Michigan Non-trad help pages

Non-Traditional Student websites and Groups
February, 2008 – MICHIGAN

I am putting some student groups and help pages from colleges and universities on this blog in order to put more of them on the Nontraditional Student website. These will be listed on the Michigan Page on the Non-Traditional website.

You can also add your group or make changes to your listing on the Nontraditional Student website anytime, too. Just fill out a form that sends it to me, and I’ll make changes or additions for you.
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The Michigan Tech Nontraditional Student pages were made by an intern. They give the definition of a non-traditional student as:

"Nontraditional students meet one or more of the following criteria:

• 25 years old or older
• married and/or divorced
• has children
• a veteran
• returning back to school after a year or more"

Here is the welcome page, that links to others:
http://www.edopp.mtu.edu/nontraditional/index.htm

The welcome page features a message board that requires a password. It’s a great idea for people at the school. Another page shows non-traditional sites around the country, and they also have links to child care in the area. They post a survey on the site showing interesting facts about non-traditional students at Michigan State.

Michigan Technological University is located in Houghton, Michigan.
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Northern Michigan University has a web page for Non-traditional students and commuter students. They are working on updating all their pages, so they may have more information later this year. Here is their link:
http://dso.nmu.edu/students.html. This page also links to childcare links of interest.
They also have a pdf tips page here for download:
http://dso.nmu.edu/links_interest.html.
They are located in Marquette, Michigan.
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Michigan State University in Lansing, Michigan has a web page just for non-traditional students too. Tops at this University is a Child Care Center for young children, the Spartan Child Development Center at http://www.scdc.msu.edu/aboutlinks.html. Students may apply for a Child Care scholarship. The center is close to campus, but has a waiting list. I didn’t find a non-traditional student group here, but there may be – because there are over 500 different student groups here. I was impressed with that!
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Please send me your Michigan non-traditional student news, groups, and websites - so I can put groups and more Non-traditional student pages here. Thanks!

Here are some more Non-trad groups

Here are some more non-traditional student groups.

I like looking at them because they pages show me, in their pictures and postings, just how great a non-trad group can be.

Plus, looking at these groups and putting them in a file on my desktop is one step closer to putting them on the Non-traditional student site, which I hope to do this Fall.

This group at McLennan Community College in Waco, Texas might have the type going into itself on its site page, but what’s more important is how active this group is. They have lots of interesting activities listed - - including financial aid seminars - - and even a scholarship for their group.

See this page at:
http://www.mclennan.edu/students/stuact/page9.htm

The University of Wisconsin – Sheboygan has a Non-Traditional Student group page here:
http://www.sheboygan.uwc.edu/studentlife/studentlifeNontraditionalStudents.htm
I especially like the fact that the University offers “monetary help for child care” and has a group called “Zoomers” for their adult students. They answer many questions on their friendly web pages.

I also like this site at CWU (Central Washington University)
http://www.cwu.edu/~nontrads/index.html

Their non-traditional student organization is called “PROWL.” The page features a photo gallery, community information, an events calendar, links, and more. The website feels very friendly, warm, and welcoming. I really like the photos, too.

The only problem is, I wonder if this group is still active. The date on the page for the “next meeting” is from 2005. Maybe they just haven’t updated the page for awhile.

Michigan State University has a group called O.W.L.S.
http://www.law.msu.edu/students/student_orgs.php

“# O.W.L.S. (Older and/or Wiser Law Students)
We are here to support and serve students who consider themselves “non-traditional”-students older than 24, married students, part-time students, etc.”

Missouri Western has a Non-Traditional Student Association page here:
http://www.missouriwestern.edu/Orgs/NonTrad/