Undergraduate Catalog 2007-2008
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Campus Life and Services

Students at UDM are invited and encouraged to become fully engaged in the life of the University community which occurs beyond the classroom. Programs and services are offered on the McNichols campus and open to students.

Student handbooks and brochures which describe the specific policies, regulations, services, organizations, activities, hours of operation and events are available and distributed on campus and available on the UDM website (www.udmercy.edu.) on the Student Life page. Additional information may be obtained from the Student Life Office or the appropriate office providing the service.

Student Organizations and Activities

The University offers year round activities and opportunities for social, personal, intellectual and professional growth and involvement. Special events such as lectures, picnics, receptions and athletic contests offer the opportunity for students, faculty and administrators to gather and meet informally. From orientation through commencement, a wide range of events are available to all.

More than 70 organizations welcome student involvement. Fraternities and sororities, honor societies, pre-professional clubs, international and ethnic associations, etc., promote the growth of their members and offer both social activities and informational/educational programs open to the campus community at large.

Campus media include a student newspaper, magazines, literary journals and an on-campus radio station. These organizations inform the campuses while providing relevant professional experience to those who participate.

Co-curricular programs are offered by the offices of Residence Life, Student Life, International Services, University Ministry and other university organizations. Lectures and seminars offered on campus are of personal, professional and academic interest.

Intercollegiate & Intramural Athletic Opportunities

Intercollegiately, the Titans are the only NCAA Division I program in the City of Detroit and have a proud tradition of athletic and academic excellence. Currently, men’s teams compete in basketball, cross country, fencing, golf, indoor and outdoor track and soccer. Women’s varsity teams include basketball, cross country, fencing, golf, softball, indoor and outdoor track, soccer and tennis. Both the men’s and women’s teams compete in the Horizon League.

Any full-time student is encouraged to try out for a varsity team if he or she so desires. Opportunities also exist for participation in the Titan pep band or on the cheerleading and dance squad. Tryouts are held prior to each varsity season and further information is available from the respective head coach or by calling the Athletic Department at (313) 993-1700.

UDM students are also encouraged to enjoy Titan Athletics by attending games. Admission to all home athletic events is free to students with a valid UDM ID card. Further information is available by contacting the Calihan Hall ticket manager.

For recreational enthusiasts, Calihan Hall offers a number of facilities for students. Located on the McNichols Campus, Calihan houses the popular Larry Bleach Fitness Center, the Thelma Fox Murray Indoor Running Track, racquetball courts, and an auxiliary gymnasium. Outdoor facilities include fields for touch football, soccer, and softball, as well as basketball, tennis and volleyball courts.

An intramural program is available. Depending on interest, numerous team sports, intramural competitions and physical fitness activities are offered, including: aerobics, softball, floor hockey, volleyball, basketball, racquetball, walleyball and soccer.

Facilities

The Student Center offers a variety of services for use by students. Dining facilities provide a wide range of choices from a snack to a full meal. The fully stocked bookstore carries both new and used texts, supplies, greeting cards, apparel and snacks. Lounge areas are available for conversation or quiet study. Gamesrooms offer pool, ping-pong and table games for those who wish to pass the time in recreation.

Many buildings have study lounges and food vending areas for students on a short break between classes. The McNichols library provides excellent environments for quiet study, reading, writing and research.

Libraries/Instructional Design Studio

The McNichols Campus Library, School of Dentistry Library, the Instructional Design Studio, and the Kresge Law Library provide access to print, media, and electronic collections and Blackboard course development and design services to the University community.

More than one-half million volumes, 5,000 leading law, literary, health, social science, scientific and professional print journals, over 44,900 electronic journals, 46,900 audiovisual items, and a collection of over 90,000 U.S. Federal and State government documents comprise the libraries' collections. Media resources include videotapes, DVDs, compact discs, books-on-tape, slides, and multi-media kits.

All library facilities and services are open to registered students, faculty, staff and administrators. Librarians are available in each library to assist patrons in conducting their research. Librarians provide instruction in research techniques, and answer questions sent electronically to "email a Librarian" or "24/7 Reference." SearchQuest, an online research tutorial covers how to search for, evaluate, and select appropriate academic information. To check out materials, a validated student ID/library card is required.

