CLAE news briefs
University of Windsor to offer Master of Social Work program on McNichols Campus
The University of Detroit Mercy and the University of Windsor's School of Social Work, in partnership with the Centre for Executive and Professional Education, are pleased to announce a new collaboration. The University of Windsor's School of Social Work will begin offering its MSW for Working Professionals on the UDM McNichols Campus beginning with the Fall Semester 2012.
The program is uniquely positioned to assist those who work full time, but wish to obtain their Master of Social Work degree for professional advancement. The program is offered year-round, on alternating weekends so that students can manage their personal lives as well as their professional lives and still complete their advanced degree.
The program is accredited by the Canadian Accreditation for Social Work Education, which has a comity degree recognition agreement with the U.S. Council on Social Work Education.
For information on the program, contact: Aloha VanCamp (University of Detroit Mercy) at 313-993-2010 or by email: vancampa@udmercy.edu or Janet Collins (University of Windsor-Centre for Executive and Professional Education) toll free at 866-419-0685 ext. 26.
Underground Railroad Symposium discusses Detroit’s role
On Oct. 19-21, 2011, the College of Liberal Arts & Education at UDM hosted and co-sponsored an international Underground Railroad conference entitled “Celebrating the River at Midnight – The Fluid Frontier: Slavery, War, Freedom, and the Underground Railroad.” The main focus was on the Underground Railroad in the Detroit River borderland. Among the speakers were David Blight, director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the study of Slavery, resistance, and abolition at Yale University; Karolyn Smardz Frost, project director at the Harriet Tubman Institute at York University; Robert Stanton, former director of the National Park Service, sculptor Ed Dwight; and Hari Jones, curator of the Black Civil War Museum in Washington, D.C.
UDM's Detroit Collaborative Design Center led a charette to facilitate future planning for the historical recognition of the river's role and cultural tourism related to Detroit’s Underground Railroad history.
The symposium was held in conjunction with the tenth anniversary of the Gateway to Freedom International Underground Railroad Monument at Hart Plaza in Detroit.
From left: Larry McClelland, Interim Dean Roy Finkenbine, Carol Mull (chair of the Michigan Freedom Trail Commission), Irene Moore Davis, and Barbara Hughes Smith—authors of the multi-authored forthcoming book, A Fluid Frontier: Slavery, Freedom, and the Underground Railroad in the Detroit River Borderland. The panel discussed the book.
Other UDM schools and colleges join CLAE for second annual Minor Fair
CLAE held its second annual Minor Fair, Oct. 5 and was joined this year by the College of Business Administration, School of Architecture and College of Engineering & Science. A total of 23 minors and certificates were presented from the four colleges. According to Interim Dean Roy Finkenbine, 22 students signed up for minors at the fair and 24 took information and signed up in the next few days. The interim dean, with the assistance of the CLAE staff, grilled an impressive 550 hot dogs and veggie dogs that were provided to participants.
Student News
UDM student participates in National Poetry Slam
UDM senior Deonte Osayande was selected for the Detroit National Poetry Slam to compete at the National Poetry Slam in Boston, Mass. The National Poetry Slam is a performance poetry competition where teams from across the United States, Canada, and France participate in a large-scale poetry slam. Osaynade is a UDM Presidential Ambassador, who is pursuing a bachelor’s degree in elementary education. Read more about this impressive student.
Journalism students win awards
The Michigan Collegiate Press Association has announced the recipients in its annual competition for campus journalism during the last academic year. The Varsity News or individual UDM students won six awards. Michael Martinez (Communication Studies/History), the current VN editor, won first place for best sports page design. William Pringle (History) won first place for best editorial, which he wrote on anti-Muslim bigotry.
