Yesterday, I wrote about the Federal Reserve Board’s Survey of Household Economics and Decisionmaking (SHED). The “SHED report” is the Fed’s annual effort to take…
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Kalamazoo Valley Community College held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for its new School of Cosmetology and Barbering. KVCC will enroll its first class in the fall.…
If community colleges were serious about taking care of the communities that fund them, they’d be developing a large number of programs that lead to…
A new study by centrist think tank Third Way draws some interesting conclusions about the way the American public sees higher education. It’s safe to…
A couple of days ago, I wrote about a recent study by the consulting firm, Deloitte, which discovered that 4 in 10 Gen Z working…
One of the most interesting (and not in a good way) paradoxes about the current economy is the rising number of loan and credit card…
If the WCC Board of Trustees needs another reason to insist that the WCC Administration focus exclusively on creating programs that lead to high-wage, high-demand…
Last week, the Michigan legislature stuck a fork in Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s plans for free community college for all graduating high school seniors. Whitmer’s plan…
Recently, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York released some research that explains exactly how devastating the failure of community colleges has been. I say…
New labor market data analysis from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York shows that unemployment is highest (6.7%) among young workers – those between…