University of Dallas

Forty members of Crusaders for Life, the largest student club at the University of Dallas, traveled from Dallas to Washington, D.C., to participate in the annual National March for Life the last weekend of January 2020. The trip marked the university's first-ever official participation in the national pro-life rally.

Sixteen University of Dallas Opus Dei members recently returned from Monterrey, Mexico, after completing a week-long service project for a local school, Ciudad de los Ninos, which provides nearly 1,000 children of low-income families with an education of high academic standards along with a well-rounded Christian formation. The spring break service project was sponsored by the Wingren Study Center, an Opus Dei center that hosts speaker series, service opportunities, meditations and mentoring to male students from the University of Dallas and surrounding colleges in North Texas.

Six University of Dallas Campus Ministry students recently volunteered at Habit for Humanity ReStore, a nonprofit home-improvement store and donation center that sells new and gently used furniture, appliances, home accessories and building materials. The university's Office of Campus Ministry sends groups of students, known as the "Mercy Crew," to participate in several community service outings each semester.

Nearly a dozen University of Dallas Campus Ministry students volunteered at Ashford Hall, a nursing home in Irving, Texas, last fall semester, on Saturday, Oct. 28, 2017.

Nine University of Dallas Campus Ministry students volunteered at Feed My Starving Children, a Christian nonprofit that provides nutritionally complete meals specifically formulated for malnourished children, on Saturday, Nov. 11, 2017.

Thirteen members of the University of Dallas men's lacrosse team volunteered at the 26th Annual Trash Bash sponsored by Keep Irving Beautiful, the organization's signature cleanup event, at the T.W. Richardson Grove Park on Saturday, Sept. 30.

Beginning in the early morning on Sept. 1 and lasting well into the afternoon, groups of students, faculty and staff displayed their support for the Hurricane Harvey relief efforts as they volunteered with the Dallas-based nonprofit Trusted Worlds. Volunteers gathered supplies and donations on campus and provided assistance at the Trusted Worlds Hurricane Harvey donation site in North Dallas.

The first University of Dallas recipient of the prestigious fellowship, Sean Mixon was recently announced as one of 12 Albert Schweitzer Fellows in the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area for 2017-18, and one of approximately 240 fellows working around the United States.

University of Dallas students in the Society for Women mentor girls at Barbara Cardwell Career Preparatory Center.

Several University of Dallas undergraduates traveled to New Orleans to serve the local community as part of Alternative Spring Break (ASB).

The following local students were among a contingent of University of Dallas students and campus ministers that traveled New Orleans or Kansas City, Mo. in March for this year's Alternative Spring Break (ASB). In Kansas City, students volunteered with A Simple House, helping prepare and deliver meals to homeless people and to repair the house that serves as a base for the group's ministry. In New Orleans, students repainted crypts at a Catholic cemetery and worked at The Arc, a community center for people with mental and physical disabilities, and Capstone, an organization that fixes houses damaged by Hurricane Katrina.

The following local students were among a contingent of University of Dallas students and campus ministers that traveled to Joplin, Mo., on March 4 for this year's Alternative Spring Break (ASB). While there, the group of 15 spent a week painting and cleaning Catholic Charities offices that were damaged by an F5 tornado that devastated the city nearly 10 months ago.