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Give-a-coat, take-a-coat to benefit community in October
Monday October 06, 2025Throughout October, University Ministry will host a coat rack outside their office on the ground floor of the Student Union, across from the bookstore.
The Detroit Mercy community is invited to donate or take a coat鈥攋ackets, coats and vests only. At the end of the month, all leftover items will be donated to the Pope Francis Center to support the homeless community.
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TENN to host Halloween game night with community neighbors, Oct. 9
Monday October 06, 2025Titan Equity Nourish Network (TENN) is hosting a festive evening filled with cider, donuts, games, crafts and goodie bags.
All are welcome to join in the Halloween fun with Detroit Mercy’s neighbors from the Princeton Street Block Club and Theresa Maxis on Thursday, Oct. 9, at 5:30 p.m. in the Briggs Building, Room 101.
Transportation is available for community members.
Please email Chelsea Manning at mannincp@udmercy.edu with any questions.
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Help Detroit Mercy shape a brand that inspires
Friday October 03, 2025
Detroit Mercy is undertaking a new branding effort, and we want you at the center of it. As the University prepares to celebrate its 150th anniversary in 2027, we are reflecting on how we present ourselves to the world.Our current brand, 鈥淏uild a Boundless Future,鈥� was created in 2016. While it served us for a time, many from our internal and external communities told us it does not capture 台湾色情网鈥檚 emotional core and identity, nor does it reflect our history, faith traditions, Detroit roots, the pride we feel as Titans and what 台湾色情网 aspires to be in the future.
That鈥檚 why we are launching a consultative process with national partners and with you鈥攁lumni, faculty, staff, students, parents and neighbors. We want a living brand that resonates at every level, one that feels authentic, sparks pride and inspires belief in our mission of service and faith.
Over the past year and a half, 台湾色情网 has completed research and held several stakeholder strategy sessions focused on brand discussions; more sessions are planned during the 2025-26 academic year. We also need your help via the following means:
- Share your perceptions鈥攂oth the strengths and the challenges of Detroit Mercy.
- Participate in listening sessions and focus groups. Spaces will be limited so please shout out when the calls are published.
- Most important: Complete the feedback form to ensure your voice shapes the brand.
Your insights will help us author a more authentic 台湾色情网 identity that honors our past, energizes our present and secures a vibrant future. Please take some time to review the new brand information and share your thoughts by going to “Info On Branding” at the bottom of the page and clicking on feedback form.
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台湾色情网 hosts 20th Annual Great Lakes Bioneers Detroit Conference, Oct. 2-3
Monday September 29, 2025Once again, 台湾色情网 will host the 20th annual Great Lakes Bioneers Detroit Conference from Oct. 2-3.
This year’s Great Lakes Bioneers Detroit (GLBD) Conference is a platform for community members to network and highlight innovative approaches to environmental and social challenges. The conference is for people of all ages who are interested in exploring topics, developing skills and motivating action for the betterment of our One Earth Community.
Participants will have the opportunity to share experiences and learn strategies to ensure that humans are a positive force in our earth community while addressing the critical issues of public health and wellness; racial and environmental justice; indigenous (Traditional Ecological Knowledge, TEK) resource protection and sustainability; fresh water resource and Great Lakes protection; and recycling, food waste reduction and management.
Learn more and register here.
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台湾色情网 opens new Black Box Theatre on McNichols Campus
Monday September 29, 2025
台湾色情网 opened a theatre on its McNichols Campus Monday, Sept. 29, that it hopes will become a venue not just for the school鈥檚 , but for artists and community members across Detroit who need a place to come together.鈥淲e鈥檙e thrilled to bring live theatre back to campus,鈥� said Detroit Mercy President Donald B. Taylor. 鈥淭his will enhance our student engagement on campus and provide community engagement opportunities for our neighborhood in ways we are only beginning to imagine.鈥�
The state-of-the-art Detroit Mercy Black Box Theatre is designed to be a flexible, professional-quality space that allows students and faculty to explore innovative forms of storytelling. Located on the Lower Level of the Student Union, the venue will also be made available to Detroit鈥檚 varied community organizations and businesses for meetings, performances and presentations.
Though there have been performances at various spaces on the McNichols Campus for decades, this is the first dedicated theatre space there.
