Enrollment has declined at community colleges across the nation for the past decade, but the pandemic has accelerated the slide. There is no one reason…
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The pandemic has changed the college enrollment landscape in some very unexpected ways. It’s not hard to understand why community colleges look less attractive to…
Community colleges have weathered the pandemic poorly. Enrollment at two-year schools has declined steadily for a decade. States, desperate to raise the number of workers…
The promise of a free college education to potentially hundreds of thousands of Michiganders was completely lost on Washtenaw County. While Michigan’s community college enrollment…
A new report by researchers at The New School suggests that more than a million older workers – aged 55 and up – were forced…
Michigan Advance published an interesting OpEd last week regarding the decline in university enrollment in the State of Michigan. Most four-year universities in Michigan experienced…
A few days ago, I wrote about the fact that everyone has a theory about community college enrollment declines. Theorists often portray the pandemic and…
Between debates about the value of free college and shock over sharply declining community college enrollment, two-year schools are receiving a lot of attention lately.…
Yesterday, I wrote about a report from the Philadelphia Federal Reserve. It showed that job losses at the start of the pandemic fell disproportionately on…
A new report by the Philadelphia Federal Reserve seeks to explain how changes in labor demand will impact workers without college degrees. The report focuses…