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Central Michigan Life: CMU makes racial inclusion a priority

In the last decade, Central Michigan University’s minority-student enrollment increased steadily, according to diversity statistics compiled by the Office of Institutional Research.

In 2004, the university’s minority students made up 15.4 percent of the population. As of 2012, the population increased to 19.1 percent.

These statistics reflect a change in CMU’s campus culture on student race relations. Aiming to reconcile pas incidents involving nooses and neo-Nazi propaganda, CMU has worked hard to move on from the disturbing time in its recent history.

During a presentation given to Academic Senate in 2008, Kevin Williams, senior associate director of Undergraduate Admissions, said CMU still had a reputation as a “racist institution” among minority groups, and was considered a “white-flight” school among non-minorities for much of its history.

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2014
01/31
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Last semester at CMU, working at CM Life

I should be graduating this semester from Central Michigan University in May with a Bachelor’s degree in News-Editorial journalism.

In the meantime, I’m working at Central Michigan Life on the University desk as a senior reporter.

Here’s a couple stories I’ve already done for CM Life this semester:

“Eating disorder help in focus after revelation of student’s death” here.

“Inspiration by gunpoint: Childhood shooting sparks creativity, tenacity in Lake Orion student” here. This piece I’m particularly proud of. It was really well done and really well received among the CMU community and by my peers at CM Life.

I’m also working on a few longer-term stories for the paper and a few shorter term stories too. Lots of good stuff happening. Classes are going well too.

2014
01/20
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Finally coming together

After a long time of collecting clips in a notebook, I decided to make a site for myself to digitally collect everything too. I’ll still keep the notebook, sure, but this website is a pretty comprehensive collection of everything I’ve done as a journalist up to this point. It features my best work, my ventures in music journalism, regular journalism, interviewing and more.

I’ll be posting stories I write over the course of the semester here, too. Maybe some photos from concerts I go to as well (if I remember to bring my camera).

A site like this is something that’s gotten away from me as life (school, mainly) has gotten in the way and I’ve finally taken a few days to put it together.

I know there’s still a bit of work to be done on the site, which will be taken care of soon but what do you think of my site? Do you think it could be improved? If so, how so? Let me know!

Thanks,

Sean

ps. I had the urge (for some reason) to re-watch All the President’s Men the other night. I love that movie. It’s everything about journalism I love. I might expound on this in a future blog post.

2013
01/05
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