For the personal use of teachers. Not for sale or redistribution. The University of Notre Dame is a university in the process of making the transition from an undergraduate liberal arts teaching college to a top 20 research university. The majority of students live in residential halls, segregated by sex and supervised by a nun or a priest. There are daily masses in the dorms, and across the campus.
Every classroom has a crucifix, and the school year is opened by a mass.
It is not uncommon for students to attend mass or a religious service 2-4 times a week. The university is in the midst of defining what it means to try to create what it hopes will be a university distinguished by its commitment to Catholic character. At an administrative level this discussion is sometimes translated as hiring more Catholics. The discussion sometimes seems to call into question the limits of academic freedom. There is some uncertainty on the campus, particularly among non-Catholic junior faculty, whether beliefs which are at odds with pontifical views of reproduction, the ordination of women, and human sexuality can be introduced into classroom discussions.