Trustees of the University of North Carolina -Chapel Hill heard administration plans to close the school’s $100M structural deficit by June 2022. The structural deficit…
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California Watch, a non-profit associated with the Center for Independent Reporting, noted that California’s community colleges had too many administrators. In fact, they had twice…
For the past year, we have (understandably) been focused on the pandemic. Its impact has sent shockwaves through the economy in ways we could not…
The pandemic has turned a lot of things upside down. In the last year, COVID-19 has challenged us all in one way or another. As…
Last week, about 200 employees at the City College of San Francisco (CCSF) received layoff notices. The reductions are part of the Board of Trustees’…
The 8th annual Gordian State of Facilities in Higher Education report has been released. No surprise – higher education facilities are in deep trouble. Campus…
If you believe the WCC Administration, Ann Arbor is a rich community. But what if it weren’t? There are a lot of factors that go…
I read an article a few weeks ago about a town in Colorado that’s counting on its community college to save it. While that sounds…
Academic Influence released its first-ever ranking of US community colleges, and WCC ranked near the bottom of community colleges in Michigan. Personally, I don’t put…
What happened in Texas this month wasn’t pretty. The large-scale failure of the Texas energy grid caused widespread power outages. At exactly the same time,…