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The Provost
Dr. Barbara Schirmer has found a home at UDM.
HARRY MRS BAUM
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r. Barbara Schirmer became
vice president of academic
affairs (provost) at the
University of Detroit Mercy four
months•ago.
This Jewish woman, born in the
Bronx, doesn't have a problem working
at a Jesuit and Mercy Sisters college.
"It is not a religious perspective as
much as it is a spiritual one," she said of
UDM.
Dr. Schirmer received a bachelor's
degree in elementary education from
the State University of New York at
Buffalo, a master's in education of deaf
and hard of hearing children and youth
from the University of Pittsburgh, and a
doctorate in language education at
SUNY-Buffalo.
And how does a Bronx native find
her way to Detroit? Through Ohio, of
course.
Dr. Schirmer was professor and chair
of the Department of Educational
Foundations and Special Services at
Kent State University's College of
Education, then served as dean and
professor at Miami (Ohio) University's
School of Education and Allied
Professions.
About six years ago, while at Kent
State, her daughter, Alison, married
Detroiter Jeffiey Lockman at Temple
Beth El.
"We would come up here for various
holidays like Thanksgiving and
Passover," she said.
Dr. Schirmer called the job opening
at UDM "one of those serendipitous
things," and applied during the spring.
As provost, Dr. Schirmer is in charge
of all academic affairs at UDM's five
colleges, including the dental school,
the law school and the library.
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UDM is based on community serv-
ice, she said. "It is built in to virtually
every academic program, from our law
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Looking towards the future, Dr.
Schirmer said UDM wants to increase
full-time enrollment, "and see more stu-
dents living here on campus, and fur-
ther energize student life."
Residence hall renovation and reha-
bilitation is also planned, she said. ,
"We have some challenges. Being on
campus on Livernois, we are trying very
hard to work with the city of Detroit to
revitalize this corridor," she said. "It's a
huge challenge. When parents drive off
the Lodge to get on to Livernois to go
the mile to campus, many of the par-
ents are dismayed.
"The cliche that people don't go
south of Eight Mile, it's just so startling
to me. We think we have tremendous
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"My sense is that it's hard to draw
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There's only one downside, she said.
She only sees her husband of 33 years,
John Schirmer, on weekends. He directs
new business for MeadWestvaco, a
paper, packaging and office supply
company. He lives in Chillicothe, south
of Columbus, and she lives in an apart-
ment in Novi, but is presently looking
for a condo "in a community we like,"
she said.
What's her typical day like? "I'd love
to tell you that I reflect on strategic
directions for the university," she said,
laughing. "It's a little bit of that and a
little bit of putting out fires, and a lot of
working with our cleans.
After her experience in public col-
leges, she noticed a difference at UDM
that one might find surprising.
Public colleges and universities "large-
ly serve children of middle-class parents
and do not necessarily well serve lower-
income students," she said. What she
found at UDM was "an odd juxtaposi-
tion of a private university really reach-
ing out to the minority students."
UDM has about 6,000 students; 60
percent are female and 33 percent are
minorities.
"We do a fair amount of scholarship
subsidy to students," she said. "State
universities essentially have six tuitions.
As a private university, we have the abil-
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