Northwestern Michigan College

In northern Michigan, where much of higher education is offered at community colleges, officials say that will take investment in programs that meet workforce needs and doing away with tuition burdens.

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Students from Benzie County will continue paying an out-of-district-rate for tuition at Northwestern Michigan College. A proposal to change that was withdrawn this week.

Benzie voters will not have the ability to vote on the millage levy, which would have funded college operations in exchange for NMC’s lowest tuition rates for residents.

The partnership between Northwestern Michigan College and Bay Mills Community College is only a year old but was praised by the MDA for targeting non-traditional students.

Advocates hope the partnership between Bay Mills Community College and Northwestern Michigan College will help fill a dire need for dental assistants in Native communities.

A mental health crisis can derail a student trying to graduate from college. When that happens, teachers and administrators can become a lifeline. Those lifelines helped a culinary student at Northwestern Michigan College make it to graduation.

Conductor Pat Brumbaugh co-hosted Music at Midday and discussed the upcoming concert featuring the Northwestern Michigan College Concert Band, Space...the Final Frontier.

Composed by Jeffrey Cobb and with text by Laura Knight Cobb, "The Lesson of the Lark" celebrates the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th…