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Western CARES: Helping students in distress

Western Insider

… Today's college students report frequently contending with anxiety, depression and mental stress. As a faculty or staff member, you’re on the front lines with students in classrooms or other campus environments, … often every day. As a result, you may be among the first to notice when a student is experiencing distress. Here's how …

https://wmich.edu/westerninsider/2019/11/helping-students-distress

Insurance FAQs

Legal Affairs, Risk and Compliance

… sustains any injuries while a WMU student intern is working with them, there will be coverage.  This is not a healthcare insurance program for a student intern's … take when an incident/injury happens while they are working with a client? Report the incident/injury to your WMU …

https://wmich.edu/legal/business-services/insurance-faqs

2019-20 Events and Colloquia

Psychology

… reform efforts to improve productivity and outcomes. While not unique in this respect, academic workplaces, especially … measuring those behaviors, while fostering team approaches within a unit culture that inoculated participants against … and categorization tasks. These results suggest that to solve complex tasks participants must be …

https://wmich.edu/psychology/2019-20-events

FAQs for Grants and Contracts

Research and Innovation

… FAQs for Grants and Contracts I received notification from the sponsor that they plan to fund my … for ensuring proper financial and programmatic performance within the sponsor’s guidelines, WMU’s guidelines, and other … the  Planned Effort form or Time and effort certification-hourly form  depending on the appointment of the individual.  …

https://wmich.edu/research/grantscontracts-faqs

Academics

Precollege Programming

… Academics Language Arts Courses Honors English 9 Students work on several formal essays, … Bergeron” and Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “A Very Old Man With Wings”, among others, are also studied. Public speaking … the course. Our classroom method encourages discussion within a co-operative workshop environment emphasizing peer …

https://wmich.edu/precollege/atyp/academics

Resources for Honors Students

Research and Innovation

… Resources for Honors Students Undergraduate honors thesis To graduate from Western Michigan University’s … defend an honors thesis. Each honors student works with one of our nationally and internationally known expert …

https://wmich.edu/research/students/honors

MJS-related publications, grants and awards

Soga Japan Center

… James L. Huffman , "Down and Out in Late-Meiji Japan" (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, April 2018)  Maki Isaka … Press, forthcoming June 2018). Rustin Gates , “Out with the New and in with the Old: Uchida Yasuya and the … edited by See-hwan Doh, 284-323 (Seoul, Korea: Yeoksagonggan, 2016). _____ , “The Kantō Massacre in Postcolonial and …

https://wmich.edu/japancenter/seminar/mjspubs

Benefits

Service Learning

… for understanding. Builds a reputation for students as innovative and engaged learners from a range of disciplines. … of new ideas, products, and services throughout the region with curriculum engagement and student innovation in the … of our stakeholders. Adds value to businesses and agencies with student innovation, energy and creativity. Meets …

https://wmich.edu/servicelearning/about/benefits

Public Administration (M.P.A.)

Graduate College

… resume or curriculum vitae (CV) is required; please submit within the online application system.     Graduate test This program does not require a graduate test. Note: International applicants … English language proficiency. More information can be found within the online application.     Recommendations This …

https://wmich.edu/grad/program-masters-public-admin

Warning Signs

Suicide Prevention Program

… the individual may be considering suicide. While there is no foolproof method of determining that someone is thinking … anger, seeking revenge Increased alcohol or drug use Withdrawing from family and friends Anxiety, agitation, … for living or having no sense of purpose in life Diagnosed with a mental illness, particularly depression, bipolar …

https://wmich.edu/suicideprevention/basics/warning-signs