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Marygrove Minute Welcome to Marygrove Minute -- the e-newsletter with the latest information on Marygrove College. We hope you enjoyed the updates from last month and we look to you for feedback. Your input is essential to the success of this effort to stay connected with our friends. We look forward to hearing from you at dpuhl@marygrove.edu.
FOUNDERS CELEBRATION 2006 Save the date for a most unique Founder’s Day celebration. On Thursday evening, November 9, 2006, the “Have A Seat … and more! Chair Auction and Strolling Dinner” will commemorate the founding of the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (IHMs) in Monroe, Michigan, in 1845. This exciting fundraiser will feature and the work of local and national artists who have transformed vintage Marygrove chairs and other items into collectible works of art. Over 40 items are up for auction, featured international artist include Dominic Pangborn, Nora Chapa Mendoza, Shirley Woodson, Gilda Snowden, Senghor Reid, Lenore Gimpert, Edith Jopich and many others. Marygrove’s own featured artists include Beverly Hall Smith, Rose DeSloover, Richie Campbell, Maureen Leonard, Graciela Juarez, Martin McNeeley and Lasbry Nwachuku, among others. Another unique chair is being provided by Smooth Jazz V98.7, which has the signatures of all musicians from the summer Smooth Jazz Fest in July. Dinner with our new president, Dr. David Fike, will also be auctioned. So SAVE THE DATE: November 9, 2006, 6:00 p.m. at Marygrove College. Tickets and sponsorships are available by contacting Maureen Leonard, 313-927-1308 or mleonard@marygrove.edu.
PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR AND DETROIT NATIVE JEFFREY EUGENIDES READING AND BOOK SIGNING AT MARYGROVE ON OCTOBER 29 Eugenides was born in 1960 to Greek-American parents and raised in Grosse Pointe, Michigan. He received his bachelor’s degree from Brown University and his MFA in creative writing from Stanford University. He has worked as a Detroit cabdriver, a busboy, a volunteer with Mother Theresa in Calcutta, a magazine writer, and a newsletter editor. His acclaimed first novel, The Virgin Suicides (1993), set in Grosse Pointe, became a major motion picture, directed by Sofia Coppola and released by Paramount Pictures in 2000. Eugenides has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. In 1991, an excerpt from The Virgin Suicides was awarded the Aga Khan Prize for fiction, and in 2003 Middlesex received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. “Expansive and radiantly generous…. Deliriously American” –The New York Times Book Review “A towering achievement…. [Eugenides] has emerged as the great American writer that many of us suspected him of being.” –Los Angeles Times Book Review This is a Defining Detroit event of Marygrove’s Institute for Detroit Studies and the English and Modern Languages Department, an interdisciplinary series of public exhibits, lectures, performances, readings and discussions that explore different aspects of Detroit life. For more information, contact Dr. Frank Rashid at 313-927-1448 or frashid@marygrove.edu.
MARYGROVE COLLEGE INTRODUCES NEW ELEMENTARY INTEGRATED SCIENCE PROGRAM WITH FALL ’06 SEMESTER Marygrove College is one of five colleges in the metropolitan Detroit area to be approved to offer this elementary education certification. Integrated Science is the newly mandated certifiable major and replaces the K-8 General Science certification in Michigan. The Elementary Integrated Science Program is designed to strengthen science teaching in K-8 schools. The program contains several new and revised courses that emphasize “the learning of science through investigation and inquiry,” as called for by the National Science Education Standards. The rationale of the new curriculum design is that Marygrove education graduates will model their own teaching on how they were taught. The new sequence of courses will provide students with a broad science background as well as an in-depth understanding of effective and innovative practices in teaching science. Graduates of this program will be primed to become highly qualified K-8 teachers of science, possessing a breadth of knowledge and skills to integrate science throughout all disciplines. Attaining “highly qualified” status is a requirement of the federal No Child Left Behind initiative. Integrated Science means that science is incorporated with other disciplines and as well as within the sciences so that the student learns not only chemistry in a chemistry class but biology, physics and other sciences as well. Students will also look at how science is an integral part of life in such courses as “Science, Technology and Society” and “Science and Technology in Literature.” Dr. Jeanne M. Andreoli, associate professor of Biology and co-chair, Science and Mathematics Department, said, “Marygrove is thrilled and proud to be among the first to recognize the value of integrating science in the entire teacher training curriculum. We know that, over time, science will become an exciting part of the learning experience and less intimidating for elementary students because their teachers will weave it into everything they’re learning, just like it is in real life. It will become a competitive advantage for American students.” For more information on the new Integrated Science program at Marygrove, contact Dr. Andreoli at 313-927-1328 or jandreoli@marygrove.edu.
