Ethos luncheon
Josh Linkner, CEO and managing partner of Detroit Venture Partners, will be speaking at the seventh annual Ethos Luncheon at Eastern Michigan University on April 12.
According to a release, Linkner focuses on providing insight for people to obtain inspiration to help formulate their organizations.
Linkner is a regular contributor to Forbes and Inc. magazines and his work has been featured in the The Wall Street Journal, USA Today and The New York Times. The Detroit Free Press also recently began running a regular column by Linkner.
The event, sponsored by EMU’s College of Business, will be held from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the McKenny Hall Ballroom at EMU.
EMU Explore Eastern Open House
Eastern Michigan University is offering an event on March 23 that seeks to provide transfer and high school students an opportunity to browse the campus and ask questions.
The event is called Explore Eastern and will run from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., with tours starting at the Student Center at 9 a.m., 11:25 a.m. and 12:55 p.m.
For more details, call 800-GO-TO-EMU.
Clinical psychology program
Graduates from Eastern Michigan University’s doctoral program in clinical psychology scored a 100 percent pass rate on the national licensing exam over the last five years.
A press release on the EMU website said that it is the only clinical Ph.D. psychology program in the state to achieve a perfect pass rate.
“These are outstanding results,” EMU associate professor Ellen Koch, director of clinical training, said in the release. “The scores of our graduates indicate the rigor and depth of EMU’s doctoral program in clinical psychology. Our students are going on to great careers in the field, in research and in helping clients. We are very proud of our graduates.”
The examination covers eight content areas: biological bases of behavior; cognitive-affective bases of behavior; social and cultural bases of behavior; growth and lifespan development; assessment and diagnosis; treatment, intervention, prevention and supervision; research methods and statistics; and ethical, legal and professional issues.
Other Michigan universities whose clinical psychology doctoral graduates took the exam are Central Michigan University, Michigan State University, University of Michigan, University of Detroit Mercy, Wayne State University and Western Michigan University.
Libraries
Beginning April 11, the libraries of EMU and Ypsilanti District will obtain the Muslim Journeys Bookshelf from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Library Association.
The books and films provided will share Muslim culture with the public.
Community education forum on private prisons
Panelists will discuss facts, insights, the pros and cons of HB 5174 and the effect these private prisons corporations will have on our government and its citizens during “Slavery in the Disguise of Justice” 1-3 p.m. Saturday at the Ann Arbor Community Center, located at 625 N. Main St.
A public Q-and-A session will follow after all the panelists have spoken.
Panelists:
EMU professor and renowned author Paul Leighton (“The Rich get Richer and the Poor get Prison”)
Washtenaw Community College professor Thornton Perkins, African-American history
EMU Ronald Woods, African American history
Former state Rep. and Senator Alma Wheeler Smith
State Rep. Jeff Irwin
Melanie Harner, co-founder of Washtenaw Interfaith Coalition for Immigrant Rights
EMU student Layla Garcia-Brown
Lefiest Galimore, president of Village Initiative and community activist
The discussion will be moderated by Mike Henry, the chair of the Ann Arbor Democratic Party. The master of ceremonies will be Roderick Casey, vice chair of the Washtenaw County Democratic Party Black Caucus.
