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Education

Cleaning up

ISHPEMING — In advance of this summer’s Barnes-Hecker cemetery tours, National Honor Society students from both Ishpeming High School and Westwood High School will participate in a community outreach effort to clean the miners’ headstones and commemorative stones at the Ishpeming ...

Bay president elected to national board

ESCANABA & IRON MOUNTAIN – Bay College President Nerita Hughes has been elected to serve as an Institutional Representative on the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) Board of Directors. Her term will begin on July 1. The AACC’s 32-member board represents community ...

They made it to Carnegie Hall

MARQUETTE — Northern Michigan University’s Director of Choral Activities, Erin Colwitz, was selected to serve as conductor in residence at New York City’s Carnegie Hall for an April 21 Masterwork Festival Chorus performance. She took full advantage of the opportunity to bring along her ...

Following Mississippi?

This story was originally published by Bridge Michigan, a nonprofit and nonpartisan news organization. Visit the newsroom online: bridgemi.com. LANSING — With Michigan ranking below most other states in fourth-grade literacy, some education advocates are calling on the state to bring back a ...

Hunger-Free Campus

LANSING – The Michigan Department of Lifelong Education, Advancement, and Potential (MiLEAP) today announced that eight Michigan colleges and universities have been awarded a combined $495,182.66 through the Hunger-Free Campus Activities Grants to strengthen campus-based supports and expand ...

District school boards have become political hotbeds

Election races for local school boards have become hotly contested in many states as they have become forums for debates over gender-identity discussions, immigrant students and even prayer at school events. Liberal candidates largely swept school board elections on April 7, 2026, in ...