John Mathias Engler is an American businessman and politician who served as the 46th Governor of Michigan from 1991 to 2003. A member of the Republican Party,he later worked for Business Roundtable,where The Hill called him one of the country's top lobbyists.
Benton Harbor is a city in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is 46 miles southwest of Kalamazoo and 71 miles southwest of Grand Rapids. According to the 2020 census,its population was 9,103. It is the smaller,by population,of the two principal cities in the Niles–Benton Harbor Metropolitan Statistical Area,an area with 156,813 people. Benton Harbor and the city of St. Joseph are separated by the St. Joseph River and are known locally as the "Twin Cities". Fairplain and Benton Heights are unincorporated areas adjacent to Benton Harbor.
Michigan State University is a public land-grant research university in East Lansing,Michigan,founded in 1855 as the Agricultural College of the State of Michigan,the first of its kind in the United States,predating the Agricultural College of Pennsylvania. After the introduction of the Morrill Act in 1862,the state designated the college a land-grant institution in 1863,making it the first of the land-grant colleges in the United States. The college became coeducational in 1870. In 1955,the state officially made the college a university,and the current name,Michigan State University,was adopted in 1964. Today,Michigan State is one of the largest universities in the United States and has approximately 634,300 living alumni worldwide. It affiliated with Oakland University,in Rochester Hills,until the university gained institutional independence in 1970.
The State News is the student newspaper of Michigan State University in East Lansing,Michigan. It is supported by a combination of advertising revenue and a $7.50 refundable tax that students pay at each semester's matriculation. Though The State News is supported by a student tax,the faculty and administration do not interfere in the paper's content. The State News is governed by a Board of Directors,which comprises journalism professionals,faculty and students. In 2010,the Princeton Review ranked The State News as the #8 best college newspaper in the country. And in 2015,the Society of Professional Journalists named TSN as the nation's best daily college newspaper for 2014.
The Capital News Service (CNS) is a wire service based at Michigan State University in East Lansing,Michigan. CNS covers news at the state capital in Lansing and across Michigan for member papers from September to early May. The circulation of the combined member papers is one of the largest in the state—larger than the Detroit Free Press. The service is headed by Eric Freedman,a Pulitzer-winning reporter formerly of The Detroit News. Correspondents are selected from undergraduate and master's students within the School of Journalism and College of Communication Arts and Sciences by an application process. During each semester,correspondents report on state government,politics and public policy for daily and weekly newspapers and online news outlets across Michigan.
Michigan State University (MSU) offers over 200 academic programs at its East Lansing,Michigan campus. MSU is well known for its academic programs in education and agriculture,and the university pioneered the studies of packaging,horticulture and music therapy. MSU has one of the premier hospitality schools in the United States,and the study abroad program is one of the largest of any university in the nation,offering more than 300 programs in more than 60 countries on all continents,including Antarctica. MSU's Office of the University Ombudsperson is the oldest continually operating ombudsman office at a college or university in the country.
The city of Benton Harbor,Michigan,USA has had two major riots.
Herbert William "Buck" Read was an American basketball coach. He was the head coach for the Western Michigan Broncos men's basketball team from 1922 through 1949. He was also president of the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) from 1948 to 1949 and the chairman of its rules committee in 1937,1938,and 1944.
The Herald-Palladium is a newspaper distributed in the Southwest Michigan region serving all or part of Berrien,Cass,Van Buren,and Allegan Counties.
Cass District Library is the library system which services Calvin,Howard,Jefferson,LaGrange,Mason,Milton,Newberg,Ontwa,Penn,Pokagon,Porter and Volinia Townships in Cass County,Michigan,United States.
Benton Harbor Area Schools is a school district in Benton Harbor,Michigan,United States. The public school district serves the city of Benton Harbor and surrounding areas. The school district has one high school,two elementary schools,and one middle school.
Richard Thomas Cole was full professor and past chairperson of the Department of Advertising and Public Relations at Michigan State University. He serves on the advisory board for Huntington National Bank Inc. in Southeast Michigan and the steering committee of the Center for Michigan,Ann Arbor.
Quentin Brian "Quent" Sickels was a former American football player. He played college football for the University of Michigan in 1944 and from 1946 to 1948. He played on Michigan's undefeated 1947 and 1948 national championship teams. His college football career was interrupted by service in the United States Coast Guard during the 1945 football season.
William Bliss "Buck" Giles was an American baseball player and attorney. He played second base for the Michigan Wolverines baseball team in 1924 and 1925. In 1925,he became the first Michigan baseball player to win the Big Ten Conference Medal of Honor. He was inducted into the University of Michigan Athletic Hall of Honor in 1980.
Wilbur Morrill Cunningham was an American football player and coach,attorney,historian and author.
Events from the year 1895 in Michigan.
Waunetta McClellan Dominic was an Odawa rights activist who spent her career advocating for the United States government to adhere to its treaty obligations to Native Americans. She was one of the founders of the Northern Michigan Ottawa Association and her influence was widely recognized,especially after winning a 1971 claim against the government for compensation under 19th-century treaties. She was also a proponent of Native American fishing rights being protected. In 1979,she was named by The Detroit News as "Michiganian of the Year" and in 1996,she was posthumously inducted into the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame.
The history of the University of Texas at Arlington began with the foundation of Arlington College in 1895,which was the first of a series of private schools to exist on the site of the present university. Created largely due to the underfunded and generally inadequate public schools in the city,it closed in July 1902 after Arlington voters passed a proposition to create an independent school district. Carlisle Military Academy was established on the same site by Colonel James M. Carlisle in 1902. It was molded by Carlisle's educational philosophy,which balanced intellectualism with military training. Carlisle's financial problems resulted in the school entering receivership in 1911,and in 1913 the school closed. In September 1913,Arlington Training School was founded by H. K. Taylor. The school was beset by financial troubles and lawsuits,ultimately closing after the 1915–16 academic year. In 1916,Arlington Military Academy was founded by John B. Dodson,and it lasted for only one academic year.
Nathan Clark Jr. was an American football halfback who played college football at Hillsdale College from 1953 to 1956. He led Hillsdale to consecutive undefeated seasons in 1955 and 1956 and was selected as a first-team back on the Little All-America teams in both years. He also led the country in scoring with 144 points scored in 1955.
