Some interesting research from the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston suggests that non-college-educated men leave the workforce when their incomes decline relative to those of…
Posts published in “Technical education”
Community college administrators have been content with the knowledge that their classrooms fill when the economy tanks. Sadly, nothing is as simple as it looks.…
Earlier this year, the Brookings Institution published an in-depth study of economic mobility characteristics among socioeconomically disadvantaged young people. In it, researchers used data to…
Yesterday, I wrote about the labor participation rate of women in the United States. About 1.5M women who had been working at the onset of…
Much has been written about the impact of the pandemic on working mothers. During the pandemic, women exited the workforce in extraordinary numbers. The assumption…
Two interesting articles published recently. One suggested that labor shortages will plague employers for years to come, based on a report released by Indeed.com. The…
Earlier this year, I wrote about legislation that is now in front of the Texas Legislature. The Lone Star State wants to rethink the way…
For years, the WCC Administration has carried on about the coming enrollment decline. They have used it to justify their plan to open a hotel…
California’s steep decline in community college enrollment is still making news. Since the Great Recession, California’s two-year colleges have shed nearly a million students. Administrators…
The University of Wisconsin has announced that it will cease offering degree programs at its Richland Center campus. The decision raises an issue regarding the…