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WMU salaried employees to move from 26 to 24 paychecks per year
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… pay schedule will apply to all salaried employees, while hourly and student employees will remain on their current … biweekly pay cycle. Graduate assistants will continue to be paid biweekly as well. New pay periods The first through … paycheck in the new schedule, which covers June 15-30, will be paid on July 2—which is the business day closest to …
https://wmich.edu/news/2015/05/23548
Community values focus of Heritage Hall grand opening
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… School atop Prospect Hill. A 16-month renovation has just been completed to return the building to service, making it … gift to furnish the newly renovated facility that will be home to the WMU Alumni Center. Haworth is a 1964 WMU … its chairperson in 1997. Also speaking at the ceremony will be: WMU President John M. Dunn . Jennifer Brinn Lentner , …
https://wmich.edu/news/2015/10/27910
Waldo Library to extend hours for end of semester
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… Mich.—Western Michigan University’s Waldo Library will be open 24 hours a day beginning at 8 a.m. Wednesday, April 20, through midnight … study for their final exams. Circulation desk service will be available until 3 a.m., and the self-service checkout …
https://wmich.edu/news/2016/04/31703
Tickets available Tuesday to watch Broncos in NCAA Tournament
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… by Deanne Puca on The Bronco men's basketball team beat Toledo for their first MAC Tournament win since 2004. … KALAMAZOO— Tickets are available for the general public beginning Tuesday, March 18 , for Western Michigan … WMU Athletic Ticket Office at (269) 387-8092. The game can be viewed locally on CBS affiliate WMMT Channel 3. The …
https://wmich.edu/news/2014/03/14350
Group started to fill students' critical unmet needs
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… to stock the pantry," says Julia P. Kuntz , a staff member in the Office of Development and Alumni Relations and one of the members of the committee of University employees spearheading … students. "As the cost of education rises and families struggle to make ends meet, many students cut back on their food …
https://wmich.edu/news/2014/09/18486
Campus office hours released for Thanksgiving recess
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… Mich.—No Western Michigan University classes will be held during Thanksgiving recess from noon Wednesday, … limited hours Thursday through Sunday, Nov. 22-25 . Listed below are Thanksgiving Day weekend hours for selected … , and will remain closed Thursday through Saturday . Biggby Coffee, K-Zoo Coney and the Bernhard Center Café and …
https://wmich.edu/news/2018/11/50246
WMU’s century plant reaches new heights
College of Arts and Sciences
… 50-year-old Agave, also called the “century plant,” has been growing a remarkable 3.5 inches daily since mid-January … In order to give the Agave, affectionately named Alice, the best chance of completing her life cycle, greenhouse … Lanka) Jackson designed a protective system that utilizes tubes, heat tape and thermostats to hopefully ensure the spike …
https://wmich.edu/news/2023/02/70881
Ethics Center announces book clubs for spring 2024
Study of Ethics in Society
… spring's Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Ethics Between the Lines book club series that is underway. All … was actually written by a deceased colleague. Meetings will be in Room 3120 of Sangren Hall on Mondays, Jan. 29, Feb. 5 … society. It discusses how the negative treatment of people because of their body size has seeped into society as a …
https://wmich.edu/news/2024/01/74500
Services, programs at WMU highlighted during LBGT Pride Month
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… Mich.—In West Michigan and across the country, members and allies of the lesbian, bisexual, gay and … June as Pride Month. "Pride, to me, is the what it means to be able to live in a world that actively tries to keep you from being who you are and simultaneously be who you were always …
https://wmich.edu/news/2019/06/53968
Faculty, grad students travel to Japan to explore pandemic response
College of Arts and Sciences
… Dr. Ying Zeng Covell's most recent trip to Japan in September 2022, however, may be one of his most unique, as he led a grant-funded study … worth noting that, culturally, Japan is not known for hugging or shaking hands, so there was already some built-in …
https://wmich.edu/news/2022/12/70129