US News and World Report published an interesting article today regarding red flags among higher education institutions’ financial conditions. The two specific areas of concern…
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.
Yesterday, Bridge Michigan published a nice piece on the state’s population problems, and the impacts it will have on Michigan’s future. You can read it…
Recently, WCC announced that it was part of a larger group of community colleges in Southeast Michigan that will share in a grant by the…
Higher education institutions aren’t the only ones struggling with the consequences of neglected facilities maintenance. The enormous cost of ignoring infrastructure problems isn’t the only…
Yesterday, I wrote about the perfectly outrageous revelation that buildings at several City College of San Francisco campuses remained without heat for two or more…
Holding a Board of Trustees meeting in a room with no heat apparently gets the maintenance money moving. At least, that’s what happened earlier this…
Late last year, the Kansas state legislature earmarked $45M to help address maintenance neglect on the campuses of the state universities in Kansas. There’s nothing…
I recently read an interesting editorial regarding public debt. The author divided “public debt” into three different kinds of mismanagement: budgetary mismanagement; failure to invest…
The University of North Carolina has a housing problem for the fall semester. The wait list for on-campus housing has increased by more than 40%…
I have written extensively about the impact of building neglect on the facilities at WCC. Reducing the maintenance budget is a recipe for disaster, and…