While businesses are scrambling for more college-educated graduates, many in Michigan find that the state’s disinvestment makes college unattainable.
Michigan colleges and universities
Posted inGuest Commentary
Opinion | Here are steps Michigan can take to improve our talent pool
The significant amount of additional federal funding the state received, combined with the budget surplus the state has this year, make funding of our talent needs possible in short order.
Posted inMichigan Government
‘It is finally over’: MI Supreme Court denies Larry Nassar’s final appeal
The disgraced sports doctor’s survivors expressed feeling relieved that the Michigan Supreme Court denied his final appeal. The high court upheld the sentence, even as it joined in criticizing the trial judge’s conduct at sentencing.
Posted inTalent & Education
An academic suspension and 7 years later, a Michigan man gets his degree
Seth Noyes crossed the graduation stage at Grand Rapids Community College with his letter of academic suspension taped to his cap.
Posted inTalent & Education
Michigan House passes bill to pay student teachers for classroom work
Currently, most college students studying to become teachers must work for free while student teaching, a burden that creates one more obstacle to pursuing a teaching career. The bill would pay them $90 a day, and also pay their classroom mentors.
Posted inTalent & Education
More aid for Michigan college students? Business groups push $360 million plan
Students could get as much as $6,000 in new scholarship money in a new state financial aid program. For businesses, it’s a way to create and retain a ‘high-talent’ workforce in Michigan.
Posted inMichigan Health Watch
Ticks on rise in Michigan, so researchers get crafty to map the tiny terrors
With Lyme disease on the increase and pathogen-carrying ticks creeping across Michigan, scientists are using unconventional methods to identify hot spots.
Posted inGuest Commentary
Opinion | Let Michigan’s nurse practitioners do their job
Currently it can take as long as three to six months for a patient to get established with a primary care provider. Nurse practitioners are part of the solution to making medical care more accessible and affordable across the state.
Posted inGuest Commentary
Opinion | No gun control? Fine. Open your wallet to pay for safety measures
If Congress does nothing again, as I fear, brace yourselves for the next school shooting, coming to a community near you.
Posted inMichigan Health Watch
University of Michigan gun violence researchers hope to curb shooting deaths
Even a University of Michigan institute dedicated to firearm injury prevention and research isn’t sure why mass shootings are increasing.