Marygrove College#Athletics

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The college grew out of a postgraduate tutorial offered to one young woman graduate of St. Mary's Academy in Monroe, Michigan, in 1899. By 1905 it had grown to a two-year college for women and in 1910 it was a four-year college chartered to grant degrees.{{cite book |last=Tentler |first=Leslie Woodcock |year=1990 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PKrc6PicbDoC |title=Seasons of Grace: A History of the Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit |page=253 |publisher=Wayne State University Press |isbn=978-0-8143-2106-5}} It was then known as St. Mary's College. The college moved to its current location in Detroit in 1927, and at that time became known as Marygrove College. When it moved to Detroit its president was George Hermann Derry, who was the first lay person to serve as a president of a Catholic women's college in the United States.{{cite web |url=http://www.marygrove.edu/home/who-we-are/history.html |title=History of Marygrove |website=Marygrove College |access-date=July 31, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170614200042/http://marygrove.edu/home/who-we-are/history.html |archive-date=June 14, 2017 |url-status=dead }}

In the decades after World War I, Marygrove College was an important local center of Catholic social action. Faculty members were chosen for their education, character, and faith, and President Derry encouraged each student to look beyond the prospect of eventual marriage and to become capable of "doing her part in the world's work in whatever sphere of life she may be placed". By 1936, the college catalog spoke in far more emphatic terms of female independence. In 1937, Sister Honora Jack became the college's first woman president.Tentler 1990, p. 462. The college accepted its first black student in 1938.Tentler 1990, p. 512.

Marygrove College was originally a women's college. It became co-educational in about 1970 during the presidency of Arthur Brown.

Glenda D. Price was appointed as the college's first African-American woman president in 1988. Price retired in 2006 and continues to be active in Detroit's community revival, most recently with her appointment to the city's financial advisory board.{{cite news |url=http://www.record-eagle.com/opinion/x1221266213/Jack-Lessenberry-Digital-response-to-Detroits-blight-problem |title=Digital response to Detroit's blight problem |access-date=2019-07-31 |url-status=dead |newspaper=Traverse City Record-Eagle |last=Lessenberry |first=Jack |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140217224142/http://www.record-eagle.com/opinion/x1221266213/Jack-Lessenberry-Digital-response-to-Detroits-blight-problem |archive-date=2014-02-17}}{{cite news |url=http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20120530/AWARDS10/306039992/retired-marygrove-presidents-career-advanced-with-a-bit-of-a-nudge |title=Retired Marygrove president's career advanced - with a bit of a nudge |first=Sherri |last=Welch |newspaper=Crain's Detroit Business |date=May 30, 2012 |access-date=July 31, 2019}}

In the final years several controversial events on campus occurred, including protests over the use of college facilities by the LGBT group DignityUSA,{{cite news |url=http://www.cardinalnewmansociety.org/CatholicEducationDaily/DetailsPage/tabid/102/ArticleID/2206/Family-Group-Asks-Archbishop-to-Ban-Homosexual-Activists-Mass-at-Marygrove-College.aspx |title=Family Group Asks Archbishop to Ban Homosexual Activists Mass at Marygrove College |journal=Catholic Education Daily |first=Tim |last=Drake |date=May 2, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140217224053/http://www.cardinalnewmansociety.org/CatholicEducationDaily/DetailsPage/tabid/102/ArticleID/2206/Family-Group-Asks-Archbishop-to-Ban-Homosexual-Activists-Mass-at-Marygrove-College.aspx |archive-date=2014-02-17}}{{cite web |url=http://www.dignityusa.org/content/dignitydetroit%E2%80%99s-39th-anniversary-pride-and-protest |title=Dignity/Detroit's 39th Anniversary: Pride and Protest |first=Marianne |last=Duddy-Burke |access-date=2019-07-31 |url-status=dead |date=February 22, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222214036/http://www.dignityusa.org/content/dignitydetroit%E2%80%99s-39th-anniversary-pride-and-protest |archive-date=2014-02-22}} and the opening of a Muslim prayer room.{{cite journal |url=http://www.cardinalnewmansociety.org/CatholicEducationDaily/DetailsPage/tabid/102/ArticleID/2897/Marygrove-College-Adds-Muslim-Prayer-Room-to-Campus.aspx |title=Marygrove College Adds Muslim Prayer Room to Campus |journal=Catholic Education Daily |date=January 20, 2014 |first=Matthew |last=Archbold |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222045043/http://www.cardinalnewmansociety.org/CatholicEducationDaily/DetailsPage/tabid/102/ArticleID/2897/Marygrove-College-Adds-Muslim-Prayer-Room-to-Campus.aspx |archive-date=2014-02-22}}

The final president, beginning in 2016, was Marygrove alumna Elizabeth Burns.{{Cite web |last=Vaughn |first=Jerome |date=2016-02-04 |title=New Marygrove College President Says School Plays Unique Role in Detroit |url=https://wdet.org/2016/02/04/new-marygrove-college-president-says-school-plays-unique-role-in-detroit/ |access-date=2023-06-05 |website=WDET 101.9 FM |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=Marygrove College appoints new president |url=https://www.freep.com/story/news/education/2016/01/19/marygrove-college-appoints-new-president/79008782/ |access-date=2023-06-05 |website=Detroit Free Press |language=en-US}}

