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UM-Flint Entrepreneurs Society and Habitat for Humanity To Build Third Work/Live Home
Members of UM-Flint's Entrepreneurs Society, an organization composed of School of Management students, helped Habitat for Humanity (HFH) build the first "Work/Live" house in Flint on West Fifth Street in June of 2012. Now, the society will help HFH provide a third such house in the same neighborhood.
Former Swartz Creek Superintendent Selected to Head UM-Flint's K-12 Initiatives
One successful UM-Flint K-12 initiative Pratt will continue to help strengthen is DEEP (Dual Enrollment Educational Partnership), in which high school students jump start their higher education careers through instruction by university faculty and earning free college credits.
UM-Flint Student Selected for National Science Foundation Program
Shephard will be spending 10 weeks at the University of Ottawa beginning in mid-June. In October, he will travel to Seattle to present a paper on his experience in the program.
UM-Flint Department of Education Helps Bring Innovation in Education Gathering to Ann Arbor
The Gathering brings together a diverse group of educators, students, entrepreneurs, and others who are working at the forefront of technology in learning.
Area School Officials Get First Look at UM-Flint's Neff Center for Placed-Based Education
The purpose of the center is to mutually enrich university and northern Flint communities through place-based education, research, and student services.
[IN] Innovation Incubator Helps UM-Flint Students Start New Businesses
![[IN] Innovation Incubator Helps UM-Flint Students Start New Businesses](https://news.umflint.edu/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Innovation.NewsSlider.jpeg)
College students who dream of owning and operating their own business usually have to wait until graduation to begin their entrepreneurial goals. An innovative program at the University of Michigan-Flint helps students start their own business while still in school.
UM-Flint Unveils the Zick Active Learning Classroom
"The Zick Active Learning Classroom is a testament to David and Francine's philosophy of paying it forward," said Chancellor Ruth J. Person.
Multi-Million Dollar Renovation of UM-Flint's Science Building Receives Approval
A revitalization of the classrooms and laboratories is critical to expanding programs that will better prepare K-12 science teachers, as well as those pursuing careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).
UM-Flint to Bring a Variety of Services to New Beecher Community Schools Partnership
The program is designed to enrich the university, the Beecher community, and the surrounding area through service, education, research, and more.
UM-Flint and Livingston County Schools Establish "Dual Enrollment Educational Partnership" (DEEP)
UM-Flint Chancellor Ruth J. Person joined representatives from Livingston County School Districts to announce the Dual Enrollment Educational Partnership (DEEP).