On January 1 of this year, I wrote about a College of the Mainland bond request that the voters of Texas City, TX would be…
Posts published in “WCC Budget”
Yesterday, Bridge Michigan published a nice piece on the state’s population problems, and the impacts it will have on Michigan’s future. You can read it…
Michigan state senator Mark Huizenga introduced legislation last week to mandate a tuition freeze at Michigan’s 15 public universities and 28 public community colleges. The…
Inside Higher Education published an interesting write-up of the decline in post-secondary enrollment in the US. Last week, the Lumina Foundation and Gallup held a…
Enrollment declines are nothing new at the community college level. Enrollment has been dropping for more than a decade. But how will community colleges fare…
Recently, WCC announced that it was part of a larger group of community colleges in Southeast Michigan that will share in a grant by the…
If you ask people what today is, most of them will say “Monday.” While that’s true, it’s also “A Day without Child Care” Day across…
Last month, the WCC Board of Trustees handed the students a 4% tuition increase. At the same time, the taxpayers of Washtenaw County handed WCC…
Earlier today, Governor Gretchen Whitmer and US Commerce Department Secretary Gina Raimondo announced that Michigan has landed a new hydrogen plant. Norway’s Nel Hydrogen will…
There’s been a lot of handwringing about the birth rate and what it means for college enrollment in the coming years. The year-over-year birth rate…