Mission and Identity

UDM Mission Statement:

The University of Detroit Mercy, a Catholic university in the Jesuit and Mercy traditions, exists to provide excellent, student-centered, undergraduate and graduate education in an urban context. A UDM education seeks to integrate the intellectual, spiritual, ethical, and social development of our students.

Listen to mission-related talks

• Integrating the religious with the academic
  John M. Staudenmaier, S.J., UDM's assistant to the president for Mission & Identity, gives an autobiographical talk on the gradual integration of his prayer life with his commitment to the secular academy, on the occasion of receiving an award from the Society for the History of Technology.
• Lectures on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius
  Four talks from a special Lenten series by Fr. Staudenmaier exploring the present-day applications of the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola.