Center for Social Entrepreneurship launches Social Innovation Fund

Since its founding in 2015, University of Detroit Mercy’s Center for Social Entrepreneurship (CSE) has had a positive impact on more than 22,000 lives. Among those most directly affected are the owners and employees of more than 50 start-up enterprises that have participated in the CSE Boost workshops. These workshops provide …

Poet, educator to discuss her memoir ‘Black Indian’ as part of Black History Month events

Award-winning poet and educator Shonda Buchanan will discuss her new book, Black Indian, on Feb. 5 as part of Detroit Mercy’s Black History Month events. Black Indian explores her family’s legacy of being African-Americans with American Indian roots and the societal exclusions the combination brought. “I was inspired to write Black Indian because I wanted …

Grants aid Detroit Mercy students and community work

Detroit Mercy’s DCDC has taken up new offices at Neighborhood HomeBase on McNichols Road near Livernois Thursday. It’s designed to be a space for neighborhood meetings and a resource for revitalization of the area. Recent charitable grants totaling more than half a million dollars will support scholarships, programs, faculty research …