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Eastern Michigan University’s Board of Regents held a meeting Thursday, Feb. 17, to announce a reduction of credits required for graduation, housing and meal plan rates for the 2022-23 school year, EMU’s Social Justice Center Pilot Year, and more.
Nowadays, many universities aren’t going to let you in solely based on your GPA. They’re looking for extra curricular activities—clubs, programs, volunteer work. It’s become such a prevalent expectation for some universities that it is basically an unspoken requirement to even be considered for acceptance.
The SummerWorks program in Washtenaw County is a 10-week summer employment and mentorship program that is now accepting applications through March 13.
Alpha Phi Omega, an Eastern Michigan University fraternity, is collaborating with the Red Cross to host two blood drives at the Student Center in June.
The University of Michigan Board of Regents announced the removal of Mark Schlissel as the university’s president on Saturday, Jan. 15, after a personal relationship with a university employee was revealed.
Incoming Eastern Michigan University freshman McCade Campbell was awarded the Carl Parsell Scholarship bestowed by the Michigan Association of Police (MAP) on June 10 at the 31st Annual Carl Parsell Memorial Golf Outing.
The "60th Annual Alumni Awards” was hosted by the EMU Alumni Association and premiered on the university’s YouTube channel as well as on the Alumni Awards webpage on Saturday, May 15.
The last several weeks have seen countless discussions on the appropriateness of the Washington Redskins’ name and logo; after a thorough review, the team finally decided to change them.
As communities around the state, nation and world experience mixed success in their efforts to manage an ongoing pandemic, and the threat of spiking COVID-19 cases looms, EMU continues to move forward “cautiously but deliberately” with the university’s plan for classes and some other activities to return to campus this fall.
As the deadline approached for collecting the 300 signatures required for running to be the next EMU Student Body President and Vice President, potential candidates could often be found collecting signatures and making their pitches.
A new academic program for a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering was approved by the Board of Regents on Feb. 13.
Updated Feb. 17 at 3:10 p.m. A previous version of this article incorrectly stated that GameAbove announced the first round of funding for the Faculty First initiative. The initial funding has come from GameAbove, but it’s the Provost’s office that approves and announces the faculty projects. GameAbove is not involved in choosing which projects get funding.
Updated Feb. 17 at 3:20 p.m.
Over thirteen million dollars has been donated this school year to Eastern Michigan University from the group GameAbove, with an additional cumulative $500,000 donated to the Ypsilanti based organization Ozone House.
Privatization hasn’t been spoken about much this year, at least in public. The administration, going from Housing and Residence Life staff all the way up to the Board of Regents, don’t even use the term. Instead, they prefer the term “partnership.” That way, they can ensure that students and faculty at EMU know that our University isn’t just receiving student and taxpayer money to sell out to private companies (they are) but that they are simply trying to balance our budget. That’s all.
The Eastern Michigan University Dean of Students, Ellen Gold, presented during the student affairs meeting of the Board of Regents on Thursday, Oct. 24. She provided to the audience the objectives and abilities of her department in assisting students through barriers. According to Gold, the bottom line of her office is to create a culture of care "which acts as a kind of mantra.” The office aims to help walk students through situations that may act as a barrier a students academic carrier or when they may ask themselves the question, according to Gold, of "What do I do?"
At the Financial and Investment Committee meeting on Friday, Oct. 25, Kevin Kucera, Vice President and Chief Enrollment Officer, provided an update on the results yielded from the Education First Opportunity Scholarship (EFOS) since it was put in place in the fall of 2012.
The Eastern Michigan University Board of Regents approved a new academic program for a Bachelors of Science in Quantitative Economics at its regular meeting on Friday, Oct. 25. The program will commence in the next academic year of 2020.
Learn more about the actions taken at Eastern Michigan University's Board of Regents meeting this past Friday.
“If teachers have a positive experience [with our program at EMU], they will share that information with their high school students.”
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