A new study by Purdue University researchers reveals that money can buy happiness. In Michigan, happiness runs about $95,000 per year. If happiness is a…
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Barton Community College in Great Bend, KS is learning a tough lesson. The community college has seventy-five open positions, some of which have been open…
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…
The University System of Maryland’s Board of Regents changed its policy on requiring applicants to provide SAT or ACT scores. The move allows Maryland’s 12…
COVID-19 has done a number on businesses in just about every sector. But the corporate response to the pandemic provides ample opportunity for community colleges…
I read a column yesterday about the conflict between the cost of daycare and the wages daycare workers earn. The author wrote in the context…
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the US unemployment rate for May 2022 was 3.6%. Michigan’s unemployment rate for April 2022 was 4.6%. Despite…
I’ve been writing about the need for some serious upgrades to the occupational education programs currently on offer at WCC. The average community college graduate…
The American Association of Community Colleges has been lobbying the Biden administration for student loan relief. As the administration ponders the possibility of broad forgiveness…
A new plan introduced last week by a consortium of higher education and hospital association proposes to allow all 28 Michigan community colleges to confer…