You can easily find information about the declining public investment in higher education. In addition to tuition hikes, universities have increasingly turned to a variety…
Posts published in “Deferred Maintenance”
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 you look at the annual budget for WCC – or any other community college – you’ll find that it has multiple revenue sources. Local…
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…
The December jobs report is out, and like previous months’ reports, it isn’t good. You could say that it gives new meaning to the term…
Like many community colleges, WCC’s fall enrollment dropped. The Winter semester has not yet begun, so it remains to be seen whether enrollment will recover.…
The State of Michigan has withdrawn final approval for construction projects at colleges and universities around the state. The uncertainty of the pandemic is chiefly…
A recent study by the JP Morgan Chase Institute shows the negative impact of student loan debt on Black borrowers. According to the Chase data,…
WCC Master Plan includes a “hotel and conference center.” Alternately, the plan describes the “hotel” as “student housing.” Honestly, I don’t know what the demand…
In the last few weeks, I’ve written extensively about opportunities for raising enrollment at WCC. Although there are many places to look for new students,…
There is a disturbing trend developing around debt incurred by publicly funded institutions. In short, the pandemic has financially destabilized publicly funded institutions that are…