Yesterday, I wrote about strategies to counter the long-term impact of a declining birth rate. A more educated, more skilled population enables people who had…
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One of the stated goals of Michigan Reconnect was to enroll 70,000 Michiganders age 25+ in educational programs by July. Mission accomplished. According to the…
WCC’s most recent press release touts the Foundations of Caring Bootcamp, a new program that provides training for “health care workers.” Michigan Works! Southeast, Vibrant…
A planned funding increase to hire more full-time community college faculty in California is running into resistance. The Association of Community College Financial Officers penned…
Last month, I wrote about WCC’s “success rate” data as collected and reported by Michigan’s Center for Educational Performance and Information. The data show that…
A recent article in the Hechinger Report details the difficulty that the construction sector has in finding employees. I’m not talking about residential home construction…
The WCC administration loves to remind the Board that WCC has one of the in-district lowest tuition-and-fee structure in Michigan. That’s true, but as is…
Earlier this week, Bridge Michigan published an interesting interview with Michael Stack. Stack owns three Applied Fitness Solutions locations in Southeast Michigan. He is also…
More than 250 colleges and universities have signed on to President Biden’s COVID-19 College Vaccine Challenge. The three-step challenge asks higher education institutions to: Engage…
If you haven’t read Jill Derby’s opinion piece published yesterday on Inside Higher Ed, please consider doing so. In it, Derby reflects on the dangers…