EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT

DATE: 6-8 p.m. Jan. 11, 2016 (remarks at 6:30 p.m.)

WHAT: The University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, in coordination with Detroit Public Schools and the Education Achievement Authority, will graduate 25 DPS juniors from an architecture prep program in Detroit.

ArcPrep provides participating high school students with 1.5 high school credits in an immersive, semester-long college preparatory course on architecture, urbanism and integrated design studio practices.

The program’s purpose is to expose underrepresented minorities to the discipline of architecture with the goal of helping to diversify the field. Participating Detroit high schools include Cass Technical High School, Detroit School of Arts, Henry Ford High School and Western International High School.

U-M is committed to inspiring future designers and leaders in architecture and created the Architecture Prep Program to foster a passion for design in high school students in Detroit. Students in the program, which began in January 2015, meet for three hours per day, five days a week over the course of a semester.

SPONSORS: U-M Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Kresge Foundation and Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan

LOCATION: U-M Architecture Research Studio, 3901 Woodward Ave., Detroit

INFORMATION: myumi.ch/6kvMD