If you’ve looked at the headlines lately, you may have seen these: LCCC Eliminating 30+ Positions, Reorganizing Programs Due To Budget Shortfall “Laramie County Community…
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.
Earlier this year, Greg Sample, the Chief Operating Officer of Wright State University, made an interesting statement. In it, he attempts to explain why WSU…
When people make 5-year plans, or master plans, they don’t plan for the worst. No one plans to get hit by a hurricane, or that…
Who voters place on the Washtenaw Community College Board of Trustees is more important than ever. A perfect storm is forming around higher education, and…
Yesterday, I wrote about a looming survival crisis in higher education. Higher ed administrators position it as an enrollment problem. “We’re entering a long period…
Recently, I ran across an article on a website called CounterPunch, which offered a familiar litany of complaints about higher education. The author’s ultimate question…
All things considered, the FY2021 WCC budget paints a decent revenue picture. While many community colleges around the nation struggle with massive cuts to state…
Yesterday, I wrote that the Washtenaw Community College Administration has effectively abandoned the campus buildings by allocating only $300,000 to the maintenance budget. Minimalism might…
First, let us thank you – the Washtenaw County taxpayers – for your generous support of WCC in the March 10 election. Your overwhelming approval…
A couple of days ago, I published five things that voters should consider when selecting the WCC Trustees in this year’s General Election. In reality,…