Marygrove's Office of Career Services is hosting a career fair next Tuesday, Oct. 11 from 2 - 6 p.m. on the campus of the University of Detroit Mercy.

 

The career fair, entitled Recruiting in the D: McNichols Talent Career Services Collaboration, was organized by Marygrove and UDM as a way of working together to retain talent in Michigan by encouraging employers to recruit students and alumni from our neighboring institutions. 

Interested students are encouraged to attend to learn more about available graduate programs, internships/co-ops, and full/part-time seasonal employment. Career fairs offer students an opportunity to practice professionalism in the business environment as well as opportunities for career development. Students should plan to attend in professional attire, with a resume in hand, if they are seeking employment opportunities.*

Please visit the link below for registration information.
http://recruitudmmg.eventbrite.com/?ref=ebtn 

For more information contact Melissa Samuels: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or (313) 927-1844.

*Shuttle transportation from the Marygrove campus to and from the Career Fair at UDM is available beginning at 1:30 p.m. in front of the Madame Cadillac Building.

 

David M.P. Freund to discuss public policy and racial segregation in Metropolitan Detroit

DETROIT, Sept. 26, 2011 — Marygrove College’s Institute for Detroit Studies invites journalists, community organizations, government, business, academics and others to a lecture, discussion and book-signing by University of Maryland Professor David M.P. Freund, Ph.D., who will present “Marketing the ‘Free Market’: Public Policy and Racial Segregation in Metropolitan Detroit.”

The event will take place on Friday, Oct. 7, 2011, at 7 p.m. in the Madame Cadillac Building on the Marygrove College campus.* This event is free and open to the public.

Read more: Marygrove College presents new “Defining Detroit” event

U.S. State Department, community, to discuss implementation of U.N. Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security

For Immediate Release

Contact: Laura Dewey, WILPF coordinator

(313) 882-1596, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  

Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom, U.S. Section to Host a Consultation with the U.S. State Department on the U.S. Implementation of UN Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security.

DETROIT, Sept. 19, 2011-- On September 24, the Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom-Detroit Branch (WILPF), in partnership with Marygrove College Center for Social Justice and Community Engagement and Wayne State University Center for Peace & Conflict Studies, will be joined by a representative of the U.S. State Department and members of the community to discuss the implementation of U.N. Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security at Marygrove College, Alumnae Hall.

Read more: Marygrove chosen to host historic National Action Plan

When the framers of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights penned the first draft directly after World War II, the definition of peace took on new meaning. Global peace was defined in the most basic and general of ways—a way that allowed the western world to breathe collective sighs of relief from totalitarian barbarism and expansionism.

It’s safe to say that the authors, such as Eleanor Roosevelt, could not have envisioned how the meaning of peace would evolve—or how oppressive forces would find other, more insidious ways to seep into our world in the form of civil rights abuses, the privatization of war, or Internet security breaches. Sixty-three years later, there is a new peace declaration germinating at the United Nations (UN)—and Marygrove is taking an active part in its birth.

Read more: Making History. Marygrove answers the global call for peace.