Now in its third year, the International Student Mentorship Program, created and run by English Language Center (ELC) Instructor Alissa Cohen, was recently awarded a 2015-16 Continuing Inclusive Excellence Grant (CIEG) by MSU. CIEG support includes non-recurring funding of projects, programs, and proposals to create and support an inclusive university. This is the first year the Mentorship Program has received…
The College of Arts & Letters (CAL) at Michigan State University has announced the creation of its Faculty Summer Fellowship Program with a commitment of $300,000 over summer 2016 to pilot the research incentive program. Individual tenure-system faculty can apply for up to $10,000. As stated by Dean Christopher P. Long in the College’s 2015 Fall Planning Letter, the new…
The MSU Department of Art, Art History, and Design (AAHD) has rolled out a new Graphic Design undergraduate major this Spring 2016. To date, 42 students have enrolled in the new BFA program since December 2015. “The department’s goal with the new major is to provide an opportunity for more intensive upper-level development in the graphic design discipline, as well…
The College of Arts & Letters (CAL) at Michigan State University is partnering with the Residential Initiative on the Study of the Environment (RISE) to offer experiential learning opportunities to CAL students throughout the academic school year. Students will have the have the opportunity to participate in a community and curriculum through hands-on engagement. Opportunities to learn and explore include:…
During the Fall semester 2015 the German Program in the Department of Linguistics and Languages will offer a semester-long series of events on the legacy of unification. These events, which are generously underwritten by a grant from the German Embassy, will explore various aspects of the unification process itself as well as the issues that have confronted the newly configured…
The Experience Architecture (XA) program at Michigan State University is a cutting-edge, interdisciplinary major in the Humanities focused on user experience. Through the exploration and building of products, services, and policies of digital and physical objects, students are trained as user experience architects, usability specialists, user researchers, information architects, interaction designers, content strategists, project managers, and developers of digital products,…
Project eSankofa at MSU’s African American and African Studies (AAAS) launched the first Massive Open Online Community conversation (MOOCc) via Canvas Network Tuesday, August 4, 2015. (Canvas Network offers open online courses taught by educators globally and provides a place and platform where teachers, students, and institutions worldwide can connect.) A new take on the MOOC, or Massive Open Online…
Experience Architecture, or XA, is one “hot” and expanding MSU College of Arts & Letters major, and founding faculty members Liza Potts, Rebecca Tegtmeyer and William Hart-Davidson, couldn’t be more pleased with the strong student interest. Tylor Hoekstra, a junior in the XA major, creates a wireframe for a website. Potts, who is XA program director and associate professor in…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fp8F4IoRcxI&feature=emb_title The word “excitement” only begins to capture the atmosphere on the first day of this fall’s BEYOND Insights program at Michigan State University. Forty 6th graders from Lansing’s Pattengill Middle School and Post Oak Magnet School flooded a lower-floor classroom in the MSU Union, early one Friday morning, to discover a world filled with technological tools, creative resources and eager…
MSU’s CeLTA Language School and John R. King Academic & Performing Arts Academy’s long-standing relationship brings global and cultural awareness to Detroit’s children. MSU’s seven 2013-14 Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistants (FLTAs) ventured recently with CeLTA Language School (CLS) Director Angelika Kraemer and other faculty members on a language- and culture-sharing journey to Detroit. The FLTAs visited John R. King…
