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 […]
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International students face uncertain future
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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 […]
Meeting with the creators of the musical
On Monday, Oct. 19, the cast of the Ferris fall musical, The Theory of Relativity, met via zoom with the show’s creators. Neil Bartram and Brian Hill are the Drama […]
Fighting the dorm loneliness
Since move-in day in August, students and residential advisors in the dorm halls have been trying to find new ways to socialize. Many changes were made to the way students […]