STATE UNIVERSITIES
Central Michigan University introduces student affairs minor
Central Michigan University’s College of Education and Human Services will offer a leadership in student affairs minor, beginning in fall 2015. The 21-credit-hour, career-focused program is designed to develop skills in the professional field of student affairs. Students will be able to build on their experiences with residence life, student activities and career services to advance in the student affairs profession.
MSU to provide funding for campus sustainability research
Michigan State University’s Office of Sustainability now is accepting applications for its Sustainability Fellows Program. The new program seeks to engage MSU faculty and graduate students in research opportunities that directly impact and advance sustainability on the MSU campus. The Sustainability Fellows Program funds research projects that investigate topics in environmental sustainability specific to MSU and that impact MSU’s campus sustainability goals.
Michigan Tech receives Ford Motor Co. grant for women in engineering
The Ford Motor Co. has donated $10,000 to Michigan Technological University’s Women in Engineering (WIE) program. WIE is a scholarship program and intensive, week-long pre-college summer program that provides a look into engineering careers for women. WIE hosts approximately 150 high school students on the MTU campus each summer.
PEER INSTITUTIONS
UT-Austin receives $1.5M in endowments for medical school, liberal arts
The Lebermann Foundation of Austin has committed $1.5 million to create two endowments at the University of Texas at Austin, honoring the parents of former Austin civic leader Lowell Lebermann. The Dr. Lowell Henry Lebermann Endowed Chair in Internal Medicine will be the first chair in internal medicine at the new Dell Medical School, and the Sue Goldston Lebermann Endowed Professorship in Liberal Arts will primarily support the UT Department of English.
$3 million gift to support Iowa engineering
The University of Iowa College of Engineering has received a $3 million bequest from alumnus R. William “Bill” Van Sant and his wife, Marilyn J. Van Sant of Bayfield, Wisconsin. The bequest will be allocated to support scholarships, faculty and innovation across the college. This bequest contributes to the UI Foundation’s comprehensive $1.7 billion fundraising campaign, “For Iowa. Forever More: The Campaign for the University of Iowa.”
