Yesterday, I wrote about the tech sector’s need for a better approach to talent acquisition. The tech sector creates more than a million entry-level jobs…
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I read an interesting article recently on tech employers, and what the author termed the “opportunity gap” in the United States. His point is that…
Earlier this week, Swisher Commercial released the 2021 year-end vacancy report for commercial space in the Ann Arbor area. As you might imagine, there’s a…
According to a 2020 survey conducted by Gallup, nearly three-fourths of Americans consider themselves part of the middle class. Realistically, however, the middle class has…
Tennessee governor Bill Lee asked the Tennessee Higher Education Commission to rethink the state’s higher education funding formula. Right now, Tennessee is the only state…
Almost a year ago, I wrote about Craig, CO, a coal mining town that’s facing the closure of a coal-fired power plant and the coal…
The City of Anaheim had a big budget problem last summer. The city normally collects more than $160M annually in hotel taxes. Hotel taxes feed…
If you ask community college administrators what’s causing community college enrollment declines, you may hear COVID-19. Or “the enrollment cliff.” Or both. Realistically, the answer…
The pandemic has made it clear that community colleges have a lot of competition for enrollment. Recent high school graduates are making other plans, leaving…
A report released yesterday by Opportunity@Work suggests that half of the US workforce has experienced downward mobility as a result of not having a bachelor’s…