Earlier this week, Swisher Commercial released the 2021 year-end vacancy report for commercial space in the Ann Arbor area. As you might imagine, there’s a…
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The City of Anaheim had a big budget problem last summer. The city normally collects more than $160M annually in hotel taxes. Hotel taxes feed…
If you ask community college administrators what’s causing community college enrollment declines, you may hear COVID-19. Or “the enrollment cliff.” Or both. Realistically, the answer…
The pandemic has made it clear that community colleges have a lot of competition for enrollment. Recent high school graduates are making other plans, leaving…
A report released yesterday by Opportunity@Work suggests that half of the US workforce has experienced downward mobility as a result of not having a bachelor’s…
A couple of months ago, I wrote about the inability of community college administrators to understand or appreciate the ungentle art of competition. I wrote…
Real wages – increases in income minus inflation – provide a revealing look at why community college enrollment is dropping. And until the “real wage…
According to data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, students who take a gap year rarely return to school. Using both pre- and post-pandemic…
New high school data graduation data published last month show that the enrollment picture for higher education looks dim. Immediate college enrollment by the high…
You may not notice it if you aren’t looking for it, but there is growing interest in inmate education programs. Educating incarcerated people does more…