Today’s news is filled with stories about the enrollment declines at community colleges. The pandemic has chased students away from two-year colleges in large numbers.…
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You can easily find information about the declining public investment in higher education. In addition to tuition hikes, universities have increasingly turned to a variety…
According to the latest figures from the State of Michigan, residents filed more than 40,000 applications for Michigan Reconnect. Michigan Reconnect is the state’s new…
A newly released report from Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s Poverty Task Force (PTF) says that 43% of Michigan residents don’t make enough money to get by.…
If you look at the annual budget for WCC – or any other community college – you’ll find that it has multiple revenue sources. Local…
The tuition Washtenaw Community College students pay does not resemble WCC’s costs to educate them. WCC receives money from a variety of other sources, including…
A recent article in Insider (formerly Business Insider) discussed the impact of “promise” programs on diversity in enrollment. A second piece, an editorial, in the…
New York’s community colleges will be eliminating administrators and staff to manage $35M in proposed budget cuts this year. The same institutions will cut an…
According to data published last quarter by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve Board, US consumers owed $980 billion in revolving debt. Revolving…
University Business published an interesting opinion piece today on the steps higher education institutions must take to recover from COVID-19. Although the pandemic has made…