Central Michigan University (CMU) is a
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research university
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in
Mount Pleasant, Michigan
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. Established in 1892 as the Central Michigan Normal School and Business Institute, the private normal school became a state institution and renamed Central State Normal School in 1895 after the Michigan State Board of Education took over governance of the school. The institution came into its own as a university and gained its current name Central Michigan University in 1959 under the university's 6th president Judson W. Foust.
CMU is one of the eight
research universities
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in
Michigan
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and is
classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity". It has more than 15,000 students on its Mount Pleasant campus. CMU offers 200 academic programs at the undergraduate, master's, specialist, and doctoral levels, including programs in entrepreneurship, journalism, music, audiology, teacher education, psychology, and physician assistant. The School of Engineering and Technology has
ABET
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accredited programs in Mechanical, Electrical, Computer, and Environmental Engineering. CMU's College of Medicine opened in fall 2013.
The
Central Michigan Chippewas
The Central Michigan Chippewas are the intercollegiate athletic teams that represent Central Michigan University (CMU), located in Mount Pleasant, Michigan. The school fields sixteen men's and women's intercollegiate teams that compete at the ...
compete in the
NCAA Division I
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Mid-American Conference
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in six men's and ten women's sports.
History
CMU opened its door in 1892 as the Central Michigan Normal School and Business Institute. Prof. Charles F. R. Bellows, a
University of Michigan
, mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth"
, former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821)
, budget = $10.3 billion (2021)
, endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...
graduate, became the founding principal of the normal school in June 1892.
For the first year, 31 students attended classes in the Carpenter Building in downtown
Mount Pleasant. Bellows surveyed the future location of the campus and was involved in the construction of the original Main Building, which opened in September 1893. Within the first two years, land was acquired, and a $10,000 school building was constructed.
During Bellows' tenure, he organized a separate Conservatory for Music through his own funds, which became incorporated into the Normal in 1900. He continued to teach as a professor and spoke to teacher groups throughout the State. Bellows also led an advertising effort for the school in order to gain more students.
In 1895, the Michigan State Board of Education assumed control of the school, renaming it Central Michigan Normal School. Bellows resigned from Central in the following year. He returned to
Ypsilanti in 1902 to join the faculty of the State Normal School (now
Eastern Michigan University
Eastern Michigan University (EMU, Eastern Michigan or simply Eastern), is a public research university in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Founded in 1849 as Michigan State Normal School, the school was the fourth normal school established in the United Sta ...
).
By 1918, the campus consisted of 25 acres with five buildings. On June 1, 1959, with 40 buildings now standing on the 235-acre campus and an enrollment of 4,500 students, Central was renamed Central Michigan University. The designation reflected growth in the complexity of the school's academic offerings as well as its physical growth in the post-war period. Enrollment tripled over the next 10 years.
In response to the need for doctors to practice in rural areas, CMU opened its medical school in 2010.
Presidents
*Charles F. R. Bellows (1892 - 1896)
*Charles McKenny (1896 - 1899)
*Charles Grawn (1900 - 1918)
*EC Warriner (1918 - 1939)
*Charles L. Anspach (1939 - 1959)
*Judson Foust (1959 - 1968)
*William B. Boyd (1968 - 1975)
*Harold Abel (1975 - 1985)
*Arthur Emmett Ellis (1985 - 1988)
*Edward B. Jakubauskas (1988 - 1992)
*Leonard E. Plachta (1992 - 2000)
*Michael Rao (2000 - 2009)
*Kathy Wilbur (2009 - 2010)
*George Ross (2010 - 2018)
*Robert Davies (2018–Present)
Governance
Central Michigan University is governed by a Board of Trustees, whose eight members are appointed by the
Governor of Michigan and confirmed by the
Michigan Senate for terms of eight years.
The Board of Trustees appoints and reviews the President of Central Michigan University, currently
Robert O. Davies. Nancy E. Mathews was appointed as Provost and Executive Vice President of Central Michigan University on August 1, 2022, by President Robert O. Davies.
