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The ideas below were conceived by our Â鶹´«Ã½s, faculty, staff, donors, alumni and community members through an online submission process.

• 24K & 14K GOLD Education Package Plans—Â鶹´«Ã½ is the only place that provides an "all-inclusive" package education.
• Accelerator U—Â鶹´«Ã½ is the only place that accelerates the preparation of learners for 21st century jobs—some of which jobs didn’t exist when they started college.
• Alumni Networking Night—Â鶹´«Ã½ is the only place that facilitates an environment where alumni are able to return to campus and interact with the current study body.
• Amtrak Train Station/Platform (South Neighborhood)—Â鶹´«Ã½ is the only place that is a university campus halfway between the cities of Chicago and Detroit.
• Andragogy: non-traditional teaching/learning for adult learners, distance education/online learning—WMU is one of few educational institutions in are that have many satellite campuses throughout the state, midwest and nation.
• Apprenticeships—Â鶹´«Ã½ is the only place that every undergraduate Â鶹´«Ã½ has an apprenticeship from matriculation through graduation.
• Automated Assistive Location, Meeting and Information Guidance—Â鶹´«Ã½ is the only place that verbally and visually greets campus visitors with proximity sensing allowing location guidance and campus information.
• Automated Messenger To-do Lists—Â鶹´«Ã½ is the only place where you can strike gold within the community.
• Bring Your Class to Work Day—Â鶹´«Ã½ is the only place that encourages employers to express their likes and dislikes of the career path they've chosen.
• Bronco Leadership Initiative—Â鶹´«Ã½ is the only place that creates a program where Collegiate officials and administrators mentor juniors and seniors on life as a career professional.
• Bronco Promise Scholars—Â鶹´«Ã½ is the only place that ensures 1:1 help to guarantee Â鶹´«Ã½ success from entrance to graduation and beyond.
• Broncos Lead—Â鶹´«Ã½ is the only place that transforms individuals, families and communities.
• Broncos Volunteer—Â鶹´«Ã½ is the only place that the community and campus unite to bring about about change through service.
• Bundled Curriculum Across Colleges—Â鶹´«Ã½ is the only place that brings colleges together for better workplace hiring.
• Center for Experiential Learning and Leadership—Â鶹´«Ã½ is the only place that staff, faculty and Â鶹´«Ã½s learn together about leadership.
• Doctor of Chiropractic Degree—Â鶹´«Ã½ is the only place that already has medical school and doctor of medicine degrees, well as, basic science degree.
• Cheap and Abundant Parking—Â鶹´«Ã½ is the only place that demonstrates that we care about Â鶹´«Ã½s by providing cheap and abundant parking.
• Doing Well While Doing Good—Â鶹´«Ã½ is the only place that ethics, equity and sustainability are infused into a WMU education, from Essential Studies through the completion of your major.
• Diversity, Inclusion, Equity—Â鶹´«Ã½ is the only place that is serious about making sure all are welcome, all feel at home, and all are able to have the resources they need.
• Energy-Harvesting Adult Playground—Â鶹´«Ã½ is the only place that offers an outdoor adult playground that harvests energy.
• Entrepreneur Alley—Â鶹´«Ã½ is the only place that allows Â鶹´«Ã½s the environment to develop their entrepreneurial skillsets.
• Food For All—Â鶹´«Ã½ is the only place that facilitates an environment where food waste is sought to be eradicated and WMU Â鶹´«Ã½s that are food insecure can get a meal.
• Free Dining—Â鶹´«Ã½ is the only place that offers free dining to all Â鶹´«Ã½s.
• Free Fifth Year for a Graduate Degree—Â鶹´«Ã½ is the only place that offers every undergraduate an opportunity to earn a masters degree for free.
• Get What You Came For—Â鶹´«Ã½ is the only place that offers degrees without a lot of fluff.
