A new analysis from The Hechinger Report shows that community colleges may have bigger problems than pandemic-induced low enrollment. Community colleges took a big hit…
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Yesterday I wrote about the Aspen Prize, a competition to find and recognize the highest performing community colleges in the United States. The Aspen Institute…
The Aspen Prize is a $1M competitive award, given every other year to recognize high-achieving community colleges. Using a two-year grant cycle, the Aspen Institute…
Earlier this week, the Brookings Institution published a piece by Nicol Turner Lee, a Senior Fellow in Governance Studies and the Director of the Center…
From a student’s perspective, there’s not much to recommend a for-profit college. Regardless, they still have a strong appeal to certain students. It shouldn’t be…
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.…
If you’ve been around Washtenaw Community College for any length of time, you know that the WCC summer semester is a lightweight. Further, the instructor…
Usually, nothing good comes from an industrial accident, but one Maine company has changed that. In December, Pixelle Specialty Solutions announced that it would create…
The December jobs report is out, and like previous months’ reports, it isn’t good. You could say that it gives new meaning to the term…
There are a lot of ways to measure the value of a two-year degree. Demand for graduates is certainly one way to look at a…