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Pay Raises for Faculty and Staff Within Academic Affairs

Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs

… Within Academic Affairs Policy number 04-04 Responsible office Provost and Academic Affairs Enforcement official Vice Provost for Budget and Personnel Classification Board of Trustees-delegated Policy Category Academic Programs and …

https://wmich.edu/policies/pay-raises-faculty-staff

Scholar to discuss new research on early Chinese language

News

… Baxter , a historical linguist at the University of Michigan, will speak on "What was the Early Chinese Language Like?" at 4:30 p.m. in Room 1028 of Brown Hall. The lecture is open to the public free of charge. Baxter will focus his talk on recent research on …

https://wmich.edu/news/2012/04/310

Major changes to campus in store for returning students

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… Students who used to drive up West Michigan Avenue in front of the Bernhard Center and continue around the back of the Seibert Administration Building will now be faced … lot on Knollwood Avenue across the street from phase one of the Western View Apartments is now closed for …

https://wmich.edu/news/2012/08/1361

Activist to talk on Obama's approach to the Israel-Palestine conflict

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… to bring peace. Josh Ruebner , national advocacy director of the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, will … activist for peace and reconciliation in this part of the world. He will bring to his speech not only … justice. He is the co-founder and former executive director of Jews for Peace in Palestine and Israel, an organization …

https://wmich.edu/news/2013/11/11140

WMU's foster youth support program to get $750,000 from state

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… the Legislature June 5 includes $750,000 in the Department of Human Services appropriation to support Western Michigan … college degrees. The item in the DHS appropriation is part of an overall state budget that also includes a 2.31 percent … provides a support network for students who have aged out of foster care and are pursuing college degrees. The …

https://wmich.edu/news/2012/06/771

Annual food marketing conference features industry leaders

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… show supermarket guru, Phil Lempert , will join a list of top food industry professionals later this month as a featured speaker at this … Performance.” Food Marketing Conference Lempert will kick off the conference by sharing his perspective on the top 10 …

https://wmich.edu/news/2013/03/5472

Global warming activist to bring climate fight to campus

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… His presentation, titled "Notes from the Front Lines of the Climate Fight," is part of the University Center for the Humanities 2013-14 Changing … D.C. But that's where he spent three days in the summer of 2011 after leading the largest act of civil disobedience …

https://wmich.edu/news/2013/10/10071

Racing toward his goals: Engineering student follows passion on the track

College of Engineering and Applied Sciences

… “I had always loved working hands on with cars and dreamed of becoming a racer. On my tour of WMU, I saw the car sitting in the lobby of the engineering building and knew I needed to be on that …

https://wmich.edu/news/2021/11/66110

Plan, do, check, act with Audrey Oswalt

College of Engineering and Applied Sciences

… GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.—Continuous improvement is the backbone of manufacturing processes and the responsibility of production managers around the world, including Audrey … at GA Richards in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Oswalt is part of a hand-picked team implementing the plan-do-check-act …

https://wmich.edu/news/2021/11/66388

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