
Professional Clothing Closet
Empowering Students with Career-Ready Attire
A professional image is one of the most important but often overlooked priorities in a career context. It’s important that students can dress in ways that reflect how they want to be seen.
It’s not easy for many of our Education students to achieve this, so our caring Education faculty and staff have stepped up to change this!
The UM-Flint Professional Clothing Closet, located at 430 David M. French Hall, provides education students with access to career attire appropriate for interviews, internships, student teaching, networking events, conferences, career fairs, and more—free of charge.
Our primary goal is to ensure students feel comfortable and prepared to make a positive first impression. We are excited to guide our students to look and feel self-confident for in-person professional work, events, and virtual meetings.
The Closet is inclusive of all genders and sizes, and all clothing and accessories are offered at no cost. In addition to providing a wide variety of professional clothing and accessories, students may receive free resources and information about the importance of professional dress and the different types of professional attire in the workplace.
Education students may select up to two outfits per semester. To arrange a visit, please email Linda Blakey at lblakey@umich.edu.
You can support this meaningful initiative
Would you like to make an impact on our community’s future educators? Here are ways you can help.
We are currently accepting:
- Clothing, shoes, accessories, and clothing rack donations
- Financial donations
- Gift certificates for dry cleaning within the Genesee County area
- Gift certificates for professional hair styling in the Genesee County area
Here’s how you can connect with us:
- Contact Linda Blakey at 810-424-5215 or email her at lblakey@umich.edu to contribute clothing and/or accessories.
- Purchase item(s) from our Amazon Wish List
- Donors may direct funds to the UM-Flint Education Department Gifts Fund
- Mail or drop off a check at:
University of Michigan-Flint
Education Department
430 David M. French Hall
303 E. Kearsley Street
Flint, MI 48502-1950
