Berrien RESA and Lake Michigan College are working to build up their combined career and technical education program after announcing its creation last year.

In February of 2024, the partners, along with the Southwest Michigan Regional Chamber, announced that LMC was selling its building in Niles to RESA for $1 so it could be used as a centralized CTE facility. Since then, RESA Superintendent Eric Hoppstock tells us they’ve moved some healthcare apprenticeship students to the building and started seeking out partners for additional training programs.

“ We are stitching together that structure,” Hoppstock said. “And so sometimes things happen behind the scenes while you’re getting that structure. So you go slow initially to go fa

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