Campus News
January 21, 2016
Western Express January 22, 2016
Western Michigan University news and alumni in the news for January 15 – 21, 2016. This week’s campus photo features the North Hall facade on East Campus. Originally built in 1925, North Hall was most known for its reading room and as the original home of (what is now known...
January 13, 2016
Western Express January 15, 2016
Western Michigan University news and alumni in the news for January 8 – 14, 2016. This week’s campus photo features the Goldsworth Valley Residence Halls in the distance and was taken from near the parking lot behind Sangren Hall. Students arrived back on campus for the start of the new...
January 07, 2016
Western Express January 8, 2016
Western Michigan University news highlights and alumni in the news for January 1 – 7, 2016. This week’s campus photo features the January 7 sunrise over Kalamazoo, taken from inside Heritage Hall. The view is framed by the window that sits atop the east entrance to the building, and is...
January 03, 2016
Western Express January 1, 2016
Western Michigan University news and update highlights for December 18, 2015 through January 1, 2016. WMU’s campus was closed from December 25-January 3. While most business has returned to normal, classes do not resume until Monday, January 11. WMU News Back issues of WMU student newspaper to be digitized and...
December 17, 2015
Western Express December 18, 2015
Western Michigan University news and alumni in the news for December 11-17, 2015. This week’s campus photo features the entrance to campus at Stadium and Oliver. Friday, December 18 brought bands of lake effect snow into Kalamazoo, but not quite as much shown in the image above, which was taken...
December 16, 2015
Western Herald -- November 19, 1930
The stock market crash of 1929 sent the nation spiraling into what would become known as the Great Depression. By the fall of 1930, however, a "rapid and robust recovery" was predicted. As we now know, that didn’t happen. A series of commercial bank crises turned what had been a...