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Campus Climate Town Hall Meeting

Professional Support Staff Organization

… to your group last fall. Since that time, the survey administration and follow up focus groups have been completed. … 5,615 or 19.9%. The overall response rate was nearly double what is typical for a survey of this nature. A typical response …

https://wmich.edu/psso/campus-climate-town-hall-meeting

Confections with Convictions

Sustainable Business Practices

… By helping youth learn a trade, Anderson’s primary focus is to help young workers confront systemic issues such as … He has reinvented truffles and knows instinctively what works. Flavors change seasonally and include Dark … he defines impact in terms of helping youth. His biggest success story is about the turnaround of a current …

https://wmich.edu/sustainablebusiness/confections

Accessible Course Materials

Disability Services for Students

… as these will have the accessibility tools needed.  Please visit the WMU Office of Information Technology to access … steps vary depending on which tool you’re using and what the final format of the document will be.    Use … For an Adobe PDF document to be accessible, it must be a “tagged” PDF, with an underlying tagged structure that includes …

https://wmich.edu/disabilityservices/faculty-resources/accessible-material

Causes of Wrongful Conviction

Sociology

… poor defendants. Matters only become worse when a person is represented by an ineffective, incompetent or … for public defenders and court-appointed attorneys is only making the problem worse. Mistaken witness id … it can be contaminated. In case after case, DNA has proven what scientists already know—that eyewitness identification …

https://wmich.edu/sociology/causes-wrongful-conviction

Andrew J. Hiller

College of Aviation

… Engineering  and   Operations  Technology , Andrew began  his aviation career  at a Beechcraft Dealership/FBO in … MI.  He  then   j oined United Ai rlines in Indianapolis, IN  as  a  737 Flight Controls Engineer and  was … he discovered the source of the problem, t hus avoiding what could have proven catastrophic if  not detected and …

https://wmich.edu/aviation/hiller

Testing the interdunal waters

College of Arts and Sciences

… of great biodiversity, yet little scientific research exists about these rare habitats. Dr. Tiffany Schriever's … species, to examine their response to natural and human disturbances. "Coastal wetlands provide essential ecosystem … we discover new things about how the wetlands function and what animals live in them all the time." To learn more about …

https://wmich.edu/arts-sciences/schriever

WMU Essential Studies Executive Advisory Committee Membership

Faculty Senate

… WMU Essential Studies Executive Advisory Committee Membership MEMBERSHIP : The composition of … including a merze tate college representative; the registrar; university curriculum manager; WMU essential studies … ex officio member. The WMU Essential Studies Executive Advisory Committee requires 7 out of 11 voting members to be in …

https://wmich.edu/facultysenate/committees/wesexecadviscmt/weseamembership

Community Engagement

Walker Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnic Relations

… of Community Life Timothy Ready, Director In this second decade of the Twenty-First Century, we should be … majority. As Director of Western Michigan University’s Lewis Walker Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnic … protection of offensive speech should not be confused with what is wise, respectful, or a healthy cultural foundation …

https://wmich.edu/walkerinstitute/community-engagement

The Western Activist, a 1960s alternative student newspaper, now available online

University Libraries

… The Western Activist, a 1960s alternative student newspaper, now available … the Vietnam War. At Western Michigan University, one way this activism emerged on campus was through The Western … it’s not a big collection, it does give you the flavor of what students were concerned about at the time, and it’s …

https://wmich.edu/library/updates/2023/01/impact-report-western-activist

Scholarships and Financial Aid

Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Ph.D.

… of 10 hours per week, generally providing research assistance under the mentorship of a faculty member. The work may be completed at a distance. WMU also offers assistance for historically underrepresented students as well …

https://wmich.edu/healthsciences/scholarships