Albertus Magnus College Opens the Meister Eckhart Center for Catholic and Dominican Life
Meet Inaugural Director at Open House and First Event
New Haven, Conn., October 5, 2021 – Albertus Magnus College invites you the Open House and initial programming of the
new Meister Eckhart Center for Catholic and Dominican Life. The mission of the Eckhart
Center will be to engage the community in dialogue by integrating the Dominican values
of contemplation and action with the call to promote a more just and more peaceful
world. The idea for the Center was identified by Albertus faculty, staff, and Board
of Trustee members in the College’s strategic plan, Albertus 2025: Lighting the Way
to a Second Century, which was endorsed in March 2020. Seed funding for the Center
was made possible earlier this year by a momentous $1,000,000 gift from the College’s
sponsoring Congregation, the Dominican Sisters of Peace, who are slated to attend
the official grand opening ceremony in March 2022.
To help launch that official opening, Albertus will host the following events: What:
Meister Eckhart Center Open House
When: Tuesday, October 12, 2021 from 4-5 pm
Where: Eckhart Center, Rosary Hall, 700 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT
And
What: “How to be an Urban Mystic: Introducing the Meister Eckhart Center”
Who: Edward D. Dunar, Ph.D., Director of the Meister Eckhart Center
When: Wednesday, October 20, 2021 at 5pm
Where: Behan Community Room at the Hubert Campus Center 
About Edward D. Dunar, Ph.D., director of the Meister Eckhart Center for Catholic and Dominican Life: Dr. Dunar
joins Albertus as the Director of the Meister Eckhart Center and a lecturer in the
Department of Philosophy and Religion. He recently received his Ph.D. in Systematic
Theology from Fordham University and has published articles on ecclesiology, Catholic
Social Thought, and religion and cities. He earned his Master of Divinity from Harvard
Divinity School and his bachelor’s degree from Yale University. A resident of New
Haven since 2015, Dunar is looking forward to building bridges between the College
and the surrounding community.
About Albertus Magnus College
Founded in 1925, Albertus is a coeducational Catholic College in the Dominican tradition. Albertus' values- and liberal arts-based education is recognized by external rankings such as US News & World Report, Money, and The New York Times, and has been named a Top 10 Military Friendly School. For ten consecutive years, at least 95% of Albertus graduates have attained employment or gone on to graduate studies within six months of completing their degrees. The College has an enrollment of approximately 1,300 students across its traditional undergraduate, accelerated adult undergraduate, and graduate program levels. Proud to enroll a student body where nearly half of its undergraduate students receive Federal Pell Grants and are first-generation college goers, Albertus is known for its innovative curricular offerings, recently launching new Bachelor's degree programs in Nursing, including BSN and Connecticut's first LPN-to-BSN; General Health Sciences; Interdisciplinary Studies; and Public Health.
Among its graduate offerings is the State of Connecticut's only Master of Arts in Art Therapy and Counseling program, and it is just one of three schools to offer a Master of Science in Human Services. In 2025-26, Albertus is celebrating its historic 100th Anniversary and completing implementation of the Albertus 2025: Lighting the Way to a Second Century strategic plan, with a bold vision to "be a destination liberal arts-based college, distinguished in its interdisciplinary and experiential approach to education, rooted in Dominican values, that prepares students for lifelong civic engagement and success." To learn more, please visit albertus.edu.