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70,000 MI Reconnect applicants set to receive tuition-free associate degree or skills certificate, surpassing state goal
More than 15,000 already enrolled in community college, state provides additional services to encourage enrollment
LANSING, Mich. - With more and more jobs requiring skills and training beyond a high school diploma, the Michigan Reconnect program is providing a tuition-free path to an associate degree or a skills certificate - putting more than 70,000 Michiganders on a path to fill the state s most in-demand, high-wage careers - exceeding the state s goal of 60,000 by Memorial Day.
The nation s first program of its kind, Futures for Frontliners, and the new $30 million bipartisan Michigan Reconnect program shows the state s continued commitment to its Sixty by 30 goal of ensuring 60% of Michiganders will have a postsecondary degree by 2030. Futures for Frontliners has seen more than 15,000 enroll�
By Pat Moody | Posted May 21, 2021 |
As more and more advanced skills jobs are calling for both skills and training beyond a high school diploma, at least job applicants in Michigan who take advantage of the Michigan Reconnect programs are getting a tuition-free opportunity to prepare for those life-changing jobs.
Michigan had established a goal of getting 60,000 into programs like the tuition-free Futures for Frontliners effort by Memorial Day. That day arrives soon, but there are already 70,000 applicants set to receive assistance in attaining an associates degree or a skills certificate, surpassing that ambitious goal.
The Michigan Reconnect program is putting more than 70,000 Michigan residents on a path to fill the state’s most in-demand, high-wage careers, at a time when so many of those jobs have been languishing for lack of talent to fill them.