MSU Alumnus Founds Retail Company With Aim to Help the Homeless

MSU alumnus Josh York first became interested in creating his own clothing when he was in middle school. He started by making T-shirts with his mom and sold them to his classmates. A few years later while attending Schoolcraft College, York, then 19, hand-stitched his last name into a beanie and began selling them at local music shows. That marked…

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Citizen Scholars Program Helps Fund Study Abroad to China

Citizen Scholar Margo Skornia, a junior with a double major in Theatre and Chinese, received funding from the Citizen Scholars program to help pay for her two-month study abroad trip to China this past summer. This study abroad experience allowed her to finish her Chinese major. She took Chinese language classes at the Harbin Institute of Technology each day from…

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College Reaches $20 Million Campaign Goal, Continues Fundraising Momentum

Thanks to the generosity of alumni and friends, the College of Arts & Letters has reached its $20 million Empower Extraordinary Capital Campaign goal and looks to build upon this momentum to reach yet higher. “We wish to extend our heartfelt gratitude to those who have so generously contributed to the success of our campaign, which is helping to transform…

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College of Arts & Letters Surpasses Campaign Goal

Michigan State University’s College of Arts & Letters (CAL) has exceeded its Empower Extraordinary Capital Campaign goal of $10M, as reported by University Advancement. Officially announced in October 2014, the Michigan State University $1.5B Empower Extraordinary Capital Campaign will enable MSU to significantly increase its endowment and make substantial new strategic investments on campus and around the world. “This early success was made possible…

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The College of Arts & Letters Funds Community Projects in Flint

The College of Arts & Letters has funded four collaborative community projects that were proposed by CAL faculty and in which they will collaborate with Flint citizens who served on the Arts and Culture Task Force (one of eight task forces that co-authored the City of Flint’s 20-year strategic plan, Imagine Flint) and/or Flint institutions. The College sought to support faculty efforts…

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