Ten Important Facts about the Western Normal
Our graduates complete the A.B. Course at Ann Arbor in two years.
The life certificate granted at Western Normal is now accepted in more than twenty states.
Our graduates are in demand, and are now teaching in thirty-three States as well as in every section of Michigan.
The Library contains 14,000 carefully chosen volumes, all selected during the past ten years. The library is growing rapidly. A new library building, to cost with equipment $100,000, will be erected during the present biennial period.
We have a new fourteen-acre athletic field. A splendid diamond, a first class football gridiron, and one of the best quarter-mile tracks in the country are among the features. Bleachers with a capacity for 3,000 spectators have been provided.
The Western Normal possesses manual training equipment valued at $10,000, and a new Manual Training Building, to cost with equipment $90,000, will be erected during the coming year.
The Normal Co-Operative Book Store furnishes books and student supplies at low prices. During the current year a business of $11,000 will be transacted.
The Western Normal provides excellent opportunities for the study of music, art, physical education, manual training, domestic art and science, and commercial work.
The buildings and equipment are all new. The inventory of land, buildings, and contents is $465,000. On January 1, 1917, the inventory will amount to $645,000.
The last legislature made an appropriation of $80,000 a year for six years for buildings and other special purposes at the Western Normal.
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Extended University Programs offers academic and professional development programs online and in eight regional locations in seven cities: Battle Creek, Grand Rapids (Downtown and Beltline), Lansing, Metro Detroit, Muskegon, Southwest (Benton Harbor), and Traverse City.
WMU offers nationally and internationally recognized undergraduate and graduate programs: 147 Bachelor’s Degree programs, 73 Master’s Degree programs, 30 Doctoral Degree programs, and one specialist program.
WMU has roughly 185,000 living alumni spread across the United States and all over the world in more than 140 countries including Malaysia, India, Japan, China, Canada, and Thailand.
University Libraries holds more than 5 million items, in addition to connections with the holdings of 72,000 other libraries worldwide. University Libraries now includes, Waldo Library (main), WMU Archives and Regional History Collections, Swain Education Library, and the Maybee Music and Dance Library.
Fifteen Varsity Sports compete for WMU. Facilities have grown to include Waldo Stadium, Read Fieldhouse/ University Arena, Lawson Ice Area/ Gabel Natatorium, Sorensen Tennis Courts, Donald Seelye Athletic Center, Robert J. Bobb Stadium at Hyames Field, Ebert Field, Kanley Track, and the WMU Soccer Complex. The University also has a Student Recreation Center.
Parkview Campus houses the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences in Floyd Hall and the Business Technology Research Park. Completed in 2003, Floyd Hall is a 343,000-square-foot, $100 million high-tech academic facility for the study and application of engineering.
Western Michigan University offers study in nine distinct colleges (Arts and Sciences, Aviation, Business, Education and Human Development, Engineering and Applied Sciences, Fine Arts, Graduate, Health and Human Services, Honors) and two affiliated professional schools (WMU Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine, WMU Thomas M. Cooley Law School).
State-of-the-art facilities can be found across campus. Residence Halls are able to house 6,400 students, and the University's land holdings include two nature preserves that are open to the public and used for education and research.