The public relations manager position for Special Olympics Michigan is making a change, but former manager Vanessa Walsh has no regrets.

After three years, Walsh was faced with the tough decision of staying at CMU or leaving to Lansing to take a different public relations position.

The world becomes more and more of a global society every day, and Connie Watson, Faculty Center for Innovative Teaching director candidate, knows this.

“You can learn a lot from other countries and cultures,” Watson said.

Watson spoke about many of her own personal experiences with global education and how they have helped her to grow Friday at an open forum.

Year after year, the same question gets asked: “Do we have classes on Good Friday?”

Faculty and administration across campus are bombarded with the question as soon as Good Friday is mentioned. It is a question that Registrar Karen Hutslar receives and answers at the same time every year.

Sometimes a student’s biggest party fear is not watching a friend getting their stomach pumped at the hospital.

It is receiving a Minor In Possession and getting in trouble for taking their friend to that hospital.

However, some Michigan State University students are trying to change that.

Two Central Michigan Life editors have been nationally recognized by the Hearst Foundation.

Online editor Brian Manzullo and Sports Editor Dan Monson each placed for “Personality/Profile Writing” in the Hearst Journalism Awards Program, which recognizes excellence in collegiate journalism.

Salma Ghanem cut her own introduction to the Central Michigan University community short Tuesday.

The chairwoman of the department of communication from the University of Texas Pan American decided to go right into the question-and answer session of her open forum Tuesday in Moore Hall’s Townsend Kiva.

Passion is just one of the things Jack Bowman wants to bring to Central Michigan University.

“In many respects, we’re here to help students find their passion,” Bowman said. “As a dean, I have a responsibility to the students.”

Bowman, dean of the School of Fine Arts at the University of Minnesota, Duluth, was a part of an open forum for the vacant position for dean of the College of Communication and Fine Arts Thursday in Moore Hall’s Townsend Kiva.

Sometimes a change in the way professors teach and assign work is what is really needed to improve student learning.

That was the viewpoint of Elaine Collins-Brown, the third and final candidate for the Faculty Center for Innovative Teaching director position.