$3M New Humanistic School Opens

FARMINGTON HILLS, MI-The Center for Humanistic Studies Graduate School, formerly based in Detroit, has moved to a newly-constructed, 15,000-sf building in Farmington Hills.

The tiny college is a professional graduate school specializing in Humanistic and Clinical Psychology.

The center was established in 1980, following the closing of the Merrill-Palmer Institute. In the fall of 1981, CHS was awarded the degree-granting charter of the Merrill-Palmer Institute and is currently offering the Master of Arts Degree in Humanistic and Clinical Psychology and the Doctoral Degree in Humanistic and Clinical Psychology.

The school had been located in Detroit’s Cultural Center, in an old mansion within two blocks of the Detroit Public Library, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit Historical Museum, Children’s Museum, College for Creative Studies and Charles H. Wright Museum of African-American History.

Center officials said the move was an expansion needed to accommodate more students and faculty.

The new $3 million facility is located on Orchard Lake road, just south of I-696 and is adjacent to the Orchard Ridge Campus of Oakland Community College.

A open house is being planned for Sept. 19.