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WMU center established with $6.5M to advance principled leadership and business strategy

News

… has launched a center to advance the principle of mutual benefit in business. Led by two business faculty members who specialize in management, the innovative new center … is founded on the premise that purpose and profit can be powerfully linked through the actions and strategies of …

https://wmich.edu/news/2019/11/56726

WMU student chapter receives Superior Merit Award from SHRM

Haworth College of Business

… exemplary growth and development opportunities to its members. The SHRM Student Chapter Merit Award program … chapter programming and professional development of members, support of the human resource profession and SHRM … engagement. “The Society for Excellence in Human Resources being recognized once again with the prestigious SHRM …

https://wmich.edu/news/2023/09/72821

Engineering alumnus produces ethically sourced chocolate

College of Engineering and Applied Sciences

… chocolate.  Tierney’s entrepreneurial foray into chocolate began when he was off work for three months in 2020 due to … 70% of the chocolate on store shelves,” says Tierney.  He became committed to improving this plight and decided to try … for all farmers they work with. “The farm groups follow the best environmental and social practices and are always …

https://wmich.edu/news/2022/04/67926

WMU Graduate Standard - Kevin Grazioli

Graduate College

… MBA student at Western Michigan University, has two beautiful golden statues to commemorate his undergraduate … University majoring in telecommunications, the film has been airing on Public Broadcasting System stations across … in hiring his crew. Since it has come out, the film has been a stepping stone for Grazioli as he has worked on …

https://wmich.edu/grad/wmugradstandard-2012f-grazioli

Campus History Part II

Planning, Space Management and Capital Projects

… and objectives of the 1970 Campus Development Plan had been realized. Closing West Michigan Avenue to eliminate … only 21 percent lived on campus. Vehicle congestion could be intense, and non-resident campus parking totaled nearly … the former West Michigan Avenue and VandeGiessen Road have become landscaped pedestrian ways. Traffic is directed …

https://wmich.edu/facilities/planning/campus-history-2

Finding a passion for food marketing while working in a grocery store

Haworth College of Business

… College of Business. He is an executive committee member in the Food Marketing Association and has years of food … field. Discovering a career path in a part- time job I have been working part time at a grocery store for the past few … grocery industry, the more interested in food marketing I become. My experience in retail corresponds directly to the …

https://wmich.edu/business/finding-passion-food-marketing-while-working-grocery-store

Managing water wisely

College of Arts and Sciences

… and sustainability, aims to create sustainable interactions between the environment and society through his work. “The … he says. “Freshwater policy in many ways needs to come before other policies, because human society is impossible on even the most basic …

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

Battling toxic blooms

College of Arts and Sciences

… implement measures to reduce or mitigate the blooms. “The beauty and biological productivity of Charlotte Harbor, such … and transport properties of the surficial aquifer system to better understand nitrogen loading into the harbor. “The … water velocities and the surficial aquifer system can be used to identify areas within Charlotte County that …

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

The Western Years

The Evaluation Center

… The Evaluation Center. Leadership Carl Candoli Candoli has been a friend to The Evaluation Center ever since the 1960s when he and Stufflebeam were both professors at Ohio State. After Candoli left … headed. Since he retired from the superintendency, he has been a frequent consultant to the center and has contributed …

https://wmich.edu/evaluation/about-0/founders/wmu

Dr. Ruth Kaarlela obituary

News

… Orientation and Mobility as well as serving as a board member of the Michigan Society of Gerontology, Association for … Prior to coming to the University, her employment included being a teacher of the blind, supervisor of a New York school for emotionally disturbed children, and supervisor of social workers and students …

https://wmich.edu/news/2018/07/47979