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WMU business students to continue service project to honor veterans

Haworth College of Business

… on WMU students clean headstones in an earlier day of service at Fort Custer National Cemetery. KALAMAZOO, … students from Western Michigan University's Haworth College of Business will be paying their respects to veterans by … noon Saturday, Oct. 31 . The group represents 14 sections of the college's First-Year Experience course with course …

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

Anonymous donor reveals himself to students who want to be teachers

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… Giramia and Tomlinson KALAMAZOO, Mich.—Six recent graduates of Kalamazoo high schools have just had an opportunity to … the students become educators and enhance the diversity of the Kalamazoo Public Schools' teaching staff. At an … recipients, the previously anonymous benefactor for five of the scholarships revealed his identity and met and …

https://wmich.edu/news/2016/10/35533

Seita Scholars program update next up in breakfast speaker series

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… University's nationally lauded Seita Scholars Program, part of the WMU Center for Fostering Success, will be in the spotlight at the next Mercantile Bank of Michigan Breakfast Speaker Series event. Chris Harris , director of the program, will discuss "Fostering Success through the …

https://wmich.edu/news/2015/01/21126

Program Manager Academic Support Programs

Human Resources

… Pursues marketing efforts to increase campus awareness of programs. Major duties Meets with students to answer … questions and address concerns surrounding all dimensions of well-being. Provides academic advising and coaching to … students. Educates on the purpose and progress of academic support programs. Participates in advisor …

https://wmich.edu/hr/employees/staff/jobdescriptions/010482

Seita Scholars coaching program becomes national, international model

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… started as a program to help youths who have aged out of foster care go on to success in college has become a model for coaching youths of all stripes to find academic success, both nationally and … Kevin Knutson , director of the College of Arts and Sciences Office of Undergraduate Advising, and Ronicka …

https://wmich.edu/news/2016/02/29829

An Evening with poet/educator/performer Denice Frohman

Humanities

… New York City. She is a CantoMundo Fellow, former Women of the World Poetry Slam Champion, and National Association of Latino Arts & Cultures grant recipient. Her poems have … The Adroit Journal, Nepantla: An Anthology for Queer Poets of Color, Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism, and …

https://wmich.edu/events/65489

Registration Errors

Mathematics

… having difficulty registering for a class in the Department of Mathematics at Western Michigan University, reviewing … assessment. Have not placed into the course in terms of the math placement assessment. This is most frequent with … Courses from some Michigan Universities and all out of state colleges will not transfer to WMU as a specific …

https://wmich.edu/math/registration-errors

Trombone 'competition season' yields positive results

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… University has gotten the trombone competition season off to a rousing start, with students being named as … and international competitions. Freshman Nick Dewyer of Chelsea was named a finalist in both the U.S. Army Band’s … students 18 and under. Dewyer has also been named as one of three finalists in the International Trombone …

https://wmich.edu/news/2014/05/14492

Hands-on experience helps engineering grad build bright future

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… changed her major three times, but her persistence paid off and put her on the path to a fulfilling career in a … years ago as a high school student in the small town of Sandusky, Michigan. "I didn't really know what I wanted … a home in Western's College of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Her path still had a few bumps; chemical …

https://wmich.edu/news/2021/12/66509

Dance emerita honored for advocacy

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… KALAMAZOO, Mich.— Wendy Cornish , an advocate and champion of dance for more than 50 years, including 37 years as professor and chair of dance at Western Michigan University, is the recipient of

https://wmich.edu/news/2018/02/45267