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Landscapers practicing natural selection management technique
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… Landscapers practicing natural selection management … rather than trying to maintain lawns there. "Slopes are difficult to mow and have a lot of erosion," WMU … "Planting whips and letting nature take its course is a way of managing the landscape other than mowing and …
https://wmich.edu/news/2019/07/53340
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 … reviewed the results to reach an agreement on market-based wage rates for each position for the 2025-26 fiscal year. In … each member will receive a 2.5% increase. In addition to wages, the agreement trustees will consider Wednesday also …
https://wmich.edu/news/news/2025/08/wmu-trustees-consider-new-afscme-contract-wednesday
Trustees approve retirements of 11 faculty, 14 staff members
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… , associate professor of special education and literacy studies, 26 years, effective Aug. 31, 2017 Dr. Leonard … and sports specialist III in Facilities Management-landscape services, 33 years, effective Feb. 28, 2013 … College of Business, 14 years, effective March 31, 2013 Dr. Warren E. Lacefield , senior research associate in the …
https://wmich.edu/news/2013/03/5806
David Chaplin obituary
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… emeritus of sociology at Western Michigan University, died July 27 . He was 86. Chaplin joined the WMU faculty in 1972 to serve as … served on numerous national organizations and panels and was a member of such professional groups as the American …
https://wmich.edu/news/2017/09/42352
WMU to celebrate Arbor Day, 2012 Tree Campus recertification
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… , at the east end of its Goldsworth Valley Pond. WMU landscape services staff will be planting a Baldcypress (Taxodium distichum), a tree native to Michigan, and those … , contact Darrell Junkins, WMU grounds supervisor in landscape services, at darrell.junkins@wmich.edu or …
https://wmich.edu/news/2013/04/6443
WMU Libraries publishes open textbooks on religion and Chinese language
University Libraries
… “ Seeing the World Through Religion and Culture ,” by Drs. Diane Riggs and Anderson Hagler , and “ Career Chinese: Bridging the Gaps for Success ,” by Drs. Xiaojun Wang , Jin Liu , Ping Yu and Ms. Yuanyuan Huang . In many … textbooks to address a gap in content available in the OER landscape, which is the case for both new textbooks. “Career …
https://wmich.edu/library/news/2025/01/new-religion-chinese-language-textbooks-published
From vault to venue: Waldo’s new event space opens
University Libraries
… From vault to venue: Waldo’s new event space opens Submitted by Angela Brcka on … Library’s third floor in the former Special Collections Reading Room and vault. Multipurpose Room 3016 offers versatile … Center . Concerns about preservation of delicate materials due to aging heating and cooling systems prompted …
https://wmich.edu/library/news/2026/02/impract-report-new-event-space
WMU alum's nature photography shown through October, reception set
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… (not verified) on Kallie Strazdas' photography is on display through October. KALAMAZOO, Mich.—A Western Michigan … "Nature's Embrace," the exhibit is a unique collection of landscape images that celebrate the environment. Strazdas … Friday, Oct. 30 . For more information , contact Gay Walker at gay.walker@wmich.edu or (269) 387-3839. For more …
https://wmich.edu/news/2015/09/27280
WMU to join Michiganders in celebrating 2014 Arbor Day
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… Day Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on This year, landscape services staff will plant a scarlet oak tree. … at 1650 Oakland Drive, just north of the intersection of Howard Street and Oakland Drive on the grounds of the former … planting a scarlet oak (Quercus coccinea), and those attending the ceremony are welcome to add a shovel of soil to the …
https://wmich.edu/news/2014/04/15310
25 Year Club to induct 72 longtime employees
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… club website . The 2012 inductees Valerie Armstrong , building project specialist, building custodial and support … services Timothy J. Bowers , equipment operator I, landscape services Christina Bradshaw , lead direct support … academic advising, College of Fine Arts Kimberlee S. Hemingway , office assistant, Division of Intercollegiate …
https://wmich.edu/news/2012/11/2313