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Tribal colleges receive improvement funds

EAST LANSING, MI--   Two Upper Peninsula tribal colleges are recipients of funding from a U.S. Department of Agriculture program. 

Bay Mills Community College and Keweenaw Bay Ojibwa Community College are both getting $143,000. KBOCC will use the money to make campus improvements, while Bay Mills will purchase early learning and business equipment.

The funding comes through the USDA’s Tribal College Initiative Grant program.  Eight schools across the country received money through the program, which provides funding to tribal colleges to make capital improvements to their educational facilities and to purchase equipment. 

Nicole was born near Detroit but has lived in the U.P. most of her life. She graduated from Marquette Senior High School and attended Michigan State and Northern Michigan Universities, graduating from NMU in 1993 with a degree in English.