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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

MARQUETTE — The Northern Michigan University Center for Rural Health recently marked its five-year anniversary and also hosted its first U.P. Future Health Leaders summer camp for 36 students who are now freshmen or sophomores at high schools throughout the Upper Peninsula. The NMU Center ...

MARQUETTE — The search for Northern Michigan University's next president is “underway and on schedule,” with campus visits by finalists expected in late September and early October. Presidential Search Advisory Committee Chair Tami Seavoy presented a status report at today's ...

LANSING — September is National College Savings Month, and with Gov. Gretchen Whitmer proclaiming it Michigan College Savings Month, the Michigan Education Trust (MET) is once again encouraging families to take the next step toward securing their children’s educational future. This year ...