The college is one of nine to join the 2025 cohort. Achieving the Dream aims to help community colleges become accessible hubs of education and economic mobility.

The partnership between the school district and the college is a collaborative effort for adult education programs.

The partnership provides scholarships to Steelcase employees and their families.

The Michigan Board of Nursing has approved the college’s Licensed Practical Nursing certificate program, which was last offered by the college in 1999.

The college’s paramedic and EMT training programs will be available at two additional locations for the Fall 2025 semester, including the Bay College campus in Iron Mountain and in Luce County.

The summer program for high school seniors will be hosted on campus in 2026, 2027, and 2028. The university first hosted the program in the 1980s.

The university received a $30,000 match grant from the Joseph W. Craft III Foundation to support its work through the Network for Vocation in Undergraduate Education (NetVUE) Vocation Across the Academy Grant.

The institutions are partnering to provide students with a pathway toward a bachelor of science in nursing degree right on Jefferson Community and Technical College’s campus.

The grant comes from the Program for Leadership and Character at Wake Forest University. Bellarmine University is one of 33 institutions to be selected for the grant from an application pool of 170.

Climavision, a climate tech firm based in Louisville, will provide archived weather and climate data for students to study.