At a recent Board Meeting, WCC Trustees accepted the proposed budget for the upcoming fiscal year. This year’s budget is somewhat smaller than previous years,…
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Two venture capital (VC) firms, Blackstone and Vista Equity Partners, purchased WCC’s managed service provider (MSP), Ellucian. The terms of the deal remain under wraps…
Community colleges around the country are working on return-to-school plans for the fall semester. But rebuilding enrollment will take more than simply offering in-person classes.…
Earlier this year, the WCC Administration made the unfortunate decision to close The Children’s Center, the on-campus childcare center. WCC’s substitute plan is to pay…
Yesterday, I wrote about the need for WCC to shift its approach to recruiting students. The WCC administration has identified the decline in the high-school…
Last month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released provisional US birth rate data for 2020. According to the report, the fertility rate was…
North Carolina community colleges, like those in many other states, rely heavily on state funding. Last December, the system requested sufficient funding to increase community…
The WCC Children’s Center closure is permanent, but it comes at what might be the worst possible time for parents. The COVID-19 pandemic devastated the…
A newly released book, Pregnant Girl: A Story of Teen Motherhood, College and Creating a Better Future for Young Families, examines the difficulty that teen…
Until recently, I had never heard the term “childcare desert,” but they do exist and they’re growing. A childcare desert exists when the number of…