Academics
Admissions
Undergraduate
CMU is considered "selective" by ''U.S. News & World Report''. For the Class of 2025 (enrolled fall 2021), CMU received 18,517 applications and accepted 14,273 (77.1%). Of those accepted, 1,909 enrolled, a yield rate (the percentage of accepted students who choose to attend the university) of 13.4%. CMU's freshman retention rate is 77%, with 61.7% going on to graduate within six years.
Of the 57% of the incoming freshman class who submitted
SAT
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scores; the middle 50 percent Composite scores were 1010-1223.
Of the 10% of enrolled freshmen in 2021 who submitted
ACT scores; the middle 50 percent Composite score was between 19.25 and 26.
Central Michigan University has seen a dramatic decline in enrollment in recent years. Between 2012 and 2022, CMU had a 46% drop in total enrollment.
Academic divisions
![CMU Education Building](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/80/CMU_Education_Building.JPG)
CMU has eight academic divisions:
* College of Business Administration
* College of the Arts and Media
* College of Education and Human Services
* Herbert H. and Grace A. Dow College of Health Professions
* College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
* College of Medicine
* College of Science and Engineering
* College of Graduate Studies
Academic work on campus is supported by the
Charles V. Park Library
Charles V. Park Library is the main library of Central Michigan University, named after librarian Charles V. Park. It is located in Mount Pleasant, Michigan. The Clarke Historical Library is located within the library as well.
History
The library ...
, which holds one million books and can seat up to 2,655 patrons at a time. The university owns and operates the
Brooks Astronomical Observatory
Brooks Astronomical Observatory is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by Central Michigan University. It is located in Mount Pleasant, Michigan (USA). The observatory was established in 1964 and is located on the roof of the Br ...
.
The university's neuroscience program was named undergraduate program of the year in 2013 by the
Society for Neuroscience
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.
The Central Michigan University College of Graduate Studies provides over 70 graduate degree programs at the Master's, Specialist, or Doctoral levels.
Research
According to the
National Science Foundation
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, CMU spent $15.6 million on research and development in 2018.
Endowed lectureships
* Harold Abel Endowed Lecture Series in the Study of Dictatorship, Democracy and Genocide. Focuses on the effects of historical events such as the Holocaust and mass murders in Africa, Southeast Asia, and Central America. Named in honor of former CMU President Harold Abel.
* The Fleming Lecture Series. Brings world-class mathematicians to campus. Speakers include
Fields Medal
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winners
Terence Tao
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, Sir
Timothy Gowers
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, and
Cédric Villani
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; and
Abel Prize
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winners
S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan
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and
Louis Nirenberg
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Nearly all of his work was in the field of partial differential equat ...
. Named in honor of mathematics professor Richard Fleming.
* Philip A. Hart and William G. Milliken Endowed Speaker Series for Integrity in Politics. Focuses on political integrity and challenges students to approach politics in a way that embraces America's diversity of ideas and perspectives, working to supplant negativity and partisanship with creativity and innovation in shaping future public policy. Named in honor of U.S. Senator
Philip Hart
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and Michigan Governor
William Milliken
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.
*
William B. Nolde Lecture Series. Focuses on intellectual discussions for future leaders both in the military and across the campus and community. Named in honor of Army Colonel
William Nolde, the last official combat casualty of the
Vietnam War
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.
Athletics
The school's athletics programs are affiliated with
NCAA Division I
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. CMU was a member of the
Interstate Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
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At one time the Illinois Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, or IIAC, was a robust league that clai ...
from 1950 to 1970. Almost all Central Michigan teams compete in the
Mid-American Conference
The Mid-American Conference (MAC) is a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I collegiate athletic conference with a membership base in the Great Lakes region that stretches from Western New York to Illinois. Nine of the twel ...
; the one exception until recently was the women's lacrosse team, newly elevated from club to full varsity status for the 2015-2016 school year. It competed in the
Southern Conference
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for a time, but joined the MAC for the 2021 season.
The football program is known for producing players such as
Antonio Brown
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, &
Joe Staley
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. Before moving up to Division I, the football team won its second
NCAA
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Division II national championship in 1974 by defeating the
Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens
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54 to 14. Notable Division I years include 1994, 2006, 2007, and 2009 when they won the
MAC Football Championship Game
The MAC Football Championship Game is a football game between the winners of the East and West divisions of the Mid-American Conference (MAC) to determine the conference champion.
