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Week of Juneteenth events aims to celebrate emancipation, spark conversation
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… joy and peace and also be healed," she says. "Activist work is great, too, but sometimes it gets exhausting and we … Africana Studies at Western, and Dr. Michelle Johnson , who worked as a Freedom Trail coordinator for the state of … what our role looks like in this fight toward racial and social justice and to be antiracist, one way to do that is …
https://wmich.edu/news/2021/06/64444
Speaker to address ties between immigration, NAFTA
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… State University with expertise in retirement policy, social inequality, social theory, Latin America, and social policy in Europe and the United States. He now is …
https://wmich.edu/news/2017/10/43539
Four WMU grad programs among nation's top 50 in U.S. News ranking
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… Occupational Therapy, Grand Rapids—No. 58. Social Work—No. 71. All seven of WMU's top-100 programs are part of …
https://wmich.edu/news/2016/03/31097
WMU formalizes partnership with Kalamazoo Literacy Council
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… Kalamazoo Literacy Council—formalizes and strengthens the work the two organizations have been engaged in together for … strengthen our efforts not only in civic engagement but in social responsibility and shared prosperity by formalizing … as a second language, health literacy, parent literacy and workforce literacy. It also provides one-on-one tutoring, …
https://wmich.edu/news/2021/11/66279
WMU Ethics Center announces keynote speaker on privilege in research ethics
Study of Ethics in Society
… Journal for Individual and Institutional Transformation for Social Justice, will headline the one-day conference focused … Practical and Professional Ethics . A neuroscientist and social justice advocate, Saturn devotes her time educating … them. A goal of the conference is to assemble a network of experts who want to develop a standard ethical and …
https://wmich.edu/news/2023/11/73512
Fake news discussion to feature international, local panelists
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… war crimes and human rights abuses during crises. Her work with Amnesty International has included documenting … Africa for the Associated Press and Al Jazeera English. Her work included covering the aftermath of 9/11 in the Middle … will be tasked with reporting on the demonstration via social media so the march and its message has greater …
https://wmich.edu/news/2017/11/43637
Global internship experience brings marketing student closer to her goals
Haworth College of Business
… Henrickson's Haworth College of Business marketing coursework and mentors helped prepare her to take on a challenging … up with other interns internationally and presenting her work in Sweden to leaders of Atlas Copco, a large industrial … things you can do with it! I could go into sales, research, social media, search engine optimization and many other …
https://wmich.edu/news/2022/10/69664
WMU to celebrate reopening of Grand Rapids Beltline facility
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… educational leadership, family studies, engineering, social work and psychology. The just-completed project was the … the Grand Rapids metropolitan area. WMU-Grand Rapids gives working adults the ability to continue their education and …
https://wmich.edu/news/2015/08/26242
WMU Shines at MiOTA Fall Conference
College of Health and Human Services
… projects, faculty-mentored research and baccalaureate work. Capstone Excellence Four graduates from the OTD Class …
https://wmich.edu/hhs/news/2025/10/miota
Faculty, grad students travel to Japan to explore pandemic response
College of Arts and Sciences
… or shaking hands, so there was already some built-in social distance in that regard. Of course, when you're on trains packed like sardines, that social distance goes out the window," Covell explains. … in the language and hopefully, one day, I would love to work within a field in Japan that will allow me to focus on …
https://wmich.edu/news/2022/12/70129