INSTITUTE FOR ARTS INFUSED EDUCATION COMPLETES ITS FIRST ANNUAL SUMMER INTENSIVE Participants worked with many Marygrove faculty members including: Victoria Bigelow, Dr. Brenda Bryant, Penny Godboldo, Vivian Johnson, Michael Martin, and Karen Mida. These education professionals brought their expertise in classroom management, dance, educational methodologies, and research to the participants. Other notable presenters included Ana Cardona, Consultant for Arts Education at the Michigan Department of Education; Karen DiChiera, founder and Director of the Michigan Opera Theatre’s Department of Community Programs; Milfordean Luster, Director of Arts in Education and Audience Development for the Detroit Repertory Theatre; Kimberli Boyd, presenter for the Education Department of the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C., and Brandon Walley, co-director of the Detroit Film Center. In January, Marygrove established the Institute for Arts-Infused Education in partnership with several accomplished community arts organizations to improve student success, create innovative models for teaching the core curriculum, and promote the integration of the arts into the core curriculum. The Institute has five focus areas:
The annual summer intensive was possible by a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Contact: Mary Lou Greene, Director, Institute for Arts-Infused Education, 313-927-1853, or mgreene@marygrove.edu.
COME AND ENJOY A YEAR FULL OF EXCITING VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS EVENTS! September 29, 30, October 1,6,7,8,13,14,15, 2006 October October 19, 2006 October 23, 2006 November November 4, 2006 November 12, 2006 November 16, 2006 November 17,18,19,24,25,26 December 1,2,3, 2006 November 20 – December 1, 2006 November 28, 2006 December December 8, 9, 2006 December 10, 2006 Student Events: October 31, 2006 • Music Department Recital November 28, 2006 • Music Department Recital December 7 – December 22, 2006
GO MUSTANGS! COME OUT AND CHEER FOR THE GREEN AND GOLD 2006-07 Men’s Oct. - Nov. Basketball Schedule
2006-07 Women’s Oct. - Nov. Basketball Schedule
TRAVEL IN STYLE WITH ALUMNI SPONSORED TRIPS TO ITALY AND FRANCE French Impressions Space for each trip is limited and registrations are accepted on a first-come basis. When possible, we will include a member of the faculty and/or staff who will provide expertise in the area of the world we visit. Special accommodations can be made for people who need a departure city other than Detroit. If you have questions or need more information, contact Diane Puhl, Director of Alumni Relations at 313-927-1443 or dpuhl@marygrove.edu.
HELP RECRUIT STUDENTS TO MARYGROVE AND THEY RECEIVE SPECIAL BENEFITS! You can become a very important member of our staff as a volunteer alumni admissions representative by telling others of your experiences at Marygrove College. Do not discount the value of your experience as an opportunity to help people choose wisely about the future of their education. Please use the Alumni-Referred Admission Application and feel free to make copies. If you know someone who would make a good addition to the Marygrove student community, give him or her an application to fill out and send in. Remember to include your name and graduation year in the “Referred by” line below so we know whom to thank! If you have questions, email info@marygrove.edu or call the Office of Admissions at (313) 927-1240. Thank you in advance for your continued support and commitment to Marygrove College. Here is the Alumni Referral Form (.pdf).
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