The college’s Fast Track healthcare programs are designed to get individuals into healthcare positions amid the region’s critical shortages. Thanks to donor support, the college is offering more than $60,000 in scholarships for students to participate in Fast Track healthcare programs.

The Career Pathways program is an initiative of the Grand Rapids Promise Zone Authority and Grand Rapids Chamber and will provide engagement opportunities for students and give them opportunities to interact and experience in-demand careers.

The scholarship will support students pursuing education and is funded by an initially anonymous $1 million gift from the Simpsons, whose identities were revealed posthumously.

The gift comes from the Bowen family and will rename the Polytechnic Institute’s School of Construction Management Technology to the Bowen School of Construction.

The endowed scholarship will support undergraduate students studying in the university’s College of Education and Health Sciences.

The partnership will strengthen career and education pathways for nursing students through a new Practical Nursing program.

The new student support fund will help students who are experiencing unexpected setbacks that may interrupt their education plans.

The gift to establish the endowment comes from alumna Ginny Gray Davis, Virginia Davis’ daughter, and her husband Craig.

The grant comes from the Tennessee Higher Education Commission and will fund the college’s “Rural RNs Rise (R3): Growing Caregivers” project.

The new partnership involves collaborative efforts to prepare individuals for the rapidly growing nuclear workforce in Tennessee through education, training, and two new programs for nuclear technology training.