A flurry of news about vaccines and boosters adds to family to-do lists as schools prepare to reopen for a new year. Bridge turned to four medical experts to help parents (and college students) sort through it.
Michigan colleges and universities
Posted inGuest Commentary
Opinion | Michigan’s free college tuition isn’t serving all our residents
Only 33 of 83 counties are served by a community college. This makes it more difficult and expensive for students from generally poorer and more rural counties to take advantage of the Michigan Reconnect program.
Posted inGuest Commentary
Opinion | MSU is filling Michigan’s teaching, nursing, engineering ranks
Michigan State is addressing the state’s critical workforce needs by accelerating its teaching program, expanding nursing enrollment and serving as a pipeline for in-state engineering jobs, particularly in the auto industry.
Posted inMichigan Health Watch
Ingham County adds naloxone vending machine to combat opioid overdoses
Overdoses are down slightly statewide, but they remain a huge health concern. That’s prompted a push to make the overdose-reversing drug more available in public places.
Posted inMichigan Government
Whitmer’s population group eyes Michigan infrastructure, education, economy
A group tasked with tackling Michigan’s population crisis announced 64 workgroup members to make recommendations about longstanding problems.
Posted inMichigan Environment Watch
At long last, researchers discover diet of Michigan’s only venomous snake
It’s mice, shrews and voles for the eastern massasauga rattlesnake. But you’ll never guess how GVSU researchers learned it. Double spoiler: They looked at poop.
Posted inGuest Commentary
Opinion | Michigan community colleges better than portrayed, but need help
Our student success rate is now approaching 50 percent, but we recognize more is needed to ensure more students graduate or transfer to four-year schools. For that to happen, we need greater state investment in student support.
Posted inMichigan Government
University of Michigan campus gun ban upheld by Court of Appeals
Banning firearms on university property does not violate the Second Amendment, a panel of judges ruled on Friday. The Supreme Court could still weigh in.
Posted inTalent & Education
Whitmer signs ‘transformative’ $24.3B Michigan education budget. What to know
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed a new state education budget that expands Pre-K access, boosts per-pupil funding and invests in training new teachers. More education policy changes are coming too.
Posted inTalent & Education
Raise a glass, Michigan. Cocktails-to-go, college stadium beer sales now legal
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signs new laws she says are about ‘fairness, safety and revenue.’