Earlier this month, the Ann Arbor Public Schools released its fall enrollment figures. The data show a 3% decrease in enrollment over last year. Much…
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A new survey by the ECMC Group may hold the key to slowing enrollment declines at community colleges. The survey of 1,000 high school students…
Earlier this week, the Brookings Institution published a piece by Nicol Turner Lee, a Senior Fellow in Governance Studies and the Director of the Center…
Yesterday, I wrote about recruiting students away from for-profit colleges. Clearly, students who consider for-profit colleges don’t understand the finer points of college costs. These…
While economic recessions are not welcome events, they’re also not bad for community colleges. Typical recessions drive enrollment higher as displaced workers retrain, and high…
Google can be a little creepy at times. For example, today it pulled several stories for me regarding growing shortages of workers with technical skills.…
For the last couple of days, I’ve written about the most recent WalletHub rankings of community colleges. On one hand, WCC ranks in the top…
I recently wrote about the decision that most community colleges seem to be making for the fall semester. That is, they’re planning to offer an…
“You gotta know something that somebody else doesn’t know. And liberal arts colleges are having some problems because simply, as I say, writing about the…
Yesterday, I wrote about the economic value of skilled trades and technical education. So amid the economic uncertainty, it’s disturbing to hear the College president…