Washtenaw County taxpayers have been extraordinarily generous with Washtenaw Community College. WCC has the good fortune of being situated in a place with a lot…
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The administration at Washtenaw Community College has incurred $20M in deferred maintenance projects around the campus. Deferred maintenance is repair work on buildings and systems that should have been done and was instead put off.
Taxpayers provided WCC with the money it needed to perform all necessary maintenance. Instead of using the money to repair buildings and critical systems, the administration has spent the money on other priorities.
If taxpayers spend just a few minutes looking at WCC, they’ll begin to see clearly what they’re getting for their money. WCC touches a lot…
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…
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…
If you spend any amount of time looking at public higher education funding, you’ll find an unfortunate trend. State funding for public two- and four-year…
In any given year, WCC takes in a lot of money. The taxpayers very generously overfund the College. Student enrollment is relatively constant. The State…
WCC has an over-abundance of administrators and a shortage of Trustees who are willing to say “No” to the Administration’s inane spending requests. While the…
Recently, WCC announced that it will freeze in-district tuition at $95 per credit hour for the 2020-21 school year. It will follow with a planned…
WCC has a line item in its expense budget called “Executive Management.” This fiscal year, the Executive Management budget started out at $2,140,537. This figure…
Moody’s Investors Service provides rating information for prospective investors in many different industries, including higher education. Higher education institutions like WCC sell bonds to raise…