Colorado did something interesting in 2020. Its legislators passed an employment transparency law requiring employers to disclose their intended pay rates for job openings they…
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A couple of days ago, I wrote about the effective decrease in instructional spending at WCC due to inflation. Since 2015, WCC’s spending on instruction…
I’ve written about the cautionary tale that Eastern Gateway Community College offers. EGCC cooked up a deal with the AFSCME to provide “free” tuition to…
The Michigan Court of Claims handed the State of Michigan a loss last week that was nearly four years in the making. Mothering Justice, et.…
On Monday, the Department of Education effectively suspended the Free Tuition Benefit program at Eastern Gateway Community College. EGCC is in Steubenville, OH and extends…
A new study of American attitudes toward college education shows that slightly less than half of Americans think the benefits of a college education outweigh…
If you look at the news, you’ll see an increasing amount of chatter about the possibility of recession. Recessions are a normal part of the…
More than a million Michigan residents have “some college, no degree.” That means 13.6% of the state’s adult population started but never finished college. Nearly…
Following the release of the latest college enrollment data, there’s a lot of speculation about why enrollment continues to sink. Almost invariably, the issue of…
I’ve been writing about the need for some serious upgrades to the occupational education programs currently on offer at WCC. The average community college graduate…