Michigan State Normal School, known today as Eastern Michigan University, was officially dedicated on Oct. 5, 1852.

The school, the first of its kind west of the Allegheny Mountains, was designed to train teachers.

Hundreds of people attended, including members of the state and Detroit boards of education. A hymn composed for the occasions said, "Here have we built a holy shrine,/Where thy true worshippers may kneel,/And seek to know the art divine,/Of teaching what thy laws reveal;/Pour then thy flood of golden light,/And cheer the groping student's sight."

A normal school had been proposed in both houses of the state Legislature in 1848, but failed to gain traction. The following year, an act calling for "the instruction of persons both male and female in the art of teaching, and in all the various branches that pertain to a good common school education; also, to give instructions in the mechanic arts, and in the arts of husbandry and agricultural chemistry, in the fundamental laws of the United States" was passed.

Ypsilanti donated four acres and another four were purchased. Other locations considered were Niles, Gull Prairie near Kalamazoo, Jackson and Marshall.

Michigan State Normal School was renamed Michigan State Normal College in 1899, Eastern Michigan College in 1956 and Eastern Michigan University in 1959.

The first graduating class, 1854, consisted of three people and for the next decade, no graduating class had more than two dozen students. Today, EMU has more than 22,000 students.

Grey's Anatomy has seen the firing of various doctors, of which only a few have been given a second chance – and here's what happened to them.

Although the characters in Grey’s Anatomy are very professional and careful at the hospital, that hasn’t saved them from being suspended and even fired, but why did lead character Meredith Grey get fired? Meredith isn’t the only character who has been fired; there are others who have gone through the same, though all for different reasons. Created by Shonda Rhimes, Grey’s Anatomy premiered on ABC in 2005 and has been unstoppable ever since, becoming one of the most popular medical dramas in TV history. It continues to have a loyal fanbase that keeps following the lives of Meredith Grey and company.

Grey’s Anatomy follows the basic premise of medical dramas and focuses on the lives of surgical interns, residents, and attendings as they do their best to balance their personal and professional lives, which end up overlapping and making way for a lot of drama inside and outside the hospital. Meredith Grey has been the lead of Grey’s Anatomy since the first episode, so viewers have seen her go from an intern at Seattle Grace Hospital to head of general surgery at the same hospital, now named Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital, but the road to that hasn’t been easy. Meredith has either witnessed or been directly involved in a number of tragedies and tough situations at work, which have led her to be fired. In fact, there have been eight other characters who have also been fired just like Meredith.

Meredith Grey

Played by Ellen Pompeo

Meredith Grey has been fired twice on Grey's Anatomy. Both of the reasons for those firings, however, were very different.

First, Meredith was fired after tampering with Derek Shepherd’s (Patrick Dempsey) Alzheimer’s trial. While Derek worked on finding a cure for Alzheimer’s following the death of Meredith’s mother, Ellis Grey, Adele’s (Richard’s wife) condition began to worsen, and she was put on the trial. In order for her to get the active agent and not the placebo, Meredith switched the envelopes and tainted the trial in the process, which got her fired. In addition to that, this decision almost cost her and Derek the adoption of their daughter, Zola, but ultimately, they were able to adopt her, and she returned to the hospital.

Years later, Meredith was fired again due to insurance fraud. In order to help a patient suffering from lymphoma who needed surgery and years of treatment and follow-up, Meredith listed her as her own daughter so that the insurance would cover the surgery. This situation turned out to be a lot more complicated, and she was not only fired but she was also sent to jail for a while.

Alex Karev

Played by Justin Chambers

It was really nice to hear her appreciating the show. We are on a track we have been planning, and the idea of changing that track is not something we are interested in right now.

CBS has revealed their premiere dates and primetime schedule for winter 2024. And while the announcement was filled with big news, like the new Justin Hartley drama Tracker debuting in the coveted post-Super Bowl spot on Feb. 11, reality TV fans will be happy to see the continuation of some super-sizing on two of the network's long-running competition programs.

Survivor and The Amazing Race have been airing 90-minute episodes all fall as the network used the extended run-times to help compensate for a lack of scripted program during the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. With both strikes now settled, the question became: When would those comedies and dramas make it back on the schedule? And would Survivor and The Amazing Race continue to be supersized? We now have our answer.

Not only is Survivor not going back to an hour, but the first two episodes of next season will actually be two-hours long. Survivor 46 will start on Feb. 28 with a two-hour premiere. After a second two-hour show on March 6, Survivor will return to 90-minute episodes for the rest of the season on March 13, when it will once again be paired with 90-minute installments of The Amazing Race, which premieres that night.

While the current Survivor 45 was specifically filmed to air at a 90-minute length due to the possibility of strikes disrupting the fall broadcast schedule, Survivor 46 was shot without knowledge of how long the episodes would end up being. "I was optimistic that 45 would work and that maybe CBS would say, 'Okay, we like it. We wish we had shot 46 for 90 minutes," Probst told EW in September. "So all of the producers in every department knew to just be thinking of 90 minutes while we're out there, and if you see an opportunity for a deeper story or you have an idea that we could add into something that's already in our game design, let's talk about it, and if we can pull it off from a production standpoint, let's do it."

However, as Probst explained then, that also meant producers could not specifically add creative wrinkles to the show that they could not afford to lose in an edit should the episodes end up just being an hour: "The challenge became: We can't create things and put them in the show without the possibility that we can then cut them out of the show. So we have to reverse engineer in the other direction. What can we do if we don't have time to show it where we could lose it and it wouldn't impact the central dramatic question of who is going home. We had a lot of fun with that. So that's my way of saying if CBS comes and says, 'Okay, maybe we will keep it for 46,' we'd be ready to take that on."

The Amazing Race is in a similar boat. The currently airing season 35 of the show was actually the 36th season filmed. CBS kept the original season 35 in the vault specifically because it was not filmed with 90-minutes in mind, so they flip-flopped seasons 35 and 36. But now, starting on March 13, the original season 35 will air as season 36 as 90-minutes anyway.