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WMU Libraries awards 10 grants to help reduce textbook costs for students

University Libraries

… see that instructors are continuing to understand the value of open textbooks for themselves and their students,” says … according to a report from the American Association of Colleges and Universities. Western students taking a … OER textbook expressed appreciation for the ease of access and financial relief. "I remember feeling so …

https://wmich.edu/news/2023/12/73818

Experience Chinese culture by taking a class this summer

Haenicke Institute for Global Education

… for nine summer Chinese culture courses that begin the week of Monday, May 8. The multiweek, low-cost courses are open to members of the public of all ages. A half-price tuition discount is offered to …

https://wmich.edu/news/2017/04/39256

Former trustee's book sheds light on lobbying

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… a book that gives readers an inside look at the life of a corporate lobbyist from someone who lived it. George Franklin , who retired in 2005 as vice president of worldwide government relations for the Kellogg Co., … with and that has fallen through the cracks of academia. "Schools don't teach government relations, even though every …

https://wmich.edu/news/2015/01/20828

Famed composer Legrand awarded WMU honorary degree

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… (not verified) on From left: Dr. Kathryn Hillenbrand, chair of WMU Honorary Degree Committee; Legrand; Ken Miller, chair of the WMU Board of Trustees; and Dunn KALAMAZOO, Mich.—Famed French composer …

https://wmich.edu/news/2016/05/32194

More than 3,000 expected to flock to WMU for Medieval Congress

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… during the 2013 congress. KALAMAZOO—More than 3,000 of the world's leading academics and others interested in … Thursday through Sunday, May 8-11, to examine all aspects of the period, from music to military, maritime and monastic … Medieval Institute, is the world's largest annual gathering of professional academics, students, performers, enthusiasts …

https://wmich.edu/news/2014/04/15598

Honors organization recognized with national award

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… KALAMAZOO, Mich.—Western Michigan University's chapter of the national honor society Alpha Lambda Delta has again … the Flame Award is a follow-up award to the Society's Order of the Torch Award, the honor society's highest accolade, which the WMU chapter last won in 2015. The Order of the Torch award is only awarded to a chapter every four …

https://wmich.edu/news/2017/11/43972

WMU to confer more than 1,800 degrees in December

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… toward students who are graduating from a particular set of degree-granting academic units. The 9 a.m. ceremony is for graduates of the colleges of Fine Arts and Health and Human Services, and the Haworth …

https://wmich.edu/news/2014/12/20465

Eugene M. Bernstein obituary

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… Feb. 20 in San Diego, California. He was 85. Bernstein, professor emeritus of physics, joined the WMU faculty in 1968 and retired in 1992 after almost 24 years of service to the University. He was a professor of physics …

https://wmich.edu/news/2016/05/32039

David Chaplin obituary

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… Anonymous (not verified) on Chaplin Dr. David Chaplin , a professor emeritus of sociology at Western Michigan University, died July 27 . … Chaplin joined the WMU faculty in 1972 to serve as chair of the Department of Sociology and retired in 1992 after …

https://wmich.edu/news/2017/09/42352

Goat work crew returns to campus for second helping

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… verified) on KALAMAZOO, Mich.—An even larger contingent of temporary landscape services workers will be on the … campus this summer to clear an overgrown woodlot. The first of this year's two eating crews. (Photo credit: Nick Gooch) … on-site is the 10-goat crew hired last summer as part of a successful one-week pilot project to test the animals' …

https://wmich.edu/news/2017/06/40334