Yesterday, I wrote about Eastern Gateway Community College in Steubenville, OH. The Higher Learning Commission dented EGCC’s accreditation because it didn’t maintain academic quality as…
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The pandemic has not been kind to community college enrollment. Since March 2020, enrollment at two-year colleges has dropped by more than 14%. First generation…
Yesterday I wrote about functional unemployment, a term LISEP uses to describe full-time workers who cannot make ends meet. LISEP also takes a broader look…
Every month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics releases unemployment statistics. The media widely reports them and people view these statistics as a measure of the…
Post-secondary institutions have their eyes firmly fixed on the Great Recession. The birth rate during that period (2007-2009) dropped, which means there will be a…
The US Department of Education collects a lot of data on higher education institutions. One data tool it publishes is the College Scorecard, which allows…
Community college enrollment has suffered during the pandemic. Although this came as a surprise to community college administrators, it should not have. In the past…
A new survey by the ECMC Group may hold the key to slowing enrollment declines at community colleges. The survey of 1,000 high school students…
Texas governor Greg Abbott has been making headlines lately. Everyone has an opinion about Abbott, and Texas, for that matter. But setting Texas politics aside,…
On Friday, President Joe Biden admitted that his Administration’s free community college program may not make it into the final Build Back Better proposal. In…