Sunday, June 29, 10:30 am, USD Ministry Center, 5998 Alcala Park Way, San Diego, CA 92110
The Notre Dame Club of San Diego invites you to join us for the 2025 Universal Notre Dame (UND) Celebration! Beginning as a radio broadcast in 1924, this signature program from the Alumni Association has since brought the Notre Dame campus to local communities all over the world. Hear from distinguished administrators, faculty, and staff from across the University and gather with your fellow alumni, parents, and friends as we celebrate the unique character of Notre Dame.
Our 2025 UND Celebration theme, Belonging on Campus and Bonding for Life, highlights the unique residential life system and how a deep sense of belonging develops for students while they’re living on campus and for the rest of their lives.
Join us on Sunday, June 29, at USD's Ministry Center. Our university guest speaker is Fr. Austin Collins, C.S.C. (see bio below).
This year's theme is Belonging on Campus and Bonding for Life. Here is a video (
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Father Collins will celebrate Mass for us at 10:30 am, followed by lunch at 11:30 am, and the UND presentation at noon. The cost is $20. Come for part of the event or all of it.
Register at
https://sandiego.undclub.org/events/130119
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Rev. Austin Collins, C.S.C., serves as Vice President for Mission Engagement and Church Affairs, a position he was appointed to in June 2021. As Vice President for Mission Engagement and Church Affairs, Father Collins works to steward and deepen Notre Dame’s Catholic and Holy Cross mission and serves as the University’s liaison to the
Congregation of Holy Cross, U.S. bishops and the Holy See. He also oversees the Tantur Ecumenical Institute in Jerusalem and provides critical leadership for the University’s ecumenical and interfaith outreach. Other responsibilities include leadership of the Notre Dame-Newman Centre for Faith and Reason in Dublin and the Grotto Network, a University initiative that contributes to the Church’s mission to evangelize young Catholic adults.
Father Collins served from 2015 to 2020 as religious superior of Holy Cross priests and brothers at Notre Dame, during which time he also served as a Trustee and Fellow of the University. A faculty member in the Department of Art, Art History and Design since 1985, he was chair of the department from 1997 through 2003 and has served on the University’s Academic Council, Faculty Senate, Arts and Letters College Council and numerous committees.
Father Collins earned his bachelor’s degree from Notre Dame, a master of divinity degree from the Graduate Theological Union and a master of fine arts degree from Claremont Graduate University. He was ordained a priest in the Congregation of Holy Cross, Notre Dame’s founding religious community, in 1982.
As a sculptor, Father Collins’ area of practice includes public art, large outdoor sculpture, installation art and liturgical art, often with a focus on political and social issues. His more than 140 exhibitions include works at Notre Dame and other universities nationwide as well as the Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park in Grand Rapids, Michigan. His sculptures also have been placed in 50 public and private collections, and he has delivered more than three dozen public lectures across the country.
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