SBCTC NEWS LINKS | Articles about – and of interest to – Washington state community and technical colleges
BUDGET | LEGISLATIVE SESSION
In Our View: March 1: Training Workers (HB 2630): Vancouver state rep offers twin benefits with his innovative job-training bill.
“…Clark College has positioned itself as a chief solutions-provider for economic recovery with highly successful job training programs.”
The Columbian, March 1, 2010
http://www.columbian.com/news/2010/mar/01/training-workers/
OPINION: Tuition legislation would price many out of college
The Daily News, February 28, 2010
http://www.tdn.com/news/opinion/article_fd7d69fa-233a-11df-a6e1-001cc4c002e0.html
Tax woes tie up state lawmakers
The News Tribune, March 1, 2010
http://www.thenewstribune.com/2010/03/01/1090958/news-brief-01wataxs.html
SYSTEM NEWS | OPINIONS
LCC receives grant for Head Start
The Daily News, February 26, 2010
http://www.tdn.com/news/local/article_e2e98fea-235f-11df-b5d7-001cc4c002e0.html
Donor helps Big Bend student in need
Columbia Basin Herald, February 26, 1010
http://www.columbiabasinherald.com/articles/2010/02/26/news/doc4b8852dd9a4fa718190093.txt
Reading Readiness - Not Just for Kids
Experts say kids who don't grow up reading can have lifelong learning problems and, at the college level, instructors see it every day. Carol Perdue teaches reading at Green River Community College in Auburn. Some of her students are immigrants who didn't go to school in their home countries, and are now frustrated at being illiterate in two languages. And, she says, there's a stigma about being unable to read.
Lake Stevens Journal, March 1, 2010
Breaking ground on an urban farm for the needy on Beacon Hill
Alleycat Acres, founded by Seattle Central CC student Sean Conroe, is a new urban-farming collective that ultimately hopes to turn bits of unused land into food sources for needy Seattle residents.
The Seattle Times, February 28, 2010
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2011220435_urbanfarm01m.html
Eastlake High grad (and Bellevue College alum) Blake Hawksworth building his major-league career
Retrospectively, Hawksworth says joining coach Mark Yoshino's highly regarded BCC program was "an absolute blessing. That's exactly where I needed to be. He showed me a lot about pitching. I owe him a lot of credit."
The Seattle Times, February 28, 2010
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/larrystone/2011220044_stone01.html
Diverse casts to perform 'Twelve Angry Jurors' (Green River CC)
The Auburn Reporter, February 26, 2010
http://www.pnwlocalnews.com/south_king/aub/entertainment/85548042.html
TRENDS| HORIZONS | EDUCATION
Community Colleges Build Programs That Fit Immigrants' Needs
The Chronicle of Higher Ed, February 28, 2010
http://chronicle.com/article/Community-Colleges-Build/64387/
The 'Prior Learning' Edge
Inside Higher Ed, March 1, 2010
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/03/01/prior
POLITICS | LOCAL, STATE, NATIONAL
Direct student loans: A better way to invest in education (by Arne Duncan)
The Washington Post, February 26, 2010
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/25/AR2010022503965.html
House fights over how to cut state printer costs
The Olympian, February 26, 2010
http://www.theolympian.com/2010/02/26/1153520/house-fights-over-how-to-cut-state.html
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