The college closed all undergraduate programs at the end of the Fall 2017 semester ostensibly to focus exclusively on graduate programs with a reduced staff and faculty.{{cite press release |url=https://liberalarts.marygrove.edu/recent-news/marygrove-college-to-transition-to-a-graduate-educational-institution-in-2018 |title=Marygrove College to Transition to a Graduate Educational Institution in 2018 |publisher=Marygrove College |date=August 9, 2017 |access-date=June 12, 2019}} It had around 1,000 undergraduates in the college at the time. On June 7, 2019, the school administration announced it would cease operation the fall 2019 semester.{{cite web |url=https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/marygrove-college-to-close-in-december-after-92-years-in-detroit |title=Marygrove College to close in December after 92 years in Detroit |first=Ken |last=Haddad |work=WDIV News|date=June 12, 2019 |access-date=June 12, 2019}}

The contents of the library were transferred to the Internet Archive,{{cite web|access-date=2020-03-26|title=Preserving the legacy of a library when a college closes | website=Internet Archive Blogs|date=10 December 2019 |url=https://blog.archive.org/2019/12/10/preserving-the-legacy-of-a-library-when-a-college-closes/}} which imported the catalog into Open Library and had over 50,000 scanned books online by March 2020.{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/marygrovecollege|title=Marygrove College Library Donation}}

The school's chapel is now used by St. Peter Claver Catholic Church, a nearby parish whose building collapsed in 2018.{{Citation needed|date=May 2022}}

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The current college encompasses a {{convert|53|acre|adj=on}} campus. There are large lawns and mature trees. The Madame Cadillac and Liberal Arts buildings, by architect D.A. Bohlen & Son, are Tudor Gothic structures with stained glass windows, wrought iron gates, carved wood decorations, high ceilings, arched doorways, and carved stonework. The campus was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2022.{{Cite web |title=Twenty-Two Distinctive Places in Michigan listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2022 {{!}} Michigan Business |url=https://www.michiganbusiness.org/press-releases/2023/02/nrhp-2022/ |access-date=2023-06-05 |website=Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) |language=en}}

The Marygrove athletic teams were called the Mustangs. The college was a member of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), primarily competing in the Wolverine–Hoosier Athletic Conference (WHAC) from 2012–13 to the fall of the 2017–18 academic year.{{cite press release |publisher=Marygrove College |url=http://www.marygrove.edu/home/news/press-releases/1090.html |title=Marygrove Joins the WHAC |date=October 18, 2011 |access-date=October 24, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111021053045/http://www.marygrove.edu/home/news/press-releases/1090.html |archive-date=October 21, 2011}} They were also a member of the United States Collegiate Athletic Association (USCAA) from 2002–03 to the fall of the 2017–18 academic year. The Mustangs previously competed as an NAIA Independent within the Association of Independent Institutions (AII) from 2008–09 to 2011–12.

Marygrove competed in 15 intercollegiate varsity sports: Men's sports included basketball, cross country, golf, lacrosse, soccer, baseball, and track & field (indoor and outdoor); while women's sports included basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, track & field (indoor and outdoor) and volleyball. With the August 2017 announcement of the closing of the school's undergraduate programs, the school also announced that all athletics would cease after the 2017 fall season.{{cite news |title=Marygrove College athletics shut down after decision to drop undergraduate programs |url=https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/marygrove-college-athletics-shut-down-after-decision-to-drop-undergraduate-programs |first=Mara |last=McDonald |work=WDIV News |date=August 16, 2017}}

The college added golf to its list of athletic programs with the installation of a new golf practice facility in the fall of 2010. Marygrove's golf practice facility, designed by world-renowned golf course architect Tom Doak, offered a leading urban land use plan, incorporating golf practice and other athletic facilities on a small urban land tract. In addition to the unique use of urban land for golf, the Golf Practice Facility incorporated environment-friendly land use and techniques, including minimal disruption to current trees, and used recycled water for irrigation and natural pesticides.{{cite journal |last=Lang |first=Tom |journal=Detroit's Premier Business Journal |url=http://www.dbusiness.com/Blogs/Annual-2011/Marygrove-College-in-Detroit-Debuts-Golf-Practice-Facility/ |title=Marygrove College in Detroit Debuts Golf Practice Facility |date=October 5, 2011 |access-date=October 24, 2011}}

Marygrove was first accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools in 1926.Tentler 1990, p. 569.

Marygrove was accredited by NCA's (North Central Association) Higher Learning Commission,{{cite web |title=HLC Accreditation |url=https://www.marygrove.edu/accreditation |website=Marygrove College |access-date=2019-07-31}} the Michigan State Department of Education and the Council of Social Work and Education.

{{See also|Category:Marygrove College alumni}}

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