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With our Catholic liberal arts heritage and over 100 degree programs, including nursing and marine biology, from bachelors through PhDs, we've got your options covered. Focus on arts and sciences, business, education, social work, communication, nursing, medical sciences, theology, or law. Take things further with personalized research and experiential learning opportunities, on and off-campus. Enhance your prospects with hands-on internships at some of the country's top organizations.

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The path to your perfect career begins with planning and support. Career Development has resources for you to help you make the most of your time at Barry. Guidance is just an appointment away.

Service-learning integrates relevant community service with course work and critical reflection to enrich the learning experience, foster social responsibility and civic engagement, and strengthen communities.

Service-Learning

The Honors Program at Barry is designed to challenge, enrich, and prepare especially motivated students to pursue their fullest potential. By participating in a rigorous curriculum rounded out by an array of edifying and interactive events, students explore crucial issues that we face in our daily lives. Students are given the space for discussion and debate and the opportunity to learn from experts in their fields. The Office of Financial Aid can assist with determining eligibility for the Honors Program.

The Monsignor William Barry Memorial Library is located in the center of the beautiful Miami Shores campus of Barry University. The Library is named in loving memory of Monsignor William Barry, one of the founders of Barry University and an inspirational figure in the Catholic Church within the Archdiocese of Miami. The extensive Library research collections include more than 950,000 physical items, over 40,000 print and on-line journal subscriptions, and several thousand on-line books and streaming video resources.

At Barry University, you will experience a small community atmosphere where you can always rely on our administrators and faculty for advice, encouragement and personal attention. We take great pride in giving individual attention from the very beginning. You can start building a personal relationship with one of our admissions counselors who will help answer any questions, and guide you through the entire admissions and enrollment process.

Continuing Education (CE) offers a variety of courses and non-credit programs designed to respond to the diverse educational interests and lifelong learning needs of individuals of all ages. We offer certificate, credential exam preparation, and licensure programs for professional and personal enrichment.

High school students: Get a jump-start on your college education with dual enrollment courses from Barry University! You can earn high school and college credit at the same time, right at your own school.

Dual Enrollment

We are committed to providing programs and services that are guided by Barry University's rich educational mission and intended to enhance your Barry experience. Through partnerships with others in the university community, we aim to create experiences that will help transform you into leaders for a just and humane world.

We are an NCAA Division II school and a member of the Sunshine State Conference with 12 varsity teams, including men's baseball, basketball, golf, soccer and tennis; and women's basketball, golf, rowing, soccer, softball, tennis and volleyball. So far, we've won 24 NCAA championships, had 338 All-Americans, 413 Scholar All-Americans, and nine NCAA "Women of the Year" finalists, the most of any Division II school. Not bad at all, but we're going for more.

Campus Life

For students currently enrolled in classes at Barry, we have a wealth of resources you can tap into to bring ease and efficiency to your university experience. Get the help you need with administrative or financial questions, or check out course catalogs to help plan your schedule by semester. All the information you need to excel is at your fingertips.

Dominican Life at Barry

Campus Ministry

Dominican Life at Barry

Barry University is a Catholic, coeducational institution with a history of distinction. Founded in 1940, the university is sponsored by the Dominican Sisters of Adrian, Michigan. This dynamic religious order emphasizes study, contemplation, preaching, and community; these pillars of their religious life have led them to a vibrant spirituality, vigorous academic pursuits, and a strong commitment to make the world a more just place. Open to the faith perspectives of all, our Catholic, Dominican foundation calls us to create an educational environment that is caring, that recognizes each person's gifts, and that incorporates the religious dimension and community service into daily life. This perspective will add insight and depth to your undergraduate or graduate education.

A Barry education is an educational experience grounded in purpose-a wonderful thing to find in what is often a scattered world. Our goal is to help you fulfill your potential and dreams. We see every career as a vocation, enabling you to become the person you were meant to be, improving your life and that of others.

