More than 70,000 people in Michigan have applied to the “Futures for Frontliners” program, which provides free community college tuition to eligible frontline workers. In…
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Yesterday, I wrote about a looming survival crisis in higher education. Higher ed administrators position it as an enrollment problem. “We’re entering a long period…
I was reading an article on the WGBH (Boston) website today about community college enrollment there. In Massachusetts, fall enrollment at the state’s community colleges…
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…
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…