The Early Childhood Education Task Force will hold a rally Friday to raise awareness of the childcare crisis of the Upper Peninsula and demonstrate the need for an early childhood education center, a learning and education based daycare center, on campus.

NMU community members created a task force last fall to open an early childhood education center on campus to serve the university population and address larger problems of childcare and employee shortages...

Now, if you don’t have a child please try to imagine if you did. We can all agree college can be hard, but imagine raising a child at the same time.

After I got a little advice and money from my family, I discovered how cheap both college and apartments in the area are. Some apartments even go for as little as $1,300 a month. I can’t imagine living on campus is much worse. It’s probably only a couple thousand for a few months. That sounds like a good deal to me.

NMU released information two weeks ago on their new collaboration with childcare company WeeCare in hopes to start providing affordable and convenient childcare to students and faculty. WeeCare will provide...