Futures For Frontliners
Michigan’s Gov. Whitmer has just launched a new – first in nation – program to offer essential, frontline workers a tuition-free path to community college. Michigan’s 625,000 COVID-19 essential workers are encouraged to apply now for tuition-free community college.
Futures for Frontliners is a state scholarship program for Michiganders without college degrees who worked in essential industries during the state COVID-19 shutdown in spring 2020 (April 1 – June 30). This scholarship provides these frontline workers with tuition-free access to local community college to pursue an associate degree or a skills certificate, either full-time or part-time while you work.
To be eligible for the program, an applicant must:
• Be a Michigan resident
• Have worked in an essential industry at least part-time for 11 of the 13 weeks between April 1 — June 30
• Have been required to work outside the home at least some of the time between April 1 — June … Read More