APLU, USU provides grants to 8 schools to promote community-university partnerships

The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) and Coalition of Urban Serving Universities (USU) have announced grants to eight public universities, including Wayne State University, supporting the piloting and scaling of university-community partnerships focused on advancing student success. 

September 14, 2018

Wayne State to host Opioid Awareness Day Sept. 18

The opioid epidemic has devastated families across the nation, prompting Wayne State University to host an informative day on Tuesday, Sept. 18 from noon to 5:30 p.m. to educate others about the misuse, abuse and consequences of opioids. Through this day-long event, the university aims to better understand the scope of this crisis and how it impacts the local community. All students, faculty, staff and community members who are interested in gaining insight on opioids are welcome.

September 12, 2018

Michigan colleges rank, according to U.S. News' annual ranking

Michigan's universities and colleges fared well in the latest edition of the U.S. News' annual rankings of the nation's four-year schools. Most Michigan schools stayed stable, landing around the same spot on the lists they have for the last couple of years. The rankings are among the most-watched rankings every year by colleges, which use them to market themselves. The rankings changed this year, with more weight given to student outcomes, including graduation. Wayne State University ranked 205 overall in the national universities ranking tied with Central and Western Michigan Universities.

September 10, 2018

Grant boosts medical efforts in Michigan’s undeserved areas

Wayne State University announced this week that its program, the Michigan Area Health Education Center , has received $1.1 million from the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration.

September 10, 2018

Police killings of 3 black men left a mark on Detroit’s history

Jeffrey Horner, senior lecturer of Urban Studies, wrote an article for The Conversation about the history of segregation in Detroit. He wrote: “Police routinely used violent force against blacks in the U.S. before the 1940s, primarily as a means of preserving segregation in cities. It became a last line of defense for segregationists after the U.S. Supreme Court in 1948 weakened the ability of property owners to refuse to sell to people of color. 

September 10, 2018

Avenue Q brings the laughs to the Hilberry

The Maggie Allesee Department of Theatre and Dance, a program within the College of Fine, Performing, and Communication Arts at Wayne State University, is launching the 2018-2019 season with the three-time Tony Award-winning Broadway musical "Avenue Q," an adult parody of children's puppet shows like "Sesame Street", "The Muppets", and "Mr. Rodgers Neighborhood".

September 7, 2018

University leaders want higher ed on Schuette, Whitmer's agenda

M. Roy Wilson, president of Wayne State, said he wants the next governor and Legislature to scale back the performance-based funding model created under Gov. Rick Snyder that rewarded universities with more money for a higher percentage of undergraduate degrees and penalized more research-focused universities. It's one reason why Wayne State has not recovered nearly as much funding as UM and MSU, its counterparts in the University Research Corridor.  With medical, law and other graduate schools, Wayne State gets penalized for having too many graduate degrees and too few bachelor's degrees awarded each year, Wilson said. "If we weren't a research institution, we'd be getting much more (state funding)," Wilson said in an interview. "That doesn't make much sense.

September 5, 2018

Big 3 university leaders call on state to be bigger partner

The presidents of the state's Big Three universities lamented a drop in financial support from the Michigan Legislature, but no one is talking about the issue in the gubernatorial race.

September 5, 2018

Dr. M. Roy Wilson’s excellent adventure

Wayne State University president — and AAMC board chair — cycles 515 miles and visits four Michigan cities to talk about the value of a higher education.

September 4, 2018

President Wilson discusses the new Mike Ilitch School of Business on Conversations with WSU

Mildred Gaddis sat down with Wayne State University President M. Roy Wilson, and Darrell Dawsey, director of community communications. Earlier this week, President Wilson joined with some of Detroit’s most important business leaders to announce the opening of the Mike Ilitch School of Business, which promises to be an incubator for some of Detroit’s sharpest minds and a boom for our local workforce. 