History
The game has been played since 1997, when the conferenc ...
. In 2009, they finished the season ranked #23 in the final AP Poll and #24 in the final Coaches Poll marking the first time that a CMU football team had ever ended the season ranked in the Top 25 at the NCAA Division I-FBS level. Since 2014, the football program has made a college bowl game, and continues to see its players set MAC records yearly.
Frequently defeating both the
Michigan Wolverines and the
Michigan State Spartans
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in dual meets, CMU's wrestling team won its 10th straight MAC championship and seventh straight conference tournament title in 2008. The Chippewas tied for seventh at the NCAA Championships, scoring a school-record 69 points. Four individuals earned All-America honors.
The women's basketball program has excelled to new levels. In 2018, the team made its way to the sweet sixteen of the
NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament
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. The team beat the
LSU Tigers and Lady Tigers
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and the
Ohio State Buckeyes
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in the first two rounds, only to lose to the
Oregon Ducks
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in the third.
In 1958, the men's swimming and diving team was runner-up to the
North Central at the second annual
NAIA national meet, which was held in
Muncie, Indiana
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.
In May 2020, the university discontinued its men's track and field program as part of budget cuts caused by the coronavirus pandemic. In June of the same year, CMU announced it had received a waiver from the
NCAA
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Division I Council that would allow the football program to remain in the Football Bowl Subdivision and give the school two years to bring the total number of men's programs up to FBS compliance.
Student life
Residence life
Central Michigan University is home to 21 on-campus residence halls, arranged in four areas throughout the campus. In 2006, the 21st and 22nd residence halls on campus opened in the East complex. In 2019, the university decommissioned and demolished Barnes Hall, which was the oldest serving residence hall and the only one not physically connected to any other. In 2022, the University closed the North Residence Halls.
*North Residence Halls: Larzelere, Trout, Calkins, Robinson
*South Residence Halls: Beddow, Merrill, Thorpe, Sweeney
*East Residence Halls: Saxe, Herrig, Woldt, Emmons; Celani and Fabiano
*The Towers: Carey, Cobb, Troutman and Wheeler ("The Original Towers"), Campbell, Kesseler and Kulhavi ("The New Towers")
It was announced by the university on March 3, 2022, that Larzelere, Trout, Calkins, and Robinson would be closed during the 2022 Fall semester due to semester enrollment estimates.
The majority of CMU residence hall rooms are two-bedroom suites designed for 4 or 5 people. Three of the Original Towers (Cobb, Troutman and Wheeler), nine-story high-rise residence halls designed primarily for freshmen, feature one-bedroom suites for three or four people. The fourth of the Original Towers, Carey, was renovated to double-occupancy rooms in 2020 as a means of managing decreased enrollment. The New Towers, as well as Fabiano and Celani, are designed primarily for upperclassmen, and are four-bedroom suites. Residents of Robinson, Carey, Celani, Fabiano, Campbell, Kesseler and Kulhavi pay an additional charge over the standard room and board rate.
Each district is connected to one of four Residential Restaurants. The Towers features the RFoC, or Real Food on Campus, and the East Complex features the Fresh Food Company. Each area also has an after hours snack shop.
Some residence halls are designated as official Living Learning Communities, associated with a particular academic department, allowing students who choose to live there opportunities for study and collaboration with other students from similar programs.
*Trout Hall – Business
*Herrig Hall – Music
*Emmons Hall – Health Professions
*Woldt Hall – Science and Engineering
*Sweeney Hall – Education and Human Services
*Thorpe Hall – Honors Program
*Calkins Hall – Leader Advancement Scholars & Public Service Residential Community
*Troutman Hall – Multicultural Advancement/Cofer Scholars
*Cobb Hall – Public Service
*Kulhavi Hall – Transfer Students
CMU offers only co-ed residence halls, with Sweeney Hall the last to convert, from females only, in the fall of 2010.
