If community colleges need another reason to re-evaluate their strategy of providing training and education for low-wage work, here it is. Credit card debt is…
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WCC isn’t the only community college having difficulty getting people into its classrooms via the Michigan Reconnect program. According to the State of Michigan, only…
Yesterday, I wrote about the competition for students that schools are engaged in. The competition isn’t so much between themselves as it is with the…
High demand in the labor market will increase pressure on higher education institutions that are hoping to increase their fall enrollment. Unemployment remained under 4%…
Americans’ confidence in higher education is waning, according to the latest Gallup Poll on the subject. The June poll shows that fewer Americans have “a…
Last week, I wrote about budget issues that the California State University system is experiencing. California has two different state university systems, and they’re both…
Southeastern Michigan energy company DTE announced yesterday that it will take a coal-fired power plant in Monroe three years earlier than originally planned. In addition…
The saga of Eastern Gateway Community College continues. You may recall that EGCC, in Steubenville, OH, ran afoul of both the US Department of Education…
For the last few days, I have written about the wealth gap, and how it changes based on educational attainment. The Federal Reserve Bank of…
Earlier this year, the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis updated an annual study called The State of US Wealth Inequality. (Initially, the St. Louis…