Michigan community colleges will soon be awash in students, thanks to the CARES-funded Futures for Frontliners program. As of last week, about 70,000 of the…
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Data captured by the Department of Education shows the growth of the WCC Administration, even as the overall size of the institution’s staff shrank. WCC’s…
A new study published in the journal Pediatrics shows that increasing governmental spending on non-health care services, including education, can decrease the infant mortality rate.…
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…
MLive recently had an interesting article on the impact of poverty on COVID-19 cases in Washtenaw County. I’ve been looking at how tuition increases impact…
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…