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WestSouthwest November 12, 2015

Learning Network of Greater Kalamazoo

On WestSouthwest, helping the "first generation" of college students. And a call to change traffic flow in Kalamazoo. 

The College Advising Corps is designed to help school districts with large numbers of students from low-income families and the first generation in their family to attend college. The Learning Network of Greater Kalamazoo is helping to place advisors in some high schools, and hopes to expand. The director of the network's College and Career Action Network Evan Pauken and Comstock High School advisor Jimmy Cotter talk with WMUK's Gordon Evans.

The Complete Streets Coalition says Kalamazoo's one way streets confuse drivers and bring more traffic into the city's neighborhoods. Laura Livingstone-McNelis and Jim Ferner talk with WMUK's Sehvilla Mann about why they think Kalamazoo should change its traffic flow. 

Gordon Evans became WMUK's Content Director in 2019 after more than 20 years as an anchor, host and reporter. A 1990 graduate of Michigan State, he began work at WMUK in 1996.
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