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Project Accelerate: NMU participates in eight-week program

MARQUETTE — Northern Michigan University’s Heidi Blanck and Kathy Richards personify the success women can achieve in construction, engineering, design and trades. Blanck is an associate professor in NMU’s construction management program. Richards is associate vice president for ...

Online learning could mean changes for snow days

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — As a boy growing up in Kingsley, Adam Zellmer remembers winter school cancellations as carefree days filled with sledding, snowball fights and snow forts. Now, as superintendent of South Hardin Community Schools, Zellmer starts inclement winter mornings by driving the roads of Hardin County at 4:15 a.m. to determine whether conditions are safe enough for students to make it to school. If they’re not, he cancels school — sometimes with musical flair — and accepts a day of lost learning as the price for the safety of students and staff. Zellmer has gained ...

Bay College’s Certified Medical Assistant Program grows

ESCANABA — Bay College began offering courses in the fall 2020 semester for the Certified Medical Assistant certificate program. With the fall 2020 semester complete, the program has gained momentum and is seeing growth from 7 students to 25 new students either enrolled in or in the application process for the upcoming winter and summer semesters. The CMA certificate program is a 3-semester certificate program in which students gain first-hand knowledge and experience in a variety of support roles from front office procedures to assisting physicians with procedures. The program ...

Helping transfer students

MARQUETTE — Northern Michigan University Registrar Kim Rotundo received a personal letter from Gov. Gretchen Whitmer praising her leadership in making it easier for students to transfer credits among Michigan’s higher education institutions. Whitmer also congratulated Rotundo on her ...

Daytime darkness: Total solar eclipse wows in Latin America

CARAHUE, Chile — Thousands of people gathered in the Chilean region of La Araucanía on Monday to witness a solar eclipse, rejoicing in the rare experience even though visibility was limited because of cloudy skies. Skies were clear in northern Patagonia in Argentina, where people also ...

Publishing saw upheaval in 2020, but ‘books are resilient’

NEW YORK — Book publishing in 2020 was a story of how much an industry can change and how much it can, or wants to, remain the same. “A lot of what has happened this year — if it were a novel, I would say that it had a little too much plot,” said Simon & Schuster CEO Jonathan Karp. ...