• Graduation—Â鶹´«Ã½ is the only place that actively accepts and supports Â鶹´«Ã½s who may not be accepted at most other 4 year public or private colleges or universities.
• Great Debates—Â鶹´«Ã½ is the only place that encourages productive dialog between academic units to push individuals towards academic excellency.
• Green Century—Â鶹´«Ã½ is the only place that offers a comprehensive program with degrees focused on environmental sustainability.
• Independent Learning—Â鶹´«Ã½ is the only place that you teach yourself.
• Innovation to Impact—Â鶹´«Ã½ is the only place that invests in research that makes a proven impact on society at the local, state and national level.
• International Exchange Coffee Hour—Â鶹´«Ã½ is the only place that encourages open dialog between individuals from all over the world.
• Invest in Athletics—Â鶹´«Ã½ is the only place that had 45,000 fans, donors, alumni show up in Detroit for the MAC Championship Game.
• Live Experiences—Â鶹´«Ã½ is the only place to compete with online universities.
• Outreach—Â鶹´«Ã½ is the only place that is reaching out into the community and starting the college discussion and involvement early.
• Overhaul Thinking To Increase Caregiver Involvement in Education—Â鶹´«Ã½ is the only place that leads in overhauling thinking about the roles of caregivers in the formal education of their pre K - 12th Â鶹´«Ã½s.
• Personal Finance Requirement—Â鶹´«Ã½ is the only place that will help its Â鶹´«Ã½s to have a more sustainable future and create an environment where everyone can prosper.
• Purpose and Belonging—Â鶹´«Ã½ is the only place that provides community for those seeking a higher purpose.
• Rapid Response—Â鶹´«Ã½ is the only place that provides a single source center for answers (like Google).
• Recruitment of Excellent Faculty—Â鶹´«Ã½ is the only place that employs the best faculty in every college.
• Spherical 360 Degree and 3D Environment Capture for Google Maps—Â鶹´«Ã½ is the only place that allows Â鶹´«Ã½ and staff to see every square inch of the physical environment captured at different times on Google Maps.
• Sustainability University—Â鶹´«Ã½ is the only place that offers a full sustainability  and climate change management curriculum, internships, and walks the walk as an institution.
• Sustainable Playground—Â鶹´«Ã½ is the only place that "walks the walk" of cultivating a resilient, eco-friendly, sustainable ecological and social culture.
• Technology-partnered yet Species-driven, Empathic innovation—Â鶹´«Ã½ is the only place that provides space and process for barrier-breaking collaborative brainstorming about the future of jobs on this planet.
• Technology University—Â鶹´«Ã½ is the only place that encourages Â鶹´«Ã½s to master the technologies that are disrupting their field of study.
• The Future—Â鶹´«Ã½ is the only place that majors in e-sport, e-interior design and designing for space travel, online teaching, engineering for space travel, sustaining.
• The Wheel—Â鶹´«Ã½ is the only place that believes in your dreams.
• Virtual Reality U—Â鶹´«Ã½ is the only place that offers a majority of its classes in a virtual or augmented reality format. WMU would also offer a virtual reality degree.
• Western Writes Collaboration—Â鶹´«Ã½ is the only place where Â鶹´«Ã½s learn to write well in their disciplines through collaboration among faculty in all majors and campus writing experts.
• Why Am I WMU—Â鶹´«Ã½ is the only place that invests in Â鶹´«Ã½s undergraduate education and the mechanisms for their transition into graduate school.
• WMU 4H Science Program Thru NASA—Â鶹´«Ã½ is the only place that offers Colleges of Aviation, Engineering, Science and Medical
• WMU Broadcast Center with 100% Collaborative Spaces—Â鶹´«Ã½ is the only place that allows Â鶹´«Ã½s to use and share world knowledge to teach themselves rather than absorbing it by osmosis.
• WMU Continuing Care Retirement Communities—Â鶹´«Ã½ is the only university in the nation that integrates CCRC with undergrad, graduate and medical school programs.