Closure and Transition for Marygrove College Campus

This is a delayed post due to a bit of personal travel and the re-entry afterward as I wade through accumulated emails and news alerts... 

Marygrove College in Detroit announced in mid-June that it will be closing after the fall term in December 2019.

Marygrove was initially founded by the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary as Saint Mary Academy in 1845 in Monroe, Michigan. The name changed to Saint Mary College in 1905 and then to Marygrove College in 1927 after moving to Detroit.  Undergraduate programs were discontinued in 2018 and Marygrove became a graduate-only institution.

Nancy Kaffer reported for the Detroit Free Press in "Detroit's 92-year-old Marygrove College to close in December" on June 12, 2019.

Daniel Howes of Michigan Public Radio also provided interesting perspective in his coverage, "Despite closure, Marygrove is a success story" and explores the transition toward "...a preschool to graduate program vision led by Kresge and the Detroit Public Schools Community District."

You can read more on changes at Marygrove through a couple of Small College Garden posts:

• Two Detroit Publications Provide Excellent Reporting on Changes at Marygrove College
• Detroit's Cradle-to-College Initiative

If you are interested in recent trends for closures, mergers,and acquisitions access College Closures since 2009 in the index at the right of any College History Garden page. There are separate tabs for non-profit closures, for-profit closures, and one for mergers and acquisitions. Each tab includes basic information for the institutions, i.e., Carnegie Classification, sector, accrediting agency, and the IPEDS unitid.