A new bill in the US Senate could provide $20M in funding to community colleges to pay for new agriculture-related science programs. If passed, the…
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Last week, New York governor Kathy Hochul announced that about 125,000 high school seniors would receive automatic acceptance letters to the state’s community colleges. Generally,…
States are gearing up to produce electricity using off-shore wind farms. Last fall, New Jersey announced that it would invest about one-half billion dollars in…
Here’s another reason to prefer degree programs over short-term training. Researchers from Princeton University who study mortality say that Americans who have earned a bachelor’s…
Since WCC seems to have gone all-in on certificate programs, it is worthwhile to examine the credential’s value to the earner. But they should also…
SmartAsset recently released an analysis of the best US cities to ride out a recession in. Believe it or not, fifteen Michigan cities were among…
Last week, the Washtenaw County United Way released an update on households on the economic margins in the county. Asset-limited, income-constrained, employed (ALICE) is a…
If there was ever a place that needs vertical farming, it’s right here in Michigan. Earlier this month, the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Sciences…
Yesterday, Bridge Michigan published a nice piece on the state’s population problems, and the impacts it will have on Michigan’s future. You can read it…
The Michigan section of the American Society of Civil Engineers provides an annual report on the state of Michigan’s infrastructure. Michigan’s 2023 grade is a…