A recently released analysis of US credit card data suggests that people are currently spending two-thirds of what they spent on fitness memberships prior to…
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WCC announced this week that it is joining the ranks of campuses that will enforce mandatory masks. Currently, the College has no plans to implement…
Last week, Walmart announced that it would pay 100% of its workers’ college tuition and books costs. Today, Target did the same. To qualify full-time…
Last month, I wrote about the recent sale of Ellucian, WCC’s managed service provider. Ellucian had been purchased in 2015 by two venture capital firms…
Last week, the Barton Community College (Great Bend, KS) Board of Trustees voted to terminate the school’s automotive program. The Trustees cited declining enrollment, high…
Last month, the Illinois Board of Higher Education and the Illinois Community College Board both issued COVID-19 recommendations. Higher education institutions in Illinois should require…
Two years ago today the WCC community said goodbye to the College’s in-house IT staff. The current WCC administration outsourced the entire Information Technology staff.…
It doesn’t take long for the pandemic to change everything. Just a week after saying that fully vaccinated individuals could go maskless in higher education…
Ivy Tech Community College announced a new partnership with the United Methodist Youth Home. The agreement enables residents of the UMYH to work on their…
According to the US Department of Justice, about 650,000 people complete prison sentences and leave custody every year. Within three years, however, about two-thirds of…