Everyone thinks they know Murphy’s Law. If you ask someone to cite it, chances are good that they’ll say, “Anything that can go wrong will…
WCC Watch
Last month, Moody’s Investors Service downgraded a debt issue of Rider University (Lawrenceville, NJ) from Ba1 to Ba2. The change in the school’s credit rating…
A recently released analysis of US credit card data suggests that people are currently spending two-thirds of what they spent on fitness memberships prior to…
With the fall semester weeks away, everything from financial aid to food insecurity is complicating the return to school plan. Community colleges are hopeful that…
WCC announced this week that it is joining the ranks of campuses that will enforce mandatory masks. Currently, the College has no plans to implement…
Last week, Walmart announced that it would pay 100% of its workers’ college tuition and books costs. Today, Target did the same. To qualify full-time…
Last month, I wrote about the recent sale of Ellucian, WCC’s managed service provider. Ellucian had been purchased in 2015 by two venture capital firms…
Last week, the Barton Community College (Great Bend, KS) Board of Trustees voted to terminate the school’s automotive program. The Trustees cited declining enrollment, high…
Last month, the Illinois Board of Higher Education and the Illinois Community College Board both issued COVID-19 recommendations. Higher education institutions in Illinois should require…
Two years ago today the WCC community said goodbye to the College’s in-house IT staff. The current WCC administration outsourced the entire Information Technology staff.…