The 1991 New Jersey Teacher of the Year is an alum. The state Student Teacher of the Year award has been won frequently by an EMU student. Several dozen alums have become National Board Certified teachers. We have been unable to identify any institution with as many or any more alums who have won the Milken Award. The Michigan Education Hall of Fame is populated with numerous EMU alums.
Alums hold or have held numerous prominent positions in educational work.
This has permitted the faculty to address a number of unmet needs in the community and with K-12 schools in ways never possible before, as well as to expand scholarly productivity. Development funds have increased dramatically in the past year. B. Recent years have seen continued budget increases and faculty hirings. Twenty persons have joined the tenure-track faculty in the past two years. Recognized in many ways for not only the size and diversity of its professional education programs, EMU is committed to continue the quality of its programming for educational personnel for which it has also been recognized extensively for almost 150 years.