The Roots of the Dominican Way of Life

The Dominicans, or the Order of Preachers, owe their origin and name to St. Dominic of Guzman, a priest born in Caleruega, in the Province of Burgos (Spain). Established on December 22, 1216, by Pope Honorius III, this new Order was an answer to the needs of the Church in the 13th century. It represented a new approach, a new form of apostolic life called "The Holy Preaching." It was tailored for proclaiming the Word of God to a world in need of sound spiritual guidance and direction. The Dominican Sisters and Friars who have served and continue to serve at Barry University belong to a worldwide family of over 35,000 sisters of apostolic life, 3,500 nuns, 6,000 friars, and over 90,000 lay women and men who together comprise the Dominican family.

Dominican Sisters of Adrian, Michigan

The Dominican Sisters of Adrian, Michigan are an international congregation of more than 800 vowed women religious and associates whose roots go back to St. Dominic in the 13th century. They trace their beginnings to Holy Cross Convent, a house of enclosed contemplative nuns in Regensburg (Ratisbon), Germany founded twelve years after St. Dominic's death in 1221.

In the mid-nineteenth century, four sisters from Holy Cross Convent were sent to the United States where they founded the Convent of the Most Holy Rosary in New York City. In 1879 the need for teachers brought the first nuns to Michigan where their numbers continued to grow. In 1923, the Congregation formally separated from New York and began to flourish. Its new Motherhouse was established in Adrian, Michigan

The sisters are engaged in a variety of ministries that include education, healthcare and social services in their traditional forms as well as others that have developed from them. Among these are law, community organization, works of peace and justice, administration, counseling, pastoral care, retreats and spiritual formation, campus ministry, liturgy, preaching, and ministries in the arts.

In addition to their continued sponsorship and involvement in Barry University, the Adrian Dominicans also sponsor Siena Heights University, St. Joseph Academy and Weber Retreat and Conference Center in Adrian, Michigan; Dominican Hospital in Santa Cruz, California; St. Rose Dominican Hospital in Henderson, Nevada; Regina Dominican High School in Wilmette, Illinois; Rosarian Academy in West Palm Beach, Florida and a network of Literacy Centers across the nation.

For more information on the life and mission of the Dominican Sisters and Associates of Adrian, Michigan please go to www.adriandominicans.org. If you are interested in discerning a vocation to religious life as an Adrian Dominican Sister, please contact our Vocation Director, Sister Durstyne Farnan, OP at DFarnan@adriandominicans.org

Dominican Sister of Adrian, Michigan

The Dominican Sisters of Adrian, Michigan are an international congregation of more than 800 vowed women religious and associates whose roots go back to St. Dominic in the 13th century. They trace their beginnings to Holy Cross Convent, a house of enclosed contemplative nuns in Regensburg (Ratisbon), Germany founded twelve years after St. Dominic's death in 1221.

St. Martin de Porres was chosen as the patron of the province because of his legacy of serving the poor and bridging the divisions of races, cultures and classes in Spanish Colonial Peru of the 16th century. A similar diversity reflects the demographics of the Province today.

With its headquarters in Metairie, Louisiana, the Southern Dominican Province includes 115 members serving in an area encompassing eleven southern states. Inspired by its patron's service to all of God's people, the friars are involved in pastoral and sacramental ministries, in secondary and university teaching and administration, in parish and campus ministries, in hospital and prison chaplaincies, as spiritual directors and pastoral counselors, as well as in film, media, and the internet. For more information regarding the Southern Dominican Province, please go to www.opsouth.org. If you are interested in discerning a vocation to Dominican religious life as a priest or lay brother, please contact our vocation director at www.dominicanvocations.com.

Dominicans at Barry

Sister Linda Bevilacqua, OP, PhD
President Emerita

CAMPUS MINISTRY

Father Cristobal Torres, OP, MSW, MA
University Chaplain

Gerard Austin, OP. STD

DEPARTMENT OF THEOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHY

Father Jorge Presmanes, OP, DMin.
Assistant Professor

Sister Mary Frances Fleischaker, OP, DMin
Theology Lecturer

Father Jose David Padilla, OP, SThD
Assistant Professor of Theology, New Testament
Director, Master of Arts in Practical Theology and Ministry

SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Sister Ellen Rice, OP, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Institutional Advancement

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