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Welcome to the Western Michigan University American Humanics Student Association. We are strengthening the capacity of leaders to carry out the missions of the organizations they serve.
AHSA Wins Program Excellence Award!
Western Michigan University is the winner of the 2008-09 American Humanics Program Excellence award. WMU initially competed against 67 other colleges and universities for the award, was declared a finalist along with the University of Central Florida. WMU students were then asked to create a video and prepare a presentation before the panel of judges.
Jennifer Wheeler, the chair of volunteerism for WMU’s chapter of American Humanics Student Association, took the lead in creating the video and Candice Kinsey, Jennifer Wheeler, Aaron Booth, Elizabeth Tompkins, and Kerstan Ryan represented AHSA before the judges. AHSA President Candice Kinsey, stated “when he announced that Western Michigan University won the American Humanics Program Excellence Award our students were ecstatic!”
About AHSA at WMU
Over the past seven years the WMU Nonprofit Leadership Program, a part of the School of Public Affairs and Administration, has graduated and certified 86 nonprofit leaders, given $33,000 to local nonprofits, served 22,500 hours as interns in local and regional nonprofits, done 9,600 hours of service learning associated with classes, and educated 16 local nonprofit professionals.
