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Education

Leadership program seeks applicants

MARQUETTE — Northern Michigan University is seeking student applications and community project proposals for the third cohort of its Rural Leadership Fellowship Program, which offers immersive project-based learning for students while also supporting Upper Peninsula economic and community ...

Bay College Water Program Honored

ESCANABA/IRON MOUNTAIN – Bay College, in partnership with Grand Rapids Community College (GRCC), and the City of Grand Rapids announced that its collaborative Water to Work Internship program has been selected as the recipient of the 2025 National Council for Workforce Education Exemplary ...

Building Blocks

HANCOCK — Building Blocks: Infant Feeding Fundamentals is back on Saturday, November 8, 2025 from 10 a.m. to noon at the Finnish American Heritage Center in Hancock. Copper Shores Community Health Foundation and UP Health System - Portage invite parents, grandparents, day care providers and ...

The waiting is the hardest part

HANCOCK – The Michigan legislature’s passage of the 2025-2026 state budget Friday included a $21.3 billion School Aid Budget, affecting the state’s 537 school districts, 285 public school academies, along with 56 intermediate school districts, including the Copper Country Intermediate ...

Michigan Education Savings Program Celebrates 25th Anniversary

LANSING — The Michigan Education Savings Program (MESP), the state’s tax-advantaged 529 college savings plan managed by TIAA, celebrated its 25th anniversary on Friday with a $25,529 donation to the Fostering Futures Scholarship Trust Fund in Detroit. The donation, which matched ...

The next phase

MARQUETTE — The Northern Michigan University Presidential Search Advisory Committee (PSAC) has announced four candidates will visit campus between Sept. 29 and Oct. 10. Each candidate will engage with a wide variety of stakeholder groups during their two-day campus visit. Names and resumes of ...