Yesterday, I wrote about strategies to counter the long-term impact of a declining birth rate. A more educated, more skilled population enables people who had…
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A planned funding increase to hire more full-time community college faculty in California is running into resistance. The Association of Community College Financial Officers penned…
North Carolina community colleges, like those in many other states, rely heavily on state funding. Last December, the system requested sufficient funding to increase community…
New data released by the National College Attainment Network (NCAN) shows that 6 out of 10 low-income students could not afford to remain enrolled in…
The subject of fees came up once again at the WCC Board of Trustees Spring Retreat. You could forgive someone for believing that a “technology…
Time and time again, the WCC Administration has complained that the enrollment at WCC will drop due to a decline in the number of college-age…
Yesterday, I wrote about the need for a Management Fee at WCC. The WCC Administration is fixated on instituting a facilities fee to add money…
At the April 6 Spring Trustee Retreat, WCC CFO Bill Johnson made sure to put in a good word for a facilities fee. He reminded…
According to figures from the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES), about one in three women who attend a public two-year institution have children that…
On February 25, the Trustees of the Santa Barbara Community College voted in a closed session to approve the layoffs of three SBCC staff members.…