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Information for Future Students at EMU:

Eastern Michigan University is a comprehensive, co-educational public university located in Ypsilanti, Michigan. The university is governed by an eight-member Board of Regents, who are appointed by the Governor of Michigan for eight-year terms. The school belongs to the Mid-American Conference and was re-accredited by the North Central Association in 2001. Currently, EMU comprises five colleges: Arts & Sciences, Business, Education, Health & Human Services, Technology and a Graduate School. Its mascot, since 1991, has been the Eastern Eagle, after the traditional name "Hurons" was deemed unsuitable. EMU has consistently been one of the largest producers of professional educators in the country.

History:

University Park on campus, in the background is the Rec/IM center. On the far right (not in view) is the Student Center.Founded in 1849 as Michigan State Normal School, the first normal school created outside the original 13 colonies, it became the Michigan State Normal College in 1899, then Eastern Michigan College in 1956, and finally Eastern Michigan University in 1959. Education, Arts and Sciences and the Graduate School were the first three colleges in the newly created university. Several major expansions followed shortly afterward, including the addition of the College of Business in 1964, the College of Health and Human Services in 1975 and the College of Technology in 1980. More recently, extended programs were added such as Continuing Education, the Centers for Corporate Training, the World College and numerous community-focused institutes.

Physically, the campus has grown with the construction of the Terrestrial and Aquatic Research Facility (1998), the Convocation Center (1998), the Bruce T. Halle Library (1998), the John W. Porter College of Education Building (1999), the Everett L. Marshall College of Health and Human Services Building (2000), the Village residence hall (2001) and University House (2003). A new Student Center opened in 2006.

Total student population averages about 23,000, of whom roughly 5,000 are graduate students. Most programs are undergraduate or master's level, although the university has doctoral programs in Educational Leadership, Technology, and Psychology. John Fallon III, Ph.D., EMU's twenty-first President, began his tenure on July 15, 2005. Fallon was fired on July 15 following a unanimous vote by the board of regents in the wake of the Laura Dickinson murder scandal.

Campus

The Towers, on-campus residence halls.EMU is located in Ypsilanti, a city thirty-five miles west of Detroit and eight miles east of Ann Arbor. Detroit Metro Airport is a fifteen minute drive from campus. The school is a culturally diverse learning and teaching community set in a small city environment, amidst a major metropolitan area, which attracts students from Metro Detroit, across the state, nationally and internationally. The university's site is composed of an academic and athletic campus spread across 800-plus acres, with 122 buildings.

Like all colleges and universities in the United States, under the Crime Awareness and Campus Security Act (1990), EMU reports its on-campus crime statistics to the Michigan State Police and publishes the numbers on the Campus Safety website. Ypsilanti crime rates can be compared to other cities using Detroit Michigan Crime Statistics and Data Resources website.

The EMU campus includes several buildings with sculpture by Corrado Parducci.

Academic profile
Enrollment, 2005

Undergraduate: 19,000
Graduate: 4,862
Total university: 23,862
Ethnicity (non-foreign nationals)

African-American: 16%
Asian American: 3%
Latino-American / Hispanic: 2%
Native American: 1%
White American: 70%
Undeclared: 8%
Gender

Female undergraduate: 60%
Male undergraduate: 40%
Female graduate: 65%
Male graduate: 35%
Geographic distribution

Michigan resident: 85%
Number of states represented: 50
Number of countries represented: 80
Participation

Fraternities or sororities: 4%
A club or organization: 75%
Sports (including intramural): 50%
Academic profile (freshmen class of 2005)

Average GPA: 3.2
Average ACT Score: 21
Average SAT Score: 1014
College jobs

Part-time employment (on or off campus): 70%

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