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Skills Employers Want in College Graduates

Career and Student Employment Services

… of Colleges and Employers (NACE) has identified career readiness as the attainment and demonstration of requisite competencies that broadly prepare college graduates for a successful transition into the workplace. The eight competencies associated with career readiness are: Career and self-development Proactively …

https://wmich.edu/career/students/transferableskills

WMU graduate students awarded archaeology field school scholarships

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… Mich.—Two Western Michigan University graduate students are sharing a $1,000 scholarship from the Register of … the various constituencies that they will serve in their careers. Amelia Harp Harp is a nondegree graduate student …

https://wmich.edu/news/2015/12/29071

Family and consumer sciences students welcomed back with renovated labs

College of Education and Human Development

… labs Submitted by Chris Hybels on Kitchen supplies are now easily accessible in the renovated food lab. Each … now have their own computer lab with the latest design software. The computer lab will be connected to the existing … create patterns with the plotter in Simpson's upcoming apparel line development course. "I print off my pattern, I go …

https://wmich.edu/news/2023/11/73254

WMU one of six in nation honored as top-performing green colleges

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… to the nation's oldest green revolving fund. Such funds are tools that allow institutions to invest in … the new national recognition required the tracking and careful input of data on projects that date back some 20 years. The GRITS software tool, he says, points the way for other school to find …

https://wmich.edu/news/2015/11/28661

Campus team assisting in revising University Strategic Plan

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… early this spring. Joining one of the many groups that are working to implement aspects of the strategic plan, or …

https://wmich.edu/news/2015/11/28336

U.C. San Diego scholar to tackle economic reform in China in Sichel talk

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… the Timothy Light Center for Chinese Studies. The lectures are open to the public and formatted with the general public … Mary E. Lovely, professor of economics and the Melvin A Eggers Economics Faculty Scholar in the Maxwell School of …

https://wmich.edu/news/2015/10/27968

WMU business students to continue service project to honor veterans

Haworth College of Business

… and love we received from the families of those who are buried there means so much to me," she says. "I come …

https://wmich.edu/news/2015/10/27829

Mexican migration focus of documentary screening and panel discussion

International Student and Scholar Services

… from three rural communities in Guanajuato, Mexico, who shared their experiences, suffering and hopes related to … says the vast majority of immigrants to the United States are Mexican, with the highest percentage coming from the …

https://wmich.edu/news/2015/10/27258

Center of Excellence for Structural Durability

Civil and Construction Engineering

… that the transportation leaders of the future will be prepared to meet the many challenges that lie ahead. The center … and steel floor beams was assembled in a staging area near the bridge site.  In implementing ABC, the bridge … 2018. Attanayake, U., Dissanayake, A., Mayer, K., and Wiggenhauser, H. "SAFT analysis and phase evaluation …

https://wmich.edu/civil-construction/structuraldurability

WMU earns top accreditation for landscape management

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… accreditation rating requires a very proactive and aggressive approach to understanding and implementing sound … an appreciable propensity for continuous betterment." Rare national honor Waldo Library courtyard Universities and … on the College of Wooster and University of Delaware. Tim Holysz , WMU landscape services director in the …

https://wmich.edu/news/2015/08/26328