born in Rantoul, Illinois) is a news anchor who is known for working for WFAA-TV in Dallas, Texas. He worked for WFAA from 1984 until his retirement on March 1, 2019. Early life and education McCaa was raised in an Air Force fam ...
- American television journalist *
Eric McLuhan Eric McLuhan (19 January 1942 – 18 May 2018) was a communications theorist and media ecologist, son of Marshall McLuhan. Biography Eric McLuhan was the eldest of Marshall McLuhan's six children. He received his BSc in Communications from Wis ...
- media theorist and son of
Marshall McLuhan Herbert Marshall McLuhan (July 21, 1911 – December 31, 1980) was a Canadian philosopher whose work is among the cornerstones of the study of media theory. He studied at the University of Manitoba and the University of Cambridge. He began his ...
*
Trish Murphy Trish Murphy is an American singer-songwriter, based in Austin, Texas, United States. She appeared in the Austin City Limits Music Festival twice and has released four records. Music career Trish Murphy grew up in Houston, Texas, the daughter ...
- Singer-songwriter * Carl Olson - American journalist and Catholic writer *
Mackubin Thomas Owens Mackubin Thomas Owens is a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. From 2015 until 2018, he served as dean of academic affairs at the Institute of World Politics. He was previously the associate dean of academics for electives and d ...
- assistant dean of academics for Electives,
Naval War College The Naval War College (NWC or NAVWARCOL) is the staff college and "Home of Thought" for the United States Navy at Naval Station Newport in Newport, Rhode Island. The NWC educates and develops leaders, supports defining the future Navy and associat ...
*
Tan Parker Nathaniel Willis "Tan" Parker IV (born May 22, 1971) is a businessman and Republican politician who has served in the Texas Senate, representing the 12th district since 2023. He served in the Texas House of Representatives from 2007 to 2023. H ...
- Texas State Representative from
Flower Mound Flower Mound is an incorporated town located in Denton and Tarrant counties in the U.S. state of Texas. Located northwest of Dallas and northeast of Fort Worth adjacent to Grapevine Lake, the town derives its name from a prominent mound locat ...
and businessman *
Margot Roosevelt Margot Roosevelt (born Margot Roosevelt Barmine; August 13, 1950) is an American journalist who covers economic and labor news for the ''Los Angeles Times''. She is a great-granddaughter of President Theodore Roosevelt. Early life Roosevelt is ...
(attended, did not graduate) - American journalist at ''
Orange County Register ''The Orange County Register'' is a paid daily newspaper published in California. The ''Register'', published in Orange County, California, is owned by the private equity firm Alden Global Capital via its Digital Fiest/Media News subsidiaries. ...
'' *
Gary Schmitt Gary James Schmitt (born 1952) is an American political scientist who is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Early life and education Schmitt graduated from the University of Dallas in 1974 with a B.A. in Politics and the Univ ...
-
public intellectual An intellectual is a person who engages in critical thinking, research, and reflection about the reality of society, and who proposes solutions for the normative problems of society. Coming from the world of culture, either as a creator or a ...
and co-founder of the
Project for the New American Century The Project for the New American Century (PNAC) was a neoconservativeDaryush Shokof Daryush Shokof (Persian: داریوش شکوف, born 1954) is an Iranian artist, film director, writer, and film producer based in Germany. Biography He was born as Ali Reza Shokoufandeh on 25 June 1954 in Tehran, Imperial State of Iran. Sho ...
- artist "Maximalism", Filmmaker "Amenic Film", Philosopher "Yekishim" *
Christopher Evan Welch Christopher Evan Welch (September 28, 1965 – December 2, 2013) was an American TV, film, and stage actor. He is best known as the narrator in Woody Allen's '' Vicky Cristina Barcelona'' and his role as Peter Gregory in the HBO series '' Silic ...
- American actor famous for playing Peter Gregory in the
HBO Home Box Office (HBO) is an American premium television network, which is the flagship property of namesake parent subsidiary Home Box Office, Inc., itself a unit owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. The overall Home Box Office business unit is ba ...
series ''
Silicon Valley Silicon Valley is a region in Northern California that serves as a global center for high technology and innovation. Located in the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area, it corresponds roughly to the geographical areas San Mateo County ...
'' *
Gene Wolande Gene Wolande (born September 3, 1956) is an American character actor, writer, and director who has appeared in many mainstream film and television projects. He is best known as Ray Pinker in the Academy Award-winning film ''L.A. Confidential'' ...
- actor (''
L.A. Confidential ''L.A. Confidential'' (1990) is a neo-noir novel by James Ellroy and the third of his L.A. Quartet series. It is dedicated to Mary Doherty Ellroy. The epigraph is "A glory that costs everything and means nothing"— Steve Erickson. Plot The s ...
'') and television writer (''
The Wonder Years ''The Wonder Years'' is an American coming-of-age story, coming-of-age situation comedy, comedy/Drama (film and television), drama television series created by Neal Marlens and Carol L. Black, Carol Black. It ran on American Broadcasting Company ...
'') *
Brantly Womack Brantly Womack is Professor Emeritus of Foreign Affairs at the University of Virginia, where he has held the Cumming professorial chair, and Senior Faculty Fellow at the Miller Center, where he has held the CK Yen professorial chair. Most of h ...
- professor of government and foreign affairs,
University of Virginia The University of Virginia (UVA) is a Public university#United States, public research university in Charlottesville, Virginia. Founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson, the university is ranked among the top academic institutions in the United S ...


