According to the Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity, more than 85,000 Michiganders have applied to Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s Futures for Frontliners program. In…
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A recent report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center shows the impact of COVID-19 on higher education enrollment. According to the data, while four-year…
Using data collected from WalletHub, today Stacker released its student loan debt rankings by state. Michigan ranked 9th overall, meaning that our college students carry…
A shocking side effect of the COVID-19 pandemic emerged in the September jobs report. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the US workforce lost…
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…
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…
Last month, I described the concept of intergenerational theft. An activist in Los Angeles uses the term to describe the continuous shifting of resources away…
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…