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Michigan must build a lifelong education system focused on future-ready skills and competencies to thrive, with higher education more accessible and affordable so that the state can increase its population in the decades ahead, according to a report issued today (Dec. 14) by the Growing Michigan Together Council. Ferris State University President Bill Pink and Henry Ford College President Russ Kavalhuna are co-chairs of the Council’s higher education workgroup, which helped compile recommendations to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, the state House of Representatives and the state Senate today. “As co-chairs of the higher education workgroup, we applaud the work of the Growing Michigan Together Council and the strategies it has put forward,” Pink and Kavalhuna said. “We’re proud to see numerous ideas generated by our workgroup in the final report, and while we are incredibly appreciative to all the work thus far, the next phase is incredibly important to our s

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