Collaborators

Collaborations: 

• Open Orientation for Faculty
• Adjunct Faculty Reception

The academic and student-athlete services center is designed to help student-athletes balance the demands of Division I athletics while taking full advantage of the educational experiences offered. Student-athletes are assisted through tutoring, academic counseling, and mentoring.

Academic and Student Services Page

Collaborations: 

• Catholic News Roundup
• Just Read!
• Catholic Perspectives on Poverty

The CCTC's mission is concerned with helping USD and its neighbors to explore, understand, and celebrate everything it means to participate in a university community that calls itself Catholic in the twenty-first century. The CCTC seeks to promote Catholic Social Thinking and provide faculty and students with thought-provoking Catholic opportunities.

Center for Catholic Thought and Culture Website 

Collaborations: 

• Just Read!
• The Practice of Joining: Preparing to Enter Community
• Intersectionality: What is it and why does it matter?

The CID cultivates shared vision, coherence, and coordination of diversity and inclusion efforts across campus. USD holds a deep commitment to developing a diverse campus community, including differences in gender, race, ethnicity, culture, socioeconomic class, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship status, political perspectives, and physical ability.

Center for Inclusion and Diversity Website 

Collaborations: 

• Just Read!

The Changemaker Hub focuses on developing diverse opportunities for the USD community to learn about themselves, to be inspired, and to practice changemaking. It encourages the community to address social issues that matter to them and explore new ideas that will have a positive social impact. 

Changemaker Hub Website

Collaborations: 

• Postdoc Panel: Practice for the Job Market
• Faculty Advising in the College of Arts and Sciences
• ABCs of FRGs

The College of Arts and Sciences encourages students to explore a liberal arts education to find their passion. One-on-one faculty mentoring, practical experience, and global research opportunities for students in the arts, humanities, and social sciences will help prepare students for a meaningful career and a purposeful life.

College of Arts and Sciences Website

Collaborations: 

• Best Practices for Integrative Team Teaching

The USD Honors Program is designed to provide smart, passionate, and eager students with challenges and opportunities that will allow them to achieve their intellectual goals. These include specialized course work, undergraduate research, and focused academic advising.

Honors Program Page

Collaborations: 

• Study Abroad Proposals

The International Center supports the USD university community in advancing global citizenship. It seeks to develop global changemakers by introducing students to new countries and cultures.

USD International Center Page

Collaborations:

• Course and Syllabus Design for Community Engagement
• Principles of Community Engagement

The Mulvaney Center seeks to serve with compassion, to foster peace, work for justice, and prepare leaders dedicated to ethical conduct and compassionate service. Through reciprocal community-based learning, the Mulvaney Center engages USD students, faculty, staff, and alumni to learn and act in partnership with the community and make life-long commitments to promote social change.

Mulvaney Center Website

Collaborations: 

• Step up Your Game: Tips for Effective Undergraduate Research Mentoring 

The Office of Undergraduate Research has a long-standing commitment to engaging undergraduates from all disciplines in research and scholarly activities. The office provides unique services for students such as research ethics, poster design, professional development workshops and more.   

Office of Undergraduate Research Website 

Collaborations

• New Faculty Session on Teaching
• New Faculty Session: Nurturing the Whole Person

The vice president and provost is the chief academic officer of the university, providing academic leadership to its college and schools and promoting excellence in all of the university's academic programs and initiatives, in order to educate ethical and compassionate leaders.

Provost Office Website

Collaborations: 

• An Introduction to Tableau
• Helping Business Students to Become Better Writers
• Universal Design for Learning

The School of Business helps students become ethical leaders. It challenges them to imagine socially innovative and fiscally sound ventures, teaches them how to pitch their best ideas, and encourages them to explore the world they're about to change.

School of Business Website 

Collaborations: 

• Moving Beyond Civility: Facilitating Difficult Dialogues in Higher Education

The mission of SOLES is to engage with students and our communities to continuously learn through inquiry and practice that supports social justice and effects meaningful change in our diverse society. SOLES shapes the future by providing inclusive education as the means to enhance human dignity and improve the quality of life. 

School of Leadership and Education Sciences Website

Collaborations: 

• Women's and Gender Studies Banquet

The Women's Center invites women to find their voice, develop skills for transformation, and understand who they are called to be. It empowers women to engage as leaders and advocates for a safe, supportive campus.

Women's Commons Website

The Writing Center is dedicated to the assistance of the campus community in honing their skills as writers. It strives to have every person who receives a consultation to gain confidence and notable improvements in their ability to write, regardless of the subject material or “style” of writing required.