Monroe County Community College will build a $25M expansion of its Welch Health Education Building without raising student tuition. When complete, the expansion will house…
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Last week, the trustees at Eastern Gateway Community College authorized the administration there to request additional appropriations from the State of Ohio as needed until…
Last weekend, Northwestern College – a for-profit college that specializes in allied health education – closed rather unceremoniously, leaving several hundred students in a bind.…
There’s been much talk about the enrollment cliff. The term refers to a drop in the population of school-aged individuals. For colleges and universities, this…
Yesterday, I wrote about Lakeland Community College in Kirtland, OH. The school is laying off full-time staff and reducing certain services in an effort to…
The City University of New York (CUNY) recently released a report on the status of its facilities. CUNY operates 25 campuses – including seven community…
In the last few months, a number of community colleges have announced that they will use layoffs as a way to address large budget deficits.…
Recently, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York released some research that explains exactly how devastating the failure of community colleges has been. I say…
In the past few months, I have written about Eastern Gateway Community College (EGCC) in Steubenville, OH. More recently, I have written about Lakeland Community…
I have written at length about the risks that general obligation bonds pose to the institutions that issue them. When that institution is a community…