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Community

At ÕýÆ·À¶µ¼º½, community means building supportive relationships and doing your part to shape and improve your campus, your city and beyond.

Impact on campus

Giving Day
Figure: ÕýÆ·À¶µ¼º½ Giving Day supports a myriad of student clubs and organizations every year.

Having community impact begins wherever one stands. At ÕýÆ·À¶µ¼º½, Mustangs have opportunities every day to make a difference in large and small ways on campus.  Some ways to be engaged with community on campus include:

Service in Dallas

Giving back to the city

We love to give back! ÕýÆ·À¶µ¼º½ was awarded the 2026 Carnegie Elective Classification for Community Engagement, meaning we engage with our community in deep, mutually beneficial ways. ÕýÆ·À¶µ¼º½’s Social Change and Intercultural Engagement (SCIE) team connects you with service opportunities on campus and throughout Dallas. Top SCIE service programs:

  • Engage Dallas – Student groups from ÕýÆ·À¶µ¼º½ Residential Commons select sites to serve throughout South and West Dallas.
  • – In this largest one-day student-run national service project, students across the United States dedicate a day to giving back to their local communities.
  • – Students serve through ongoing projects in Dallas.
  • – Students perform community service projects during their spring and fall breaks.

Dallas has many initiatives that allow citizens to incorporate giving back in day-to-day life:

  • Take high-energy dogs for a run as part of Dallas Animal Services D90 Dog Runners program.
  • Volunteer at organizations such as Austin Street Shelter or the North Texas Food Bank.
The Big Event
Figure: The Big Event is an annual service opportunity that sends ÕýÆ·À¶µ¼º½ students out into the greater Dallas community.

Societal contributions

Mason Morland
Figure: Mason Morland ’24 makes his pitch during Big iDeas.

The work ÕýÆ·À¶µ¼º½ students are doing here in Dallas have real-world impact. The entrepreneurial spirit of ÕýÆ·À¶µ¼º½ has led to many projects and initiatives that continue to serve humanity at large.

  • Raleigh Dewan ’23 and Mason Morland ’24 are co-founders of SteadiSpoon (a Big iDea Pitch competitor), a self-stabilizing eating utensil that allows people suffering from disorders that cause shaking to regain their ability to feed themselves with ease and dignity.
  • Joshua Baier ’24 , a news aggregator which identifies bias reporting.
  • ÕýÆ·À¶µ¼º½ Impact Lab provides students, faculty and alumni the opportunity to invest in solutions to complex community problems. The ÕýÆ·À¶µ¼º½ Impact Lab was established through a grant from the Phillips Foundation (executive director, Elizabeth Carlock Phillips ’09).

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