Campus News
December 18, 2014
Western Express December 19, 2014
Western Michigan University news and updates for December 12 – 18, 2014. This week’s campus photo features “The First On-Campus Ski Area in the U.S.” The 1968 Brown and Gold yearbook states:“After two and a half years of dreaming, planning and working, the Grand Opening of the Western Michigan Ski...
December 17, 2014
Best of Green Schools
The U.S. Green Building Council’s Center for Green Schools recently named the top 10 innovators in school sustainability—and WMU is on the list. WMU was named the 2014 Best of Green Schools recipient in USGBC's higher education category. The annual awards program is designed to recognize the best environmental efforts...
December 14, 2014
Tobacco Free Tradition
The fall semester has come to a close, which means a new policy on campus is officially one semester old.As students returned to campus at the end of summer, a new campus-wide rule accompanied them. The rule is that smoking, or tobacco in any form, is no longer allowed on...
December 11, 2014
Western Express December 12, 2014
Western Michigan University news and updates for December 5 -11, 2014. This week’s campus photo features a recent Fall Commencement ceremony in Miller Auditorium. On Saturday, December 13, WMU will welcome some 1,800 new alumni over three ceremonies.To read more about the 2014 Fall Commencement, please click here. WMU NewsBoston...
December 08, 2014
December 1964 at WMU
Western Michigan University has changed a great deal in the past 50 years. Although some things, like University Theatre productions, have remained constant, other things, like hitchhiking on campus and horsemanship classes, are relics of the past.On December 2, 1964, University Theatre’s production of George Bernard Shaw’s “The Devil’s Disciple”...
December 04, 2014
Western Express December 5, 2014
Western Michigan University news and updates for November 28 – December 4, 2014. This week’s campus photo features the area between the Chemistry Building and Waldo Library in the summer. The Finch Greenhouse, located in Wood Hall and part of the Department of Biological Sciences, works with Landscape Services to...