Over the last several days, I have written about Michigan’s personal income history and the problems it is causing the state. The United States Census…
Posts tagged as “associate degrees”
If competition for students wasn’t hard enough for community colleges already, it now looks like they’ll have at least one more higher education option to…
Community college graduates who develop certain key skills while attending school earn more than students who don’t. Emphasizing skill acquisition can lead to an earning…
Yesterday, I wrote about the vast and growing number of post-secondary credentials available in the United States. Today, there are nearly 1.1 million discrete credentials,…
As the Michigan state legislature works through the budget process for next year, it appears poised to add $70M to expand the Michigan Reconnect program.…
Earlier this year, the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis updated an annual study called The State of US Wealth Inequality. (Initially, the St. Louis…
For the last couple of days, I have written about the economic value data presented by the Institute for Higher Education Policy. The data attempt…
Kansas and Colorado have made it official: Their four-year universities automatically award associate degrees when the student amasses enough credits for them. The Kansas Board…
If you need more reasons to believe that the WCC administration should encourage students to seek associate degrees, look at the US Census Bureau’s Week…
I just read an opinion piece by the president of Aurora Community College regarding ACC’s first experience with issuing microcredentials. At the end of the…