Alumni Digest is a periodic electronic summary of highlights at the College for alumni + friends of Taubman College.

August 2008 Issue

There are fewer than 1,500 African American architects licensed in the United States. Yet, there are 40,000 physicians. Why has the discipline of architecture been resistant? On Friday, August 1 at 4:30 p.m., at Borders Book & Music, Compuware Building, 1012 Woodward Ave., Detroit, Mich., 48226, the Detroit Chapter of the National Organization of Minority Architects is hosting a discussion and book signing with Craig L. Wilkins, lecturer in architecture and director of the community design center at the UM Detroit Center,.  A registered architect, Dr. Wilkins, will discuss his book The Aesthetics of Equity: Notes on Race, Space, Architecture and Music, which received the 2008 Montaigne Medal one of the Eric Hoffer Awards. For more information please go to http://taubmancollege.umich.edu/updates/2008/04/dr-craig-wilkins-discusses-why-there.html

The students, faculty, staff, and new dean of Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning look forward to welcoming alumni/ae for a weekend of fellowship and celebration, October 3-5, 2008. As part of this year’s homecoming, we will provide lots of opportunities for alumni to meet our new dean, Monica Ponce de Leon. We will also recognize the accomplishments of Jorge M. Pérez, M.U.P.’76, Taubman College’s Distinguished Alumnus for 2008. To register for events and to purchase football tickets, please follow this link: http://taubmancollege.umich.edu/alumnifriends/reunion/2008/register.html

The Agora Planning Journal is a publication of student work from the Urban and Regional Planning, Urban Design and Real Estate Certificate Programs. The journal is intended as a “marketplace of ideas” for students to share their work within Taubman College, across the University of Michigan campus as well as with others outside the university. The latest issue is available for download.  http://taubmancollege.umich.edu/publications/agora2008.html