Attending college has always been thought of as an investment, because historically, earning a college degree meant earning more money. WCC students show up every…
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Today’s news is filled with stories about the enrollment declines at community colleges. The pandemic has chased students away from two-year colleges in large numbers.…
Muskegon Community College trustees voted yesterday to accept an offer of $1.17M for the college’s Fitness Center. The building, which MCC purchased in 2015, has…
You can easily find information about the declining public investment in higher education. In addition to tuition hikes, universities have increasingly turned to a variety…
According to the Michigan Fitness Club Association, the state could lose 20% of its current fitness center facilities by 2022. The pandemic has taken a…
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.…
If you look at the annual budget for WCC – or any other community college – you’ll find that it has multiple revenue sources. Local…
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…
The pandemic has ensured that no one has had a really good year. (Except Eric Yuan.) Nothing has worked out as expected, and 2021 is…
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…