
Academic and Student Athlete Services
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.

Center for Catholic Thought and Culture
Collaborations:
- Catholic News Roundup
- Just Read!
- Catholic Perspectives on Poverty
The mission of the Center for Catholic Thought and Culture 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 Inclusion and Diversity
Collaborations:
- Just Read!
- The Practice of Joining: Preparing to Enter Community
- Intersectionality: What is it and why does it matter?
The Center for Inclusion and Diversity 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.
Changemaker Hub
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.
College of Arts and Sciences
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.
Honors Program
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.
Human Resources
Collaborations:
- #MeToo and #TimesUp: What now?
- Title IX-Responding to Student Disclosures: Cultural Considerations
The role of Human Resources is to attract, retain, and support a quality workforce so that collectively we can provide an exceptional educational experience for our students.
International Center
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.
Mulvaney Center
Collaborations:
- Course and Syllabus Design for Community Engagement
- Principles of Community Engagement
The Mulvaney Center for Community Awareness and Social Action 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.
Office of Undergraduate Research
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.
Provost Office
Collaborations
- New Faculty Session on Teaching
- New Faculty Session: Nurturing the Whole Person
The senior 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.
Knauss School of Business
Collaborations:
- An Introduction to Tableau
- Helping Business Students to Become Better Writers
- Universal Design for Learning
The Knauss 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 Leadership and Education Sciences
Collaborations:
- Moving Beyond Civility: Facilitating Difficult Dialogues in Higher Education
The mission of the School of Leadership and Education Sciences 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.
Women's Commons
Collaborations:
- Women's and Gender Studies Banquet
The Women's Commons 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.
Writing Center
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.

