Northwest Education Services Foundation, or North Ed, is a new nonprofit organization that helps students in Antrim, Benzie, Grand Traverse, Kalkaska, and Leelanau counties remove barriers to furthering their education.
The funding comes thanks to Pikeville Medical Center and the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education’s Healthcare Workforce Investment Fund.
Thanks to donations from three partner organizations being matched by the state of Kentucky’s new Healthcare Workforce Investment Fund, Northern Kentucky University now has more than $2 million to provide for student scholarships in programs like nursing, behavioral health services, and respiratory care.
The school received $500,000 from Anesthesia Services of Kentucky and that was matched with $500,000 from the new Healthcare Workforce Investment Fund, which is administered by the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education.
The new program awards a bachelor of science degree and requires 51 to 61 credits to graduate. Students will be able to complete the program in four years.
Six graduates from the Education Specialist (Ed.S) program wrote grants to support their classrooms throughout northeast Tennessee.
The Option 9 program will give adult students the ability to become a certified teacher in three years instead of four.
The partnership allows students who receive an associate degree in nursing from ECTC to move through a pathway to a bachelor of science in nursing degree from Kentucky State University.
The university will be joining seven others to work alongside the Kentucky Geological Survey on the Climate Resilience through Multidisciplinary Big Data Learning, Prediction and Building Response Systems (CLIMBS) initiative to examine the state’s vulnerability in the event of climate disasters.
The collaborative undergraduate satellite research program includes five other universities in Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio and aims to provide pathways for students to work with actual space missions.
