Cistercians, Dominican Sisters, and clerics on faculty.
Braniff Graduate School, the Graduate School of Management, and programs in art and English all began in 1966. In 1973, the Institute of Philosophic Studies, the doctoral program of the Braniff Graduate School and an outgrowth of the Kendall Politics and Literature Program, was initiated. The School of Ministry began in 1987. The College of Business, incorporating the Gupta Graduate School of Management and undergraduate business, opened in 2003.
Since the first class entered in 1960, university graduates have won 39 Fulbright awards.
Accreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools came in 1963 and has been reaffirmed regularly. In 1989, it was the youngest institution of higher education ever to be awarded a Phi Beta Kappa chapter.
=== 21st century ===
In 2021, the University named Johnathan J. Sanford as the 10th president of the University. He was hired in 2015 as dean of UD’s Constantin College after 13 years of teaching at Franciscan …
