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November 2025 Newsletter

Haworth College of Business

… MBA WMU Haworth has been named to Princeton Review's 2025 list of best business schools for the MBA in the Midwest. The … hands-on projects that develop leadership and analysis skills. WMU Haworth is among an elite group of business … career outcomes with a median starting salary of more than $100,000 and 96% working in jobs related to their …

https://wmich.edu/business/11-25-newsletter

Instructional Activities

Teaching and Learning

… experience. Whether you want to foster collaboration and discussion, promote curiosity and structured thinking, … just break the ice with your students, our comprehensive list of activities makes it easy! What kind of activity are … to both actively participate and listen carefully leads to better comprehension of material. Democratic Discussion If …

https://wmich.edu/x/teaching-learning/teaching-resources/activities

WMU Libraries awards nineteen grants for open textbook adoptions

University Libraries

… traditional textbooks. The six courses were spread across disciplines in three different colleges—College of Arts & … reported that they felt their class performance was better because they had access to a free textbook. One … Communication and open textbook grant recipient. "I want to thank the Library for sponsoring this grant. It was a nice …

https://wmich.edu/library/updates/2020/10/oer-grants

WMU students clean up in Clean Energy Challenge, win $31,000

News

… Five teams of Western Michigan University students won more than $30,000 in micro grants and awards in the Michigan … other schools." The Michigan Clean Energy Venture Challenge is a statewide competition that provides student teams … on grid generation of electricity. Team members are Neil Hurley of Kalamazoo and Matthew Olsen of Escanaba, Mich. …

https://wmich.edu/news/2012/03/184

Meet Val: TESOL

College of Education and Human Development

… you would learn about." What made you interested in English as a Second Language education? I feel like I had the … they want to share that so I want to share that so that's why I did it.  Why do you think people should choose TESOL … so excited that I'm going to Spain in the fall and travel thanks to the study abroad program through WMU's Department …

https://wmich.edu/education/spotlight-val

Mission, Vision and Values

College of Fine Arts

… Mission, Vision and Values These are the guiding principles that unite … of Fine Arts an institution of transformative power. Our mission The College of Fine Arts fosters, integrates and … environmental, social, and financial responsibility to better serve our global community Community Engaged:  …

https://wmich.edu/finearts/about/mission

Spotlight on The Gaelic Background of Old English Poetry Before Bede

Medieval Institute Publications

… Spotlight on The Gaelic Background of Old English Poetry Before Bede The earliest vernacular literatures … historical or mythic, in the Gaelic literary tradition than in Old English and Anglo-Latin. Vernacular Gaelic poets … at Whitby (HE iv 4). Oswiu thought that “nothing was better than what the Gaels taught” (HE iii 25). Bede cited …

https://wmich.edu/medievalpublications/blog/2023/02/ireland

Scholarships

Statistics

… Scholarships Scholarships from the Department of Statistics at Western Michigan University acknowledge current outstanding statistics and data science students and augment awards made by … who change their majors/programs to something other than what is stated above will have their scholarships …

https://wmich.edu/statistics/scholarships

Three from WMU Creative Writing Program win literary awards

News

… The award winners and their awards are: Brandon Krieg , who is earning a doctoral degree in poetry, has won the New … Press Review 2013 Editor's Prize. She will receive a $1,000 cash award and a publishing contract for her manuscript, … a silverback gorilla named Kevin and the owner of a struggling alternator repair shop. Hoffman spent 10 years …

https://wmich.edu/news/2013/10/9769

Accelerated Master of Arts

Sociology

… as undergraduate majors. Students participating in this program are allowed to take a maximum of 12 graduate … process. Apply now International applicants Apply now Thank you for your interest in applying to this graduate … the M.A. program, students must achieve a grade of B or better in each graduate course being counted toward the …

https://wmich.edu/sociology/academics/ma/masters-accelerated