New council to focus on helping Michigan students recover from COVID-19 education disruptions
Updated Feb 04, 2021;
Posted Feb 04, 2021
Students wear their masks during class at All Saints Central Middle and High School in Bay City on Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020. (Kaytie Boomer | MLive.com)Kaytie Boomer | MLive.com
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With Michigan schools encouraged to resume in-person learning by March 1 and winter sports reauthorized, school is starting to look more familiar. But with students having been separated from school support systems for so long, a new council is tasked with examining how the state can help students recover.
The new Student Recovery Advisory Council, comprised of 29 members with a variety of educational, medical and labor backgrounds, will make recommendations on how to help students recover. Those recommendations will include addressing students’ academic, physical and mental well-being.
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A Design Lab and workshop
Robotics/Mechatronics Lab
Technology-enabled active learning classrooms
Research labs for STEM disciplines
Reservable small group study rooms
Student Club Hub
Many of these spaces will feature an investment of approximately $2 million in new, state-of-the-art equipment. The MSB currently serves over 1,150 students pursuing STEM majors in Biology, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Physics, Computer Science and Information Systems, Mechanical Engineering, and Mathematics, as well as many pre-health and pre-nursing students, and provides engaging learning spaces for all UM-Flint students fulfilling their general education courses.
Susan Gano-Phillips, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, led the planning for the MSB expansion and describes the new addition as a paradigm shift for UM-Flint.
Posted January 27th, 2021 for Mott Land Bank crews clean and mow vacant properties in the city of Flint. Crews mow all publicly and privately owned unmaintained vacant properties in the city at least once during the growing season. Photo: Renee Harvey, Genesee County Land Bank Flint, Michigan The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation has granted $76,680 to the Genesee County Land Bank to help update and strengthen Flint’s blight elimination plan and coordinate efforts to fight blight throughout the city. The Land Bank will partner with the Flint Police Foundation on the initiative. Natalie Pruett, executive director of the Flint Police Foundation, said the organizations’ efforts will build upon a five-year blight elimination framework that was completed in 2014 and adopted in 2015.
$300K grant kickstarts research for connecting more Michigan students to broadband internet
Updated Dec 15, 2020;
An association representing school district superintendents and administrators is using a $300,000 grant from the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation to figure out what it would take to get all Michigan students connected to broadband internet.
The Michigan Association of Intermediate School Administrators, or MAISA, started the MiConnect initiative this week with the long-term goal of making broadband internet access available to all students and educators statewide.
Access to reliable, high-speed internet in Michigan has long been an issue, especially in remote areas lacking the appropriate infrastructure and for residents who have a hard time affording pricey connections or devices. That gap in connectivity has been exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic as many school districts have gone fully or partially virtual to limit disease spread.
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