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WCC Trustees Give Tuition Breaks to Everyone

By Eileen Peck

Washtenaw Community College announced this week that it will not raise tuition for in-district students. The in-person tuition rate will remain $99 per credit hour,...

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Middle Class Grows More Elusive In Ann Arbor

By Eileen Peck

SmartAsset, an investment advice firm, just published its most recent study of household finances. The study has the goal of defining "the middle class" based...

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General obligation bonds pose hidden risk

By Eileen Peck

I have written at length about the risks that general obligation bonds pose to the institutions that issue them. When that institution is a community...

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Community colleges pose a growing financial risk

By Eileen Peck

Our current political and economic climates draw two distinct pictures of community colleges right now. On one hand, politicians hail them as the saviors of...

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Community colleges need more than free tuition programs

By Eileen Peck

The Michigan House Appropriations Subcommittee on Higher Education and Community Colleges does not appear to support Governor Gretchen Whitmer's plan to make community colleges free...

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A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about planned layoffs at Linn-Benton Community College in Albany, OR. The cuts result from several factors, including declining…

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