Yesterday, I wrote about community college education in Michigan, and which degree programs attract the majority of students. Today, I will look at the relative…
WCC Watch
For the past several years, one ongoing conversation about higher education has focused on the declining enrollment at the nation’s community colleges. For reasons that…
Generally speaking, when the economy adds 236,000 new jobs, that’s considered good news. Unfortunately for community colleges, the March jobs report is not exactly what…
Jamie Dimon, the CEO of banking giant JP Morgan Chase, says that raising wages and closing the skills gap are the two most promising paths…
Yesterday, Judge Carol Kuhnke refused to order Graduate Employees’ Organization workers back into the classrooms at the University of Michigan. According to the ruling, graduate…
There’s an interesting op-ed that appeared in the Seattle Times today that unintentionally encapsulates what’s wrong with community colleges. The purpose of the piece is…
The Hechinger Report published a piece yesterday that analyzed the drop in community college enrollment. The report placed the blame on everything from bad advising…
Yesterday, I wrote about the projected impact of climate change on Washtenaw County. That was inspired, in part, by a recent news piece that named…
I don’t have the patience to debate the reality of climate change. If you don’t believe climate change is real, then go buy yourself some…
A few days ago, I wrote about Oregon’s community colleges and their attempts to reduce a looming statewide budget deficit. Like many other publicly funded…