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“You can go any direction you want to with your business. There are opportunities for new ideas, new products, new services—and new ways of delivering those products or services to the market. Those who are most creative and innovative will be those who are most successful in today’s business environment.”


— Dr. Michael Tidwell, dean of the EMU College of Business, discussing entrepreneurship and creative thinking; Michigan’s Big Show radio show


“Whenever student


groups go to the Kennedy Institute and participate in a simulation, the fi rst thing they do is they all


rise and take the oath of offi ce as a senator”


— Dr. Jeff rey Bernstein, EMU professor of political science,


discussing the role EMU students played in developing a simulation module on immigration for the Kennedy Institute, Boston; WWJ-AM, Detroit


“Justice does discriminate. In addition to race and class, other factors make adolescents more vulnerable to entering the justice system. Youth with behavioral and mental health disorders are also disproportionately over-represented among juvenile off enders.”


— Dr. Jennifer Bellman Fritz, EMU social work professor, talking about


diverting young off enders f om prison; Bridge Magazine


“Teachers are the purveyors of hope and possibility. Every kid has dreams. They may not look like ours. They may be simple, but they are dreams.”


— Dr. Patricia Williams-Boyd, EMU


education professor, on how local school districts can address poverty; T e Ann Arbor News


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