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- CMU’s School of Music offers a wide range of
high-quality undergraduate and graduate degree programs in a
world-class facility. The school’s venues are the setting
for many internationally acclaimed performances, and its
programs touch people of all ages, including more than 350
Michigan middle and high school students who attend a summer
music program.
- CMU’s reputable journalism department is accredited by
the Council for Education in Journalism and Mass
Communications and has long been recognized for offering
several of the finest programs in the Midwest. Many
distinguished CMU alumni gained their formative experience
working for CM Life, which won the prestigious
Associated Collegiate Press Pacemaker award in 2002 and
2003.
- CMU’s journalism department offers an exchange program
with the China Daily, giving students and faculty an
opportunity to work and live in Beijing.
- Central Michigan Life is the best college
newspaper in the state, according to the Michigan Collegiate
Press Association. The newspaper won 29 awards in the MPA’s
2003 college newspaper contest, including first prize in the
Division I General Excellence Category. CM Life also won
nine individual first place awards.
- CMU’s broadcast and cinematic arts department has one of
the country’s largest and most diversified electronic media
education programs. Both CMU’s student-run television and
radio stations MHTV and WMHW-FM consistently earn awards in
state and national competitions. Many prominent alumni have
risen to high-profile positions, including Dick Enberg, CBS
sportscaster, Guy Gordon of WNEM-TV in Detroit, and Brett
Holey, director of The NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw.
- CMU’s student-run Moore Hall Television, a
collaboration of the broadcast and cinematic arts department
and the daily show “News Central,” was designated “College
Television Station of Year” by the Michigan Association of
Broadcasters for three consecutive years. In the 2004
competition, CMU students took first place in five of the
six program categories.
- A new music theater major in the speech communication
and dramatic arts department is attracting national
interest. The program provides professional training for
students who desire careers as performers, directors,
dancers, musicians, choreographers, and coaches.
- CMU’s speech communication and dramatic arts department
is home to Orchesis Dance Theatre, which has showcased
dances choreographed by students and director Yvette
Crandall for nearly 30 years. The department’s University
Theatre stages six productions each year, including a
collaboration with the School of Music on a musical.
Prominent SCDA alumni include actors Jeff Daniels, Larry Joe
Campbell of the ABC sitcom “According to Jim,” and
Joe Nipote, the voice of Stretch in the movie Casper.
- Students in CMU’s debate and forensics program win
numerous awards in state and national tournaments. The
program also offers students opportunities to help Michigan
inmates develop their speech and debate skills.
- The sharing of stories, from the great myths and legends
of the world to the everyday tales of everyday people,
highlight the annual Michigan Story Festival, which takes
place in October on the CMU campus. A collaboration between
CMU, the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe and the Mount
Pleasant community, the festival features internationally
acclaimed performers as well as Michigan-based storytellers.
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