The issue of WCC Board oversight (or lack of it) isn’t going to go away. The Board’s unwillingness or inability to recognize and hold the…
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Former WCC Board of Trustees Secretary Mark Freeman entered the following in the official minutes for the May 27, 2014 Board Meeting. “Trustee McKnight-Morton spoke…
I am not a fan of the WCC Administration’s “be-fruitful-and-multiply” approach to self-preservation. I have written extensively about WCC’s administrative bloat. And about the enormous…
The US Census Bureau released updated population figures last month for the State of Michigan. Not surprising to anyone (except perhaps the WCC Administration), Washtenaw…
In April, WCC’s CFO Bill Johnson spent 40 minutes laying out the structural deficit that this Administration’s spending habits have created. He explained why WCC…
“A fish rots from the head down.” When I was young, my father used to travel to Canada every summer to go muskie fishing. If…
State legislators are working to cover a $2.2 billion COVID-19 related budget hole. $712M will go to the School Aid Fund. Michigan’s public universities and…
San Bernardino Community College District announced this week that it saved local taxpayers millions of dollars by refinancing bonds. SBCC issued the taxpayer-approved bonds in…
Like all higher education institutions, WCC has a policy regarding plagiarism. In fact, the Board has enshrined the policy in WCC Board Policy 4095 Student…
For a number of years in its Capital Outlay Plans, WCC has identified several buildings as having deficient or end-of-life HVAC units. The cost of…