MEA Events

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Longtime Lansing leader in higher education wins national award

Lansing Community College faculty advisor Eva Menefee (right) received the James Davenport Memorial Award, a national honor for outstanding leadership in higher education. Pictured with Marcia Mackey, a Central Michigan University professor and president of MEA’s Michigan Association for Higher Education. By Brenda Ortega MEA Voice Editor It seemed fitting that Eva Menefee was texting a student when she was…

October 23, 2025October 24, 2025

Teacher cadets critical in effort to recruit best and brightest to Michigan’s classrooms

MEA partners with educators and schools to inspire youth to consider careers in education A growing corps of teacher cadets has joined a statewide effort to recruit the best and brightest educators to Michigan’s classrooms and help address the state’s continuing educator shortage. Landen Robinson (far right) is pictured with other aspiring educators attending the Next Gen Teachers Program, a…

October 23, 2025October 23, 2025

Private: New training offered for paras

Paraeducators have long said they needed higher pay plus better training to improve staff retention and equip them for the vital and challenging work they do in schools. That message was heard loud and clear at an MEA paraeducator summit in 2023. From there, a new statewide training series was developed in partnership with the Michigan Association of Administrators of…

October 22, 2025October 24, 2025