Construction began on two more buildings, Celani and Fabiano, near the East Quad in the spring of 2005. The buildings are somewhat similar in design to the New Towers which opened in 2003. On December 1, 2005, one of the buildings was named The Ben and Marion Celani Residence hall to recognize the generosity of Detroit area businessman Thomas Celani and his wife Vicki. On April 20, 2006, the remaining building was named the Fabiano Family Residence Hall, recognizing their contribution to the school. John S. Fabiano served on the board of trustees 1999–2004, and also owns the Fabiano Brothers Inc, an alcohol distribution company. These two new halls opened for the fall semester of 2006, along with a new Residential Restaurant to serve the residents of the six East Area halls.
Greek life
CMU recognizes academic, social, and professional Greek organizations which comply with university rules and regulations such as its anti-hazing policies. Currently, in the social realm, there consists of 12 fraternities and 12 sororities. Other Greek life organizations that pertain to honoCe, degrees, and multicultural backgrounds have formed as well throughout the years. Each is unique to their own roots, and provides a great networking opportunity for students at the university.
Recognized Fraternities:
*
Sigma Chi
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*
Beta Theta Pi
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*
Chi Phi
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*
Kappa Sigma
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*
Phi Delta Theta
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*
Pi Kappa Phi
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*
Sigma Alpha Epsilon
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*
Sigma Pi
*
Sigma Tau Gamma
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*
Tau Kappa Epsilon
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Recognized Sororities:
*
Alpha Chi Omega
Alpha Chi Omega (, also known as Alpha Chi or A Chi O) is a national women's fraternity founded on October 15, 1885.
As of 2018, there are 132 collegiate and 279 alumnae chapters represented across the United States, and the fraternity counts ...
*
Alpha Gamma Delta
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*
Alpha Sigma Alpha Alpha Sigma Alpha () is a United States National Panhellenic sorority founded on November 15, 1901, at the Virginia State Female Normal School (later known as Longwood College and now known as Longwood University) in Farmville, Virginia.
Once a sor ...
*
Alpha Sigma Tau
*
Delta Phi Epsilon Delta Phi Epsilon () may refer to:
*Delta Phi Epsilon (professional), the professional foreign service fraternity and sorority
*Delta Phi Epsilon (social)
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*
Delta Zeta
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Delta Zeta has 170 collegiate chapters in the United States and Canada, and over 200 alumnae chapters in Cana ...
*
Phi Mu
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The fraternity was founded at Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia as the Philomathean Society on , and was announced publicly on March 4 of the same y ...
*
Phi Sigma Sigma
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The sorority was founded on November 26, 1913, and lists 60,000 initiated members, 115 ...
*
Sigma Sigma Sigma
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Sigma Sigma Sigma is a member of the National Panhellenic Conference (NPC), an umbrella organization encompassing 26 national sororities or women's fraterni ...
*
Sigma Kappa
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In 1874, Sigma Kappa was founded by five women: Mary Caffrey Low Carver, Elizabeth Gorham Hoag, Ida Mabel Fuller Pie ...
*
Zeta Phi Beta
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*
Zeta Tau Alpha
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Professional Fraternities:
*
Alpha Kappa Psi
*
Beta Gamma Sigma
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*
Delta Omicron
Delta Omicron () is a co-ed international professional music honors fraternity whose mission is to promote and support excellence in music and musicianship.
History
Delta Omicron International Music Fraternity was founded on September 6, 1909 at ...
*
Epsilon Nu Tau
*
Kappa Kappa Psi
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*
Pi Sigma Epsilon
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*
Phi Chi Theta
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*
Phi Mu Alpha
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*
Sigma Alpha Iota
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*
Gamma Iota Sigma
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Gamma Iota Sigma is an international professional fraternity organized to promote, encourage and sustain student int ...
Honor Societies:
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Alpha Psi Omega
Alpha Psi Omega National Theatre Honor Society () is an American recognition fraternity for participants in collegiate theatre.
History
The ''Alpha Cast'' (Alpha Psi Omega's term for "chapter") was founded at Fairmont State College (now Fairm ...
