Muskegon Community College announced last week that it had accepted an offer from an unnamed buyer for the Lakeshore Fitness Center. MCC had purchased the…
Posts published in “WCC structural deficit”
What happened in Texas this month wasn’t pretty. The large-scale failure of the Texas energy grid caused widespread power outages. At exactly the same time,…
Yesterday, I wrote about the declining value of a college education. The change in value is a problem for community colleges. I said that propping…
Attending college has always been thought of as an investment, because historically, earning a college degree meant earning more money. WCC students show up every…
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…
Palomar College, in San Marcos is one of California’s 116 community colleges. It hasn’t had a good year. At exactly the same time the COVID-19…
According to the latest figures from the State of Michigan, residents filed more than 40,000 applications for Michigan Reconnect. Michigan Reconnect is the state’s new…
A new report released last week by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities correlates increased student loan debt with decreased state higher education funding.…
A newly released report from Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s Poverty Task Force (PTF) says that 43% of Michigan residents don’t make enough money to get by.…
If you look at the annual budget for WCC – or any other community college – you’ll find that it has multiple revenue sources. Local…