Michigan School of Kinesiology is getting a new building
I know that there are a bunch of School of Kinesiology grads and students on the board so I wanted to post this for my fellow alums. The Board of Regents is voting on Thursday to renovate the Kraus Building for the School of Kinesiology after the Biology department leaves it for their new digs in 2018.
http://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2016/09/u-m_to_vote_on_12…
No more classrooms that smell like chlorine or hearing weights dropped on the ceiling for the classrooms under the CCRB weight room. Plus, the new building is right on the Diag. Badly badly needed upgrade and consolidation since classes for Kinesiology were spread all over campus and the student advising was moved to the corner of Sout Forest and South U.
September 13th, 2016 at 2:06 PM ^
"The Mark Bernstein School of Kinesiology" ?
September 13th, 2016 at 3:25 PM ^
"The Amadou Ba Center for Movement Science"?
September 13th, 2016 at 10:34 PM ^
Close but wrong guy. You will have to wait for the announcement though.
September 14th, 2016 at 10:28 AM ^
Until they name it, they make the patients hold up the sign.
September 14th, 2016 at 11:21 AM ^
September 13th, 2016 at 2:10 PM ^
Tear that bitch down! This opinion has nothing to do with the me having genetics in Kraus...
September 14th, 2016 at 1:10 AM ^
That is my only memory of that building... Genetics. Uggg, took it high school as "Microbiology, Embryology & Genetics" so thought we're going to be crossing pea pods and guinea pig colors. Good God no, tag team of some the pre-eminent scholars in their field. That's the class that made me think "There goes my hopes of medical school" when I got a C+.... ended up graduating with International Economics degree instead.
In hindsight, if I would have known what a challenging class that was I would likely have stuck it out.... still happy though.... did my grad work as a PA and in medicine after all.
September 13th, 2016 at 2:16 PM ^
September 13th, 2016 at 2:51 PM ^
Biology is getting a huge brand new building that they're halfway through constructing where ROTC used to be (on Washtenaw by the bridge to the Hill Dorms/CCRB). They demolished North Hall (the old ROTC Building) to make way for it. Sounds like this was a three-way trade. ROTC got demolished to make way for the new bio builiding, when the new Bio building is done, Kinesiology gets Bio's building. When Kinesiology moves into its new building, ROTC gets Kinesiology's building (between Mojo & Markley next to SPH). On top of all this movement, the CCRB will claim the space that Kinesiology uses for labs and classrooms so the students will get a bigger and better CCRB.
Win-Win-Win-Win (unless you consider the ROTC part of it a draw).
September 13th, 2016 at 3:12 PM ^
September 13th, 2016 at 4:48 PM ^
As a LONG time occupant of that building...good riddance. The Biology department needed a new building. The basic science in that building has been very successful, but you wouldn't know it relative to the other medical buildings on campus.
September 13th, 2016 at 2:43 PM ^
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September 13th, 2016 at 3:41 PM ^
We had a 5 credit Anatomy/Physiology class that was required to graduate from Kinesiology, even for us Sports Mgmt & Comm majors. Dr. Marvin Boluyt taught the class. I remember he mentioned that Med School kids had to take the class (this was 1999). I wish every person who thought Kines was a bunch of softball classes could take that one class.
September 13th, 2016 at 4:50 PM ^
So it's a bunch of softball classes + 1 rote memorization class?
You sound like a Ross student complaining about Accounting in a sea of fluff.
Regardless, I am happy that science students get to have some nice modern facilities after seeing Ross build spaceships for the business school kids.
September 13th, 2016 at 5:40 PM ^
I was just trying to drop some knowledge about Kines since it doesn't get a lot of pub compared to the other schools.
Instead of complaining about the class, I was excited to be taking a class with students from what I think is one of the finest medical schools in the world.
September 13th, 2016 at 7:19 PM ^
I love Dr. Boluyt. Guy teaches at WCC now.
September 14th, 2016 at 7:49 AM ^
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September 13th, 2016 at 3:59 PM ^
Ahhhh, pipetting and cell culture - two things I will happliy NEVER do again.
September 13th, 2016 at 3:43 PM ^
Wow, these kids will be so spoiled.
September 13th, 2016 at 3:53 PM ^
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September 13th, 2016 at 5:32 PM ^
Place is like an alien prison from Half-Life 2.
September 13th, 2016 at 6:47 PM ^
I have a lot of traumatizing memories of that place, but also many fond memories of Dave Winn being Dave Winn
September 13th, 2016 at 11:37 PM ^
I love the Half-Life 2 prison/Dennison comparison. It's perfect!
In fact, they are currently renovating Dennison hall and they've renamed the building to Weiser Hall. I'm betting that the building will still have tiny windows in 80% of the classrooms, but hey, they tried.
http://www.umaec.umich.edu/projects/major-projects/david-m-dennison-building-renovation/
September 13th, 2016 at 5:38 PM ^
What type of job do you get with a degree in kinesiology ? Can someone fill me in please ?
September 13th, 2016 at 5:45 PM ^
Traditionally: Kinesiology is the study of body movement. Traditionally, you have a lot of athletic trainers and other medical professionals with a background in Kines.
Non-Traditionally: For some reason, we scrapped the journalism program in the early, mid-90s and placed the applied communications classes in Kinesiology. So you could get a degree in Sports Management & Communications and wind up in print or broadcast journalism. I'm pretty sure this is the exception, not the norm.
September 13th, 2016 at 6:17 PM ^
Essentially anyone planning on a sports/athletic industry benefits from Kines esp if training or teaching fitness professionally. Having the degree allows upward mobility.
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September 13th, 2016 at 9:59 PM ^
Personal training is cool in your 20's when you are single. But it's crazy to think you can make a solid living as a personal trainer AND have a family life when you are over the age of 40.
September 14th, 2016 at 7:25 AM ^
Okay.
September 14th, 2016 at 3:06 PM ^
Personal trainers are basically shrinks and cheerleaders for old people, women, and homemakers. They aren't motivated to go to the gym but they'll go if they pay a trainer to tell them to do pushups and body weight exercises.
Anyone who is really serious and motivated about fitness can find endless information on the internet.
TL;DR: getting a degree from Michigan to do personal fitness is like lighting a candle with a flamethrower.
September 13th, 2016 at 10:33 PM ^
There are four majors in Kinesiology: movement science, athletic training, health and fitness, and sport management. The vast majority of movement science majors end up in professional school for physical therapy, occupational therapy, orthotics, prosthetics, medicine, or physician's assistant. Some also go on to graduate school in kinesiology and end up as professors or research scientists. Industry has been hiring a lot of kinesiology ph.d.'s lately. Think Fitbit, Nike, Addidas, and wearable sensor companies. Athletic training majors usually go on to high schools, colleges, or rehab clinics. Health and fitness majors usually end up as personal trainers, coaches, physical education teachers, or fitness staff members as clubs. Many sport management majors go on to get law degrees, MBAs, and Ph.D.s in sport management. It pays to have some sort of advanced degree in the field as there are many more people that want to work in the field than there are jobs. Many of the majors end up working for college athletic departments, minor league teams, big 4 major sports teams (NHL, NFL, MLB, and NBA) but more end up using their business knowledge in careers that are less focused on sports (university and foundation development, pharmaceuticals, hospitality industry, etc.).
September 14th, 2016 at 6:33 AM ^
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September 13th, 2016 at 8:18 PM ^
I was wondering when we were going to see some....movement....on this front...