Twice in the last two weeks, I’ve read several articles about new programs designed to create college bound children. Nebraska, St. Paul, MN and New…
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Washtenaw Community College may receive nearly $12M in newly authorized coronavirus relief funds. The money comes from nearly $23B earmarked for colleges and universities in…
The Futures for Frontliners application window is now closed. The program, which Governor Gretchen Whitmer announced in September, accepted more than 100,000 applications. Not every…
When someone mentions “the wage gap,” a listener may assume that the phrase refers to earnings differences among men and women. While that’s certainly fertile…
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…
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…
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…