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Bronco Innovators Challenge inspires creativity, encourages entrepreneurship
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… by Erin Flynn on Left to right: Dr. Steven Butt, dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences; Imani Williams; Taylor Auby; Renee Cilluffo; …
https://wmich.edu/news/2023/08/72467
Savings add up for students under Libraries' grants for free online textbooks
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… Michigan University students are expected to save a total of nearly $164,000 on the cost of textbooks and course enrollment in 2021 through a grant … program for free online materials. In its second round of Open Education Resources (OER) grants, University …
https://wmich.edu/news/2021/02/63257
Longtime WMU board secretary Betty Kocher dies at 84
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… as secretary to the Western Michigan University Board of Trustees for 35 years, died Nov. 2 in Kalamazoo at … Kocher, who had retired just two years ago at the end of 2015, worked with 46 trustees over the years and, at the time of her retirement, had worked for every WMU president except …
https://wmich.edu/news/2017/11/43661
ROTC event to memorialize Capt. Russell, award scholarship
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… program has established an endowed scholarship in the name of Capt. Drew Russell , a WMU graduate who was killed in … for him Tuesday, March 20. Russell, a lifelong resident of Scotts, Mich., graduated from WMU in 2008. He was killed … October in an attack by insurgents in the Kandahar province of Afghanistan. A fallen soldier ceremony for Russell is …
https://wmich.edu/news/2012/03/242
Disney internship program to recruit at WMU
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… to recruit Western Michigan University students for a one-of-a-kind education and work program at the Magic Kingdom in … at 6 p.m. in the Brown and Gold Room on the second floor of the Bernhard Center to provide information about the real world of make believe and becoming a Disney "cast member." The …
https://wmich.edu/news/2012/10/1652
Procedures reviewed for clearing snow and ice on campus
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… must plow, shovel, scrape and de-ice more than 26.5 miles of roads, more than 120 acres of parking, 39 miles of walks and 200,000 square feet of steps and ramps. Plow …
https://wmich.edu/news/2012/12/3313
Kalamazoo Film Society presents 'Holy Motors'
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… Sunday. Admission is $5. From dawn to dusk over the course of a single day, “Holy Motors” spends a few hours in the life of Monsieur Oscar, a shadowy character who journeys from one … a different guise in each. He is, in turn, a captain of industry, assassin, beggar, monster and family man who …
https://wmich.edu/news/2013/01/3886
Campus United Way campaign celebration planned
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… Campaign end nears; WMU has not met goal. KALAMAZOO—Members of the Western Michigan University community are invited to join President John M. Dunn as he marks the end of the campus United Way campaign. The celebration will take place from 4 to 6 p.m. Friday, Nov. 16 , in the lobby of the Fetzer Center and in conjunction with the final …
https://wmich.edu/news/2012/11/2958
Educational leadership student analyzes new Dominican Republic education model
College of Education and Human Development
… on Dr. Sally Joslyn Peña Martinez KALAMAZOO, Mich.—As part of Western Michigan University's educational leadership … and qualitative analysis, she decided to explore the impact of the DR's Instituto Técnico Superior Comunitario (ITSC). … the first academic institution founded with the aim of implementing an American community college model. Yet …
https://wmich.edu/news/2024/01/74259
WMU trustees vote to freezes tuition, housing costs to support students in response to pandemic
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… increase in tuition or room and board pricing under a Board of Trustees-approved plan to freeze rates at the current … strain caused by the coronavirus outbreak, University officials say they want to create certainty for students around the cost of their education and demonstrate that WMU remains …
https://wmich.edu/news/2020/04/59125