The Michigan Gateway Community Foundation has donated $10,000 to Southwestern Michigan College to help pay for their Charles O. Zollar athletic building project that was completed back in July.

Amid a sharp increase in opioid deaths in Michigan, Michigan State University has received a more than $1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to create a program to train healthcare workers on substance abuse and mental health disorders.

Grand Rapids Community College’s Lakeshore Campus has been given a nearly $50,000 grant to buy equipment for its manufacturing programs. The money comes from Lakeshore Advantage and the Michigan Economic Development Corporation through the Michigan Workforce TCE Grant Program.

Bay Mills Community College, Saginaw Chippewa Tribal, and Keweenaw Bay Ojibwa Community College, all tribal schools, have joined the Michigan Community College Association. The schools hope the partnership will increase enrollment and graduation rates among their communities.

For the seventh year in a row, Midway University sees increased growth and record enrollment numbers among undergraduate and graduate students. Nearly 2,000 students are currently enrolled compared to only just over 1,000 students in fall 2015.

Western Kentucky University’s Kentucky Museum has received a $48,384 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to upgrade the climate control systems in the building.

West Kentucky Community and Technical College has been awarded a $210k grant from the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education Healthcare Workforce Collaborative Program. The money will be used to create a program for working Licensed Practical Nurses to become Registered Nurses.

Lincoln County native and F.A. Davis Award winner Dr. Ron Meade has been made Dean of Somerset Community College’s Health Sciences department.

Mahr Park and Madisonville Community College are teaming up to give agriculture students across several majors hands-on access to working with plants. This comes as a looming shortage of agriculture workers is on the horizon.

Fernando Figueroa, president of Gateway Community and Technical College, will speak at the Covington Business Council’s monthly luncheon on the topic of the current state and the road ahead for the school.