Although the Biden Administration has long made free community college a talking point, there’s another (related) point that’s starting to get some attention. “Free degree”…
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Last fall, chip manufacturer Micron selected Onondaga County to build a new $100B chip fabrication facility. When complete in 2025, the facility will house the…
Danville Community College in Danville, VA announced that its spring enrollment has increased by 6%. Increasing community college enrollment is a relative rarity these days.…
It is probably impossible to count the number of pets in Washtenaw County, but it is possible to say that as of Tuesday, Washtenaw County…
Education researchers have touted microcredentials as the next big thing in post-secondary education, but a new survey of more than 500 employers indicates that they…
According to New York Federal Reserve data, Millennials accumulated nearly $4T in personal debt in the last quarter of 2022. That represents the largest accumulation…
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…
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…
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…
Yesterday, I wrote about college closures. There seems to be a growing trend among community colleges of closing campuses and programs. In the coming years,…