Michigan: Fallout From Auto Industry Collapse

by E Wayne Ross on January 20, 2009

Inside Higher Ed: Fallout From Auto Industry Collapse

In better times, Detroit’s Big Three automakers signed multi-million dollar corporate training contracts with local community colleges to offer customized programs for their employees. They offered these same employees and their dependents tuition assistance grants to further their education as they saw fit. And in better times, the state’s budget also supported these community colleges at healthy levels. Now, with the auto industry and the state on the critical list, community colleges are being hit hard.