With a new superintendent and new administrators appointed to key positions, school district officials are hoping to create stability and map out a course for the district over the next few years.
Lecturer and longtime developer Peter Allen envisions an accelerator that would research potential public properties for development and then create affordable housing plans for use by the city or county.
The free EmpowerYou program is designed to help women of color start their own businesses. A new grant from United Way of Washtenaw County has allowed the program to expand to serve more women.
Grace Fellowship Church House of Solutions is seeking to address its community's physical and mental health needs through its nonprofit, Community Family Life Center.
It may seem odd for a software company to hold a professional development workshop for teachers, but making money wasn’t why Menlo Innovations hosted a recent "Back to School" event.
The Ypsilanti District Library group was started because African Americans face special challenges when tracing their family roots to eras earlier than the 1870s, but it's yielded numerous incredible discoveries.
Their job duties range from overseeing a county's traffic operations to promoting mobility studies at Washtenaw Community College, but their paths into the industry were somewhat unconventional.
Cara Altherr's essay on acceptance for LGBTQ people of color, one of the five winning entries in Concentrate and EMU Upward Bound's writing challenge.
We recently partnered with Eastern Michigan University's Upward Bound program to ask young Ypsi writers how they'd solve their community's greatest challenge. Here are their winning essays.
Selena Calzado's essay on immigration, one of the five winning entries in Concentrate and EMU Upward Bound's writing challenge.
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