Washtenaw Community College

A representative will be on campus to provide information and answer questions for students interested in transferring to Lawrence Technological University.

• Contact John Rinke
• Lawrence Technological University

A representative will be on campus to provide information and answer questions for students interested in transferring to Eastern Michigan University.

• Contact John Rinke
• Eastern Michigan University

Join a discussion led by Dr. Regina Benjamin, Former Surgeon General on how to advance the health of our community through diversity and inclusion.

This event is sponsored by the WCC Diversity and Inclusion Task Force, the President's Office, and supported through the generosity of the University of Michigan's National Center for Institutional Diversity.

Regina M. Benjamin, M.D., M.B.A., was appointed by President Barack Obama as the 18th United States Surgeon General in July, 2009 and served a four-year term. Dr. Benjamin also oversaw the operational command of 6,700 uniformed public health officers who serve in locations around the world to promote, and protect the health of the American People. Dr. Benjamin served simultaneously as Surgeon General and as the first chair of the National Prevention, Health Promotion, and Public Health Council (National Prevention Council) ─ 17 cabinet-level Federal agencies that developed the road map for the Nation’s health – The National Prevention Strategy.  Before becoming “America’s Doctor,” she served her patients at the rural health clinic she founded in tiny, Bayou La Batre, Alabama, keeping the clinic in operation despite damage and destruction inflicted by Hurricanes Georges (1998) and Katrina (2005) and a devastating fire (2006).  She has a B.S. in chemistry from Xavier University of Louisiana, an M.D. degree from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and an M.B.A. from Tulane University. She attended Morehouse School of Medicine and completed her family medicine residency in Macon, Georgia.  Dr. Benjamin is the recipient of 22 honorary degrees. 

• Contact Julie Morrison
• Please RSVP no later than April 1st, 2014