The Parents Program at the University of Notre Dame invites our past and our current parents to be engaged in the life of the University. Your students are our greatest treasure. We are grateful to you for supporting their decision to attend the University of Notre Dame, and we share your pride in their success. We welcome your commitment to, and involvement with, the University of Notre Dame.
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First Year Orientation 2011 had an added dimension this year: an official program to greet the new Notre Dame parents! The first effort of the newly created Parents Program was to invite parent volunteers to greet and welcome the freshman parents on move-in day, August 19. Fifty Ministers of Hospitality were Notre Dame parents, many of whom drove in from the Chicago area, Michigan, and Indiana especially for this program. Read More
This year on the Feast of All Souls, November 2, a memorial Mass was celebrated to remember the parents and spouses of the Notre Dame family. Father Pete McCormick celebrated the Mass at the beautiful Geddes Hall chapel. As Mass began, a Book of Prayer containing over 200 names of loved ones was placed at the altar. Read More
Each fall and winter the Career Center hosts a Career Fair. The 2012 Winter Career Fair was held in early February. Students who attended the Fair feel ready to enter the job market as a result of their preparation by the Career Center. Companies who were represented at the Career Fair were eager to interview our students for internships and jobs, and applauded Notre Dame for being a "class act" in preparing students for the job market. See what they had to say about our students and the Career Center Read More
The University of Notre Dame is acknowledged as one of the premier educational institutions in the country. Throughout 2011 Notre Dame was recognized for its academies, programs, faculty, and staff. For a complete summary of the many acknowledgements which Notre Dame received, visit Notre Dame Read More
Thank you, Lord, for our parents who have taught us Your love by their example, who have guided us in faith and love and generosity, and who have nurtured our lives and our spirit. Bless them all the days of their lives, and keep them near to you.
February 12, 2012 Bengal Bouts - Preliminaries
February 14 Feast of St. Valentine
February 15, 2012 Priority deadline for Prospective parents
to submit FAFSA and CSS Profile
February 17 - 19, 2012 Junior Parents Weekend (JPW)
February 20, 2012 Presidents Day
February 22, 2012 Ash Wednesday
February 28, 2012 Bengal Bouts - Semi-finals
This is our goal "...to build a Notre Dame that is bigger and better than ever - a great Catholic university for the 21st century, one of the pre-eminent research institutions in the world, a center for learning whose intellectual and religious traditions converge to make it a healing, unifying, enlightening force for a world deeply in need."
Rev. John Jenkins, C.S.C.
President, University of Notre Dame
2005 Inaugural Address