SBCTC NEWS LINKS | Articles about – and of interest to – Washington state community and technical colleges
SYSTEM NEWS | OPINIONS
Seeking new life in new line of work
NBC News “What Works” series, March 3, 2009
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/29227045#29497734
No Worker Left Behind
Largest industrial trade association endorses a set of stackable work skills credentials, hoping to prod companies to require them and community colleges to teach them.
Inside Higher Ed, March 5, 2009
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/03/05/certification
TRENDS| HORIZONS | EDUCATION
Helping Students, Not Lenders
The budget rightly calls for phasing out the wasteful and all-too-corruptible portion of the student program that relies on private lenders.
New York Times, March 4, 2009
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/04/opinion/04wed3.html?_r=1&emc=eta1
New wind energy program set for Vancouver school
The Oregonian, March 4, 2009
http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2009/03/a_privately_owned_academy_in.html
Hispanic enrollment in schools, colleges rising
Associated Press, March 5, 2009
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5if7MqOx7roM3NayjcbRNSpqjtKbQD96NM4U00
22% Drop Projected for Hiring of New College Grads
Inside Higher Ed, March 5, 2009
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/03/05/qt#193263
These Lectures Are Gone in 60 Seconds / Minute-long talks find success at a community college
The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 6, 2009
http://chronicle.com/temp/email2.php?id=bphMNr6DCvwKJgtYV84hphnXcTbZybPz
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POLITICS | LOCAL, STATE, NATIONAL
Joe Copeland: Take off the mask, governor
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, March 5, 2009
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/402290_copegov05.html
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