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Undergraduate Research and Creative Scholarship Excellence Award

Research and Innovation

… Research and Creative Scholarship Excellence Award supports WMU undergraduate students to pursue projects with … proposal. Any applications for a joint project that have significant identical writing between any sections of the … Engineering  Kristina Lemmer  Plasma Spectroscopy  Manju Freeman Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering  Jennifer …

https://wmich.edu/research/funding/students/undergrad-research-excellence

Higher Education and Student Affairs (HESA) Leadership Admissions Requirements

Education Leadership, Research and Technology

… of opportunities to engage with HESA.  The program is designed to help newly admitted HESA students become familiar … from your own records. The unofficial transcript can be uploaded in the application portal under the section for … Recommendation letters are not required, although we suggest that applicants request one  positive letter from one …

https://wmich.edu/leadership/academics/ed-leadership/master/hesa/hesa-admissions

Job Search Letters

Career and Student Employment Services

… your interest in an interview State that you will follow-up with a phone call (make sure you do call) Thank the … and have hoped to do. I feel confident that I can make a significant contribution to the company, and am grateful for …

https://wmich.edu/career/letters

WMU Researches Rare Disease

College of Arts and Sciences

… diagnosis five years ago. Cervone, who has always been an upbeat sort of man, attributes his survival to the help of … for Ohio H.B. 184 which passed on November 28, 2012, to designate March as “Multiple System Atrophy Awareness Month.” … devoted our lives to: informing everyone about MSA.” The couple wears purple and teal, the colors identified with MSA, …

https://wmich.edu/arts-sciences/rare-disease

Let’s expand what it means to be smart

W Magazine

… all too common. Despite that, my alma mater was not set up to accommodate it. To allow students opportunities to try … this magazine. One of the products of that large-scale, design-thinking effort was the development of an identity that …

https://wmich.edu/magazine/let%E2%80%99s-expand-what-it-means-be-smart

Student Learning Outcomes Assessment Reports

Assessment

… program review process for both academic and learner support programs, to monitor the progression of student … and unit, and to determine where to focus assistance and support. History of Assessment Reporting at WMU Historically, … cycle. The process was reviewed again in 2018, leading to significant improvements, such as expanding to include …

https://wmich.edu/assessment/institutional-slo-reports

Student's Experience in UAE

College of Arts and Sciences

… in line.” Among the cultural differences, Dennis and her group went to Shisha cafes or hookah cafes. “We’d go out to tea … said Dennis. They also witnessed sea turtles laying eggs. “We went on a tiny boat, and went for a boat ride out to watch the sea turtles mate and they were popping up everywhere, you’d see one head then two heads then more …

https://wmich.edu/arts-sciences/uae-study-abroad

Media

Seita Scholars Program

… Foundation, February 16, 2017) Foster youth need academic support to succeed (Youth Today, October 17, 2016) Will ESSA … (Michigan Radio, Oct. 29, 2014) The perfect college support system for foster youth (The Chronicle for Social … teens leaving foster care (USA Today, June 15, 2009) Kellogg Foundation grants $500,000 to foster care efforts …

https://wmich.edu/fosteringsuccess/media

What you need to know about assessment

Assessment

… Assessment gives us the answer to this question and suggests areas in which improvement can be made. In this way, … to the learning outcomes can be given to the students as assignments are made. How do faculty/staff within a unit … usually is not effective assessment and often doesn’t supply much useful data. If a student gets a B in a class …

https://wmich.edu/assessment/faqs

DEI Vocabulary

Diversity and Inclusion

… Like racism and sexism, ableism classifies entire groups of people as ‘less than,’ and includes harmful … and gender identities not included in this list. Microaggressions – Manifestations of prejudice and hatred that are … add up and are described as racial weathering and can have significant effects on the mental and physical health and …

https://wmich.edu/diversity/resources/deivocabulary