August 28, 2018

Mike Ilitch School of Business adds modernist splash to Woodward Avenue

Wayne State University cut the ribbon Tuesday on its new Mike Ilitch School of Business, the latest addition to downtown Detroit's growing list of attractions. The new school is many things at once: First, it delivers a shot of modernism to Woodward Avenue's mostly traditional architectural environment. Next, the school also fronts directly on Woodward Avenue, vying to become not an isolated ivy-covered building tucked away on a campus, but an open, welcoming addition to the streetscape. WSU President M. Roy Wilson said he and Christopher Ilitch spent a lot of time with architects at SmithGroup trying to design a school that was open and welcoming, with  the many formal and informal gathering places, including the Terrace and an outside lawn suitable for tented events, as a result.

August 21, 2018

Inside the new Mike Ilitch School of Business

"It's going to be a very welcoming place." WSU President M. Roy Wilson said. "I think proximity to the Ilitch organization allows us to focus on sports and entertainment management in a way that would be very difficult for other schools to emulate. There is going to be a great focus on innovation and entrepreneurship at this school, using the inspiration of Mr. Ilitch."

August 21, 2018

Wayne State Mike Ilitch School of Business opens its doors

An exciting new addition in downtown Detroit as the Mike Ilitch School of Business celebrated its formal opening Tuesday. The brand new building will serve most of the business school's 4,000 students. "I am sure Mr. I is looking down upon us and he would be very proud of this building and this school," said M. Roy Wilson, Wayne State president.

August 21, 2018

$59 million Wayne State business school opens with nod to Ilitch legacy

When Wayne State University students start classes next week at the new Mike Ilitch School of Business, they'll enjoy classrooms with views of downtown Detroit's skyline and state-of-the-art facilities in a sleek 125,000-square-foot building on Woodward Avenue. The Ilitch family starred in a ribbon-cutting ceremony Tuesday for its patriarch's namesake business school, 2 1/2 years after the largest donation in Wayne State University history jump-started its construction.

August 21, 2018

Officials cut ribbon for Mike Ilitch School of Business

When students arrive next week at the new Mike Ilitch School of Business at Wayne State University, they’ll sit in classrooms with breathtaking views of the city's downtown skyline down Woodward Avenue. Officials gathered for a ribbon cutting Tuesday for the 125,000-square-foot building at 2771 Woodward Ave.

August 21, 2018

New Mike Ilitch School of Business opens in downtown Detroit

The new Mike Ilitch School of Business has opened Tuesday in downtown Detroit. A new addition to Wayne State University's campus, the development was made possible thanks to $40 million donation from Mike and Marian Ilitch. "Mike and I were so proud to make the gift to build this school, it was one of the highlights of our careers," said Little Caesars co-founder Marian Ilitch. "We were so excited about the positive impact it will have on the students, the university, the city of Detroit and our broader community, for generations to come."

August 21, 2018

Wayne State Celebrates the Opening of $40M Ilitch School of Business

A gaggle of local officials were on hand Tuesday for a ribbon-cutting ceremony at Wayne State University’s Mike Ilitch School of Business building. The new facility was made possible by a $40 million donation in 2015 from Mike and Marian Ilitch, the co-founders of Little Caesars and Olympia Entertainment, and is the largest charitable gift in Wayne State’s history.

August 21, 2018

Photos: Inside the Mike Ilitch School of Business

The second major building in the District Detroit is opening, as Wayne State University and Olympia Development celebrate the completion of the Mike Ilitch School of Business. Faculty and staff started moving in earlier this summer, and classes begin Aug. 29 at the building that overlooks downtown Detroit.

August 21, 2018

Detroit woman builds village for neighborhood

"This is a part of Wayne State Medical School's social mission," said Dr. Jennifer Mendez, the medical school's director of co-curricular programs and assistant professor of internal medicine. "It is a way for our students to apply their classroom knowledge to real-life situations." The Wayne State students also formed an organization to support Auntie Na's this year after being inspired during volunteer efforts during the last school year. It includes about 20 members.

August 20, 2018

Tech Time: Smash STEM Academy

A learning opportunity for local high school students at Wayne State University -- Smash Academy is a five-week STEM camp that take students through biology, computer science and math courses. Forty ninth-graders, 20 male and 20 female, were selected last January from among a large group of applicants interested in participating in the five-week program.

August 12, 2018