Libraries/IDS maintains the UDM Re:Search portal (http://research.udmercy.edu) of 55 academic discipline pages and four mission initiatives (catholic, social justice, sustainable communities, and diversity). Each page contains subject-specific resources including online databases of full-text articles, selected bibliographies of core materials owned by the libraries, links to resources available through the World Wide Web, lists of new materials acquired, and links to professional associations. Each discipline page also offers an eJournal feed of weekly refreshed articles related to the disciplines that are available in full-text on the Internet. The portal provides access to UDM's special collections, the catalogs of the UDM and DALNET libraries' resources and services, and links to a number of other catalogs.

The libraries' databases allow students to directly search online for full-text periodical articles. These electronic delivery systems include indexes in art, business, education, nursing, social sciences, science and technology, humanities, and law. Full-text articles can be found in over 44,900 journals, magazines, and newspapers. Electronic journal collections include biomedical, mental health, nursing, engineering, humanities, women's issues, social sciences, and business titles. The databases contain citations to journal articles, dissertations, patents, technical meetings and papers and books covering current research in all the academic disciplines. Electronic connection to the Internet provides additional access to research materials worldwide.

The Kresge Law Library offers access to specialized collections in American and International law. The Library's online catalog, Murphy, is accessible from each of the other University libraries. Loan periods, circulation policies and hours of service are distinctive for this library.

The Instructional Design Studio provides leadership in the use of technology in classroom presentations and course development and design. IDS services include web-site design, digital graphic and video production, digital content conversion, podcasting, and distance learning classroom support. IDS serves as an active advocate for the use of media and technology for teaching and learning through training, providing access to tools and information on how to use technology, and creation of materials for teaching and learning.

The University Libraries are a member of DALNET an automation network composed of eighteen major Detroit area libraries. The network includes a joint online public catalog of over two million volumes and direct access to three million additional volumes, circulation information, and image databases. Students from each institution have access to the resources of the other institutions through the use of the online catalog and can determine whether a volume is checked out. In addition, the libraries have access to more than one billion items in the collections of over 61,000 member libraries located in 112 countries through OCLC (the Online Computer Library Center) an international computer network.

Information Technology Services (ITS)

Information Technology Services (ITS) provides the computing environment for the academic and administrative departments of the University.

ITS computing labs provide on-campus access to micro-computers for students to use the Internet or academic-related courseware. For students bringing a personal notebook to campus, wireless access is available in many locations. For resident students, high-speed connectivity is available in every dorm room. An on-campus helpdesk offers phone support as needed.

For the convenience of students, a web-based self-service feature called UDM Weblink provides online access to a number of administrative services, including class registration, grade reports and academic histories.

Each student is eligible for a free University web-based e-mail account, file storage account and web publishing account. Email accounts are generally assigned upon entry to the University. Account applications are available in any ITS Computing lab.

Students are also eligible for significant academic hardware and software discounts from local and national businesses.

ITS - Administrative Services manages the student information and financial databases. This system is utilized by all academic departments for registration, grades, transcripts and other student records. Students are assigned an account during their first term at the University. Account information is mailed out monthly to all new students. This account can be used by students for online access to change their address information, register for classes, view academic history and view grades.

The University provides wireless access in all classroom buildings, the residence halls and most points on campus. Online and semi-online courses are offered through our local Blackboard server. Telecommunications and audio-visual classroom support are also managed by ITS.

For more information, please visit http://it.udmercy.edu.

Research Programs and Centers

Special research facilities are available in Engineering & Science. Chemistry has extensive modern instrumentation, NMR, ESR, several UV-visible, infrared, and atomic absorption spectrometers; a differential thermal analyzer, a Gouy balance; a solution calorimeter; and equipment for photochemical and kinetic work.

Biology is housed in the fully-equipped Life Sciences Building with teaching and research labs for faculty and students; preparation, animal, aquarium, isotope and instrumentation rooms; greenhouse, photographic labs.

Engineering, besides its own research facilities, is affiliated with the Environmental Research Institute of Michigan and local industrial research labs. Notable on-campus facilities include the magnetic resonance laboratory, the Manufacturing Institute, and an automotive center with both an automotive electronics laboratory and an engine laboratory.

The Psychology Clinic serves the adult Detroit metropolitan community with psychotherapy on a sliding fee scale. It also provides closely-supervised experiences for clinical Ph.D. students.

The Psychology Laboratory provides facilities for experimental and observational research with individuals and groups, including full audio/video monitoring capabilities.

The Child Psychodiagnostic Clinic provides diagnostic services and treatments for children with educational and behavioral problems. It also provides supervised experience for psychology students.

