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EMU: Making Its Move
Eastern Michigan U. is raising its profile
in the Jewish community and the region.
Don Cohen I Contributing Writer
A
t a time when Michigan is looking for its people
and institutions to step up, Eastern Michigan
University is on the move and coming our way.
"We've been sitting here in Ypsilanti for 161 years,
and we need to go a little bit east:' EMU President Susan
Martin said about efforts to connect — and reconnect —
with Southeastern Michigan and EMU alums.
Some steps in the direction of Metro Detroit's Jewish
community include increased support for Jewish campus-
wide programming, the appointment of a director of
Jewish studies last November, a Hillel integrated into the
campus community and academic departments, and
reaching out to EMU alums.
For example, Steven Tapper (EMU '76) of Tapper's
Diamonds & Fine Jewelry and a Jewish community leader
was asked to give the commencement address in April.
Martin, and others at EMU, credit Jewish Renaissance
Media President/Jewish News Publisher Arthur Horwitz
with working to connect EMU with the Metro Detroit
Jewish community. Horwitz and Martin developed a
friendship during her time (2006-8) as provost and
vice-chancellor of academic affairs at the University of
Michigan-Dearborn.
Discussions about the need for institutions and commu-
nities in the region to work together to retain and attract
an educated workforce continued after she became EMU's
president in 2008.
"One of our major challenges as a region, and for our
Jewish community, is having a dynamic place where our
children will want to stay and come back to:' Horwitz
said. "Eastern is a high-quality university that ought to be
attracting more of our students, but it's not as known or
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EMU commencement speaker Steven Tapper of West
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