Business, politics and public affairs

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Miriem Bensalah-Chaqroun Miriem Bensalah-Chaqroun (born November 14, 1962) is a Morocco, Moroccan businesswoman. She is CEO and vice-chair of Oulmes Mineral Water of . She is the president of ''Confédération générale des entreprises du Maroc'' from 2012 to 2018. She r ...
- Moroccan businesswoman and president of ''Confédération générale des entreprises du Maroc'' from 2012 to 2018 *
Robert Bunda Robert "Bobby" Bunda (born April 25, 1947) is a former Democratic member of the Hawaii Senate, representing the 22nd District from 1994 through 2010, when he resigned his position in an unsuccessful bid for Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii. Previo ...
- Hawaiian politician *
Suren Dutia Suren G. Dutia is an advocate for entrepreneurship and has served as a Senior Fellow of the Kauffman Foundation from March 2011 to December 2016. He has also served as a Senior Fellow with the Skandalaris Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, (2010 ...
- Business executive and entrepreneurship expert at
Kauffman Foundation The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation (Kauffman Foundation) is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit, private foundation based in Kansas City, Missouri. It was founded in 1966 by Ewing Marion Kauffman, who had previously founded the drug company Mar ...
*
Emmet Flood Emmet Thomas Flood IV is an American attorney who served as the interim White House Counsel to U.S. President Donald Trump from October 17, 2018, to December 10, 2018, following the resignation of Don McGahn. He also served as a Special Counsel ...
- Special Counsel to President
George W. Bush George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009. A member of the Republican Party, Bush family, and son of the 41st president George H. W. Bush, he ...
, 2007–2008 * John H. Gibson - Senior Defense Department official and business executive * Tadashi Inuzuka - Japanese politician and diplomat * Katherine, Crown Princess of Yugoslavia - Wife of
Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia ( sr, Александар Карађорђевић, Престолонаследник Југославије; born 17 July 1945 in London), is the head of the House of Karađorđević, the former royal h ...
*
Michael Neeb Michael Thomas Neeb (born August 1962) is an American businessman, the president and CEO of HCA Healthcare UK since 2007 until 2019. Early life Michael Thomas Neeb was born in August 1962. He earned a bachelor's degree in accounting from Baylor ...
- CEO at
HCA Healthcare HCA Healthcare is an American for-profit operator of health care facilities that was founded in 1968. It is based in Nashville, Tennessee, and, as of May 2020, owns and operates 186 hospitals and approximately 2,000 sites of care, including sur ...
UK * Rosemary Odinga - Kenyan entrepreneur and activist * Susan Orr Traffas - Former Head of the
United States Children's Bureau The 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, ...


Religious leaders

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Oscar Cantú Oscar Cantú (born December 5, 1966) is a Mexican-American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who has been serving as bishop of the Diocese of San Jose in California since 2018. He served as bishop of the Diocese of Las Cruces in New Mexico fro ...
- Bishop of San Jose *
Michael Duca Michael Gerard Duca (born June 5, 1952) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who has been serving as bishop of the Diocese of Baton Rouge in Louisiana since his installation on August 24, 2018. He previously served as the bisho ...
- Bishop of Baton Rouge *
Daniel E. Flores Daniel Ernesto Flores (born August 28, 1961) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He has been the Bishop of Brownsville in Texas since December 2009. He served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Detroit in Michigan f ...
- Bishop of Brownsville *
David Konderla David Austin Konderla (born June 3, 1960) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, who was appointed the fourth bishop of the Diocese of Tulsa in Oklahoma on May 13, 2016. Biography Early life Konderla was born on June 3, 1960, ...
- Bishop of the Diocese of Tulsa *
Shawn McKnight William Shawn McKnight (born June 26, 1968) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who has been serving as bishop of the Diocese of Jefferson City in Missouri since 2017. Biography Early life William Shawn McKnight was born Ju ...
- Bishop of Jefferson City * Mark J. Seitz - Bishop of El Paso


