Officials discuss how to spend budget surplus
“Eastern will have a surplus of $5.8 million dollars by the end of this fiscal year in June of 2010,” said John Lumm, Eastern Michigan University’s chief financial officer.
“Eastern will have a surplus of $5.8 million dollars by the end of this fiscal year in June of 2010,” said John Lumm, Eastern Michigan University’s chief financial officer.
With a clean bill of health and a veteran presence, the Eastern Michigan University basketball team looks to build on last season’s late push to get its first winning season since 1999-2000.
An armed robbery occurred Sunday morning one block from the Eastern Michigan University College of Business. The victims of the robbery were not associated with EMU.
Eastern Michigan University formed a cooperative partnership on Wednesday with the Charles H. Wright Museum in Detroit to create an interactive educational project on the Underground Railroad.
A burglary occurred in Phelps Hall on Tuesday between 4:25-7 a.m., resulting in the theft of two laptops, two iPods and a cell phone. One of the residents of the room awoke to see a male individual in his room wearing a white T-shirt but believed it was his roommate. Later, the resident found several items stolen.
The Michigan Promise Scholarship, a valuable scholarship for students who scored well on their Michigan Merit Exam, was eliminated Friday, Oct. 30. Cynthia Van Pelt, Eastern Michigan University’s Director of the Office of Financial Aid, was not surprised.
Both the local millage proposal in Ypsilanti Township, and the county-wide millage proposal were rejected by voters Tuesday. Election results are according to preliminary numbers released by the Washtenaw County Clerk’s Office, which will not become official until approved by the Washtenaw County Board of Canvassers, which is expected by Monday.
Eastern Michigan University’s soccer team defeated Kent State 3-0 Sunday at Scicluna Field to win its first-round game in the Mid-American Conference tournament.
Eastern Michigan University hosted “Creationism is Not the (Only) Problem: Cognitive Constraints on Undergraduates’ Understanding of Evolution,” a symposium on how students’ religious beliefs affected their acceptance of evolution on Thursday.
Students all over the state of Michigan may soon be able to carry concealed weapons on campus. Bill 5474, introduced by Wayne Schmidt, R-Traverse City, to the Michigan House of Representatives, would prohibit colleges from banning weapons on campus.
Kay Givens McGowan, a lecturer in Eastern Michigan University’s sociology, anthropology and criminology departments, was inducted into the Michigan Women’s Hall of Fame on Wednesday in Lansing.
The Eastern Michigan University chapter of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is hosting a march in honor of Derrion Albert, a 16-year-old boy who was killed as a result of gang violence in September, and prevent the loss of more lives to violence. The march is from 5-7 p.m.
College football is sometimes less about X’s and O’s and more about money. That couldn’t be more evident this week, as Eastern Michigan is preparing to play Arkansas on Saturday. Kickoff is 6 p.m. CDT and will be televised on ESPNU.
The Eastern Michigan University Symphony Orchestra will bewitch audiences with the 12th installment of its annual Halloween Concert tomorrow at 7 p.m. in Pease Auditorium.
The U.S. Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, staked some unflattering claims against schools of education during his speech on education reform last Thursday at the Teachers College at Columbia University in New York.
Eastern Michigan University is making the Strong Hall science complex a top priority for the fiscal year 2010-2011.
The Regents voted to increase financial aid to more than $30 million for students in 2010-2011 on Tuesday. This is an increase of $4.8 million more than Eastern Michigan University’s current financial aid budget.
A report by an Eastern Michigan University student of sexual assault near campus Monday was found to be false, according to the Ypsilanti Police Department.
Eastern Michigan University President Susan Martin, Athletic Director Derrick Gragg and the Board of Regents are expected to partake in a groundbreaking for a multi-purpose indoor practice facility at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday.
After a 28-6 loss Saturday at Rynearson Stadium to Mid-American Conference opponent Kent State, Eastern Michigan coach Ron English said it was a difficult postgame locker room to step into.