I recently graduated from CMU, and loved my time here and would recommend the college heavily to anyone wondering whether they should come here. However, with enrollment at almost half of what it was in the peak period of mid-late 00s, I can't help but feel that I missed out on a greater period of Central's history. Seeing relics of the past, like that building on north campus that I'm pretty sure I heard used to be a 24/7 restaurant or something like that with one of those old school phone booths still visible until recently, made me even more curious about how the experience here used to be. What was the campus culture? How crazy were the parties here before that police crackdown a few years back? What defunct restaurants/activities/groups used to be around when campus was more alive? How did anyone find parking back then with such a large enrollment when parking is already such a hassle on campus today?
Anyone who went to CMU in the 2000s before enrollment started declining - what was it like?
CommunityNo, she was a professor of teacher ed whose specialty was teaching teachers how to teach reading. She worked with the ELA dept quite a bit when she was trying to get a reading minor onto the bulletin so that the education majors would be able to take classes that taught reading education more in-depth and more relevant to the grades they wanted to teach, with TEPD faculty instead of ELA faculty (idk if any of that made sense). Of course the ELA dept used their leverage to tank it, flushing literal years of work down the drain for my mom and her colleagues. However, you were pretty close to the mark for me: I was an IPR major, so I took a lot of classes from Comm, Journalism, BCA, and more from Moore. I loved most of the faculty in those depts. Jim Wojcik is an absolute legend. I saw the way the university treated him and Steve Coon, and it broke my heart because I respect those 2 men more than my own father, no joke š
Do you know Fanning, Bean, or especially McDermott? Those were my peeps.
Fanning and Bean still there! not sure about the other. i could talk someoneās ear off about both of them. they are amazing and saved my life tbh. college has been hell for me these last few years with covid and my own struggles with mental health, and if it wasnāt for Bean asking me to sign up for the creative writing certificate, i donāt think id be here tbh. both of them truly care for students.
They are special educators for sure.
Iām not even in any major that lines up with creative writing, but i can tell you that Bean has been way more supportive than any sociology prof ever. (besides maybe Amanda Garrison and David Kinney) but ugh, if i wasnāt so set on being a therapist i wouldāve gone into creative writing JUST because Bean had seen hope in me.
side note, i recognized your username but not from this reddit š iām from lansing so im on the lansing reddit as well and thatās where i recognized your name from loll š