According to the Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity, more than 85,000 Michiganders have applied to Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s Futures for Frontliners program. In…
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A recent report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center shows the impact of COVID-19 on higher education enrollment. According to the data, while four-year…
Trustees at Western Michigan University exercised some actual oversight today by voting to end WMU’s affiliation with Cooley Law School in 2023. In the past…
A shocking side effect of the COVID-19 pandemic emerged in the September jobs report. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the US workforce lost…
Who voters place on the Washtenaw Community College Board of Trustees is more important than ever. A perfect storm is forming around higher education, and…
More than 70,000 people in Michigan have applied to the “Futures for Frontliners” program, which provides free community college tuition to eligible frontline workers. In…
Yesterday, I wrote about a looming survival crisis in higher education. Higher ed administrators position it as an enrollment problem. “We’re entering a long period…
Recently, I ran across an article on a website called CounterPunch, which offered a familiar litany of complaints about higher education. The author’s ultimate question…
All things considered, the FY2021 WCC budget paints a decent revenue picture. While many community colleges around the nation struggle with massive cuts to state…
Yesterday, I wrote that the Washtenaw Community College Administration has effectively abandoned the campus buildings by allocating only $300,000 to the maintenance budget. Minimalism might…