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Shirley N. Sparks Faculty Endowment Fund
College of Health and Human Services
After joining a sorority in which several girls were speech pathology majors, she discovered that that profession was a cross between education and medicine and fell in love with it. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in speech pathology and moved to New Orleans. There, she held various jobs as a speech-language pathologist, raised a family and received a master's degree from Tulane University. When the family moved to Omaha, she taught part time at the University of Nebraska for four years.
https://wmich.edu/hhs/sparks
Public gets first look at design potential of East Hall renovation
WMU News
"We see this as an opportunity to once again make the top of Prospect Hill a vibrant part of daily life at WMU and an important asset for the community at large," Business and Finance Vice President Jan Van Der Kley told the board during the presentation. "We expect the next two years to bring new construction jobs into the community and, at the end of the process, there will be an important new resource that can be broadly used for campus and community priorities."
https://wmich.edu/news/2013/07/8238
Emeritus receives state science teacher organization lifetime award
WMU News
In 1998, he rose to the position of director and senior researcher with SAMPI, an outreach division of WMU's Mallinson Institute for Science Education that specializes in evaluation, research, and technical assistance for K-12 schools and other educational institutions. He held those jobs until his retirement in 2010 and continues to remain an active researcher, serving as lead investigator on national, statewide, and local educational improvement efforts.
https://wmich.edu/news/2012/03/265
Disney recruiting at WMU
WMU News
While working in front-line roles at the theme parks and resorts, participants will network with leaders, learn transferable skills, gain real-world experience and be a part of a team of cast members from hundreds of job disciplines. Participants on the Disney College Program also custom design a learning curriculum that best suits their needs and interests, complete education courses and specialized learning activities and can possibly earn college credit while doing so.
https://wmich.edu/news/2012/02/162
Upton announces VetSuccess program for WMU, KVCC and KCC
WMU News
The VetSuccess on Campus program, which was launched in mid-2009 as a pilot project, supplies campus sites with an experienced, full-time VA vocational counselor and a part-time outreach professional to assist eligible veterans and their families as they access transition-support services, educational benefits, vocational rehabilitation and employment services, disability compensation, life insurance, home loan guarantees, and job placement and health care benefits. Working with existing personnel who already focus on veteran services on the three campuses, the VetSuccess
https://wmich.edu/news/2012/04/332
University Theatre announces 2013-14 season
WMU News
Terry Williams directs the story of four cynical real estate agents who create a world where lying and cheating become the triumph of 21st century selling tactics. With cutthroat competition and high stake jobs on the line, they stop at nothing to seal the deal. Noises Off Oct. 10-20 This farcical comedy features a zealous director and his hilarious team who stage a play within a play, resulting in a side-splitting journey of onstage catastrophe and crazy backstage antics.
https://wmich.edu/news/2013/04/6327
Sales program among the best in the nation
WMU News
"We are proud of the quality and the success of our SBM program as measured by our students recently placing in the top five in national sales competitions," says Eckert, "and by the employability of our job-ready graduates and their professional accomplishments."
https://wmich.edu/news/2012/08/1126
Cousins, Hearit named American Council on Education Fellows
WMU News
About ACE The ACE Fellows Program combines retreats, interactive learning opportunities, campus visits and placement at another higher education institution to condense years of on-the-job experience and skills development into a single semester or year. Each ACE fellow will focus on an issue of concern to his or her home institution while spending the next academic year working with a college or university president and other senior officers at a host institution.
https://wmich.edu/news/2013/03/5941
Governor names Dean Anthony Vizzini to state professional board
WMU News
Michigan's Professional Board of Engineers is housed in the Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs, which is charged with promoting business growth and job creation in Michigan by streamlining and eliminating unnecessary or burdensome regulations.
https://wmich.edu/news/2012/04/349
Capitol Steps to satirize presidential race in upcoming performance
WMU News
Purchase tickets online: millerauditorium.com Thirty years ago, the Capitol Steps began as a group of Senate staffers who set out to satirize the very people and places that employed them. In the years that followed, many of the Steps ignored the conventional wisdom ("Don't quit your day job!"), and although not all of the current members of the Steps are former Capitol Hill staffers, taken together the performers have worked in a total of eighteen Congressional offices and represent 62 years of collective House and Senate staff experience.
https://wmich.edu/news/2012/10/1968