Office of Multicultural Student Services
1010 Campus Drive,
FLITE Suite 159,
Big Rapids, MI 49307
(231) 591-2617
[email protected]
The Imagine More Student Life Bus Tour started in the Spring Semester of the 2006-2007 academic year at Ferris State University.
Dr. Daniel Burcham, Vice President of Student Affairs at Ferris State University and
Matthew C. Chaney, M.Ed., Interim Director the Office of Minority Student Affairs, discussed creating unique initiatives that would assist in creating
access and awareness to minority students about college and specifically Ferris State
University. From that meeting came the vision by Mr. Chaney to create an initiative
that was FSU student-based and FSU student-presented, hence the creation of the Imagine More Student Life Bus Tour.
The Imagine More Student Life Bus Tour grew to be an initiative undertaken by the Office of Minority Student Affairs (now Office of Multicultural Student Services). Mr. Chaney and the OMA staff arranged a plan to canvass Southeastern Michigan schools. OMA reached out to minority student organizations to participate in the initiative, and rehearsed with the organizations to create dynamic presentations aimed at highlighting Ferris State.