Parking Facilities

There are ample, lighted and patrolled parking facilities on the McNichols Campus. Parking permits, issued by the Titan Information Center (TIC) in the Student Center, are required of all students, faculty and staff. Parking rules and regulations are available from the TIC. Unauthorized parking may result in the issuance of tickets which are charged to the student’s account. Repeated violations or unsafe operation of a vehicle may result in the loss of driving privileges on campus.

Residence Life

Living on campus is an attractive option for many students. University residence halls offer a safe community environment which encourages academic success, personal growth and social development. Resident students are best able to become fully involved in the academic, organizational and social life of the University community.

The residence hall system can provide housing for approximately 850 students. Most accommodations are doubles. Single rooms cannot be guaranteed and are offered on a space available basis.

The McNichols Campus includes six residence halls located on the south end of campus, a short walk from all campus facilities. McNichols residence halls offer both traditional and suite-style living arrangements.

All residence halls feature furnished lounges with large screen televisions, study lounges, laundry facilities, and vending machines. Adjacent to the halls are volleyball and basketball courts.

The residence halls are staffed by Residence directors and resident assistants. These professional and paraprofessional staff members are selected and trained to support and assist the residents. Every residence hall has at least one resident assistant on duty at all times. The paraprofessional staff are supervised and trained by a staff of three full-time professionals. In addition to the residence hall staff, a member of the University Ministry team also lives in the residence halls.

Throughout the year, a variety of programs and social activities are offered in the residence halls. Movie nights, ice cream socials, personal safety seminars, time management workshops, Halloween and Christmas parties are among the many programs offered. Groups of residents often arrange theater outings and vacation or weekend trips to off-campus attractions.

The First Year Experience Program is designed for new first-year students. The program provides the support and attention often needed to help these students succeed and excel in their university careers. A specially trained and selected staff provide ongoing study skills and social and recreational activities designed to integrate students into the life of the University community.

Board plans are required of all students living in the University residence halls except for residents of West Quad, which has cooking facilities. Board plan participants may eat in the designated facilities.

Health and Counseling

The University of Detroit Mercy maintains a Health Center on the McNichols Campus. The Health Center offers free, limited health care to all full-time and part-time UDM students. The Health Center is staffed by Nurse Practitioners under the supervision of medical staff from Providence Hospital. Urgent cases, X-rays, laboratory tests, and serious illnesses are referred to specialists and other appropriate medical personnel as necessary.

The University offers a comprehensive health insurance plan to all students who do not have sufficient coverage. Information on this insurance is mailed to students each summer. All residential and international students are required to have medical insurance.

Personal Counseling services are available on the McNichols campus. A full-time licensed counselor is available to assist students with the personal problems that they may encounter. Longer term psychological assistance is available to students and the community through the Psychology Clinic. All counseling contacts are treated as personal and confidential. Students who need assistance should contact the counselor or clinic directly.

Public Safety

Public Safety operates on a 24-hour basis, year round. Public Safety is charged with assuring the safety and security of all persons, property and facilities on University property. Public Safety personnel patrol buildings, walkways, parking lots, control access to campus by motor vehicles and respond to any safety emergencies. Campus Escort Services are provided in the evening hours by request. All patrol personnel are equipped with two-way radios.

In addition to safety and security functions, the Public Safety Offices offer a number of programs and services each term to assist in crime prevention. Campus Crime Watch, auto etching, Operation Identification, as well as programs on self-protection and rape prevention, are among those offered to students.

The University of Detroit Mercy Public Safety Department includes police commissioned public safety officers, community service officers, parking attendants and student auxiliary officers. Public safety officers have the same powers as any police officer. They may take preliminary crime and accident reports, make arrests and issue tickets for violations of state laws and city ordinances. Public Safety personnel work closely with the Detroit Police Department’s Twelfth and Eighth Precincts and the Crime Prevention Section.

Emergencies on either campus should be reported to the Public Safety Office by calling (313) 993-1123. They will respond and summon Emergency Medical Services, Fire or Police as necessary.

Community Service Opportunities

University of Detroit Mercy’s Leadership Development Institute (LDI) encourages students to learn in ways that are deeply rooted in the University’s Jesuit and Mercy traditions. This includes a call to live productive, effective lives that are inspired by an attentive connection with the world. LDI provides students with opportunities to serve in the community and strengthen their sense of giftedness and mission.

