The Aspen Prize is a $1M competitive award, given every other year to recognize high-achieving community colleges. Using a two-year grant cycle, the Aspen Institute…
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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…
Yesterday, I wrote about recruiting students away from for-profit colleges. Clearly, students who consider for-profit colleges don’t understand the finer points of college costs. These…
From a student’s perspective, there’s not much to recommend a for-profit college. Regardless, they still have a strong appeal to certain students. It shouldn’t be…
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.…
If you’ve been around Washtenaw Community College for any length of time, you know that the WCC summer semester is a lightweight. Further, the instructor…
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…
There are a lot of ways to measure the value of a two-year degree. Demand for graduates is certainly one way to look at a…
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…