User:Corkythehornetfan/MIAA football

The University of Michigan-Dearborn (U of M Dearborn, UM-Dearborn) is a public university in Dearborn, Michigan, and one of two regional campuses of the University of Michigan operating under the direction of the Regents of the University of Michigan. The University of Michigan is located to the west in Ann Arbor, and the University of Michigan–Flint, the other regional campus, is located to the north in Flint. UM-Dearborn is the top-ranked regional public university in Michigan and considered one of the best regional public universities in the Midwest, according to university rankings.

Students enrolled at UM-Dearborn have full access to the library systems, galleries, and sporting events of the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor campus, and graduates are members of the University of Michigan alumni network 610,000+ strong. Faculty and students often collaborate across the two campuses on scholarly activity, and degrees from the University of Michigan-Dearborn are conferred by the state-elected Board of Regents.

UM-Dearborn offers over 100 academic majors and minors, more than 40 master’s degree programs, and 6 doctoral degree/specialist programs. A part of the Metro Detroit region, the University of Michigan-Dearborn has gained recognition for its community engagement with the City of Detroit and the Southeast Michigan region. The university is a member of The Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities.

U.S. News ranked the University of Michigan-Dearborn as the top-ranked regional public university in Michigan and placed it on the list of top performers for social mobility for a regional university. UM-Dearborn students have the lowest average annual cost of any public university in Michigan. Graduates, on average, receive the fourth highest starting salary and have the third highest average salary after ten years, when compared to the 15 Michigan public universities.

History
During the 1950s, the director of training at Ford Motor Company, Archie Pearson, calculated future shortages in qualified, college-trained engineers and junior administrators were looming for the auto industry. His prediction led him to make discreet inquiries to educational institutions in the Detroit area concerning their willingness to adjust their programs to meet these needs.

On December 17, 1956, Ford Motor Company gifted land and capital development money to the University of Michigan to create a regional campus that would adopt a cooperative work-study requirement as a part of its regular degree program in engineering and business administration. The University of Michigan-Ann Arbor provided the first regular professional and liberal arts courses necessary to a University of Michigan bachelor’s or master’s degree and combined them with co-op programs that allowed students at the Dearborn campus to gain real-world experience, boosting their work prospects. The new University of Michigan-Dearborn opened on September 28, 1959.

In 1971, the University of Michigan-Dearborn became a full four-year institution by expanding its degree offerings to degrees that did not entail participation in a co-op program while continuing a commitment to master’s level graduate programs. The first Chancellor of the university was appointed, Dr. Leonard E. Goodall, and he oversaw a dramatic increase in the student body. During the 1970s, UM-Dearborn grew rapidly from just under 1,000 students to over 6,000 in 1979.

The decade also saw a dramatic change in the university’s campus, including the construction of a new fieldhouse and university center. By April 1981, when the new Mardigian Library was dedicated, the population center of the campus had shifted to a newly developed area.

During the 1990s, the University of Michigan-Dearborn continued its commitment to Southeast Michigan. Following an all-campus retreat in 1990, the university reaffirmed its mission to provide an experience of academic excellence for a diverse body of students, encouraging full community engagement, supporting a commitment to intellectual inquiry, and empowering students by supporting critical thinking and ethical behavior through interactive pedagogy, research, creative and applied scholarship, and service.

With the inauguration of Chancellor Daniel Little in 2000, the campus community reaffirmed its intention to pursue doctoral programming, to explore the possibility of on-campus housing, to review undergraduate programs, and to focus attention on diversity. In 2001, the university opened the Environmental Interpretive Center. In 2004, the University of Michigan-Dearborn became accredited and authorized to offer doctoral programming.

In the spring of 2008, facility planners at the University of Michigan-Dearborn began to consider adding a dormitory building to the campus for undergraduate students. A private-public partnership resulted in The Union at Dearborn, which officially opened in September 2013 to offer housing on the campus.

