The Child Care Licensing Bureau (CCLB) performs state licensing regulatory duties as required by state laws and federal requirements.
Early learning and development program resources for all children, birth to age eight, especially those in highest need.
The MI Tri-Share Child Care Program is an innovative approach to increasing access to high-quality, affordable child care for working families while also helping employers retain talent and remove one major barrier to employment.
Michigan is one of 20 states selected by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to receive the Preschool Development B-5 renewal grant (PDG).
The PreK for All Initiative helps Michigan families save money while preparing the state’s youngest learners for kindergarten.
The Office of Education Partnerships at MiLEAP oversees both the Governor’s Educator Advisory Council and the Michigan PreK-12 Literacy Commission.
The Office of Family Partnerships coordinates and aligns a statewide system of family-school-community partnerships in support of positive developmental, health and academic outcomes, ensuring every learner in Michigan thrives.
Resources for Michigan’s Out-of-School Time programs and providers.
The Office of Higher Education at MiLEAP convened a 15-member task force to examine how basic needs insecurity affects college students across Michigan. Their goal is to identify effective interventions and recommend policy changes that remove financial barriers to education.
The Michigan Legislature tasked MiLEAP’s Office of Higher Education (OHE) with partnering statewide to improve student transfer and credit acceptance. Through its Transfer Success Project, OHE advances student-centered outcomes using evidence-based strategies and meaningful cross-sector collaboration.
The Universal FAFSA Challenge supports districts in adopting a local universal FAFSA policy and implementing FAFSA completion support in their high schools and local communities.
By 2030, 60% of working-age Michiganders will have a certificate or college degree. Michigan will be a talent leader — fueling the future workforce and providing opportunity for all.
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Postsecondary education and training play an essential role in upskilling Michiganders and building a globally competitive economy. Recognizing this, the State of Michigan set an attainment goal aspiring that 60% of working-age Michiganders will hold a postsecondary credential by 2030. To achieve this goal, ambitious strategies are underway across the state to help enrolled learners persist and complete their postsecondary degree programs.
One such strategy involves bolstering transfer opportunities between community colleges and universities to increase the number of community college students who transfer and improve both associate and bachelor's degree completion for Michigan transfer students. In Michigan, just 36% of recently analyzed community college student cohorts transferred to bachelor’s degree granting institutions. Of those transfer students, only 30% earned an associate degree on their transfer pathway and just 47% earned a bachelor’s degree within 6 years.
The Michigan legislature appropriated funds in the fiscal year 2024-2025 budget to improve transfer student success outcomes. The boilerplate language for this $1M appropriation tasked the Michigan Department of Lifelong Education, Advancement, and Potential (MiLEAP) Office of Higher Education (OHE) to work with institutions across the state to “facilitate the transfer of students and acceptance of credits” among institutions in the state. To this end, MiLEAP OHE is actively planning several components of its Transfer Success Project focused on evidence-based decision-making and authentic cross-sector collaboration toward student-centric outcomes.
The objectives of the project are to:
One of MILEAP OHE’s first endeavors after launching this project was to study the transfer landscape in Michigan. To get a full picture, OHE reviewed state and national quantitative data to understand transfer student demographics, outcomes, and enrollment patterns. We also analyzed workforce data to understand which academic pathways would be most productive for Michigan transfer students’ long-term success in employment. Finally, we held discussions with over 100 transfer stakeholders to gain their perspective on the transfer landscape.
This series of briefs is an early deliverable of our Transfer Success Project. The briefs lay out the findings from the qualitative and quantitative inquiry activities to provide a current landscape analysis around transfer in Michigan. Briefs will be published throughout Fall 2025 and can be accessed from the links below.
