L'Institut de pastorale des Dominicains in Montreal offers, in French, programs in pastoral or liturgical theology or in catechism, leading to university certificates and bachelor's degrees.
The institute consists of ten professors and two staff.
The director and registrar is Denis Gagnon.
The motto is "C'est l'université à taille humaine" (This is the university with a human dimension)
2019 crisis
Near the end of 2019, under serious financial stress, a conflict developed between the institute and the college, and the director was fired, as well as the interim director later. Two teachers resigned as consequence as well as the dean of the theology faculty.[1][2]