The UMichigan-Dearborn also saw growth in its academic programs during the second half of the 2000s. In November 2008, the University of Michigan Board of Regents approved the establishment of Ph.D. programs in information systems engineering and automotive systems engineering in the UM-Dearborn College of Engineering & Computer Science beginning in Fall 2009, with a first degree awarded in 2012. In February 2009, the regents also approved an Ed.D. program at the university's School of Education, designed to provide the citizens of southeastern Michigan with a program that is well-matched to the economic, social, and political challenges that face the region.

In 2009, the university also completed the construction of two new buildings, the Science Learning and Research Center and the Institute for Advanced Vehicle Studies. The university launched Public Allies Detroit in 2013, an initiative to develop young community leaders and strengthen local nonprofits. As part of the nationwide AmeriCorps Service Program, Public Allies offers participants a 10-month internship opportunity with a local nonprofit that combines community service with leadership training.

UM-Dearborn’s School of Education officially became the College of Education, Health, and Human Services on September 1, 2013. This change was made to allow the college to create new programs to help meet the demand of non-clinical health professions.

In 2015, the university received The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching's Community Engagement Classification. The award recognizes the UM–Dearborn's commitment to engagement with the community through teaching, learning, research and service that makes a difference. Chancellor Daniel Little began his fourth term in 2018, and stepped down in 2018 after 18 years, making him the university's longest serving chancellor. In December 2015, the university conferred its 50,000 degree.

The renovated Natural Sciences Building reopened in September 2016. The $51 million renovation updated one of campuses original buildings with new technology for teaching and research including nearly 40 labs equipped for hands-on instruction, recitation rooms for interactive learning and student common areas.

On April 20, 2018, UM-Dearborn broke ground on the latest campus building renovation project, the $90 million renovation of the Engineering Lab Building. The building will reopen in August 2020 featuring 123,000 square feet of space including collaborative spaces, hybrid classrooms, and adaptable labs.

On April 12, 2019, UM-Dearborn inaugurated its sixth chancellor, Domenico Grasso, who began began August 1, 2018. Grasso also serves as a professor of public policy and administration and professor of sustainable engineering. As an environmental engineer, Grasso’s research focuses on molecular scale processes that govern the ultimate fate of contaminants in the environment and development of new techniques to reduce risks to human health and natural resources.

Campus
On December 17, 1956, Ford Motor Company donated 200 acres of land from the Ford Estate in order to create the University of Michigan-Dearborn. Today home to more than 9,000 students and 500 faculty members, the campus is divided into several sections: The Henry Ford Estate, known as Fair Lane, The Fairlane Center, Main Campus, and the Early Childhood Education Center just south of campus. The university also maintains over 70 acre of nature preserve and a bird observatory, the Rouge River Bird Observatory, which operated on campus from 1992 to 2018 and was the longest-running, full-time urban bird research station in North America.

The main campus includes buildings for the College of Arts, Sciences, & Letters, the College of Engineering & Computer Science, the Environmental Interpretive Center, Administration Building, the Mardigian Library, the Institute for Advanced Vehicle Studies, the University Center, Computer and Information Science and the Fieldhouse.

Since 2013, the campus has also featured housing for students. The product of a novel collaboration between the University of Michigan-Dearborn and Urban Campus Communities, The Union at Dearborn serves as student housing, featuring fully-furnished apartments with utilities included and modern amenities.

The campus features a 300+ acre Environmental Study Area (ESA), which includes an 8-acre lake, a floodplain forest, a mature beech-maple forest, meadows, and an upland mesic forest. The River River runs along its western border. The ESA has many walking paths that connect the Environmental Interpretive Center, Henry Ford Community College, Downtown West Dearborn, Hines Drive, the university's Main Campus, and Fair Lane. The Environmental Interpretive Center (EIC) acts as an educational gateway to the ESA, serving as an outdoor classroom for undergraduate and graduate programs at the university. The EIC also annually hosts environmental and sustainability programs and educational activities for preK-12 students and community members.

