“We had other needs, and those needs were met. “These students are facing a lot more to achieve success,” said Marty. To their classmates, the Whites want to emphasize that the challenges they faced as college students in the 1980s seem to have been very different from what students are facing today. It’s not only a benefit to the individual student but a benefit to the community all students benefit from having a healthy community. Another thing that research tells you is that this impacts retention. “There is an increase in students who say they’re facing crises, not just at UD but everywhere.
“As a consultant, I rely a lot on data and science,” said Jean. This integrated focus on overall health is more essential now than ever, with mental health continuing to present a concern all across the country – particularly among college-age adults, who are dealing with the stress of transition in tandem with other challenges, such as a global pandemic and extreme political polarization and unrest, that previous generations did not face in quite the same way. This embrace of the whole person, of course, circles back around to the One Body, One Spirit campaign and its purpose of providing support for the whole person. “A lot of schools might say they do this, but UD puts it into practice.”
UD embraces all those pieces – body, spirit, intellect – and I do think that’s unique,” she added. “All of this contributes to the ability to be successful in life. She says that UD’s emphasis on lifelong learning is about the whole person, not just intellectual or technical skills.
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“Our educational background – what we learned at UD about embracing new ideas, how to constantly learn, not having only one skill set – allowed us to have a life of learning,” said Jean. The Whites also feel that the opportunities they were given through their families and the financial aid and other resources provided by UD – their education not the least of these – are what enabled them to give back in this way to the institution and community that helped form them.
For the Whites, this is one of the unique and important qualities of the University of Dallas: the lasting friendships that still serve as great sources of support three and a half decades later. In honor of their class’s 35th reunion last fall, the Whites reached out to their classmates to tell them of their initial $35,000 investment and offer $70,000 in matching funds to incentivize others in the class to join them in the initiative, which many are doing. “They recognize that we only flourish when we integrate the intellectual with the moral and theological virtues, and their generosity enables us to promote that integration more effectively in our students." "I am tremendously grateful to Jean and Marty White for their generosity in promoting one of the fundamental pillars of our approach to education: the education of the whole person,” said Sanford. This endowment would provide for all students to have access to health services that embrace the mission of the university and also serve as a learning lab for both undergraduate and graduate students in the physical and health sciences as well as in counseling and psychology. As they worked together, the idea of the One Body, One Spirit Endowment was born, with the ultimate goal of providing more resources to assist students with both physical and mental health needs. Sanford, shortly after he assumed the presidency a little over a year ago. With this need in mind, the Whites began collaborating with UD’s 10th president, Jonathan J. With COVID, much had to be focused on physical health, but now we need to look at how to also enrich spiritual and mental health.” Jean White added, “As parents, you want your children to have resources. “As parents, like many in the Class of 1986 are, we’re really kind of front and center in seeing that there need to be more resources for mental health.” “Between COVID and everything else happening in the world, the level of stress and discomfort is really tough for college students,” said Marty White. When Trustee Jean (Daudelin) and Marty White, both BA ’86, considered how the resources of their classmates and themselves might best be put to use at the University of Dallas, they approached the problem as parents.
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