Bay de Noc Community College in Escanaba is searching for a new president. The chosen candidate, from among four finalists, will assume responsibility for the…
WCC Watch
Last fall, Northwestern Michigan College (NMC) announced a new two-year degree program – Water Quality Environmental Technology. The program will prepare students to work in…
What salary would a prospective employer have to offer to get you to accept a new job? Next Monday, the New York Fed will release…
In case you missed it, USA Today ran a story over the weekend about the desperate need for green energy technicians. The story focuses on…
In the last couple of posts, I have written about the state of community college education, and why the current approach to career and transfer…
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…
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…