Statewide examinations of community colleges are revealing factors that limit the institutions’ success. The audits identify major gaps in oversight, misspending, and strategy, all of…
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Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s proposal to lower the age to qualify for the Michigan Reconnect plan could backfire. The governor was in Battle Creek today to…
In President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address, he talked about the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and its potential to create a half-million clean…
For community colleges hoping to draft on the online education trend, the University of Florida has just delivered some bad news: online coursework delivers only…
Earlier this year, I wrote about legislation that is now in front of the Texas Legislature. The Lone Star State wants to rethink the way…
As promised earlier this year, the State of Texas is poised to restructure its current community college funding model. Currently, Texas funds its community college…
I’m reading an interesting book right now, called After the Ivory Tower Falls: How College Broke the American Dream and Blew Up Our Politics―and How…
A new report from the National Student Clearinghouse shows that student transfers during the pandemic have declined by 13.5%. That translates to 300,000 fewer transfer…
The Bureau of Labor Statistics released its monthly state unemployment data today. Michigan’s unemployment rate dropped nominally, from 4.3% in June to 4.2% in July.…
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…