NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD Eric Banitt of Marquette may have amazed us local folks with his musical skills over the past several years, but according to him, he's now just a regular guy banging away on the piano down at the University of Michigan. Nothing exceptional, he says. He's modest, to say the least. He built a heckuva ... Continue Reading
Decline or Growth? NMU Searches for an Identity
TEN YEARS AGO, enrollment at Northern Michigan University was close to 10,000 students. Today, it's at 7750. And dropping. "We'll continue to decline for the next five to seven years," NMU president Fritz Erickson concedes. "We should stabilize our enrollment somewhere around 7000 students, maybe as low as 6500, just ... Continue Reading