Board meetings are open to the public and we hope you will join us, meet our members and partake in making history with us.
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On behalf of all our members of the Board of Trustees, welcome.
The Board is delighted that you're interested in learning more about our duties at Western Michigan University.
We invite you to explore this website as a means of accessing information and providing us with your feedback. These pages are snapshots of passion driven commitment to overseeing WMU’s success as a world class educational institution.
Meetings begin at 11 a.m. and are open to the public—we hope you will come in, meet our members and partake in making history with us.
2023 meetings—Nov. 30, location TBD
2024 meetings—Jan. 25
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3,192 first-year students enrolled in fall 2022
Top 100 in the nation for 6 graduate programs
U.S. News & World Report (2023)
96 countries represented by 2,173 international students for fall 2022
Appointed to serve on the WMU Board of Trustees are Kelly K. Burris, B.S.‘88, intellectual property attorney; Jon Hoadley, a former state representative and current Western graduate student; and Lisa Williams, B.A.'98, M.A.'04, a school principal and vice president of the WMU Alumni Association. Burris will fill the seat vacated by former trustee Ron Kitchens and complete the term ending Dec. 31, 2024. Hoadley and Williams will begin new, eight-year terms.