‘Be epic’: University of Michigan lecturer helps students with business start-up ideas
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Professor Eric Fretz poses outside his home in Ann Arbor on Thursday, April 29, 2021. Fretz’ entrepreneurial class has inspired students to start their own businesses. (Alie Skowronski/mlive.com) Alie Skowronski | The Ann Arbor News
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ANN ARBOR, MI – If someone would have told Eric Fretz that he would be back at the University of Michigan as a faculty member after graduating from UM in 1989, he would have told them they’re out of their mind.
Now, six college degrees later, Fretz teaches classes in UM’s psychology department, School of Education, College of Engineering and a core course for the entrepreneurship minor, where he asks his students to “do epic s ” in the form of business ideas, which have included flasks disguised as scrunchie hair ties, students driving to Ohio to get Waffle House for their peers and a toaster that prints picture
Philanthropist and entrepreneur Eli Broad, who contributed millions of dollars to Michigan State University, died Friday at age 87, representatives announced.
Since 1999, Broad, who founded two Fortune 500 companies in different industries, and his wife, Edythe, had committed more than $5 billion with their foundations to support K-12 public education, scientific and medical research, and the visual and performing arts.
In 2014, Broad and his wife gave MSU a $25 million challenge grant to broaden the scope of the Eli Broad College of Business.
The gift brought the Detroit Public Schools alumni s total giving to MSU to nearly $100 million. As a businessman Eli saw around corners, as a philanthropist he saw the problems in the world and tried to fix them, as a citizen he saw the possibility in our shared community, and as a husband, father and friend he saw the potential in each of us,” said Gerun Riley, president of The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation.
GROSSE POINTE CITY/WOODS As Grosse Pointe Public School System administrative staff members prepare to move to their new central offices this September, one local nonprofit organization is helping them with the process.
84% of Wayne, Macomb, and Oakland school staff are fully vaccinated
By Jack Nissen
EAST LANSING, Mich. - It appears Michigan s decision to prioritize its teachers in its race to vaccinate the state has paid off. A vast majority of school employees are fully vaccinated.
Michigan was among a handful of states that have prioritized their teachers as some of the first groups that should be eligible for the vaccine.
According to an online survey of teachers and school employees, almost 90% of people who responded reported being fully vaccinated or are scheduled to get vaccinated.
Of the approximately 22,000 that were surveyed, more than 6,546 were teachers from Macomb, Wayne, and Oakland County. So far, 84% of teachers from the tri-county region are fully vaccinated.