News briefs: 05/07/2018

Photo by Carmen Cheng | Washtenaw Voice

Channeling your passion and living your values: alternatives to starting a nonprofit organization

Listen and learn to alternatives to nonprofit organizations at the entrepreneurship center on Tuesday, May 22 from 5-7 p.m. This event will help attendees look beyond the nonprofit model to lead a values-driven and community focused-life. The event will also have panelists experienced in nonprofit work including Amanda Edmonds, current Ypsilanti major, and founder of Growing Hope and Bekah Wallace, owner of Cultivate coffee and tap house among others. The event is in room GL202 in the great lakes regional training center on WCC’s campus.

2018-19 tuition flat for in-county students, up for others

Students enrolling for 2018-19 will find in-district tuition unchanged from this year.
The current rate of $95 a credit hour is available to Washtenaw County residents as well as to out-of-county residents who work at in-county businesses.
Out-of-district students will see rates increase 2 percent to $161 a credit hour. Out-of-state and international students will see rates go up 3 and 4 percent, respectively, to $220 and $258 per credit hour.
The same rate adjustment will be applied to distance learning:
$108 a credit hour in-district (no change)
$115 out of district (up 2 percent)
$119 out of state (up 3 percent)
$119 international (up 4 percent)

The changes were approved by wcc’s board of trustees

This past October, 58.5 percent of the students enrolled were in-district. 37.5 out of district, 2.4 out of state and 1.6 percent international. A total of 12,390 were enrolled, according to WCC’s Fall 2017 Semester Profile. Tuition and fees provided 31.6 percent of all the college’s revenue, representing the second largest share behind local property taxes.

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