UDM is Service

Service at UDM

University campuses are part of the larger world around them. 

If a university closed its borders to the non-university world around it and stuck to its core business (teaching and research) alone, it would drift toward being what has long been called an "ivory tower" mentality.   Teaching and research must be in the service of the larger world.

How Does UDM Serve?

UDM's greatest service to society --  the graduates its sends out into the wide world.

But also:

• UDM's published research
• UDM clinics: Law | Dental | Counseling | McAuley Health Center
• Service Learning: Leadership Development Institute | Honors Program | Alpha Phi Omega
  
• University Ministry
• University to Community Outreach

Service situations often touch troubled and sometimes violent places where the flaw lines of society rub hard. Research and teaching, the bread and butter work of every university, are done more realistically and smarter when the faculty and students intimately experience the challenges they and their fellow citizens face in the present world.