News from other Michigan public universities and U-M peer institutions across the nation.
STATE UNIVERSITIES
Four inducted at Golf Hall of Fame’s new Ferris State home
The Michigan Golf Hall of Fame was scheduled to formally induct four new members June 8 in ceremonies at Ferris State University. In late 2013, the Michigan Golf Foundation and the Michigan Golf Hall of Fame accepted an invitation to establish its new and permanent home at Ferris in Big Rapids. Golfers Becky Iverson and Tom Werkmeister, and writers Paul Rieke and Vartan Kupelian, were selected based on nominations and a voting process by the Hall of Fame Committee and past Hall of Fame inductees.
Oakland University to construct indoor practice facility
Oakland University will build a new, $4.9 million, 108,000-square foot, multipurpose training facility for student athletes, Interim Director of Athletics Robby Stewart recently announced. The project involves replacing an existing, 29,000-square-foot athletic practice facility on the Lower Fields of OU’s campus.
PEER INSTITUTIONS
University of Chicago breaks ground on new dorm
The University of Chicago was scheduled to celebrate the groundbreaking for its new campus north residence hall and dining commons June 6. It has been designed around the university’s College House program for 800 undergraduates, with an emphasis on building communities. It will include eight houses of approximately 100 students each, with first- through fourth-year students living together. The building will feature open courtyards, a new dining commons, classrooms and retail. It is scheduled to open in 2016.
Study: Online courses not a threat to traditional business schools
Data from a University of Pennsylvania study of massive open online courses offered by Penn’s Wharton School suggest that MOOCs aren’t a threat to traditional business programs, but rather an opportunity to expand to underserved markets. Researchers surveyed more than 875,000 students enrolled in nine MOOCs offered by Wharton. They found that business MOOCs do not appear to be cannibalizing existing programs but are reaching at least three new student populations: those in developing countries; foreign-born Americans; and under-represented American minorities.
