SBCTC NEWS LINKS | Articles about – and of interest to – Washington state community and technical colleges
SYSTEM NEWS | OPINIONS
Students learn from a dummy: Fake patient simulates real-world experience
Federal Way Mirror, Feb. 17, 2009 (Highline CC)
http://www.pnwlocalnews.com/south_king/fwm/community/39722368.html
Student enrollment rising at many colleges
The Examiner, Feb. 18, 2009 (Pierce, Wenatchee Valley, Peninsula)
Tacoma Community College charged to ‘do more with less’
Peninsula Gateway, Feb. 19, 2009
http://www.gateline.com/104/story/3515.html
Spokane CC accident kills running coach
Spokesman Review, Feb. 19, 2009
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2009/feb/19/man-dies-accident-scc/
State colleges brace for budget reductions
The Olympian, Feb. 20, 2009 (South Puget Sound CC)
http://www.theolympian.com/southsound/story/764134.html
TRENDS| HORIZONS | EDUCATION
An Open Letter to President Obama
… Despite the fact that almost half of all undergraduates in the United States are attending two-year institutions, community colleges receive only 2 percent of the $28 billion annually donated to postsecondary educational institutions.
Inside Higher Ed, Feb. 19, 2009
http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2009/02/19/bennett
Bankruptcy may threaten Seattle University
The Herald, Feb. 20, 2009
POLITICS | LOCAL, STATE, NATIONAL
State's budget woe widens to $8.3 billion
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Feb. 20, 2009
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/400806_forecast20.html
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