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Hanford contractor gives $500k to CBC, WSU-TC
Washington River Protection Solutions is donating $500,000 over two years to help Washington State University Tri-Cities and Columbia Basin College bolster science, technology, engineering and math offerings and provide student scholarships.
Tri-City Herald, December 11, 2009
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/yahoonews/story/825854.html
Grant energizes WWCC water center project
The Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, December 11, 2009
http://www.union-bulletin.com/articles/2009/12/11/local_news/091211local02grantaward.txt
Lessons from the automotive industry about how to train for green jobs
One of the most important lessons I learned about how to train workers for green-collar jobs came from an unusual place: the automotive industry. Specifically, Shoreline Community College’s Automotive Service and Repair program in Shoreline, Washington.
The Sightline Daily, December 11, 2009
http://daily.sightline.org/daily_score/archive/2009/12/11/repair-manual
University of Washington Bothell may take Cascadia Community College space
The Everett Herald, December 12, 2009
http://heraldnet.com/article/20091212/NEWS01/712129879
2 young people dead in Saturday wreck were Peninsula College students from China
Peninsula Daily News, December 14, 2009
http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20091214/news/312149998
EvCC to expand student union building
The Everett Herald, December 14, 2009
http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20091214/NEWS01/712149975
BUDGET-RELATED
Financial aid, all-day kindergarten would disappear under all-cuts budget
The budget would limit eligibility for the State Need Grant program so that students whose families make between 50 and 70 percent of the state median income would be dropped. This year, about 130 Wenatchee Valley College students fall into that category…The proposed budget cuts about $864,000 from WVC’s operating budget, which was already cut by about $1.2 million last school year, said Suzie Benson, vice president of administrative services.
The Wenatchee World, December 11, 2009
http://www.wenatcheeworld.com/news/2009/dec/11/financial-aid-all-day-kindergarten-would/
Governor gets plenty of advice about fixing state budget
Tacoma News Tribune, December 13, 2009
http://www.thenewstribune.com/opinion/othervoices/story/992133.html
Budget cuts hit most vulnerable the hardest
The Olympian, December 13, 2009
http://www.theolympian.com/editorials/story/1069282.html
TRENDS| HORIZONS | EDUCATION
OPINION: In Search of Education Leaders
The New York Times, December 4, 2009
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/05/opinion/05herbert.html?_r=1&emc=eta1
Why Students Leave College
Young adults who attended college but left without graduating are likelier to attribute their departure to the need to work and make money than to the price of college. They also say that to get students like them to go to college, colleges and policy makers should focus as much on flexible scheduling and financial aid for part-time students as on cutting college prices, according to a survey released Wednesday by Public Agenda and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Inside Higher Ed, December 14, 2009
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/12/10/qt#215257
Open Access Encyclopedias
In the age of Google and Wikipedia, can higher education create online reference works that are free, scholarly, and economically viable?
Inside Higher Ed, December 14, 2009
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/12/14/encyclopedias
Rice at a Crossroads
The fate of a merger with Baylor College of Medicine will likely be decided in the coming weeks, but concerns about the partnership remain pronounced.
Inside Higher Ed, December 14, 2009
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/12/14/rice
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