WMU launches Collegiate Pathways program

By Rachel Watson – April 7, 2017

Western Michigan University is tweaking the concept of dual enrollment through a new program called Collegiate Pathways.

The university announced last month that it has signed a partnership agreement with Forest Hills Public Schools to allow the district’s high school students to take WMU faculty-taught classes in Mandarin Chinese at Forest Hills Northern High School beginning this fall.

Students who complete four years in the program will earn a 23-credit Chinese language minor offered by WMU while still enrolled in high school.

Ed Martini, WMU’s associate dean of extended university programs, said the partnership with FHN will provide a test case for what he hopes will be a repeatable program in additional districts around the state for foreign language learning and other courses…