*
Beta Alpha Psi
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*
Kappa Delta Pi
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*
Phi Sigma Pi
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Campus safety
2018 shooting
On March 2, 2018, 19-year-old student James Eric Davis Jr. shot and killed his mother and father when they came to campus to take him home for spring break. After the shooting, Davis fled and the campus was placed on lockdown. Around 15 hours later, police arrested him and took him to a local hospital. The incident disrupted the travel plans of students and campus activities for several days. Davis was charged with two counts of
murder
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and one count of unlawful possession of a firearm used to commit murder,
and was later determined to be
not guilty by reason of insanity and committed to a
psychiatric institution
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.
Media
The campus' student-run newspaper is ''Central Michigan Life''. The paper is published every Thursday during the academic year and www.cm-life.com, which receives 1 million page views per year, is updated daily. ''CM Life'' was named one of the top three non-daily newspapers in the nation for 2007, 2018, 2019 by the
Society of Professional Journalists
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. It also was named the best college newspaper in Division I in
Michigan
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eight of the past 10 years. ''CM Life'' has been named winner of the
National Pacemaker Awards by
Associated Collegiate Press in 1975, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1989, 1990, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016, 2019. It also was a finalist for the first time for an online Pacemaker in 2010.
CM-Life has come in first place for the Best College Media Company in the nation seven years in a row (2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020) by College Media Business and Advertising Managers organization.
There are also two student-run
college radio
Campus radio (also known as college radio, university radio or student radio) is a type of radio station that is run by the students of a college, university or other educational institution. Programming may be exclusively created or produced ...
stations,
FM 91.5
WMHW-FM
WMHW-FM, "The Mountain 91.5," is the student-operated college radio station for Central Michigan University, located in Mount Pleasant, Michigan. The call letters stand for "Wilbur Moore Hall Wireless", a reference to the station's studios being ...
and FM 101.1, a student produced newscast, News Central 34, and a student-run college television station MHTV. In 2005, a student-operated music label called Moore Media Records (MMR) was established.
In addition, the university owns and operates
WCMU-TV
WCMU-TV (channel 14) is a PBS member television station in Mount Pleasant, Michigan, United States, owned by Central Michigan University. The station's studios are located on the CMU campus in Mount Pleasant, and its transmitter is located west ...
, the region's
PBS
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station, and
WCMU-FM
WCMU-FM (89.5 FM) is a public radio station in Mount Pleasant, Michigan. The station, owned by Central Michigan University, is a National Public Radio member station, airing a large amount of classical and jazz music along with a variety of othe ...
, the
NPR
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affiliate. Both stations serve most of Northern Michigan, including the eastern
Upper Peninsula
The Upper Peninsula of Michigan – also known as Upper Michigan or colloquially the U.P. – is the northern and more elevated of the two major landmasses that make up the U.S. state of Michigan; it is separated from the Lower Peninsula by t ...
, through a network of repeater stations.
Also established in 2003 is
White Pine Music, the recording label of the CMU School of Music.
On February 2, 2008, Central Michigan University's online magazine, Grand Central Magazine, was launched. Currently updated weekly, the magazine is run through CMU's Department of Journalism and features magazine style features from the world of sports, entertainment, style, technology and travel.
Notable alumni
File:Dan_Kildee_official_photo.jpg, U.S. representative Dan Kildee
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From 1977 to 2009, Kildee was a municipal ...
File:Brenda_Lawrence_official_portrait.jpg, U.S. representative Brenda Lawrence
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File:Matt_Bevin.jpg, 62nd governor of Kentucky
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Matt Bevin
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File:Dan_Majerle_GCU.JPG, Former NBA All-Star and coach of the Grand Canyon Antelopes
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Dan Majerle
Daniel Lewis Majerle (; born September 9, 1965), also known by the nickname "Thunder Dan", is an American former professional basketball player and former coach of the Grand Canyon Antelopes. He played 14 years in the National Basketball Associat ...
File:William_F_Kernan.jpg, Four-star general
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William Kernan
File:JimmyRoss.jpeg, Four-star general
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Jimmy Ross
File:Anthony Zinni.jpg, Anthony Zinni
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, United States Marine Corps general
Notes
References
External links
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Central Michigan University athletics website*
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Public universities and colleges in Michigan
Education in Isabella County, Michigan
Medical schools in Michigan
Educational institutions established in 1892
1892 establishments in Michigan
Buildings and structures in Isabella County, Michigan
Tourist attractions in Isabella County, Michigan