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SYSTEM NEWS | OPINIONS
Providence Gives $100,000 to Centralia College
The Centralia Chronicle, December 17, 2009
http://chronline.com/articles/2009/12/18/news/doc4b2a729dc376c774277699.txt
TRENDS| HORIZONS | EDUCATION
Defining the Enrollment Boom
All through the fall semester, community colleges have been reporting enrollment growth. On Thursday, the American Association of Community Colleges released the results of a survey designed to see if the many individual reports add up to a national trend -- and the survey results suggest they do.
Inside Higher Ed, December 17, 2009
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/12/18/enroll
New Jobs Bill Offers $23 Billion for Education
Education Week, December 17, 2009
http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2009/12/17/16jobs.h29.html?tkn=U%5bSFwPEcUFBWKffnSJ1DsSsZFODIHmTs58Td
OPINION: Banks Don't Belong in the Student Loan Business (Arne Duncan)
The Wall Street Journal, December 17, 2009
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703514404574588751838773352.html
New Approaches to Job Training
David Baime, vice president for government relations at the American Association of Community Colleges, provided a slightly different perspective on the Workforce Investment Act, telling the gathering that community college officials often feel like their institutions “are mere vendors in a system in which they should be true partners.” He argued that community colleges should be given preference in federal workforce investment initiatives because they are, as he wrote in a list of policy recommendations, “the closest thing this country has to a national network of ubiquitous, low cost and high quality training providers, and the WIA legislation should reflect that.”
Inside Higher Ed, December 17, 2009
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/12/18/wia
FRIDAY LITE NEWS
Mother Nature reveals stash of stolen gnomes
KOMO 4 News, December 16, 2009
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/79463937.html
Washington toward the bottom on the happiness scale (36th)
Tacoma News Tribune, December 17, 2009
http://www.thenewstribune.com/topstories/story/997935.html
Farmer sees divine sign in cow born at Connecticut dairy
USA Today, December 9, 2009
http://www.usatoday.com/news/offbeat/2009-12-09-holy-cow_N.htm
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