SBCTC NEWS LINKS | Articles about – and of interest to – Washington state community and technical colleges
SYSTEM NEWS | OPINIONS
Culinary students face off in statewide contest / Nearly 300 high school students participate in invitational
The Olympia, March 9, 2009 (South Puget Sound CC)
http://www.theolympian.com/education/story/781081.html
Tacoma students make the pledge to stay college bound / Thousands of eligible local seventh through ninth-graders and their parents attend
Tacoma Weekly, March 12, 2009 (Tacoma CC)
http://www.tacomaweekly.com/article/2918
TRENDS| HORIZONS | EDUCATION
The Politics of Volunteering for a Furlough / Employees Who Step Forward to Take Unpaid Leave Fret Over Impact on Their Careers
Wall Street Journal, March 12, 2009
More bad news on campus: Scholarships drying up
Bellingham Herald, March 12, 2009
http://www.bellinghamherald.com/latestheadlines/story/827608.html
Duncan Touts Perkins Loans for Struggling Middle-Class Families
The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 12, 2009
http://chronicle.com/temp/email2.php?id=YfBxZxvhFvDprhk9Ym9g82xDrg2rrqKf
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Is the Laptop Love-In Over?
Inside Higher Ed, March 12, 2009
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/03/12/laptops
POLITICS | LOCAL, STATE, NATIONAL
Senate passes UI conformity bill, retraining bill
TVW Capitol Record, March 11, 2009
http://www.tvw.org/capitolrecord/?CFID=2045134&CFTOKEN=75866441
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