I’ve been writing about the need for some serious upgrades to the occupational education programs currently on offer at WCC. The average community college graduate…
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The National Student Clearinghouse released enrollment data for the Winter 2022 semester. Overall, undergraduate enrollment declined by 662,000 students compared to Winter 2021. Since the…
The American Association of Community Colleges has been lobbying the Biden administration for student loan relief. As the administration ponders the possibility of broad forgiveness…
The State of Michigan announced last month that it intends to spend $100M in the next two years to fund as many as 1,000 new…
A new plan introduced last week by a consortium of higher education and hospital association proposes to allow all 28 Michigan community colleges to confer…
Recently, I ran across a press release from earlier this year. In it, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a grant to St. Louis…
Yesterday, I wrote about student loan interest rates and their scheduled rise. Since early in the pandemic, the federal government has hit the pause button…
Interest rates on new federal student loans will rise effective July 1. The current interest rate, 3.73% will creep up more than 1.25% to 4.99%…
Legislators introduced a package of bills today that would extend the Michigan Reconnect program to individuals twenty-one and older. Currently, the program is available only…
I’ve written often about the size of the WCC administration and how much it has grown over the past decade. But simple growth doesn’t answer…