The Center for the Education of Women focuses on women’s educational, career and leadership development.  The Center is currently developing an ambitious new Leadership Initiative for Emerging Women Leaders.  CEW plans to pilot the initiative in Grand Rapids in Fall, 2010, by presenting a series of workshop sessions for area young professional groups. 

The Office of State Outreach within the Office of the Vice President for Government Relations provides a direct line of communication between the University of Michigan and Michigan communities. Its goal is to increase awareness of U-M resources for research and service of benefit to those communities. State Outreach staff members regularly travel to areas of the state, like Grand Rapids, to establish and maintain personal contact with community and local government leaders. State Outreach also assists in arranging community visits to campus.

The University of Michigan College of Pharmacy is reaching out to the Grand Rapids community to highlight the benefits of its programs, all of them intended to prepare students for rewarding careers as pharmacists and pharmaceutical scientists.  Key to the College’s mission is helping its graduates focus on improving the health and quality of life of the people of the State of Michigan, the nation, and the world.

The College of Engineering is committed to facilitating educational programs that ensure a vibrant and diverse engineering student body at the University of Michigan. Through inclusive partnerships with high schools around the state, including Grand Rapids, they motivate, educate and support outstanding, qualified students to enter the engineering field. The College’s goal is to interest students in engineering careers that make a difference in the technical, environmental, social and economic health of the state, nation and world.

The Center for Educational Outreach is a University of Michigan initiative that seeks to ensure academic excellence for all K-12 schoolchildren in the state of Michigan. The Center focuses on extending U-M’s commitment to educational outreach and to promoting collaboration between schools, organizations, and communities like Grand Rapids.

The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Transfer Student Initiative has the goal of transforming the University’s relationships with Grand Rapids Community College, Michigan’s 30 other area and state-wide community and tribal colleges, and their high-achieving students; to creating pro-active initiatives for prospective community college transfer students; and, for each year of the Initiative, to increasing the number of low- and moderate-income, high-achieving community college students who transfer to UM.

Undergraduate Admissions is engaged in outreach initiatives in Grand Rapids and throughout the state to strengthen relationships between area high schools and colleges, including the University of Michigan. Their programs promote college awareness, assist students with the application process and aid students with college enrollment choices.  Support from Grand Rapids community partners will positively impact the program’s success.