Fair Lane
The campus of the University of Michigan-Dearborn also features the former estate of the Henry Ford family, Fair Lane, on its grounds. The residence and part of the estate grounds are open to the public as a historical landscape and house museum and preserved as a National Historic Landmark. In 2013, the stewardship of the estate was transferred from UM-Dearborn to the Edsel and Eleanor Ford House.

Safety
The University of Michigan-Dearborn maintains a full law enforcement agency to create a safe campus environment. The Department of Police & Public Safety has experienced officers patrol campus, provides escorts and additional safety services, and aids in the prevention and detection of crime. The campus has been ranked one of the safest campuses in Michigan.

Student body
As of Fall 2019, the university had an enrollment of 9,195 students: 6,914 undergraduates and 2,281 graduates. 56% of UM-Dearborn’s students are men and 44% are women. 94% of undergraduate students are State of Michigan residents. 28% are students of color. 47% of incoming students are first generation college students. Average high school GPA is 3.68. The average SAT score for incoming freshmen is 1187.

Athletics
UMichigan–Dearborn athletic teams are known as the Wolverines. Their colors are Maize and Blue. UM-Dearborn is a member of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), primarily competing in the Wolverine–Hoosier Athletic Conference (WHAC). Men's sports include baseball, basketball, bowling, cross country, golf, ice hockey, lacrosse and soccer. Women's sports include basketball, bowling, cross country, golf, ice hockey, soccer, softball and volleyball.

The University of Michigan-Dearborn Fieldhouse serves as the home to many of the athletic and recreational activities on campus. The venue hosts home contests for men's and women's basketball, men's and women's ice hockey and volleyball.

Championships:
 * 1980 – Men's Ice Hockey (runner-up) – NAIA
 * 1983 – Men's Ice Hockey (runner-up) – NAIA
 * 1984 – Men's Ice Hockey (runner-up) – NAIA
 * 1992 - Men's Ice Hockey Conference Champions - CSCHL
 * 1992 – Men's Ice Hockey (runner-up) – ACHA Division I
 * 1993 - Men's Ice Hockey Conference Champions - CSCHL
 * 1998 - Men's Ice Hockey Conference Champions - CSCHL
 * 1998 - Men's Ice Hockey Conference Tournament Champions - CSCHL
 * 1999 - Men's Ice Hockey Conference Champions - CSCHL
 * 2008 - Men's Rugby State Champions Div II Tier II
 * 2016 - Men's Ice Hockey Conference Tournament Champions - GLCHL
 * 2017 - Men's Ice Hockey Conference Tournament Champions - GLCHL
 * 2017 - Softball Conference Champions - WHAC
 * 2018 - Men's Basketball Conference Tournament Champions - WHAC
 * 2018 - Men's Basketball - NAIA Division 2 National Tournament Appearance
 * 2019 - Men’s Ice Hockey Conference Champions - WHAC

Student life
There are over 150 recognized student organizations (RSOs) and 7 university-sponsored organizations (USOs). Both the RSO and USO communities comprise extraordinary interests, from greek life, academic/professional organizations, cultural and ethnic organizations, honor societies, political and social activist organizations, recreational organizations, and religious and spiritual Organizations.

University sponsored organizations:
 * The Michigan Journal, the student newspaper of the University of Michigan-Dearborn since 1971.
 * WUMD, the student radio station of the University of Michigan-Dearborn since 1979.
 * Campus Video Network
 * The Lyceum
 * Student Activities Board
 * Student Government
 * Student Organization Advisory Council (SOAC)

Greek life
UM–Dearborn has eight fraternities and eight sororities.

WUMD Radio
WUMD College Radio is a student-run, free-format radio station that features diversity in music from punk rock to bluegrass, jazz to electronica, and everything in between.