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WMU Board of Trustees to meet Wednesday to consider new AFSCME contract

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… through Aug. 12, 2027. The union's 300 members perform custodial services, dining operations, landscaping, skilled trades and … reviewed the results to reach an agreement on market-based wage rates for each position for the 2025-26 fiscal year. In …

https://wmich.edu/news/news/2025/08/wmu-trustees-consider-new-afscme-contract-wednesday

Services set for WMU historian Ernst Breisach

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Services set for WMU historian Ernst Breisach Submitted by … Michigan University professor emeritus of history, who died in Kalamazoo Nov. 25 . He was 93. Breisach taught in the WMU Department of History for …

https://wmich.edu/news/2016/11/36629

Redirecting the Aviation Dream: Jonathan Freye Leverages Himself as an Aviation Lobbyist

College of Aviation

… Redirecting the Aviation Dream: Jonathan Freye Leverages … located in the Lake Michigan shoreline community about halfway up the state's Lower Peninsula.  He is the director of … increased to subsidize the cost of starting a shuttle-bus service from the main campus to the College of Aviation in …

https://wmich.edu/aviation/news/2022/10/freye

Junne G. Martin obituary

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… Martin, a former Western Michigan University staff member, died Tuesday, June 26 . She was 86. Martin, of Adamstown, Md., came to WMU in 1969 and retired in 1991 after 22 years of service to the University. She began her WMU career in what …

https://wmich.edu/news/2012/12/3522

Distinguished Faculty Scholar nominations sought

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Distinguished Faculty Scholar nominations sought Submitted … Jan. 31, 2014 , for the Distinguished Faculty Scholar Award, the highest honor Western Michigan University bestows … are eligible if they have at least seven academic years of service to WMU and are not previous winners. Any member of …

https://wmich.edu/news/2013/10/10359

Leander C. Jones obituary

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… Dr. Leander C. Jones , emeritus professor of Africana Studies at Western Michigan University and a member of the local theatre community, died July 2 . He was 81. Jones joined the WMU faculty in 1974 and retired in 2003 after more than 29 years of service to the University. He was a former chair of the …

https://wmich.edu/news/2016/07/33453

Patricia 'Patty' Negrevski obituary

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… Negrevski , a Western Michigan University staff member, died Aug. 12 . She was 57. Negrevski joined the WMU staff in 1990 and was a budget analyst for the Evaluation Center. Services and remembrances A private memorial service has …

https://wmich.edu/news/2017/08/42234

Make Way for Matteson – Alysse Finds Her Aviation Destiny

College of Aviation

… Make Way for Matteson – Alysse Finds Her Aviation Destiny … College of Aviation. Grandfather Richard Matteson was a radio operator aboard a B-17, the four-engine Flying Fortress … were the Blue Angels and the Thunderbirds , the military service's precision-flight teams that, unknown to them as …

https://wmich.edu/aviation/news/2021/05/matteson

Trustees approve retirements of seven faculty, 13 staff members

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… status. Their names, positions, years of continuous service and effective dates of retirement are: Dr. Hans J. … Freedman , professor of special education and literacy studies, 20 years, effective May 3, 2016. Dr. Mark C. … services, 25 years, effective April 30, 2015. Margaret J. Watson , classroom technology consultant, Office of …

https://wmich.edu/news/2015/06/25390

WMU in final preparation for switch to consolidated dispatch

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… WMU in final preparation for switch to consolidated dispatch Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on KALAMAZOO, … emergency calls or texts made on cellphones from being forwarded from one department to another." But campus calls for … or other assistance will still see the same level of service campus community members have come to expect. The …

https://wmich.edu/news/2018/04/46694