The Superintendent of the Nebraska City School District made an uncomfortable presentation to his community this week. Mark Fritch stood in front of Nebraska City…
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The Futures for Frontliners application window is now closed. The program, which Governor Gretchen Whitmer announced in September, accepted more than 100,000 applications. Not every…
Earlier this week, the Brookings Institution published a piece by Nicol Turner Lee, a Senior Fellow in Governance Studies and the Director of the Center…
For Trustees who think that institutional debt is a good solution for paying for construction, it’s not. Institutional debt drives the students’ cost of attendance.…
Usually, nothing good comes from an industrial accident, but one Maine company has changed that. In December, Pixelle Specialty Solutions announced that it would create…
Like many community colleges, WCC’s fall enrollment dropped. The Winter semester has not yet begun, so it remains to be seen whether enrollment will recover.…
A while ago, I wrote about the deep financial burden that the Health and Fitness Center is placing on WCC’s finances. I said that Washtenaw…
A coronavirus vaccine has been available for less than a month, and its long-term impacts remain to be seen. I’ve received different opinions by multiple…
Cost control at a community college has always been important, but in 2021 it will be imperative. It is important for the Board of Trustees…
A comprehensive Payscale study of community college graduates showed that WCC alumni rank in the bottom 50% for annual early- and mid-career earnings. Early-career WCC…