A few months ago, I wrote about Texas House Bill 8, which radically altered the funding mechanism for Texas community colleges. HB8 is now in…
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Recently, I ran across a white paper by Coursera, the massive open online course provider. The paper discussed the courses and study subjects in highest…
In December, the Ohio Auditor of State published its analysis of the cost of dual enrollment on Ohio’s community colleges. Dual enrollment is the simultaneous…
Community college enrollment in 2023 increased for the first time in several years. Overall, community college enrollment has declined steeply since 2010. Two-year colleges have…
A survey released earlier this month about the value of a college education is getting a lot of attention for some of the wrong reasons.…
A new report released this week from the Project on Workforce and researchers at Harvard University identifies conditions that limit economic advancement for disadvantaged groups.…
Last month, the State of Minnesota introduced a new tool to help prospective students understand how much they will be earning in future years. The…
If you grew up sometime between the 1960’s and the 2000’s, you undoubtedly heard the college sales pitch. If you went to college, your lifetime…
In recent years, real wages among workers have grown. Not by much – 3% since 2019, but given that wage growth was either stagnant or…
In response to a growing shortage of workers, some employers (including the State of Michigan) have revamped their education requirements for certain positions. In some…