Yesterday, I wrote about the plan to invest billions in community college infrastructure. I said that the government should not reward community colleges – like…
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In last night’s Board meeting, the WCC Trustees approved a contract for fiber installation on campus. The $220,000 contract was awarded to Challenger Technologies of…
The pandemic has turned a lot of things upside down. In the last year, COVID-19 has challenged us all in one way or another. As…
In January, an online news magazine called The Hechinger Report published a rather lengthy piece on outsourcing in higher education. The article included a skewed…
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…
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…
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…
The WCC Administration has shown significant interest in real estate development. That’s nice, but WCC is a community college. It is not – and should…
It’s easy to think that a so-called “down-ballot” race for community college trustees doesn’t really matter. For many voters, the candidates are a collection of…
The taxpayers of Washtenaw County pay an awful lot for WCC, just as we have since 1965. The WCC Board of Trustees has a responsibility…