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Student Life

Fast tracked grants to help RSOs

News, Student Life, University News December 8, 2020December 8, 2020 Rebecca Vanderkooi 0 Comments

The finance division is offering up to $2000 “fast-tracked” grants for Registered Student Organizations (RSO) this semester as well as next semester due to the COVID-19 pandemic.    This year […]

Popular on campus sub shop falls to pandemic

News, Student Life December 8, 2020December 8, 2020 Alyssa Hubbard 0 Comments

With Erbert & Gerbert’s decision to shut down after Thanksgiving break until fall 2021, 14 student employees need to find a new source of income. The Erbert & Gerbert’s sandwich shop […]

Ferris offering asymptomatic COVID-19 tests

News, Student Life, Top Stories, University News November 17, 2020November 17, 2020 Ry Rodriguez 0 Comments

Amidst spikes of COVID-19 within the state of Michigan, Dean of Student Life Joy Pulsifer has sent out an email for students to sign up for asymptomatic testing. With Thanksgiving […]

International students face uncertain future

News, Student Life November 16, 2020November 17, 2020 Alyssa Hubbard 0 Comments

Travel and immigration regulations set in place when COVID-19 began, leaving international students to fear are where and how they would continue their studies.  Assistant Director of the Office of International Education […]

First gen students overcome unique challenges

News, Student Life November 10, 2020November 10, 2020 Alyssa Myers 0 Comments

Like most universities, Ferris has a sizable number of first-generation students. These students are pioneers of their futures and as such, they have had to work through unique challenges.   The […]

Student diagnosed with cancer amid pandemic

News, Student Life November 10, 2020 Rebecca Vanderkooi 0 Comments

A cancer diagnosis and chemo treatments are hard. Working and simply living within a pandemic is hard. Combine those two things together and it seems very nearly impossible. Those were […]

Will they stay or will they go?

News, Student Life November 3, 2020 Rebecca Vanderkooi 0 Comments

After Thanksgiving, all classes at Ferris are transitioning to be fully online for the remainder of the semester in hopes of preventing the spread of COVID-19. The university has announced […]

Adding more entertainment to Big Rapids

News, Student Life November 3, 2020 Alyssa Hubbard 0 Comments

Marketing research students received the opportunity to create ideas for possible entertainment spaces to spice up Big Rapids that would lead Ferris students to explore more of the downtown.  On […]

More than they signed up for

News, Student Life, Top Stories November 3, 2020November 4, 2020 Alyssa Hubbard 0 Comments

Life as a Residential Advisor in the dormitories may seem exciting, but there are physical and mental consequences not apparent to many.  According to the Ferris Housing and Residence Life’s […]

Graduate programs reimagined online

News, Student Life, Top Stories October 27, 2020October 27, 2020 Alyssa Hubbard 0 Comments

Ferris’ nationally ranked College of Pharmacy has transitioned to mainly virtual delivery, and attending graduate school online has challenges of it own.  In the eight weeks this fall semester, both […]

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