Student Life
The Dominican University of California campus environment is the result of efforts by a group of determined and thoughtful people to define a space that meets the community's needs. It is an on-going effort and one that reflects the best traditions of past Dominican communities.
Dominican students get to know and appreciate the uniqueness and worth of other students. The community they create reflects their diversity. They come from all over California, other states, and other parts of the world. Many students come directly to the University from high school while others come back to school after long absences. While approximately forty percent of the students identify themselves as Roman Catholic, the campus has many ecumenical activities and students of all religious traditions and political ideologies are welcome and represented on campus.
Dominican students enjoy the intimacy of a small university yet have easy access to the resources of Marin County and the greater San Francisco Bay Area. Marin County offers hills for hiking, redwood forests and ocean shorelines for walking, and, in general, a life-style unsurpassed anywhere. Only eleven miles south of campus is the Golden Gate Bridge, connecting Marin to San Francisco. This cosmopolitan city provides cultural opportunities and urban excitement to those seeking enrichment and adventure. Students are a short distance from world-renowned opera, symphonies, ballet, museums, and championship athletic teams. The San Francisco Giants and Forty-Niners, the Oakland A’s, Raiders, and Golden State Warriors are five of the teams who call the Bay Area home. Dominican is also within an hour’s drive of California’s wine country and Silicon Valley.
The Office of Student Life coordinates many of the services that support the University’s educational mission and enrich students’ personal, social, physical, spiritual, and professional development. A dynamic range of programs and activities is continuously developed to respond to students’ changing needs and interests in areas including career development, academic support, campus ministry, housing, counseling, athletics, health and wellness, and student activities. Committed to working closely and directly with students, the Office of Student Life places particular emphasis on student government, leadership development, and student-run activities, including community service.
