No one knows what the impact would be of eliminating community college tuition for recent high school graduates. While the plan signals an investment in…
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Recently, I have written about the performance-based funding model that the State of Texas has recently adopted for its community colleges. The model puts nearly…
A recently released report by the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning indicates that the overwhelming majority of higher education faculty and staff believe that…
A new report from the University of Wisconsin-Madison examines the differences in lifetime earnings based on educational attainment in that state. According to the data,…
I wrote about performance-based funding in Pennsylvania yesterday. The state has not yet adopted this community college funding model, but will consider it. Texas announced…
There are so many reasons community colleges need to provide a pathway to high demand, high wage jobs. Unfortunately, the data from Michigan show that…
Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer plans to use a part of her State of the State address tomorrow to ask legislators to approve a plan to…
Recently, I have been thinking about the relatively low WCC graduation rate. If you live in Washtenaw County, it would have been nearly impossible to…
Recently, I ran across a white paper by Coursera, the massive open online course provider. The paper discussed the courses and study subjects in highest…
Last summer, I wrote about the need for the Michigan Reconnect program to demand real value from Michigan’s community colleges. Rather than focusing on workforce…