Athletes

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Mike McPhee Michael Joseph McPhee (born July 14, 1960) is a Canadian former ice hockey forward. Playing career McPhee began his professional career with the Nova Scotia Voyageurs of the American Hockey League, after being selected in the sixth-round (124th ...
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NHL The National Hockey League (NHL; french: Ligue nationale de hockey—LNH, ) is a professional ice hockey league in North America comprising 32 teams—25 in the United States and 7 in Canada. It is considered to be the top ranked professional ...
player and investment banker *
Tom Rafferty Thomas Michael Rafferty (born August 2, 1954) is a former American football offensive lineman in the National Football League for the Dallas Cowboys. He played college football for head coach Joe Paterno at Penn State University. Early years Raf ...
- Professional football player (
offensive lineman In gridiron football, a lineman is a player who specializes in play at the line of scrimmage. The linemen of the team currently in possession of the ball are the offensive line, while linemen on the opposing team are the defensive line. A numbe ...
for the
Dallas Cowboys The Dallas Cowboys are a professional American football team based in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. The Cowboys compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) East divisi ...
)


Faculty

The university's full-time, permanent faculty have included the following scholars: *
Mel Bradford Melvin E. Bradford (May 8, 1934 – March 3, 1993) was an American conservative political commentator and professor of literature at the University of Dallas. Bradford is seen as a leading figure of the paleoconservative wing of the conservativ ...
- literary scholar and
traditional conservative Traditionalist conservatism, often known as classical conservatism, is a political and social philosophy that emphasizes the importance of transcendent moral principles, manifested through certain natural laws to which society should adhere ...
political theorist *
John Alexander Carroll John Alexander Carroll (died 17 December 2000) was an American history professor who primarily taught at the University of Arizona from 1958 to 1967, and Troy University from 1974 to 1989. While at Arizona, Carroll founded ''Arizona and the West'' i ...
- American historian and co-winner of the 1958
Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography The Pulitzer Prize for Biography is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music. It has been presented since 1917 for a distinguished biography, autobiography or memoir by an American author o ...
for ''George Washington, Volumes I-VII'' *
Louise Cowan Mary Louise Cowan ( Shillingburg; December 22, 1916 – November 16, 2015) was an American critic and teacher, and wife of the physicist and University of Dallas president Donald Cowan (author of ''Unbinding Prometheus''). She taught at Texas Chr ...
- literary critic, English professor and public intellectual * Eugene Curtsinger - professor of English, novelist and academic administrator *
Willmoore Kendall Willmoore Bohnert Kendall Jr. (March 5, 1909 – June 30, 1967) was an American conservative writer and a professor of political philosophy. Early life and education Kendall was born March 5, 1909 in Konawa, Oklahoma. His father, who was blind, w ...
- political theorist (mentor of
William F. Buckley William Frank Buckley Jr. (born William Francis Buckley; November 24, 1925 – February 27, 2008) was an American public intellectual, conservative author and political commentator. In 1955, he founded ''National Review'', the magazine that stim ...
while teaching at
Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...
) * Thomas Lindsay - Texas Public Policy Foundation, Center for Higher Education * Taylor Marshall - traditionalist Catholic writer, former Anglican priest, and one time philosophy professor * Wilfred M. McClay - Intellectual historian and
public intellectual An intellectual is a person who engages in critical thinking, research, and reflection about the reality of society, and who proposes solutions for the normative problems of society. Coming from the world of culture, either as a creator or a ...
*
Joshua Parens Joshua S. Parens is an American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Dallas. He is the dean of Braniff Graduate School of Liberal Arts. Parens is known for his expertise on Islamic and Jewish medieval philosophy. Books * ...
- Philosopher concentrating on Islamic and Jewish medieval philosophy * Philipp Rosemann - German philosopher specializing in continental and medieval philosophy *
Robert Skeris Robert A. Skeris is an American Roman Catholic priest. He has been based in the Archdiocese of Milwaukee since 1961. He earned a Master of Arts (MA) degree in Liturgical Studies from the University of Notre Dame and studied at the Universities o ...
