Whether you’re seeking a quiet study space or a location for collaborative learning, there are plenty of common areas on campus to focus on your studies. Here are some suggested study locations, which can be found on the WSU campus map — and be sure to check with your professors and advisors about designated lounges and study spaces in many schools and colleges.

Wayne State University and nine other Michigan public universities announced a bold initiative to help students realize their full educational potential. Beginning this fall, participating universities in the Michigan Assured Admission Pact will admit Michigan high school graduates who have earned a cumulative high school GPA of 3.0 or higher (on a 4.0 scale). Wayne State will work with the other institutions to promote the initiative to high school students, parents, secondary school partners and college access organizations throughout the state.

When Kristen Dage was completing her application for the NASA Hubble Fellowship Program, she could have picked any school in the United States to attend. She chose Wayne State University after beating out hundreds of applicants for the NASA Hubble Fellowship. “It was easy for me to pick Wayne State for so many reasons,” Dage said. “Wayne State has an amazing astronomy department. They have amazing astronomers whose research is really aligned with what I do. I’ve known them for almost a decade at this point and always wanted to work with them. This was the perfect opportunity to do it. “We’re all super excited because usually when people get one of these, they generally go to the same 10 universities, like Harvard or Yale. I wanted to do something different.”

As an alumna and longtime employee, Ericka Matthews-Jackson, senior director of undergraduate admissions, has always had more than enough Warrior pride to share. This fall, however, she’s taken it to a new level: Her husband, Ike, and their three children — Darian, Isaac and Aubrey — will join her on campus as students. “I have always loved Wayne State – and it’s become even more special to me now,” she said. “There’s a whole new level of pride that comes from watching your family find opportunity and achieve their goals.” Despite playful speculation otherwise from her children, Ericka assures that it’s a coincidence that all of the Jacksons’ unique paths have converged on campus at the same time.

Sons named after their fathers has been commonplace for centuries. But daughters named after their mothers? Well, not so much. CBS News Detroit anchor and reporter Amyre Makupson, M.A. ’06, is well aware of the confusion her matrilineal name typically causes throughout Southeast Michigan. Her mother — also Amyre Makupson — is a revered television legend in metro Detroit, best known for anchoring WKBD-TV’s signature late local newscast from 1985 through its finale in 2002. Before then, she was a trailblazer, leading WGPR-TV62’s first news broadcast as a member of Detroit’s first all-women anchor team on the nation's first Black-owned station in 1975.

Wayne State’s Academic Success Center (ASC) works to help all students become self-determined learners with the skills they need to succeed in the classroom. Free remote and in-person services — including tutoring, supplemental instruction, study skills coaching, group workshops and academic persistence programming — are available to students seven days a week through a simplified streamlined structure.