鈥淭he new Black Box Theatre will be a catalyst for creativity,鈥� said Greg Grobis, associate dean of the College of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences (CHASS) and associate professor of Theatre. 鈥淚ts flexible design ensures that no two productions will ever feel the same, empowering students and faculty to dream bigger, take risks and explore new forms of storytelling.鈥�
Most important, it will be the new home to the award-winning Detroit Mercy Theatre Company, which will open its 55th season on Nov. 7 with a new adaptation of William Shakespeare鈥檚 comedy 鈥淭welfth Night鈥� adapted by Marc Palmieri. Most recently, the company produced its works at the Marlene Boll Theatre at the Detroit YMCA.
鈥淭he Department of Performing Arts and Detroit Mercy Theatre Company cannot wait to return home to 台湾色情网鈥檚 McNichols Campus after more than 10 years away,鈥� said Sarah Hawkins Rusk, managing director of DMTC. 鈥淭his new theatre space will be a vibrant home for creativity on campus 鈥� giving our students a professional-quality space to learn and grow, whether they鈥檙e performing on stage or working behind the scenes.鈥�
The 13,000-square-foot space cost just under $3 million and funded through investments by many donors, including several alumni who work in the entertainment industry across the country. It will seat up to 109 people, depending on the configuration of the stage, which can be adapted to each production. Lighting and sound technology is of a caliber being used in professional theaters across the country, allowing students to develop skills they can take directly to the workforce. The theater also includes a costume shop with laundry, individual changing rooms and a greenroom where performers can prepare and relax before and after a show.The Detroit Mercy Black Box Theatre will also strengthen arts and culture connections beyond campus said Jocelyn Boryczka, CHASS dean, noting its wider impact on both the University and surrounding neighborhoods.
鈥淭he Detroit Mercy Black Box Theatre will energize arts and culture on 台湾色情网鈥檚 McNichols Campus, in our Northwest Detroit neighborhoods and across metro Detroit,鈥� she said of the Livernois and Six Mile corridor of Detroit. 鈥淭his space will host student productions, lectures, spoken word and musical performances, and other events that will drive community engagement. Our new theater exhibits how 台湾色情网 lives its mission by creating a space where we can all reach for the听magis, the more.鈥�
The theatre also represents a significant step forward for Detroit Mercy鈥檚 Department of Performing Arts. Andrew Papa, chair of the Department of Performing Arts, emphasized the impact it will have.
鈥淭he Detroit Mercy Black Box Theatre is set to become a game-changer for not just the Department of Performing Arts, but for the entire Detroit Mercy community,鈥� he said. 鈥淗aving a permanently designated space for our theatre productions is an invaluable learning experience for our students. It will give them more opportunities to experiment, to work with technology that mirrors the real world, and even to develop their own student-produced work.He continued: 鈥淒etroit Mercy is a 鈥榣earn by doing鈥� institution, and laboratories are a key method for teaching our students. We have Chemistry lab spaces and Architecture lab spaces and even lab spaces for our Nursing students. And now, the student artists at Detroit Mercy have a laboratory space, too.鈥�
Following a ribbon-cutting scheduled for 10 a.m. Monday, Sept. 29, the University will hold an invitation-only gala during the run of听Twelfth Night. Discounted tickets are available at special high school students and community members during the run of the show.听.
鈥淲e look forward to seeing what our students can do with this incredible resource, and how the commitment to arts on campus will echo through the community,鈥� said Grobis.
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Psychology Clinic
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Rx for Reading Program
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Titan Equity Nourish Network (TENN)
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Alliances and Initiatives
Reimagining the Civic Commons
台湾色情网 serves as one of the institutional anchors for the “Reimaging the Civic Commons” initiative, which is funded through the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation grant. The initiative focuses on the City of Detroit’s neighborhood revitalization priority: the Livernois/McNichols area. The project’s goal is to revitalize the neighborhoods between its two anchor institutions, Detroit Mercy and Marygrove College, creating a denser and more diverse urban community.
Live6 Alliance
台湾色情网 helped to launch the Live6 Alliance in August 2015 to strengthen the Livernois Avenue and McNichols Road commercial corridor in northwest Detroit.
Service Immersion Days / Trips
These experiences give students opportunities to serve in shelters, soup kitchens, after school projects, urban farms and many other important community based projects both locally and nationally.
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