At Tuesday’s Board Meeting, the Washtenaw Community College Board of Trustees approved a 50% increase to the per-credit hour fee students currently pay for…. um……
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Yesterday, I wrote about what I see as deception on the Washtenaw Community College website. WCC could have taken the high road when describing its…
There is no way around it: the value proposition of a community college degree matters. In fact, it matters so much that would-be students bypass…
Yesterday, I wrote about an intensive data analysis of more than 17,000 degree and certificate programs offered at community colleges around the country. The data…
I’ve written often about the need to eliminate WCC degree programs that lead people into low-wage jobs. New analysis provided by the Foundation for Research…
In an era of plummeting community college enrollment, the Philadelphia Fed is looking out for workers who don’t have a college degree. It recently introduced…
Lowe’s announced today that it will join other major employers in offering debt-free college education to its workers. The company, headquartered in Mooresville, NC, will…
Last week, the Michigan Association of United Ways (MAUW) released a new report about poverty in Michigan. In it, report authors claim that nearly half…
Community colleges have weathered the pandemic poorly. Enrollment at two-year schools has declined steadily for a decade. States, desperate to raise the number of workers…
The promise of a free college education to potentially hundreds of thousands of Michiganders was completely lost on Washtenaw County. While Michigan’s community college enrollment…