Northern Michigan University is collaborating with Alpena Community College and Central Michigan University to create the Northeast Michigan Teacher Pipeline for aspiring educators. This partnership aims to address the regional teacher shortage by offering students an affordable, seamless, and locally rooted pathway to pursue a career in education.

Eight Northern Michigan University faculty members have been selected as recipients of Reassigned Time Awards for the winter 2025 semester beginning in January. Each award provides up to four credit hours of release time to support scholarship activities.

An external audit of Northern Michigan University's most recent financial statements resulted in a “clean, unmodified report, which is the highest level of assurance we can place on them,” said Josh Sullivan of Rehmann during a special meeting of the NMU Board of Trustees Friday morning. Rehmann's Traverse City location conducted the audit for the fiscal years ending June 30 of 2024 and 2023.

Nadine Strossen, past president of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), will present “Free Speech and the Crisis of Higher Education: a Conversation with Nadine Strossen” at Northern Michigan University. The event is scheduled from 1-2:40 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 21, in 1320 John X. Jamrich Hall.

Former Northern Michigan University President James Appleberry passed away Monday in Louisville, Ky., from complications of pancreatic cancer. He was 86. He began his NMU tenure in July 1983 and resigned in 1991 to become president of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU), which had previously recognized NMU under his leadership as “one of the top 10 institutions for innovation and change in American higher education.”