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Hearing: Empowering Workers to Rebuild America’s Economy and Longer-Term Competitiveness: Green Skills Training for Workers
· Lee D. Lambert, Shoreline CC President
· Phillip C.L. Lou, Former Student in the Shoreline CC Solar Design and Installation Program
U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, April 21, 2009
http://help.senate.gov/Hearings/2009_04_21/2009_04_21.html
Protests planned over college cuts
KING 5 TV, April 21, 2009 (Shoreline, Seattle Central, Pierce)
http://www.nwcn.com/topstories/stories/NW_042109WAB-protest-education-cuts-LJ.f7dd27a0.html
Community college supporters ask lawmakers to lessen tuition hikes
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, April 21, 2009
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/405363_petition21.html
Face Time: Cakes & creativity
Yakima Herald, April 19, 2009 (Yakima Valley CC alumna)
http://www.yakima-herald.com/stories/2009/04/19/face-times-cakes-amp-creativity
Stimulus Check: Job stimulus funds flow to King County
According to the work force council, up to 40 percent of the funding will be used to cover tuition for workers wanting re-training. The council will look to allocate as much of the funding as possible to high-demand programs such as health care, information technology and manufacturing.
Puget Sound Business Journal, April 17, 2009
http://seattle.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2009/04/20/story10.html
Gates Foundation director nominated by Obama
Puget Sound Business Journal, April 17, 2009 (Rajiv Shah, Seattle CCs board of trustees)
http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2009/04/13/daily57.html
Centralia College's Nursing Program is Stayin' Alive & Thriving
The Chronicle, April 14, 2009
New [Centralia College] Science Building Opens
The Chronicle, April 14, 2009
http://www.outdoorslc.com/story.php?subaction=showfull&id=1239729041&archive=&start_from=&ucat=5&
TRENDS| HORIZONS | EDUCATION
Workplace stress on the rise; keep yours to a minimum
Puget Sound Business Journal, April 17, 2009
http://seattle.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2009/04/20/smallb2.html
Online Video is Changing College Recruiting
E-Campus News, login required, April 16, 2009
The easy availability of digital video clips through video-sharing web sites such as YouTube and others is changing the nature of recruiting for college athletics.
http://www.ecampusnews.com/news/top-news/?i=58270
Using Technology to Do More With Less
With IT budgets shrinking and challenging economic conditions persisting, an increasing number of higher education institutions are doing more with less.
Campus Technology, April 9, 2009
http://campustechnology.com/articles/2009/04/09/using-technology-to-do-more-with-less.aspx
POLITICS | LOCAL, STATE, NATIONAL
House Committee OKs temporary sales tax bill
People concerned about cuts in education also spoke their minds Tuesday morning, delivering about 10,000 signatures to legislators.
South Seattle Community College student Bedria Abdullahi skipped classes today to deliver her message, with the goal of getting a better job in the future.
"Working a minimum wage job for the rest of my life is not what I want for me or my children," she said.
KING 5 TV, April 21, 2009
http://www.king5.com/topstories/stories/NW_042109POB-AP-temporary-sales-tax-SW.f8af79d1.html
Colleges push tuition aid for illegal immigrants
Wading into the politically charged immigration debate, a group of colleges and universities is urging Congress to give illegal immigrants tuition aid and a path to citizenship in light of efforts in several states to block them.
Tri-City Herald, April 21, 2009
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/1182/v-print/story/551040.html
7 days left to pare state budget by $4 billion
The Herald, April 20, 2009
http://www.enterprisenewspapers.com/article/20090420/NEWS01/704209878/0/ETPZONELT
Latinos students could gain with legislation
The Latino Journal, April 20, 2009 (HB 2021 Opportunity Pathway bill)
http://thelatinojournal.blogspot.com/2009/04/latinos-students-could-gain-with.html
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