The 正规博彩平台 charter dates from 1910, when the Vincentian Fathers took that name for the “三位一体” College they had founded five years earlier. “三位一体” College closed in 1928, and the Catholic Diocese 达拉斯 received the charter. In 1955, the Western Province of the Sisters of Saint Mary of Namur obtained it to operate a new institution in Dallas that would absorb their junior college in Fort Worth, 胜利圣母. The Sisters and laymen, Eugene Constantin Jr. 爱德华·R. 马赫 Sr.主教托马斯K. Gorman to have the diocese assume sponsorship of the new institution's Board of Trustees as owners.
Bishop Gorman announced that the university would be a four-year institution welcoming students of all faiths and races. Graduate work would be added to the university "as 在可行的情况下尽快." 大学 opened its doors to 96 degree-seeking students in September 1956 on a 1,000-acre tract of rolling hills northwest 达拉斯 and now 欧文/拉斯科利纳斯的一部分.
Members of the Cistercian Order and the Sisters of Saint Mary, together with three Franciscan fathers and several laymen, comprised the original faculty of the University 达拉斯. Dominican priests joined the faculty in 1958 and established Albert the 大修道院. The School Sisters of Notre Dame came in 1962. 如今,教员们已经做到了 mainly become lay and counts numerous distinguished scholars among its members.
The Southern Association of 大学 and 学校 accredited the school in 1963, and the SACSCOC reaffirms it regularly. The Constantin Foundation endowed the undergraduate college, which, in 1970, the Board of Trustees named the Constantin College of Liberal Arts in honor of founding benefactors Ruth and Eugene Constantin. 大学毕业生 have won significant honors since the first class in 1960, including Fulbright and Woodrow Wilson awards for graduate studies. In 1989, UD became a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, the youngest school in the 20th century to receive this distinction.
1964年,7美元.5 million grant (about $60 million in today's money) from the Blakley-Braniff Foundation established the Braniff Graduate School. It allowed the construction of the Braniff Graduate Building, Mall, and Braniff Memorial Tower. 研究生工作开始 in 1966 and flourished, including establishing the doctoral 程序s in the Institute of Philosophic Studies and adding the Master of Fine Arts in studio art, the accepted 艺术的终极学位. establishment of the doctoral 程序s in the Institute of Philosophic Studies and the addition of the Master of Fine Arts in studio art, the accepted 艺术的终极学位.
The region's rapid growth encouraged innovative graduate management offerings, and the Graduate School of Management (GSM) quickly became its own school separate from the liberal arts graduate 程序s. In 2003, UD combined all business 程序s in 商学院. The college received the Association to Advance Collegiate 学校 of Business (AACSB) accreditation in 2012. 取名为萨蒂什 & 娅斯敏 Gupta College of Business in 2013 to recognize the $12 million gift of Satish and 娅斯敏 Gupta, two management alumni — a gift that allowed for the construction of SB Hall, named for the business the Guptas established. 2014年,笈多学院 of Business began Texas's first and only AACSB-accredited Doctor of Business 政府 程序.
In 1987, the university began 程序s mainly aimed at preparing lay people for ministerial professions, forming the Institute of Religious and Pastoral Studies, which became the School of Ministry in 2007 and the Ann and Joe O. Neuhoff Institute for Ministry & Evangelization in 2016 to recognize the abiding interest of the Neuhoff family in the work of the university and the church.
On June 11, 1994, the university dedicated permanent facilities for its Rome Program 从1970年开始. The 14-acre Eugene Constantin Campus, also known as Due Santi, is located near Albano, Italy (15 kilometers from the heart of Rome). 成千上万的 UD students have spent a semester abroad through the Rome Program, pursuing an integrated sequence of courses and travel related to their Core curriculum requirements.
Today, the university enrolls nearly 3,000 students from all over the United States and the world, divided evenly between undergraduate and graduate students. 大学 continues to thrive and contemplates the future with confidence. 作为已故总统 Donald 考恩 often said, "Indeed, there is a spirit that walks these hills."