Great Things at UDM

More than 90 courses across the University incorporate Service Learning in classes, resulting in course-related, direct services to the poor and marginalized in our community. Throughout the school year, approximately 1,800 UDM student volunteers provide service in conjunction with approximately 140 community service agencies.

The School of Architecture’s Detroit Collaborative Design Center is recognized worldwide for its exemplary work in community-based design.  Their current work as leaders of the community engagement process for the Detroit Works project for the city of Detroit is receiving excellent feedback and promises to be groundbreaking in the field of urban design for post-industrial cities.

UDM remains the only private institution in Michigan with AACSB International accreditation. This is the highest accreditation obtainable by business programs, placing UDM’s business program in the top 5 percent of business schools worldwide.

The School of Dentistry increased its first-year class size from 96 to 144 students  (two cohorts of 72 students) for fall term 2012. To support the increase in students, the School enhanced its facilities with the addition a new simulation laboratory and 21 operatories.

In the past two years, several new E&S degree program options have been added:

• Architectural Engineering (new in 2011)
• Robotics and Mechatronic Systems Engineering – one of only five programs in the nation
• New Bachelor of Engineering program with focus in Environmental Engineering for international students from China
• Advanced Electric Vehicle Certificate program, now available online
• Master’s Program in Mathematics Education (MATM) now available online.

Professor of Nursing Carla Groh is the co-recipient of the 2012 UDM Distinguished Faculty Award and Associate Professor of Nursing Molly McClelland received the 2012 Faculty Achievement Award.

Undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral level students in Psychology have received authorships in a variety of academic journals.

The UDM School of Law provides legal outreach services to approximately 2,100 clients through the following community clinics:

• Appellate Advocacy Clinic--State Appellate Defenders' Office
• Criminal Trial Clinic
• Immigration Law
• Juvenile Law Appellate Clinic
• Mediation Training and Clinic
• Mortgage Foreclosure Defense Clinic
• Urban Law Clinic
• Veterans' Appellate Clinic
• Veterans' Law
• Youth Justice Clinic

In December 2012, the clinics will be housed in the former historic No. 2 firehouse adjacent to the Riverfront Campus; the facility is now known as the George J. Asher Law Clinic Center in the Walter Buhl Ford III Hall.

241 student-athletes earned Athletic Director’s Honor Roll accolades, recognizing those who had attained a 3.0 GPA during one of the semesters during 2011 academic year.

• Total Number of Student-Athletes with a 3.0 or above: 183 (65%)
• Total Number of Student-Athletes with a 3.5 or above: 104 (37%)