LDI’s learning model is Kolb’s Learning Cycle that not only engages students in real-world experience and reflection, but in social analysis and opportunities to try to make changes in society while learning from the effort. Three LDI programs provide these opportunities: Service-Learning, Leadership-in-Service, and Learning for a Change.

Service-Learning is offered through 25 or more regular courses each semester that engage students in direct service to people in difficulty. Book-learning makes more sense when combined with life-learning. Service-Learning courses are identified as such in the online catalogue and on the LDI website, http://www.udmercy.edu/ldi .

The Leadership-in-Service Program provides students with several “Tracks” to combine direct community service with reflection and leadership skill development. By leading a social change program in their final year, Medallion winners leave UDM not only with the requisite skills to lead, but the personal experiences that both inspire service and provide leadership experience in the company of other servant-leaders. Tracks include a two-year campus-based program followed by a year of service leadership in a partner agency or community change project.

Learning for a Change (LFAC) invites students and other members of the University to join with community partners in increasing the public and political will to end injustices through sustainable strategies for change. The first program in the series, the Shelter & Home Initiative (SHI), applies the LFAC model of focus, collaboration, real service, and real learning to the problem of homelessness. SHI provides Homelessness Service Opportunities, Homeless Exhibit Fairs, evening Social Analysis Seminars, and a closing Advocacy Partnership Engagement Workshop to provide students and others with ways of engaging in real change by joining those already working effectively in society.

Viewpoints and Plunge Weekend Service Projects are group projects in late summer and on Saturdays in fall and winter that are planned and coordinated by LDI. LDI also supports and encourages Alternative Spring Break, Hunger Week, the Student Volunteer Center, and other service programs coordinated by other UDM offices.

Details on these and other LDI programs and services are available at http://www.udmercy.edu/ldi or call 313-993-1776.

Conduct Code and Disciplinary Procedures

Violations of University rules or civil laws may result in disciplinary action by the University. Academic violations are governed by policies and procedures in each of the colleges and schools. Non-academic misconduct is governed by the policies and procedures published in the student handbook. Students charged with major violations of academic or student conduct codes may be expelled, suspended or given a lesser sanction.

Alumni

The University’s alumni are an important part of the foundation upon which the institution’s reputation is built. Graduates can be found working in virtually every type of business and profession in every major metropolitan region in the United States. Many also live and work in rural areas and in more than 80 international locations.

Alumni are represented in large numbers in management positions in the auto industry, serve as presidents and CEOs of major corporations, practice in law firms, accounting firms, dental and medical professions.

Graduates sit on the Michigan Supreme Court, educate the next generation of leaders in our classrooms, design structures that alter the skylines of our cities and contribute to the quality of their communities through civic involvement.

Approximately 70 percent of the University’s 68,000 living alumni remain in Michigan. The UDM Alumni Association provides opportunities for graduates to continue their connection to their alma mater. Alumni participate as advisors to the president, deans, administrators and faculty; provide career advice and mentoring assistance to students; attend social gatherings and enrichment opportunities; and alumni are present and vocal in cheering the Titan teams to victory.

Campus Locations

University of Detroit Mercy students are taught on three campuses located within the City of Detroit. Selected programs are offered at extended campus sites throughout Michigan.

The McNichols Campus is situated on 70 acres in a northwest Detroit residential area. Located here are six student residence halls.

The School of Dentistry is located at the Outer Drive Campus in northwest Detroit, at the corner of the Southfield Freeway and West Outer Drive. The School of Dentistry will be moving to a new location in southwest Detroit during the 2007-08 academic year.

The School of Law and the Kresge Law Library are located across from the Renaissance Center in downtown Detroit.

Living in Detroit

In what other city can you watch professional football, baseball, basketball and hockey? Travel to a foreign country for an afternoon? Ride in an elevated transit system? Enjoy a full range of intellectual, artistic, and recreational activities? University of Detroit Mercy students benefit from an environment which includes the rich life experiences only a major city can offer.

Detroit offers a vast array of entertainment and cultural activities. Live music abounds in Motown ranging from rock to techno to soul to ethnic, to the Ford Detroit International Jazz Festival and the world class Detroit Symphony. Greektown, the fabulous Fox Theatre, the Detroit Science Center and Institute of Arts are all “must see” attractions. With its 101 galleries, the Institute is the largest municipally owned museum in the country.

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