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.…
Posts published in “Community college affordability”
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…
We will be feeling the effects of the pandemic for years. The latest FAFSA completion data show a major drop in the number of completed…
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…
About one-third of California community colleges will borrow money from private investors to pay their operating expenses this fiscal year. The institutions will issue Tax…
Governor Gretchen Whitmer introduced her proposed state budget this morning, and included $180M for free community college programs. Granted, the proposed budget is a long…
I’ve written about the potential of expanding the Washtenaw Community College district before. The most likely expansion target is Livingston County. Nearly half of students…
A recent Council for Advancement and Support of Education review of annual charitable contributions shows that overall donations to higher education institutions remained flat in…
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…