The North Wind

Early Childhood Education Task Force hosts Children’s March due to lack of childcare

Ryley Wilcox, Staff Writer • September 21, 2022

The Great Start Parent Coalition held a Children’s March on Sept. 20 at the Marquette County Courthouse to express community concerns of the lack of childcare in the area. We the People MI and the...

Task Force to hold rally to raise awareness of childcare crisis

Ryley Wilcox, Staff Writer • April 15, 2022

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.

Task force created in hopes of opening early childhood education center

Ryley Wilcox, Contributing Writer • February 5, 2022

NMU community members created a task force last fall with a focus on developing an early childhood education center to help with the ongoing issue of lack in childcare and employee shortages in the area.

Letter to the Editor—NMU should have a day care

Travis Bessner • November 18, 2021

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.

Satire—Actually, raising children in college is really easy

Harry Stine, contributing writer • September 27, 2021

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.

WeeCare partners with NMU to provide childcare for students and faculty

Ayanna Allen • April 8, 2021

NMU has partnered with childcare company, WeeCare, in hopes to start providing affordable and convenient childcare to students and faculty.