By Kathy Backus, Centralight Central Michigan University Alumni Magazine The Summer after sixth grade Donnesha Blake visited CMU through her participation in GEAR UP (Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs) - a national initiative to prepare middle and high school students for college - at her middle school in Flint, Michigan. The week-long … [Read more...]
Celebrate and Embrace Diversity!
Diversity is a fact of life. We will find it in people that we believe ‘resemble' us and in people we believe are ‘different' from us. We are all unique and are different in some aspect - it can be in thoughts and perceptions, physical looks, cultures, or beliefs. Our perceptions play a great role in differentiating people with whom we associate. From … [Read more...]
CMU’s Center for Inclusion and Diversity
On August 1, 2011, The Center for Inclusion and Diversity at Central Michigan University was created and now serves as home to many of the offices with a focus on diversity, multiculturalism and inclusion through the Office for Institutional Diversity. Offices located within the Center include GEARUP/College Day-108, LGBTQ Services-110A (formerly the Office of Gay and Lesbian … [Read more...]
Central Michigan University’s Office for Institutional Diversity
The Office for Institutional Diversity at Central Michigan University recognizes that preparing students for productive lives within today’s multicultural society and global community necessitates providing ALL students opportunities to experience and cultivate an appreciation for perspectives, customs, and beliefs different from their own. The mission of the Office for … [Read more...]
What is CMU (MI) GEAR UP?
GEAR UP -- Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GU/CD) GEAR UP was established by the 1998 amendments to the Higher Education Act of 1965 to serve the needs of the nation's low-income and most educationally disadvantaged students. The program is administered and funded by the U.S. Department of Education and the Martin Luther King*César … [Read more...]