Life-Changing Education, the 2025-26 Look to Michigan theme year, has launched its full website and grant application process aimed at encouraging university-wide involvement in underscoring how learning shapes lives, work and communities.

The site, at futureoflearning.umich.edu, guides the U-M community through the theme year priorities. It offers ways to get involved and see what activities are planned surrounding the impact area.

The committee has named “Four Ways Forward” that will shape the year ahead:

• Fostering Open Inquiry and Productive Disagreements.
• Expanding Pathways and Access Across Michigan.
• Marking the Past & Co-Creating the Campus and Education of the Future.
• Sharing Scholarship, Shaping Solutions.

To help fund those efforts, Life-Changing Education is offering grant programs in two tracks that will show — not just tell — how education changes lives. Grants range from $2,000 to $20,000.

Learn more about the theme year and grant program.