Last weekend, Northwestern College – a for-profit college that specializes in allied health education – closed rather unceremoniously, leaving several hundred students in a bind.…
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There’s been much talk about the enrollment cliff. The term refers to a drop in the population of school-aged individuals. For colleges and universities, this…
I was looking at the State of Michigan’s high-wage, high-demand jobs list today. The website is meant to offer some career guidance to people who…
Yesterday, I wrote about housing in Washtenaw County and what it takes income-wise to live in various communities here. There is no doubt that Washtenaw…
Washtenaw County has always prided itself on its connections to higher education. At one time, Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti hosted five institutions of higher learning,…
Last week, the Michigan Legislature approved a budget that includes a plan for free community college tuition for all high school graduates. The plan will…
Recently, I was looking at Washtenaw County data from the US Census Bureau’s 2022 American Community Survey. One of the data points that the survey…
A new survey released today by Gallup and the Lumina Foundation show that 87% of people who left college without a degree or credential cited…
Data collection is big in higher education. There’s a lot of money riding on the performance of these institutions. One tool the Department of Education…
Last month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics updated community college enrollment data for most of 2023. According to the data, 1.9 million people aged 16-24…