- American theologian and pioneering enthno-musicologist * Janet E. Smith - classicist and philosopher * Gerard Wegemer - literary scholar and the Director fo
The Center for Thomas More Studies
*
Thomas G. West Thomas G. West (born 1945) is an American academic. He is a professor of Politics at Hillsdale College, and the author of three books. Early life West was born in 1945. He received his B.A. from Cornell University in 1967 and his Ph.D. from Clar ...
- political theorist *
Frederick Wilhelmsen Frederick D. Wilhelmsen (1923 – 21 May 1996) was a distinguished Catholic philosopher, noted, both as a professor and as a writer, for his explication and advancement of the Thomistic tradition. He also was a political commentator, assessing ...
- philosopher Notable visiting or part-time faculty have included: *
Rudolph Gerken Rudolph Aloysius Gerken (March 7, 1887 – March 2, 1943) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as archbishop of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe in New Mexico from 1933 until his death in 1943. He previously served as bishop ...
- former
Archbishop of Santa Fe The Archdiocese of Santa Fe ( la, Archidioecesis Sanctae Fidei in America Septentrionali, link=no, es, Arquidiócesis de Santa Fe, link=no) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the southwestern region of the United States in ...
*
Caroline Gordon Caroline Ferguson Gordon (October 6, 1895 – April 11, 1981) was an American novelist and literary critic who, while still in her thirties, received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1932 and an O. Henry Award in 1934. Biography Gordon was born ...
- American novelist and literary critic * Magnus L. Kpakol - Chief Economic Advisor to the President of
Nigeria Nigeria ( ), , ig, Naìjíríyà, yo, Nàìjíríà, pcm, Naijá , ff, Naajeeriya, kcg, Naijeriya officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa. It is situated between the Sahel to the north and the Gulf o ...
*
Marshall McLuhan Herbert Marshall McLuhan (July 21, 1911 – December 31, 1980) was a Canadian philosopher whose work is among the cornerstones of the study of media theory. He studied at the University of Manitoba and the University of Cambridge. He began his ...
- Media theorist and philosopher (coined the expression "
the medium is the message "The medium is the message" is a phrase coined by the Canadian communication theorist Marshall McLuhan and the name of the first chapter in his '' Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man'', published in 1964.Originally published in 1964 by Men ...
" ) *
Bernard Orchard Dom Bernard Orchard (3 May 1910 – 28 November 2006) was a British Roman Catholic Benedictine monk, headmaster and biblical scholar. Early life and education John Archibald Henslowe Orchard, the son of a farmer, was born in Bromley, Kent. He w ...
- British
Biblical scholar Biblical studies is the academic application of a set of diverse disciplines to the study of the Bible (the Old Testament and New Testament).''Introduction to Biblical Studies, Second Edition'' by Steve Moyise (Oct 27, 2004) pages 11–12 Fo ...
and Benedictine monk *
Mitch Pacwa Mitchell Pacwa (born July 27, 1949) is an American Jesuit priest. He is president and founder of Ignatius Productions and is now the senior fellow of the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology. Education Pacwa completed high school at Archbish ...
- American theologian and host of several shows on
EWTN The Eternal Word Television Network, more commonly known by its initials EWTN, is an American basic cable television network which presents around-the-clock Catholic-themed programming. It is not only the largest Catholic television network in ...
*
John Marini John Marini is an American political scientist. He is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Nevada, Reno, and a senior fellow at the Claremont Institute. He is the author of two books about the administrative state and the co-editor ...
- political scientist studying American legislative and administrative politics * Mark J. Seitz - Bishop of El Paso *
Jeffrey N. Steenson Jeffrey Neil Steenson PA (born April 1, 1952) is an American retired priest and prelate of the Catholic Church and a former bishop of the Episcopal Church within the Anglican Communion. Steenson was the first ordinary of the Personal Ordinariate ...
- prelate who converted to Catholicism from
Anglicanism Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition that has developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe. It is one of the ...


References


Further reading

* ''University of Dallas: 50 Years of Vision & Courage, 1956–2006'' (Irving, Tex.: University of Dallas, 2006). . 165 pp. * ''The University of Dallas honoring William A. Blakley'' (Irving, Tex.: University of Dallas, 1966). 19 pp.


External links

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University of Dallas Athletics website

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