{"id":243695,"date":"2026-03-30T18:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T18:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/243695\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T18:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T18:30:09","slug":"michigan-matters-assisting-oakland-university-students-and-growing-the-defense-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/243695\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan Matters: Assisting Oakland University students and growing the defense sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Bickers, PNC Bank regional president Detroit and Southeast Michigan and Oakland University President Dr. Ora Hirsch Pescovitz, appear on Michigan Matters to discuss a new endowment at the university to help students from challenging financial situations with housing costs. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/mike-bickers-and-ora-hirsch-pescovitz.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"mike-bickers-and-ora-hirsch-pescovitz.jpg \" height=\"465\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Mike Bickers and Ora Hirsch Pescovitz<\/p>\n<p>                Tim Lawlis\/CBS Detroit<\/p>\n<p>Bickers, an OU alum, along with his wife, Barbara, are supporting the new endowment named after the couple.<\/p>\n<p>Pescovitz talked about the impact of the endowment in the years ahead.<\/p>\n<p>She also discussed the state of higher education in Michigan and funding for it coming from Lansing.<\/p>\n<p>Then, it&#8217;s a focus on Michigan&#8217;s defense industry as a national convention comes to Detroit in a few weeks, with over 11,000 people expected at Huntington Place.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/misty-martin-noah-peterson-and-karen-kiewski.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"misty-martin-noah-peterson-and-karen-kiewski.jpg \" height=\"465\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Misty Martin, Noah Peterson and Karen Kiewski<\/p>\n<p>                Tim Lawlis\/CBS Detroit<\/p>\n<p>Misty Martin, retired lieutenant colonel and chair of the MDEX event, along with Noah Peterson, of Macomb Regional, APEX, and Karen Kiewski, the president of Women in Defense &#8211; Michigan Chapter, talk about opportunities for companies at the upcoming event.<\/p>\n<p>The trio also discusses job opportunities tied to the burgeoning sector.<\/p>\n<p>(Watch Michigan Matters at its new time: 5:30 a.m. Sundays on CBS Detroit and 9:30 a.m. Sundays on CW Detroit 50 WKBD).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>(Carol Cain is the 13-time Emmy-winning senior producer and host of Michigan Matters).<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mike Bickers, PNC Bank regional president Detroit and Southeast Michigan and Oakland University President Dr. Ora Hirsch Pescovitz,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[103833,143,145,144],"class_list":["post-243695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-michigan-matters","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}