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The University's Institutions
Notre Dame Federal Credit Union — Room 329 of the Main Building
1941 – present
The founding: Notre Dame Federal Credit Union was founded in May 1941 by Lou Buckley and John Sheehan, two university men who judged that the people who worked at Notre Dame needed a lender of their own. It opened in Room 329 of…
Notre Dame's fifty-million-dollar cluster: a school founded, financial aid endowed, a democracy institute, and a gift shared with the founding order
2014–2025
The Keough gifts: On 1 October 2014 the university announced the first new college or school it had founded in nearly a century — the Donald R. Keough School of Global Affairs — made possible, with the construction of Jenkins…
Notre Dame's earlier ladder: the gifts each era called the largest
1979–2003
The ladder: The university's own announcement of the Mendoza gift preserved the ladder as it stood in March 2000, and this section prints it as the baseline of everything above. In 1979 the Kellogg Foundation gave 10 million…
The universities' money: no local foundations, by design
Indiana University Foundation 1936; Notre Dame and Saint Mary's hold their own
The survey: The institutions of higher learning in the Notre Dame section of this history are themselves among the largest nonprofits in Indiana, and — unlike the public schools — none of them keeps its charitable money in a…
Notre Dame's Hesburgh Library
1963–1987 — the university's library, summarized here
The boundary note: The county's largest library is not the county's. Fourteen stories above the Notre Dame campus stands the Hesburgh Library, opened on 18 September 1963 as the university's Memorial Library and renamed in 1987…
At the boundary — the university museums
Notre Dame's collection from 1875 — the Raclin Murphy opened 1 December 2023
The boundary stated: The region's largest art museum does not stand in South Bend. It stands on the University of Notre Dame's campus, in the unincorporated Notre Dame district east of the city line, and it is printed here at the…
The university's honors, in one boundary paragraph
1883 — the present
The boundary: The University of Notre Dame keeps an honors record of its own — its Laetare Medal, awarded since 1883 to an American Catholic and described by the university as the oldest and most prestigious honor of its kind in…
The University of Notre Dame Archives and the Hesburgh Libraries
Notre Dame, Indiana — the university's archive, in the unincorporated community of the same name
The Archives: the University of Notre Dame Archives (UNDA) is the official repository of the university's papers and of much that surrounds it, and the Notre Dame files of this history stand on its published apparatus: the…