The program is the only of its kind in the state of Michigan. In 2013, EMU announced the opening of a Physician Assistant (PA) program, set to start its first class in May 2014. "Eastern Michigan University is now poised to provide this vital training and education through a new academic program -- a Master of Science in Physician Assistant Studies. The two-year professional program, which emphasizes basic medicine and clinical methods, will prepare graduates for certification and licensure to practice as extenders to practicing physicians. 'Eastern's PA program is the only one of its kind in the Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti area-and one of few in the state,' says Jay Peterson, PA program director." The PA Program is a twenty-four month, full-time, year-round graduate professional program with students starting as a cohort annually in May 2014. The ARC-PA has granted Accreditation-Provisional status to the EMU Physician Assistant Program. Applicants must complete 500 hours of clinical experience, and take the GRE before applying. Eastern Michigan University College of Health and Human Services' programs are accredited by the following professional organizations:     Tales from the Crypt (book)  Tales from the Crypt is a mass-market paperback collection of eight horror comic stories gathered from the pages of the EC Comics comic books of the 1950s. It is one of five such collections published by Ballantine Books between 1964 and 1966 (the others are "The Vault of Horror", "Tales of the Incredible", "The Autumn People" and "Tomorrow Midnight"). The presentation of the material is problematic at best, since the color comic book pages are represented in black and white and broken into horizontal strips to fit the mass-market paperback format. Still, the collections are historically important. They were the first attempt to resurrect the EC comics, only a decade after public outcry had driven them off the racks. They were the first introduction of those comics to a generation of readers too young to remember them in their first run. The stories are drawn from the comic books "Tales from the Crypt", "The Vault of Horror" and "The Haunt of Fear". The writer was not credited in the original publications but was probably Al Feldstein, the editor of the books. The artists were such EC stalwarts as Johnny Craig, Reed Crandall, Jack Davis, George Evans, Feldstein and Graham Ingels. The cover painting by Frank Frazetta, depicting the Crypt-Keeper reading in a moonlit cemetery, is original to this collection.