The Esports and Gaming Content Creation concentration through the College of Media and Entertainment and the Esports Coaching concentration offered through Leisure and Sports Management will utilize the university’s newly opened Level Up Arena and the Gaming Lab.

The grant comes via the federal government and will help fund the university’s SSS program for five years.

Ariana Dampier has been named as Southwestern Michigan College’s new women’s basketball team head coach.

The new Skyhawks Achieving In Life (SAIL) program is being funded through a grant the university received in April from the Tennessee Department of Disability and Aging.

The grant will support the university’s new Behavioral Healthcare through InterProfessional Training initiative.

The grant comes via the Reaching a New Energy Workforce (RENEW) initiative of the DOE and will support radiochemistry students as they work on a research project.

The Marilyn P. Ledbetter Scholarship Endowment will support upper-division nursing students.

The training program will prepare adults to work in STEM careers. The paid program will provide participants with $20 an hour who will be able to sit for the Biotechnology Aptitude and Competency Exam.

The MOU will allow the university to offer Certified Academic Language Practitioner (CALP) certification for bachelor of arts in education graduates, making it the first undergraduate school in the country to do so.

The Foundation’s support will establish the new Joanne and William Conway Nursing Scholarship program and the Joanne Barkett Conway Dean's Emergency Fund which will provide scholarships and emergency funding to students in the Gordon E. Inman College of Nursing.