Search results

All Life is Learning - October 2024

Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at WMU

… October 2024 Director's Note Director's Note If you know someone who is interested in all that our lifelong learning … encourage them to call our office at (269) 387-4157 . Warmly, Toni Woolfork-Barnes, Ed.D. Director, Osher Lifelong … homework, just exploring lots of interesting topics. In the near future we will offer courses in different formats -- …

https://wmich.edu/olli/newsletter/october-2024

Meet Our Acquisitions Team: Erin Sweany

Medieval Institute Publications

Meet Our Acquisitions Team: Erin Sweany Meet our … blog posts, learn a little bit more about our acquisitions editors: Tyler Cloherty , Erin Sweany, and Emily Winkler . … who workshop my own projects with me, and I find the most rewarding aspects of my relationship with colleagues has been …

https://wmich.edu/medievalpublications/blog/2023/04/erin

Accountancy professor finds formula for connecting with students

Business Magazine

… University’s Haworth College of Business has found a way to see beyond the numbers and connect with students in a meaningful way. Dr. Brittani Shantel Jackson, assistant … ownership of their academic performance, while also providing her a concrete way to support them individually. “At …

https://wmich.edu/businessmagazine/jackson2025

Brooke Rowland Shines in the Classroom, Courtroom and on Stage

College of Arts and Sciences

… employee Western Michigan University has many outstanding and successful alumni, but very few earn a degree at … graduate from law school at 21. It is an amazing accomplishment, but political science alumna, Brooke Rowland ‘11 did just that. Rowland was a transfer student from Kalamazoo Valley Community …

https://wmich.edu/arts-sciences/brooke-rowland

Approving internships

Career and Student Employment Services

… can only be posted to BroncoJOBS by nonprofit and government organizations. If a for-profit organization posts an … unpaid, we will need to remove them from BroncoJOBS.  According to the Fair Labor Standards Act ( … work habits will not exclude them from the FLSA’s minimum wage and overtime requirements because the employer benefits …

https://wmich.edu/career/approvinginternships

All Life is Learning - February 2026

Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at WMU

Director's Note Director's Note OLLI at WMU has a new Home! Effective January 1, 2026, OLLI at WMU now reports to … This change also means the OLLI office will relocate to Walwood Hall off Oakland Drive. The new space offers more … homework, just exploring lots of interesting topics. In the near future we will offer courses in different formats -- …

https://wmich.edu/olli/newsletter/february-2026

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Social Justice

College of Arts and Sciences

… to ensure a shared understanding of what these values mean to us as a community. These values will demonstrate our … undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs in a way that fosters knowledge and innovation, and transforms … (phenotypes) such as skin color and ancestry. There is no scientific basis for or discernible distinction between …

https://wmich.edu/arts-sciences/wmu-dei-definitions

Courses

School of Environment, Geography and Sustainability

… Courses GEOG 1000 - Global Environmental Issues Geographers have long been concerned with … day environmental crisis. The introductory course combines scientific and non-technical appraisals of processes and … planning from the perspective of a general understanding of ways by which planning contributes to changing social, …

https://wmich.edu/environment/courses

UP Week 2022: What Author is #NextUP?

Medieval Institute Publications

… UP Week 2022: What Author is #NextUP? The theme of University Press Week 2022 is Next UP, reflecting … time I wrote a two hundred-page piece of scholarship, I was a graduate student at an R-1 university. I taught one … pedagogy book, it is a natural expression of what occupies nearly every waking thought: how to teach literature to …

https://wmich.edu/medievalpublications/blog/2022/11/authornextup

Sustainable brewing program up and running

College of Arts and Sciences

… with others in order to develop a new, vital and forward-thinking science degree program. The professor of … and technical knowledge in order to control a range of parameters. Consequently, the curriculum entails the craft of … over a dozen breweries. Nationally, craft beer accounts for nearly 8 percent of beer sales. West Michigan is developing …

https://wmich.edu/arts-sciences/news-sustainable-brewing