The funding will provide technology to students in the university’s Wayfinder Program, a free college credit program for economically disadvantaged adults in the Grand Rapids, Michigan area.
North Central Michigan College has partnered with the Industrial Arts Institute (IAI) and with the Cheboygan-Otsego-Presque Isle Educational Service District (COPESD).
The program is a pathway designed for working adults who would like to become special education teachers.
A groundbreaking ceremony for the new facility, which will support programs in the fields of utilities, HVAC, energy efficiency, renewable energy, and Industry 4.0, will be held on Monday, February 17.
To better prepare Ferris State University students in a growing field, the university has partnered up with Gen Con to offer a Game Design Certificate at its summer convention.
For National Girls and Women in Sports Day, Lake Michigan College is celebrating 50 years of female athletics at the school. The college offers five sports teams for 70 female athletes.
The two gifts come from The Charles J. Strosacker Foundation and the Rollin M. Gerstacker Foundation. The funding will support Davenport University’s Health and Science Innovations for Workforce Preparedness initiative.
The grant will be used to introduce high school students to careers in nursing and social work via a weeklong summer program.
Nate Cheviron has been named the executive director of Junction 36, a technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship project through the Indiana Institute of Technology and funded by a grant from Lilly endowment Inc.
The grant is in the amount of $11.7 million from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of General Medical Sciences, which will be matched dollar-for-dollar by the university, for a total of $24 million.
