At the April 6 Board Retreat, EVP Bill Johnson reported the financial state of the College and provided financial projections for the next three fiscal…
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One of the justifications that the WCC Administration has given for closing the WCC Children’s Center is that few students use the service. In fact,…
I am receiving an increasing amount of feedback regarding the closure of WCC’s Children’s Center. That’s nice. I’m glad people are paying attention. I’m not…
A year and a half ago, I wrote a piece about how hard it is to communicate with the WCC Board of Trustees. The Trustees…
In her presentation to the WCC Board of Trustees, Executive Vice President Linda Blakey said several times that student choice drove the drop in usage…
In the WCC Trustees’ most recent Spring Retreat, the WCC Administration announced that it would be permanently closing the Children’s Center. Executive Vice President Linda…
WCC has permanently closed the Children’s Center, the college’s on-campus childcare facility. Prior to COVID-19, the service operated on campus continuously since 1968. Like all…
According to figures from the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES), about one in three women who attend a public two-year institution have children that…
Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, KS will pay its full- and part-time employees $250 to get the COVID-19 vaccine. The college hopes a…
On Thursday, the Michigan Department of Health partnered with 26 universities and colleges to promote vaccination among college students. The partnership did not include any…