Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s proposal to lower the age to qualify for the Michigan Reconnect plan could backfire. The governor was in Battle Creek today to…
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The Hechinger Report offers an interesting analysis of the cost of educating a community college student. The issue arises tangentially; Texas is redesigning its community…
In President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address, he talked about the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and its potential to create a half-million clean…
If you want to know what happens when a public board doesn’t provide authentic oversight, look no farther than the Prichard Water Works and Sewer…
Earlier this month, Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids, IA, announced that it would lay off 28 full- and part-time faculty members. Some of the…
I recently read an interesting editorial regarding public debt. The author divided “public debt” into three different kinds of mismanagement: budgetary mismanagement; failure to invest…
No one knows exactly when a recession starts. Inflation and the moves the Fed has made to stop it have added a layer of intrigue…
A survey published recently by Inside Higher Ed reveals serious quality gaps in academic advising. Among community college students, fewer than half say they’ve received…
Heartland Community College, in Normal, IL plans to increase its tuition and fees for next year by $8 per credit hour. The increase represents a…
You might think that the number of colleges and universities in the US stays relatively constant. You would be wrong. Between 2010-11 and 2020-21, the…