SGA plans to bring graduate prep courses to CMU

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The new school year is quickly approaching, and the Student Government Association has several plans they hope will make life easier for Central Michigan University students.

One of the biggest goals SGA hopes to accomplish is bringing graduate preparation courses to CMU. At the moment, students have to go to other universities in order to take them.
SGA President Jason Nichol plans to change that.

“Right now you have to go to Lansing for a prep course,” the Mount Pleasant senior said. “The program is designed already (to change that). Right now we are trying to implement (it).”

SGA is currently working closely with Honors Program director James Hill, in trying set the program in motion.

The program would offer 10 categories and students would be able to choose three of them. Each module would last a total of five weeks for a total of one credit. They will be offered through the Honors Program, Hill said.

SGA is hoping to start the program next fall, assuming students show enough interest.

Other business

CMU’s student government is continuing to find ways to keep the Michigan Promise feasible.

“We want our Legislative Affairs branch to work on the Michigan Promise,” SGA Vice President Brittany Mouzourakis said.

The state senate has recommended the scholarship, which replaced the Michigan Merit Award, be eliminated from the state budget.

SGA is also working to help give students the greatest chance possible to select the best professors available.

“One of our primary goals is to get the (student opinion) surveys online,” the Garden City senior said.

SGA hopes that by putting the surveys online, it will make it easier for students to select the best possible professors available, Nichol said. Currently the surveys can only be found in the library on CDs, which isn’t very convenient for students.

Right now students have very limited information on many, if not most, of the professors at CMU. Students may have access to sites such as RateMyProfessor, but often times the information given is not helpful at all.

“I think it gives us, the consumer of education, more buying power,” Nichol said. “I believe that CMU students want the best professor possible. Not the easiest, but the best.”