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Higher Education - 08/19/2009 at 10 a.m. – TUNE IN QUICK! Try the Real Audio link
Higher education has been hit hard by the economic downturn. How have Washington's colleges been affected in enrollment, funding, endowments and budget? Are community and technical colleges faring any better than four–year institutions? We talk to presidents of public, private and community colleges about how things have changed and what they're doing in response. Jill Wakefield, chancellor of the Seattle Community College District; Chris Reykdal, deputy director of the Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges
KUOW FM Weekday, August 19, 2009
http://kuow.org/program.php?id=18197
Enrollment through the roof
Because of economic hard times, the amount of state money for Grays Harbor College has plummeted. And because of economic hard times, people are turning to the College for education and retraining in numbers that have never been seen.
The Daily World, August 18, 2009
http://www.thedailyworld.com/articles/2009/08/18/local_news/doc4a8aeaa1be8a8696175420.txt
Two Cheers for Community Colleges! Three Cheers if They Dramatically Reform Themselves
… Some community colleges (for example in El Paso, Tex.; Shoreline, Wash.; Camden County, N.J.; Central Piedmont, N.C.; and Ivy Tech, Ind.) are making substantial progress by working directly with local industries and helping adult learners overcome barriers to study and completion …
Sadly, too many states point to their community-college enrollments, not the success of their graduates, as the main measure of success. A recent Ford Foundation project funded and highlighted positive reforms in Louisiana, Ohio, and Washington, which are states with very different higher-education systems.
Chronicle of Higher Education, August 12, 2009
http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Two-Cheers-for-Community/7659/?sid=cc&utm_source=cc&utm_medium=en
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NBC's 'Community': Are Community Colleges In on the Joke?
Politics Daily, August 18, 2009
http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/08/18/nbcs-community-are-community-colleges-in-on-the-joke/
Reorienting Themselves
Some community colleges move substantial portions of new student orientations online to maximize efficiency; others push face-to-face programs to make process more personal. Is there a happy medium?
Inside Higher Ed, August 19, 2009
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/08/19/orientation
Teaching the Quarantined
Bracing for a season of H1N1, University of Michigan encourages faculty to use distance learning models to reach sick students.
Inside Higher Ed, August 19, 2009
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/08/19/flu
Parking: Confessions of a Community College Dean
I &*%#(%*& hate parking. There is no obvious, elegant way to handle a sudden influx of students when parking is already tight.The two iron laws of parking:1. There is never enough.2. Thou ...
Inside Higher Ed, August 19, 2009
http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/confessions_of_a_community_college_dean/parking
Colleges Seek to Remake the Campus Tour
Tour guides are being told to favor anecdotes over statistics, and to stop walking backward.
New York Times, August 19, 2009
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/19/education/19college.html?_r=1&emc=eta1
Gates Foundation seeks education's magic pill
Seattle PI, August 19, 2009
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/6420ap_us_gates_foundation_teacher_quality.html
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