University of Detroit Mercy

University of Detroit Mercy's origin dates back to 1877 with the founding of Detroit College near downtown Detroit by the Society of Jesus , under the leadership of John Baptist Miège . [ 4 ] The college became the University of Detroit in 1911, [ 5 ] [ 6 ] and in 1927 John P. McNichols , the then-president, established a second campus. In 1941, the Sisters of Mercy opened Mercy College of Detroit. In 1990, these two institutions consolidated to become University of Detroit Mercy . The school appointed Donald Taylor as its 26th president in July 2022. [ 7 ]

University of Detroit Mercy McNichols Campus The University of Detroit Mercy comprises seven colleges and schools: School of Architecture and Community Development, College of Business Administration , School of Dentistry, College of Engineering & Science, College of Health Professions/McAuley School of Nursing, School of Law , and the College of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences. The university has three campuses in the city of Detroit and one in Novi, Michigan , northwest of Detroit. [ 8 ] The main campus is on the southeast corner of McNichols Road and Livernois Avenue, in northwest Detroit (near the University District , Pilgrim Village and Palmer Woods neighborhoods). The majority of the university's undergraduate and graduate programs are offered on this campus, as well as the university's main administration and athletic facilities like Calihan Hall . It is also the location of all six student residence halls. The university's Riverfront Campus in downtown Detroit hosts the School of Law, and its Corktown Campus hosts the School of Dentistry and Dental Clinic. Aside from Detroit Mercy's own campuses, the university offers undergraduate and graduate programs at Macomb University Center [ 9 ] in Clinton Township, Michigan . Detroit Mercy has also partnered with Aquinas College and St. Mary Mercy Hospital in Grand Rapids, Michigan to offer a Nursing prelicensure program. [ 10 ] A former campus at 8200 West Outer Drive in Detroit was home to Mercy College of Detroit from 1941 until consolidation in 1990. [ 11 ] As part of University of Detroit Mercy, the Outer Drive Campus hosted Detroit Mercy's Dentistry Clinic starting in 1997. [ 12 ] The college agreed to sell the Outer Drive Campus to WCCCD in 2003, [ 13 ] and the Detroit Mercy School of Dentistry and Clinic moved to the Corktown Campus in January 2008. [ 14 ]

Detroit Mercy's most popular undergraduate majors, in terms of 2021 graduates were Registered Nursing/Registered Nurse , Biology/Biological Sciences , Business Administration & Management , Architectural and Building Sciences , Dental Hygiene/Hygienist , Mechanical Engineering . [ 15 ] Black Abolitionist Archive The Black Abolitionist Archive is a digital collection of over 800 speeches by antebellum African Americans including 14,000 documents, an extensive microfilm library, a clipping file, a library of scholarly books, articles, and dissertations providing a portrait of black involvement in the anti-slavery movement. [ 16 ] Dr. James O. Horton of the Smithsonian Institution's Afro-American Communities Project has called it "the most extensive primary source collection on antebellum black activism." [ 16 ]

The Padre Guadalupe Carney Latin American Solidarity Archive (CLASA) contains a collection of Spanish and English books, human rights reports, independent newspapers and newsletters, and social justice papers representing more than 25 years of work by individuals and organizations working in solidarity to aid the people of Latin America. [ 17 ]