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Colleges
Central Michigan University
Local Center: Suite 122 East, Parklane Towers, Dearborn
Phone Number: 1-313-441-5300 (fax: 1-313-441-5304)
Main Website: www.cel.cmich.edu
Local Website:
www.cel.cmich.edu/metro-detroit/dearborn.html
Founded: 1892 (original campus)
President: Dr. Michael Rao
Central Michigan University’s Dearborn center is one of eight CMU centers in the
Detroit metropolitan area and one of more than 50 CMU sites throughout North
America.
The local campus offers five eight-week sessions that meet either one night a
week, one-week formats, or on Friday and Saturday on alternating weekends.
Faculty come from academia, business and industry.
Davenport College, Eastern Region
(formerly Detroit College
of Business)
Local Campus: 4801 Oakman, Dearborn
Phone Number: 1-313-581-4400
Website: www.davenport.edu
Founded: 1962 (Dearborn campus) as Detroit Business College
School Colors: Red & black
School Nickname: Falcons
Enrollment: 7,000
The Eastern Region of Davenport College is the former Detroit College of
Business. The Davenport Educational System is the largest independent college
system in Michigan.
Nearly 7,000 students attend the three Eastern Region campuses in Dearborn (main
campus), Warren and Flint. The schools are accredited by the North Central
Association of Colleges and Schools.
The three Eastern Region campuses have a graduate employment rate of 96 percent
(based on 1996 survey).
The more than 30 bachelor’s and associate’s degrees programs offered at the
three campuses range from accounting to medical case management.
The faculty numbers about 300, many of whom work in business while teaching
part-time at Davenport’s Eastern Region.
Henry Ford Community College
Main Campus: 5101 Evergreen, Dearborn
Dearborn Heights Campus: 22586 Ann Arbor Trail, Dearborn Heights
Phone Number: 1-313-845-9600, 1-800-585-HFCC
Website: www.hfcc.edu
Founded: 1938 (as Fordson Junior College)
President: Dr. Andrew A. Mazzara
Sports League: Michigan Community College Athletic Association-Eastern
Collegiate Conference
School Colors: Blue & White
School Nickname: Hawks
Board of Trustees: Aimee Blackburn, Sharon Dulmage, Joseph Guido, Mary Lane,
James Schoolmaster, Gerald Stockwell, Pamela Wandless
Enrollment: 22,500
Henry Ford Community College is a comprehensive, public, degree-granting,
non-residential community college offering the first and second years of
college-level education.
Areas of concentration are arts, business and science. Many additional programs
and areas of study are also available.
HFCC was founded as Fordson Junior College in 1938. The name Dearborn Junior
College was adopted in 1946. Dearborn Junior College became Henry Ford Community
College in 1952 after Henry Ford Trade School, upon its closing, turned its
assets over to the Dearborn Board of Education.
HFCC is part of the Dearborn Public School District and is governed by a
seven-member Board of Trustees, elected for four-year terms by registered voters
of the Dearborn Public School District.
Fall and winter semesters run late August-December and January-April for eight,
12 and 16 weeks, depending on the class. The spring semester runs April-June.
The summer semester runs June-July. Both these are 7½ week semesters.
The phone numbers are: general information, 1-313-845-9615; admissions, 1-313-845-6397;
counseling, 1-313-846-9611; financial aid, 1-313-845-9616; women’s resource center,
1-313-845-9629; child activity center, 1-313-317-6527; registrar,
1-313-845-6403.
Spring Arbor College (Adult Studies)
Main Campus: Spring Arbor College, 106 E. Main, Spring Arbor, Mich.
Dearborn Campus: Suite P20, Village Plaza, 23400 Michigan Ave., Dearborn
Phone Number: 1-313-561-6287, 1-800-968-1722 (fax) 1-313-561-4162
Website: www.arbor.edu
Founded: 1873 by Free Methodist Church
President: Dr. Gayle D. Beebe
Sports League: Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference
School Nickname: Cougars
University of Michigan-Dearborn
Location: 4901 Evergreen, Dearborn
Phone Number: 1-313-593-5100
Website: www.umd.umich.edu
Founded: 1959 (Dearborn campus)
Chancellor: Daniel Little
Sports League: National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) District
No. 23
School Colors: Maize & Blue
School Nickname: Wolves
Enrollment: 9,022 (Fall 2003)
One of three campuses governed by the U-M Board of Regents, UM-Dearborn has four
major academic units: The College of Arts, Sciences and Letters; the School of
Education; the School of Engineering and Computer Science; and the School of
Management.
Founded in 1959 through a gift of land from the Ford Motor Co. and a grant from
the Ford Motor Co. Fund, the university is on the original estate of auto
pioneer Henry Ford.
Full semesters run September-December, January-April and May-August. Half-terms
are offered May-June and July-August. Intensified mini-terms are offered in May
and August.
Wayne County Community College
Main Office: 801 W. Fort Street, Detroit
Northwest Campus: 8551 Greenfield Road, Detroit
Northwest Phone Number: 1-313-943-4000 (TDD: 1-313-943-4073); fax:
1-313-943-4025
Downriver Campus: 21000 Northline Road, Taylor
Downriver Phone Number: 1-734-946-3500 (TDD: 1-734-374-2706); fax:
1-734-374-0240
Website: www.wccc.edu
Founded: 1967 (first classes held in 1969)
President: Hattie Johnson
When the doors opened in 1969, students previously excluded for various reasons
from higher educational opportunities found a home at Wayne County Community
College.
Since its founding more than a quarter of a century ago, graduates of the
college have had a profound impact on the professional, political and technical
life of cities in Wayne County and Michigan.
College alumni hold positions as teachers, dentists, journalists, nurses,
corporate business professionals, law enforcement officers, administrators,
elected officials and a variety of other positions in professional and technical
areas.
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