I recently read an article about the cost of college tuition. In it, the author said that college tuition had increased 33% since 2000. Something…
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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.
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,…
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…
Earlier this week, Governor Gretchen Whitmer announced a $1.4B proposal to improve access to affordable childcare. The funding for the proposal will come from the…
The WCC administration loves to remind the Board that WCC has one of the in-district lowest tuition-and-fee structure in Michigan. That’s true, but as is…
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…
I read a story the other day about the Austin Community College trustees. ACC owns a 10-story office tower, which sits on Highway 290 in…
Last year, prior to the pandemic, WCC planned to close the Morris Lawrence Building for a major renovation. The cost of this work was $9M.…
The Fulton-Montgomery Community College petitioned the New York Supreme Court last month to sell its three community college dorms. FMCC needed court approval to sell…
According to figures from the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES), about one in three women who attend a public two-year institution have children that…