There was an interesting article in Time Magazine earlier this month about the impact of administrative costs on healthcare in the United States. The bottom…
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If you have time, visit the College Board website and read the Trends in College Pricing and Student Aid 2020. This recently released report provides…
The Board of Trustees at Springfield Technical Community College in Springfield, MA recently voted to reverse the STCC president’s decision to terminate 5 academic programs.…
Twice in the last two weeks, I’ve read several articles about new programs designed to create college bound children. Nebraska, St. Paul, MN and New…
For Trustees who think that institutional debt is a good solution for paying for construction, it’s not. Institutional debt drives the students’ cost of attendance.…
Who voters place on the Washtenaw Community College Board of Trustees is more important than ever. A perfect storm is forming around higher education, and…
More than 70,000 people in Michigan have applied to the “Futures for Frontliners” program, which provides free community college tuition to eligible frontline workers. In…
Yesterday, I wrote about a looming survival crisis in higher education. Higher ed administrators position it as an enrollment problem. “We’re entering a long period…
Recently, I ran across an article on a website called CounterPunch, which offered a familiar litany of complaints about higher education. The author’s ultimate question…
All things considered, the FY2021 WCC budget paints a decent revenue picture. While many community colleges around the nation struggle with massive cuts to state…