Light Up the Land
The history of the University of Detroit Mercy begins with the establishment of Detroit College by the Jesuits in 1877. The legacy of the university stretches the expanse of years since then from its humble beginnings on Jefferson Avenue in downtown Detroit to the location of the current main campus now on Livernois. The college became the University of Detroit in 1927, and merged with Mercy College in 1990, to become the University of Detroit Mercy. That’s the basic historical timeline that takes us from UDM’s origins to 2015 when it was ranked, “… in the top tier of Midwestern regional universities” according to the Education edition of the U. S. News and World Report. These days, this quality ranking and the history of the university is easily available through a quick search of the web....
