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…
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.
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…
The Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges released its 3rd annual Trustee Index. The survey of more than 900 university and college trustees…
Yesterday, I wrote about the HFC. The building, which opened in 2006, is among the hundreds of gyms and health clubs closed by Executive Order…
The WCC Health and Fitness Center will not open until at least June 12. Even when the stay-at-home order is lifted, it’s hard to picture…
Right now, there’s not a lot of good information to answer questions about coronavirus spread. Is it spread by coughing and sneezing? If so, how…
The State of Michigan estimates that it will need to close a $6.2B revenue shortfall in the next 16 months. There is some variability in…
Last week, Governor Gretchen Whitmer extended the closure of the state’s gyms to June 12. The nearly 3-month closure order is part of the state’s…
Last June, WCC signed a contract for managed IT services with Ellucian that requires the College to pay the company $436,000 per month for 60…