{"id":32028,"date":"2025-03-22T15:38:47","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T19:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaijindensetsu.com\/?p=32028"},"modified":"2025-03-27T14:43:53","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T18:43:53","slug":"new-student-basic-needs-task-force-created-to-support-michigans-low-income-college-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaijindensetsu.com\/new-student-basic-needs-task-force-created-to-support-michigans-low-income-college-students\/","title":{"rendered":"New Student Basic Needs Task Force Created to Support Michigan’s Low-Income College Students"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On March 21, the Michigan Department of Lifelong Education, Advancement, and Potential (MiLEAP) announced the formation of a new task force to better understand how insecurity with basic needs is affecting Michigan’s college students and what actions position students for success.<\/p>\n

Congratulations to Meghan Schmidbauer<\/strong>, Senior Director of Detroit Drives Degrees at the Detroit Regional Chamber, who joins the task force’s Advisory Committee, as well as Wytrice Harris<\/strong>, Senior Director of Student Success and Partnerships at the Detroit Regional Chamber, on her appointment to the task force.<\/p>\n

Learn more about MiLEAP and the new task force in the news release below.<\/em><\/p>\n

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March 21, 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n

LANSING, Mich.\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 Today, the Michigan Department of Lifelong Education, Advancement, and Potential (MiLEAP) announced that it has assembled a task force to better understand how insecurity with basic needs is affecting Michigan’s college students and what actions position students for success. The task force will look at how issues differ across regions and campuses, what interventions are helping, and identify policy change so that financial insecurity is not a barrier to student\u2019s pursuit of educational goals, including completion of a degree or credential.<\/p>\n

More than ever, postsecondary education is critical to economic mobility. Jobs requiring skilled employees today, as well as jobs on the horizon, demand greater education and training. Increasingly, the best jobs require more than a high school diploma.<\/p>\n

MiLEAP partnered with the Michigan Community College Association and Temple University\u2019s The Hope Center for Student Basic Needs to create the task force, with The Hope Center being hired,\u00a0through funding from the Joyce Foundation<\/a>, to be the research and facilitation partner.<\/p>\n

Over the course of a year Task Force members are being asked to participate in four meetings where they will:<\/p>\n