I was reading an article on the WGBH (Boston) website today about community college enrollment there. In Massachusetts, fall enrollment at the state’s community colleges…
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Higher education institutions have limited options for funding construction projects. Most often, they issue bonds and repay them over 20-30 years. In the last few…
Data captured by the Department of Education shows the growth of the WCC Administration, even as the overall size of the institution’s staff shrank. WCC’s…
Community college administrators (including those at Washtenaw Community College) have worried about enrollment declines for some time. Based on a prolonged decline in the overall…
A recent report in Inside Higher Ed begins to reveal the impact of revenue shortfalls on higher education institutions. The sector shed more than 118,000…
I’ve written extensively about the Washtenaw Community College administration’s inability to control its spending. For example, last month I showed that the institution’s administrative costs…
Washtenaw Community College has the sixth-largest total operating revenues among all Michigan community colleges. While generous funding can be a huge potential plus – especially…
Today, Washtenaw Community College posted an opening for an Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. The executive job posting is a missed opportunity to…
MLive recently had an interesting article on the impact of poverty on COVID-19 cases in Washtenaw County. I’ve been looking at how tuition increases impact…
The WCC Administration has shown significant interest in real estate development. That’s nice, but WCC is a community college. It is not – and should…