Help us rethink and reimagine Western Michigan University—calling all students, faculty, staff, donors, alumni and community members to assist in creating our future together.
Think Big: Why + How
Gold Gatherings are mixers scheduled at various WMU campus locations for the 2019-20 academic year.
Join us for a lunch
Find out how we can work as one collective team to advance our ideals.
Move forward together
WMU faculty and staff are recipients of both internal and external funding awards, as well as honors bestowed upon them for outstanding scholarship. This section of our site provides information about recipients of these awards and honors.
View the recipients
With adoption of its first strategic plan in 2012, the University embraced three basic tenets developed to describe its identity and provide guideposts for the future.
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Dr. Jennifer P. Bott, provost and vice president for academic affairs, is the chief academic officer and chief administrative officer following the president of Western Michigan University. The provost oversees academic policies and activities throughout the University and is responsible for long-range planning for, as well as coordination of the administrative and support functions of, the University’s academic enterprise.
WMU was one of 93 institutions from around the nation named an annual HEED honoree by INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine and has been honored by the publication each year since 2013.
The new scholars exemplify the academic prowess and diversity of backgrounds high school grads bring to WMU each fall.
This chart shows the units reporting directly to the provost and vice president for academic affairs.