Education

Central Michigan University is getting ready to welcome 12 students to its new nursing program. The program director says it's aimed at providing hospitals that are experiencing nursing shortages with the next generation of professionals.

Superintendents in the Upper Peninsula say allowing 15-seat passenger vans to transport students to extracurricular activities would save costs.

International students are having to wait for their visa interviews, and several visas have been revoked for current students. But several universities in Michigan say they are excited to welcome many new international students this upcoming academic year.

AmeriCorps members were working on environmental education and habitat restoration at parks and nature centers in rural areas across the country. Now federal cuts have eliminated many of those positions.

A Michigan program that deploys reading and math tutors to schools to help struggling students faces an uncertain future because of Trump administration cuts.

Alpena Community College will be hosting this year's College Lineman Rodeo on Friday, where 55 students from across the country will compete in utility worker tasks. There will be two climbing events, a ground repair and a timed multiple-choice exam.

The Ticket to Tuition FAFSA Sweepstakes offers high school students the chance to win prizes worth thousands of dollars for filling out the FAFSA for the first time.

In an email sent out to the university Friday afternoon, President Neil MacKinnon notified the Central Michigan University community that CMU staff found that several current and former international student records have been terminated without notice by the United States Department of Homeland Security.

The School Finance Research Foundation estimates Michigan schools will need $22.8 billion in infrastructure investment over the next decade.

The cancellation of two programs will affect more than $1 billion in expected funding this year. Food advocates worry the cuts are coming when other federal food programs are at risk.