Search

Business professor secures Fulbright award

Haworth College of Business

… “While you can insert service learning into any class, it works most effectively when faculty and students can see clearly how it helps accomplish a course’s learning objectives. … His participation in the Fulbright program will bring tremendous benefit to his students at WMU. “Because this is not …

https://wmich.edu/news/2020/07/60350

WMU goes all in to promote student success

News

… , director of Success at WMU. “He also wants us to show a significant gain in the retention of new first-year … Success at WMU is an initiative that will allow us to do those things phenomenally well.” Creating a campus of … mentoring expertise on campus, so we relied heavily on the work people all over campus have been doing for years," …

https://wmich.edu/news/2018/08/48644

Speaker to address today's changing perspectives on gender

News

… will deal with gender issues that may come up both at work and in social life, and will include a closing … session. Schofield will cover topics such as how to respect pronouns, what topics are off-limits and how … that demystify trans and nonbinary genders. He does this within an intersectional framework—the way that …

https://wmich.edu/news/2017/03/39114

Check campus office hours for Thanksgiving recess

News

… represented employees have contractually scheduled regular work days Nov. 25-26 since the University continues to … hours beginning at 8 a.m. Nov. 29 . WMU Libraries ' Waldo Library will close at 5 p.m. on Nov. 24 and reopen at … of 60 to 85 degrees. Portions of a particular building that do not regularly go into night setback mode will not go into …

https://wmich.edu/news/2021/11/66274

Princeton, Cornell scholars keynote Graduate Philosophy Conference

News

… The conference's two keynote speakers are Dr. Theodore Sider , the Frederick J. Whiton Professor of Philosophy … are in epistemology, metaphysics and ethics with recent work done in moral realism and moral disagreement. Other topics of discussion at the conference include "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Permissivism," "Does …

https://wmich.edu/news/2014/11/20298

Report details second successful year implementing strategic plan

News

… being implemented, the 2013-14 year-end report aims to show how the results of divisional key performance objectives … The Gold Standard The Gold Standard is a strategic planning document that serves as a guide for decision-making, a lens … Year-end reports reflect the impact associated with work done annually to ensure that the University is learner …

https://wmich.edu/news/2014/10/19412

Martin Luther King Jr. remembered with virtual events, community read

News

… p.m. , is a virtual discussion about the racial healing work that has been transpiring in the Kalamazoo community, … Healing Circles and Virtual Healing Experiences are and how the community can participate in the 5th annual National … speaker, scholar and activist Dr. D-L Stewart at Colorado State University and his presentation "I Wish I Knew How

https://wmich.edu/news/2021/01/62609

Seminar to focus on building adult literacy in southwest Michigan

News

… Michigan Regional Prosperity Initiative, the Learning Network of Greater Kalamazoo and Western Michigan University. … or disabilities, attendees will get strategies in how to better approach that, and for students who are … But the need is still great. There are 25,000 struggling adult readers in Kalamazoo County—13 percent of our …

https://wmich.edu/news/2016/11/36668

Poets with WMU ties explore Michigan through verse, discussion

News

… ties to Western Michigan University will read from their work this month and participate in a panel discussion on how living in Michigan has influenced their work. The event, … in creative writing from Arizona State University and a doctoral degree in English and creative writing from WMU, …

https://wmich.edu/news/2014/01/12800

WMU to confer nearly 1,300 degrees during summer commencement

News

… bachelor's level, 403 at the master's level and 38 at the doctoral level. Among the students who are graduating will … and throughout the Kalamazoo area on Public Media Network Channel 191, a local public access channel on the … graduation information , including directions to WMU and how to obtain tickets or view the live webcast, visit the …

https://wmich.edu/news/2018/06/47571