Last month, I described the concept of intergenerational theft. An activist in Los Angeles uses the term to describe the continuous shifting of resources away…
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Fall enrollment is all over the place this year. While some community colleges have seen their enrollment increase, most 2-year institutions have seen their enrollments…
Kalamazoo Valley Community College (KVCC) announced a new debt-forgiveness program aimed at certain former students. KVCC hopes to entice students who left the school with…
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…
The departure of WCC’s current Chief Financial Officer gives the Washtenaw Community College Board of Trustees more than one opportunity to make significant and necessary…
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…
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…