2021 Spring Newsletter

Campus News Service in Action, A Peace Corps Volunteer’s Story March 12, 2021 by University Communications & Marketing “When I’m older, I want to join the Peace Corps.” Her uncle’s stories of the Peace Corps, living in a faraway place called Togo (West Africa) among people very different from him yet who became lifelong friends, had captured…

Campus News Human rights award to honor champion of environmental rights; Students to unveil Moral Courage Project about fight for clean water Environmental and climate justice will be at the heart of a series of University of Dayton events to honor the legacy of Saint Oscar Romero. The series will culminate with the University bestowing…

Campus News First class of Flyer Promise Scholars to graduate; program removes financial barriers, offers support for underserved students The University of Dayton’s first Flyer Promise Scholars will graduate this spring — cementing the success of the program created to remove financial barriers and offer support for underrepresented and underserved students. The first class of…

Campus News   A New Chapter by Alex Z. Salinas (B.A. ’11, M.A. ’19) Christmas Day, 2018. A couple of bags in hand, Shaima Khalaf flew into San Antonio to start a new life as a student in the Master of Arts in English Literature and Language program at St. Mary’s University. For 20 years, Khalaf had…

Campus News New dean becomes first Latina to lead the business school  St. Mary’s University today named Rowena Ortiz-Walters, Ph.D., Dean of the St. Mary’s University Greehey School of Business. Ortiz-Walters comes to St. Mary’s from SUNY Plattsburgh, a public liberal arts college that is part of the State University of New York (SUNY) System,…