Over the past year, WCC has made (or will make) significant upgrades to the campus HVAC systems. The pandemic has prioritized the air handling upgrades…
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Earlier this week, the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center (NSCRC) released updated data on persistence and retention among college students. Not surprisingly, community colleges suffered…
Two venture capital (VC) firms, Blackstone and Vista Equity Partners, purchased WCC’s managed service provider (MSP), Ellucian. The terms of the deal remain under wraps…
Community colleges around the country are working on return-to-school plans for the fall semester. But rebuilding enrollment will take more than simply offering in-person classes.…
Louisiana governor John Bel Edwards authorized a grant program that eliminates tuition for high-demand technical and occupational degrees. The program, which will be available next…
Yesterday, I wrote about the need for WCC to shift its approach to recruiting students. The WCC administration has identified the decline in the high-school…
President Biden’s newly announced infrastructure deal will create thousands of jobs. In addition, about a quarter of today’s infrastructure workforce is heading into retirement. Analysts…
A recent opinion piece in Forbes questions the need for free community college. The claims that community college affordability eliminates the need for free tuition.…
There is a lot of talk about free community college. Many states have even adopted some form of it as part of their economic recovery…
Yesterday, I wrote about the need for WCC to better recruit graduating high school seniors. One reason is that some recent high school graduates (most…