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Native American Heritage Fund Awards $478,700 to 2022 Grant Recipients
August 24, 2022
Indian Gaming
The Native American Heritage Fund (NAHF) awarded $478,700 to the 2022 grant recipients at FireKeepers Casino Hotel, bringing their total contribution to $2,390,400 to 37 of Michigan’s K-12 schools, colleges, universities and local units of government.
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MI community colleges ditching remedial courses to keep students enrolled
August 22, 2022
Bridge Michigan
Over the years, thousands of Michigan students enrolled in community college but dropped out before their first credit-earning class. Remedial courses, meant as a way to ensure borderline students were ready for college coursework, discouraged some students from continuing.
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OPINION: Education — and work — are the new norm after high school
July 29, 2022
Bridge Michigan
There are thousands of young people in my community of Ingham and Eaton counties who graduated from high school during COVID and melted away from their college-intentions.
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4CCF awarded grant to fund college access
July 16, 2022
The County Press
The Four County Community Foundation was among five Michigan College Access Network (MCAN) Innovative Program Grant winners announced last week. Each winner received a $10,000 grant.
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Michigan College Access Network Awarded Grant from Native American Heritage Fund
July 14, 2022
Tribal College Journal
MCAN has been awarded a $55,000 grant from the Native American Heritage Fund (NAHF) to improve completion rates at Michigan’s three tribal colleges.
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As Ann Arbor’s Black population fades, new initiative aims to uplift Black youth
June 27, 2022
MLive
Lefiest Galimore, a longtime Black resident and former social worker, is concerned about the trends and wants to find a way for Black people to continue to have a place in and thrive in Ann Arbor.
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A decade of the Promise: Lansing Promise sends more than 1,600 Lansing students to college
June 25, 2022
Lansing State Journal
The Lansing Promise began funding college for Lansing high school graduates in 2012. Since then, 1,622 students have received Lansing Promise scholarships.
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State awards grants to 9 community colleges to boost adult student success rate
June 18, 2022
FOX 17
Nine community colleges in the state – including Muskegon Community College and Southwestern Michigan Community College – will receive grants to improve student success rates among adult students.
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How MCCC can help Michigan achieve Sixty by 30
June 12, 2022
The Monroe News
There are several statewide programs in place to facilitate Michigan getting to Sixty by 30. They have at their core, community colleges.
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These low-income Michigan schools get students into college. Here’s how.
May 27, 2022
Bridge Michigan
Whitmore Lake is one of 19 high schools across Michigan that sent more than 70 percent of its graduates to college last year despite having a student population that was more than 40 percent economically disadvantaged.
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Michigan Business Beat | Ryan Fewins-Bliss Michigan College Access Network Reviews Advocacy Day
May 18, 2022
Michigan Business Network
Jeffrey Mosher welcomes back Ryan Fewins-Bliss, MCAN executive director of MCAN, to review this year's College Access Advocacy Day.
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Sault and Pickford schools receive grant to expand college access network
May 17, 2022
The Sault News
Sault Area High School and Pickford Public High School, along with eight other Michigan high schools, received grant money for programs to help students prepare for college.
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Anthony Carnevale on why completing college matters in Michigan
May 17, 2022
Michigan Future Inc.
For most workers, having some college education is now the most reliable route to a good job. Eighty-two percent of good jobs in Michigan go to workers with education beyond high school, compared to around 80 percent of good jobs nationally.
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Opinion: Michigan needs to boost college access for our future
May 16, 2022
The Detroit News
Michigan has a once-in-a-generation chance to use American Rescue Plan Act funds to help adults who come back to finish college and to take aggressive steps to re-engage the “lost classes” of 2020, 2021 and 2022 who delayed or dropped college plans.
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Lapeer High School hosts Decision Day to help with ‘next step’
May 14, 2022
The County Press
The Lapeer High School counseling department organized the school’s Decision Day. A celebration of all things “next step,” seniors were invited to share their post-grad plans, whatever that plan might be.
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What happened when Michigan State dropped SAT and ACT requirements
May 12, 2022
Lansing State Journal
About 50,600 prospective students submitted applications to attend MSU last fall, the largest number in a single year. MSU is on track to shatter that record again after receiving more than 55,000 applications from students hoping to start next fall.
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Michigan GOP, Whitmer push college tuition aid plans. How their plans differ.
May 6, 2022
Bridge Michigan
As Michigan faces lagging college enrollment and a budget surplus, state leaders this year are proposing to spend more to make higher education more affordable.
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Simplifying the FAFSA: MI Groups Have Some Tips
April 28, 2022
Public News Service
As the U.S. Department of Education works to simplify the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, known as the FAFSA, groups in Michigan have some tips.