At Tuesday’s Board Meeting, the Washtenaw Community College Board of Trustees approved a 50% increase to the per-credit hour fee students currently pay for…. um……
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Earlier this week, the Pew Research Center released a new analysis of 2020 economic data from US households. Pew looked at several data sources, including…
Two Long Beach City College instructors have fired the latest salvo in a long-running saga regarding part-time pay. The lawsuit could have far-reaching consequences and…
There is no way around it: the value proposition of a community college degree matters. In fact, it matters so much that would-be students bypass…
The pandemic has left no doubt that community college administration will be changing soon. Enrollment data show that overall, community colleges have lost about 15%…
Private colleges and universities rarely use the “B-word,” (bankruptcy), so when a public institution uses it, it catches people’s attention. Erie Community College (ECC), which…
The pandemic has changed the college enrollment landscape in some very unexpected ways. It’s not hard to understand why community colleges look less attractive to…
The promise of a free college education to potentially hundreds of thousands of Michiganders was completely lost on Washtenaw County. While Michigan’s community college enrollment…
A few days ago, I wrote about the fact that everyone has a theory about community college enrollment declines. Theorists often portray the pandemic and…
Between debates about the value of free college and shock over sharply declining community college enrollment, two-year schools are receiving a lot of attention lately.…