The Board of Trustees at Springfield Technical Community College in Springfield, MA recently voted to reverse the STCC president’s decision to terminate 5 academic programs.…
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For Trustees who think that institutional debt is a good solution for paying for construction, it’s not. Institutional debt drives the students’ cost of attendance.…
I was reading something recently about the cost of poverty in Tucson, AZ. As it turns out, poverty is pretty expensive. If you ask average…
Recent higher education enrollment data from the National Center for Education statics describe a disturbing trend. Community college enrollment among Black males is at a…
Yesterday, I wrote about how tone-deaf Washtenaw Community College’s Master Plan is in light of the pandemic. While no one expected COVID-19, Washtenaw County has…
A recent study by the JP Morgan Chase Institute shows the negative impact of student loan debt on Black borrowers. According to the Chase data,…
Income inequality is quickly becoming one of those subjects not discussed in polite conversation. But it should be. According to the Pew Research Center, between…
According to the Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity, more than 85,000 Michiganders have applied to Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s Futures for Frontliners program. In…
I was reading an article on the WGBH (Boston) website today about community college enrollment there. In Massachusetts, fall enrollment at the state’s community colleges…
Last month, I described the concept of intergenerational theft. An activist in Los Angeles uses the term to describe the continuous shifting of resources away…