Eastern Michigan University and its faculty are in the process of negotiating a new faculty contract. EMU’s contract with the EMU-AAUP expired on August 31.…
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I ran across an interesting item recently on why going to college has become so expensive. Fundamentally, there are many contributors to the cost of…
Voters in the Los Angeles area will decide whether to authorize more than $5B in bonds for the Los Angeles Community College District. The measure,…
“Given our extensive investment in WCC, it is not too much to ask that the Trustees insist that the Chief Executive Officer maintain the facilities…
A new study of American attitudes toward college education shows that slightly less than half of Americans think the benefits of a college education outweigh…
I have written about the prospect of expanding the Washtenaw Community College District before. WCC’s current enrollment splits almost equally between in-district and out-of-district students.…
Yesterday, I wrote about student loan interest rates and their scheduled rise. Since early in the pandemic, the federal government has hit the pause button…
Evanston Skokie School District 65 is less than 10 miles northwest of Wrigley Field in Chicago. For the first time in more than 50 years,…
For the last few days, I’ve written about a dangerous practice that WCC has adopted. In both the Board Meeting earlier this week and throughout…
The pandemic has changed the college enrollment landscape in some very unexpected ways. It’s not hard to understand why community colleges look less attractive to…