The Detroit Orientation Institute (DOI) at Wayne State University is now accepting applications for the fall session scheduled on three consecutive Tuesdays, Oct. 11, 18 and 25. For more information, visit the Web site at www.culma.wayne.edu/doi.

The DOI offers a historical perspective and candid look at Detroit and the metro region. The sessions are especially beneficial to newcomers or anyone wishing to learn about the city and metro area. Business executives, professionals from nonprofit organizations, university faculty, high school teachers and administrators, government administrators and journalists typically attend.

Background materials, a CD-Rom, with over 200 pages of information, meals and transportation are all provided for a tuition cost of $750 per person. Registrations are accepted by phone or fax; however, full payment must be received by September 16, 2005 to secure a reservation.

The next program will not be offered until spring 2006.

Please contact the DOI director, Ann Cuddohy Slawnik, for more information at (313) 577-0171, or ann.slawnik@wayne.edu.

Wayne State University is a premier institution of higher education offering more than 350 academic programs through 11 schools and colleges to more than 33,000 students in metropolitan Detroit.