Read for Your Rights: Banned Books Week Celebration October 5 – 11, 2025
Blog Posted October 01, 2025
Now through October 31, we're waiving application fees for all domestic freshman and transfer applicants!
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Navigating Difficult Conversations: Fostering Civil Discourse in Challenging Times
Difficult classroom conversations build critical thinking, empathy, and civil discourse. By creating safe spaces, facilitating dialogue, structuring evaluation, and fostering perspective-taking, faculty prepare students for engaged citizenship.
Blog Posted November 01, 2024
Becoming a Warm Demander in Higher Ed: Empowering Students Through Care and Challenge
A “warm demander” in higher ed pairs high expectations with empathy, using trust, consistency, and care to help students grow, persist, and succeed through both challenge and support.
Blog Posted October 31, 2025
Take 2 for Teaching & Learning - Exit Tickets: A Powerful Reflection Tool in the Classroom
In this Take 2 for Teaching and Learning video, Dr. Sarah Learman shares how exit tickets can bring you insight into student learning and progress in your course.
Blog Posted September 24, 2025
Faculty Voices: Office Hours LIVE, using the Lightboard Maker Space
Professor Doug Lapp shares how transitioning from screencast videos to Lightboard Studio and using it for his long-running “Office Hours LIVE” has enhanced student engagement by making instruction more personal and accessible to all learners.
Blog Posted January 27, 2023
[PHISH] STUDENT JOB OPPORTUNITY
A phishing email has been delivered to CMU users offering a fraudulent job posting. The job description is in a word document (.docx) attachment, and links to an external form that attempts to harvest user credentials.
As always, be especially cautious about unsolicited job offers, they are typically malicious in nature.
Blog Posted September 23, 2025
What can studying a foreign language do for your career?
Learning a second language is a life-changing experience, but did you know it could also boost your career? Discover what learning a foreign language can do for your personal development, employability, industry possibilities and advancement opportunities.
Blog Posted August 27, 2025
Unlock a great career with a strategic communications degree
Strategic communications is more than just writing press releases. It's all about finding the right messaging for your organization. There is lots of demand for workers and it pays well, too.
Blog Posted September 18, 2025
Celebrating National Online Learning Day: How the CMU Libraries support online students
Blog Posted September 16, 2025
Take 2 for Teaching & Learning: Jigsaw Strategy
In this short video, Gabrielle Likavec introduces the jigsaw strategy, a collaborative learning approach that transforms group work into a purposeful, student-centered experience. Learn how to break down complex content into manageable subtopics and empower students to become both learners and teachers in your classroom. This strategy is perfect for medium—to large classes across disciplines.
Blog Posted September 12, 2025
10 career paths with a degree in international relations
A degree in international relations can be your ticket to a great career dedicated to helping people around the globe while you live a life filled with travel and a deep appreciation for other cultures.
Blog Posted September 05, 2025
Community development degree: don't just live in a community, build one
Explore the undergraduate community development at Central Michigan University. This degree will prepare you for community focused careers in government, non-profits and private companies.
Blog Posted September 09, 2025
Three key dates for college applications and a scholarship webinar
In this post, I’ll highlight three critical dates to know when applying to colleges and share details about our upcoming scholarship webinar, so you can stay on top of everything!
Blog Posted September 03, 2025
Athletic training: Salary, career path and how to get started
Explore athletic trainer salary, career paths, job options and how to become an athletic trainer in this complete guide.
Blog Posted September 02, 2025
Remodel Reveal: Increased Comfort and Variety in the 1st Floor Quiet Study Area
Blog Posted August 29, 2025
Take 2 for Teaching & Learning - Prediction: The Art of Intrigue and Curiosity
In this episode of Take Two for Teaching, Dr. Brooke Moore explains how prediction is a strategy that helps your students become curious and engage with the course material before they fully understand the content. It can aid in learning whether a student’s prediction is right or wrong.
Blog Posted August 27, 2025
[PHISH] PROCESS HAS BEGUN BY OUR ADMINISTRATION
New phishing campaign with the following subjects: PROCESS HAS BEGUN BY OUR ADMINISTRATION
Blog Posted April 04, 2025
Bachelor’s in music: Your stage for a future in music
Explore the undergraduate music program at Central Michigan University. Learn about performance opportunities, facilities, career paths, and national salary data for music professionals.
Blog Posted August 29, 2025