In April, WCC’s CFO Bill Johnson spent 40 minutes laying out the structural deficit that this Administration’s spending habits have created. He explained why WCC…
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“A fish rots from the head down.” When I was young, my father used to travel to Canada every summer to go muskie fishing. If…
State legislators are working to cover a $2.2 billion COVID-19 related budget hole. $712M will go to the School Aid Fund. Michigan’s public universities and…
If you spend any amount of time looking at public higher education funding, you’ll find an unfortunate trend. State funding for public two- and four-year…
In any given year, WCC takes in a lot of money. The taxpayers very generously overfund the College. Student enrollment is relatively constant. The State…
WCC has an over-abundance of administrators and a shortage of Trustees who are willing to say “No” to the Administration’s inane spending requests. While the…
At the June WCC Board Meeting, Trustee Ruth Hatcher congratulated the administration for giving the Independent group 1.5% raises. Trustee Hatcher probably assumed that “something-is-better-than-nothing.”…
Recently, WCC announced that it will freeze in-district tuition at $95 per credit hour for the 2020-21 school year. It will follow with a planned…
WCC has a line item in its expense budget called “Executive Management.” This fiscal year, the Executive Management budget started out at $2,140,537. This figure…
By themselves, numbers sometimes don’t tell the whole story. Lately, I’ve been looking at the executive structure for WCC, and wondering why the hell WCC…