MEDIA ADVISORY Contact: Lynn Norwood

October 28, 2004 (313) 927-1493

lnorwood@marygrove.edu

Author Jeffrey Mirel to Speak at Marygrove College on

Issues With the Detroit Public Schools

What: The Institute for Detroit Studies at Marygrove College will present a Defining Detroit event: “What went wrong with the Detroit Public Schools? What can be done to fix them?” featuring Jeffrey Mirel, professor of educational studies and history at the University of Michigan. Mirel is the author of The Rise and Fall of an Urban School System: Detroit, 1907-81 and co-author of The Failed Promise of the American High School, 1890-1995. Copies of The Rise and Fall of an Urban School System will be available for purchase and signing by the author. The program is free and open to the public. For more information, visit www.marygrove.edu or call 313-927-1520.

When: Wednesday, November 10, 7:30 p.m.

Where: Marygrove College

Main Dining Room

8425 W. McNichols Rd.

Detroit, Michigan

The Institute for Detroit Studies sponsors events that draw attention to the city’s history, literature, art, and music and illuminate issues of social and economic justice. Authors, scholars and poets such as Joyce Carol Oates, Thomas Sugrue, Philip Levine, and Toi Derricotte have addressed issues that have helped to shape the city’s image. The Institute arose out of the Marygrove College faculty’s well-established record of academic attention to the city and the metropolitan region. ###