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Fast-tracking dreams into reality: Urban Teacher Residency Program a ‘blessing’ for one of cohort’s first graduates
W Magazine
… residency model that includes a clinical experience paired with the required coursework for certification. Students … mitigates some of the barriers that impede qualified candidates from pursuing a teaching career. Students who … happy she was to see my smiling face in the building again. You know she appreciates that we went through the program …
https://wmich.edu/news/2022/11/69855
Founder of organic cloth diaper company to give campus talk
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… Hall. The event is free and open to the public and begins with breakfast at 7:30 a.m. Reservations are required and can be made by calling (269) 387-6059 or at … or to RSVP, contact Alyssa Gapske at @email . To suggest an entrepreneur who should be considered for the …
https://wmich.edu/news/2015/03/22546
Ethics Center offers four book club events for the fall semester
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… this crisis, systems and their effect on the people living within them–especially perverse incentives and behavioral … on a variant of a respiratory virus that may transform cancer cells into normal ones. He has disobeyed orders to … Santiago-Valles, WMU associate professor emeritus of Africana studies, will be leading discussions of Alfred McCoy's …
https://wmich.edu/news/2018/08/48334
Upton announces VetSuccess program for WMU, KVCC and KCC
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… in mid-2009 as a pilot project, supplies campus sites with an experienced, full-time VA vocational counselor and a … have established a wonderful working relationship that can be leveraged to ensure those who have served our nation … services through VetSuccess are critically needed to serve younger veterans who, because they've completed multiple …
https://wmich.edu/news/2012/04/332
Institute to honor Lewis Walker at fundraising dinner
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… helped create the institute in 1990 and was the first African-American faculty member with a doctoral degree hired by WMU. The Walker Institute … to studying race, ethnicity and poverty, and the struggle for justice and civil rights. Among the chief …
https://wmich.edu/news/2013/02/5051
WMU taps leader from Oregon State to take reins of Bronco Athletics
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… foundation upon which our forthcoming athletic director can build in the years to come,” President Edward Montgomery says. "Dan comes to Western with a strong record of service in Division I athletics and … of comprehensive success nationally and within the Mid-American Conference," Bartholomae says. "The opportunity to …
https://wmich.edu/news/2021/12/66647
Trustees vote to name WMU engineering facility for Elson S. Floyd
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… The naming will be effective after the University confers with Carmento Floyd, former WMU first lady and President … take a medical leave from WSU to focus on his battle with cancer. He was 59. 'A new standard in higher education' … flexible classroom, lecture, study and research spaces that can be tailored to student and faculty needs. The highly …
https://wmich.edu/news/2015/07/25452
Three faculty members named academic leadership fellows by MAC
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… leadership development program sponsored by the Mid-American Conference. Drs. Kieran J. Fogarty, director and … They are among 36 faculty and administrators form Mid-American Conference institutions who were selected. MAC Academic … the future leadership of our member institutions so that we can expand and continue this shared commitment to academic …
https://wmich.edu/news/2017/10/43138
Lyceum Series to take broad look at sexual identity issues
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… will focus on sexual identity issues and how they can overlap with other dimensions of diversity. With the theme "LGBTQ+ … originally working with high-risk LGBT and questioning youth at a grassroots nonprofit in Jacksonville, Florida. He …
https://wmich.edu/news/2017/09/42433
WMU becomes part of Osher Lifelong Learning Institute network
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… University . The agreement, effective April 1, comes with an operating grant of $100,000 from the foundation to … Programs. "We're enormously pleased about this relationship with Osher, which is the nation's premier name in lifelong … and the arts. The lifelong learning programs it supports can be found in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. …
https://wmich.edu/news/2014/05/16136