The College of Liberal Arts & Education CLAE celebrated staff appreciation week in November to recognize CLAE staff and their outstanding contributions to advancing the vision and mission of the College with a clear commitment to our students and faculty. Thank you for all you do: Angela Davis, operations manager, …
Senior Adjunct Instructor of English Molly Barlow‘s personal essay, “Changing pronouns behind the lectern” was published online in Conversations on Jesuit Higher Education. Read the full essay.
Gail Presbey was elected president of the Peace History Society in 2023 for two-year term. Peace History Society was founded in 1964. This year their semi-annual conference took place at Gwynedd Mercy University. Presbey welcomed attendees and gave out the awards for the best book and best article. She also …
English major Asha Sierra George wrote a recent post titled “How the quiet girl was heard” for Between the Pages, the English department’s blog, about her gratitude for being a writer. Read her reflection.
The Counseling Program hosted its annual Trailblazing Titan Counselor Panel Discussion, featuring Adam Harris, M.A., LPC, director of Upward Bound, Grand Valley State University, author and motivational speaker, Kori Lowe, M.A., LPC, owner and counselor, Center for Establishing Recovery, and Amanda Gohl, M.A., LPC, school counselor, Birmingham Groves High School, …
In September, Assistant Professor of Counseling Kelli Anderson, Ph.D., presented Participant Selection in Research with Children and Families at the annual meeting of the Association for Assessment and Research in Counseling in Nashville.
Assistant Professor of Counseling Tahani Dari and graduate Counseling students, Christian Green and April Lark, co-presented Synergies of Community-Based Participatory Research Methods: Scoping Review at the annual meeting of the Association for Assessment and Research conference in Nashville, Tennessee in September. Earlier this year, Dari was recognized by the Association …
Assistant Professor of Addiction Studies, Varinder Kaur, and graduate Counseling student, Timothy Martin, co-presented The Role of Civil Disobedience in Competencies for Ethics, Multiculturalism and Social Justice at the annual conference of the Association for Counselor Educators and Supervisors in Denver, Colorado in October.
In October, Detroit Mercy’s Law Day Fair showed students the multifaceted dimensions of the legal field. Political Science students displayed their legal acumen through a moot court simulation. Students also gained invaluable insight into the dynamic landscape of law with more than 15 law school representatives available to give tips …
The Department of English hosted Michigan Poet Laureate Nandi Comer and Detroit poet Brittany Rogers for an evening of poetry and conversation in October. CLAE students also shared their poetry. Comer, a Detroit Native, is the author of American Family: A Syndrome (Finishing Line Press) and Tapping Out (Triquarterly), awarded …
