Making The Michigan Difference
...by
Supporting UM-Dearborn’s Metropolitan Vision
- Enhancing academic excellence through quality online courses with small class sizes.
- Deepening enrollment growth by extending the reach of access to UMD courses to wider areas of our metropolitan community, nationally, and globally based students, who otherwise could not attend our school.
- Deepening student engagement with courses that are current and related to today’s changing work world and that deal with real issues of
- Global competitiveness and the future of manufacturing .
- Race and discrimination.
- Urban issues.
- Regional leadership.
... and by
Supporting a Three-Campus Vision
- Interaction at the distance learning administration level with the Ann Arbor campus to improve the quality of distance learning for all campuses.
- Exploring collaboration with the Flint campus on distance level course and program offerings


