1980:
Fall: Enrollment is 6610.
November: The League of Catholic Women want to buy Foley Hall for use a a pre-release institution for women prisoners. The surrounding community opposes this.
April: The doctoral program in English is discontinued.
1981:
Enrollment is 6375.
September: Architecture students protest the removal of the architecture library over to the main library.
1982:
January 20: Detroit Police visit the Rathskeller because of a complaint of underage drinking.
Summer: The Honors House is demolished.
September: The St. Francis Club amends its constitution to allow women to join.
September 2-3: Senator Carl Levin visits campus for Titan Fest. (He had taught an urban politics course in the late 60's, early 70's.)
October 22: Board of Trustees approves the proposal for the new Columbiere Campus in Clarkston.
1983:
March: The Theatre Company moves to the Architecture Building.
Fall: Enrollment is 6310.
September 13: A bomb threat forces the evacuation of the McNichols Campus Library.
November 11: The U of D Columbiere Campus has its name changed to U of D Clarkston Campus.
1984:
1985:
February 6: Low membership numbers force the St. Francis Club to close.
Summer: Florence is closed off.
July 23: Groundbreaking for Florence Mall.
1986:
April: Polymer Technologies Inc. is incorporated as a subsidiary of the university.
Fall: Enrollment is 6139.
The university enters an agreement with Macomb Community College to offer degree completion courses.
October: Varsity Soccer is added to the athletic program.
November: "Florence Mall" is named the Lille B Kassab Mall after the mother of an alumnus and donor to the university.
November 25: Ted Turner speaks at the university, the first in the Emmett E. Tracy Distinguished Lecture Series.
December 15: Emma Henderson, President of the Detroit City Council, speaks at the university.
1987:
Fall: Enrollment is 6101.
Fall: The Master of Liberal Arts and Bachelor of Plastics Manufacturing are first offered.
February 26: Richie Havens appears at the Rathskeller.
April 13: A soot storm in the library forces an evacuation when the new air conditioning system is tested.
June 21: A flood damages almost seven thousand books in the library's collection.
1988:
Summer: The Architecture Building is sandblasted clean of decades of soot from the burning of coal. At this point there are no plans to clean the other buildings.
Fall: Enrollment is 6021.
Fall: University of Detroit, Marygrove College, and Mercy College commission a study concerning the future collaboration of the three institutions.
February: Tom Monahan, pizza magnate, is the fourth speaker in the Emmet E Tracy Lecture Series.
October: Tom Monahan donates the use of Terkel House (on 7 mile road) for the use of the School of Architecture.
October 10: The Rat reopens as a student run venture.
October 18: The university announces it is closing the Clarkston Campus.
November: Grand opening of Polymer Technologies Institute in the building that once housed the St Francis Club.
1989:
February: A new university magazine "Student Illustrated" makes its debut.
Summer: Clarkston Campus closes.
Summer: The Engineering Building is cleaned of its sooty skin.
September: A mosque opens in Shiple Hall
1990:
January: Marygrove College pulls out of the consolidation talks.
April: Holden Hall becomes an all freshman residence hall.
Summer: The Chemistry Building gets a scrubbing to remove its soot covering.
October 31: First "Safety Street" put on by Architecture students.
December: University of Detroit and Mercy College merge to become the University of Detroit Mercy.
