Last week, New York governor Kathy Hochul announced that about 125,000 high school seniors would receive automatic acceptance letters to the state’s community colleges. Generally,…
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The Brookings Institution just published a piece on reversing college enrollment declines. It quoted a March poll published in the Wall Street Journal that found…
Last month, the Upper Iowa University (UIU) in Fayette, IA announced the layoffs of 55 staff members, the termination of five degree programs, and the…
Last week, Indiana University of Pennsylvania announced that it had eliminated five executive positions to reduce expenses and avoid increasing student tuition. The eliminated positions…
Yesterday, I wrote about the excess capacity at Michigan’s public universities. Based on each university’s peak enrollment, I calculated that Michigan currently has more than…
Bridge Michigan published an interesting piece on the declining enrollment in Michigan’s colleges and universities. According to the article, enrollment declines at Michigan’s colleges and…
According to data the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center released last week, Spring community college enrollment was up marginally, compared to Spring 2022 enrollment. According…
States are gearing up to produce electricity using off-shore wind farms. Last fall, New Jersey announced that it would invest about one-half billion dollars in…
Here’s another reason to prefer degree programs over short-term training. Researchers from Princeton University who study mortality say that Americans who have earned a bachelor’s…
Since WCC seems to have gone all-in on certificate programs, it is worthwhile to examine the credential’s value to the earner. But they should also…