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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2020 5:57:21 GMT -5
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Post by Rogobob77 on Oct 6, 2020 7:04:00 GMT -5
Not sure if this is really the first campus outside the city. In the 1980s, the University had established what I recall the school calling a campus at the Colombiere Conference & Retreat Center in Clarkston, Michigan. Enrollment projections at this location never materialized and programs there were eventually discontinued in 1989.
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Post by motorcitysam on Oct 6, 2020 8:11:06 GMT -5
Not sure if this is really the first campus outside the city. In the 1980s, the University had established what I recall the school calling a campus at the Colombiere Conference & Retreat Center in Clarkston, Michigan. Enrollment projections at this location never materialized and programs there were eventually discontinued in 1989. This is true. It was definitely called the Clarkston campus. It proved to be a bad idea.
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Post by Rogobob77 on Oct 6, 2020 8:27:56 GMT -5
According to the school’s own history book, formation of “Colombiere Campus” in Oakland County was authorized by the trustees in 1982. Unofficially some referred to it as the “Clarkston Campus.” I am pretty sure the article is largely regurgitating what Detroit Mercy communicated to the Detroit Free Press, so I guess University officials no longer view that past effort as a suburban campus for some reason.
I think Colombiere was somewhat of an experiment. If it had taken off like some had anticipated, it could have been the beginning of the end for the McNichols campus, at least in an envisioned urban doomsday scenario. The Titans’ road trips for games against the OU Golden Grizzlies would have been a lot shorter.
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Post by motorcitysam on Oct 6, 2020 8:41:59 GMT -5
According to the school’s own history book, formation of “Colombiere Campus” in Oakland County was authorized by the trustees in 1982. Unofficially some referred to it as the “Clarkston Campus.” I am pretty sure the article is largely regurgitating what Detroit Mercy communicated to the Detroit Free Press, so I guess University officials no longer view that past effort as a suburban campus for some reason. Yeah, we students all called it the Clarkston campus. I seem to remember articles in the Varsity News referring to it that way, also. Of course, we were still the University of Detroit at that time, so maybe Mercy doesn't want to claim it as part of the history now.
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Post by Rogobob77 on Oct 6, 2020 8:46:34 GMT -5
The article says “marking the first time in its 100-year-plus history” so that would reach back even to pre-consolidation days.
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Post by Rogobob77 on Oct 6, 2020 9:43:40 GMT -5
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Post by Rogobob77 on Oct 6, 2020 13:10:17 GMT -5
I’m quite certain that this expansion encompassing the greater Novi media market will make the Detroit Mercy Titans much more attractive to the Big East conference should they be looking to add a school.
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Post by nctitan on Oct 6, 2020 14:23:45 GMT -5
And now we have space for the new football stadium!
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Post by motorcitysam on Oct 6, 2020 14:41:47 GMT -5
I’m quite certain that this expansion encompassing the greater Novi media market will make the Detroit Mercy Titans much more attractive to the Big East conference should they be looking to add a school. It's like the Big Ten adding Rutgers to get the New York market.
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Post by Rogobob77 on Oct 7, 2020 8:06:05 GMT -5
Here’s a five-minute walk-thru video of the building as well as the surrounding parking lot. Since it was used as a college teaching facility with an emphasis on health care programs until just recently, it looks like there will be very little need to modify the space in any major way. All the labs, classrooms, offices, break rooms, etc., appear to come with furnishings. Very modern, well maintained, rather sterile IMO, about what you would expect for a building in suburban Novi: www.detroitnews.com/videos/news/local/michigan/2020/10/06/new-university-detroit-mercy-campus/5899768002/
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Post by rbj on Apr 5, 2022 7:08:42 GMT -5
Here’s a five-minute walk-thru video of the building as well as the surrounding parking lot. Since it was used as a college teaching facility with an emphasis on health care programs until just recently, it looks like there will be very little need to modify the space in any major way. All the labs, classrooms, offices, break rooms, etc., appear to come with furnishings. Very modern, well maintained, rather sterile IMO, about what you would expect for a building in suburban Novi: www.detroitnews.com/videos/news/local/michigan/2020/10/06/new-university-detroit-mercy-campus/5899768002/Do you have any ideal why this wasnt built on the mcnichols campus? There seems to be plenty of vacant land from Petoskey to Holmur. Cost?
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Post by ptctitan on Apr 5, 2022 7:21:08 GMT -5
Here’s a five-minute walk-thru video of the building as well as the surrounding parking lot. Since it was used as a college teaching facility with an emphasis on health care programs until just recently, it looks like there will be very little need to modify the space in any major way. All the labs, classrooms, offices, break rooms, etc., appear to come with furnishings. Very modern, well maintained, rather sterile IMO, about what you would expect for a building in suburban Novi: www.detroitnews.com/videos/news/local/michigan/2020/10/06/new-university-detroit-mercy-campus/5899768002/Do you have any ideal why this wasnt built on the mcnichols campus? There seems to be plenty of vacant land from Petoskey to Holmur. Cost? Garibaldi told me directly that it was significantly cheaper to buy this building because it was already fitted with the things needed to teach certain courses there - including starting an optometry school there.
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Post by nctitan on Apr 5, 2022 8:59:23 GMT -5
Do you have any ideal why this wasnt built on the mcnichols campus? There seems to be plenty of vacant land from Petoskey to Holmur. Cost? Garibaldi told me directly that it was significantly cheaper to buy this building because it was already fitted with the things needed to teach certain courses there - including starting an optometry school there. Additionally, there are significantly greater needs for other additions on the main campus that are relevant to being on that campus: a new dorm and improvements for students living on campus, a Performing Arts facility, expansion of the College of Health Professions, and more. The McNichols campus is land-locked and only so much can be added there. The optometry facility is like Law and Dental: it is specialized and can be standalone because those students won't need access to the classes offered by the other Colleges (Core Curriculum, for instance).
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Post by rbj on Apr 5, 2022 11:04:20 GMT -5
Garibaldi told me directly that it was significantly cheaper to buy this building because it was already fitted with the things needed to teach certain courses there - including starting an optometry school there. Additionally, there are significantly greater needs for other additions on the main campus that are relevant to being on that campus: a new dorm and improvements for students living on campus, a Performing Arts facility, expansion of the College of Health Professions, and more. The McNichols campus is land-locked and only so much can be added there. The optometry facility is like Law and Dental: it is specialized and can be standalone because those students won't need access to the classes offered by the other Colleges (Core Curriculum, for instance). Ptctitan & Nctitan, thanks for answering.
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