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Taking An Entrepreneurial Approach: Reinventing a Workforce Training Facility at South Seattle Community College
By Jill Wakefield, Chancellor; Gary Oertli, Interim President and Vice Chancellor; and Joseph Hauth, Director, Puget Sound Industrial Excellence Center, Georgetown Campus, South Seattle Community College
Community College Entrepreneurship/NACCE Journal, Winter/Spring 2010
http://tinyurl.com/SSCC-Georgetown
Pierce College presidency search narrowed to five
The News Tribune, March 3, 2010
http://www.thenewstribune.com/2010/03/03/1093041/pierce-college-presidency-search.html
Peninsula College expands certificate, associate degree programs
Peninsula College worked with the Construction Center of Excellence at Renton Technical College, the North Peninsula Builders Association, the North Olympic ...
… An energy efficiency degree will begin in fall 2010 in a partnership with Centralia College, Keegan said.
Peninsula Daily News, March 4, 2010
http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20100304/news/303049986
College foundation celebrates 10 years of growth, changes
The Wenatchee Valley College at Omak Foundation is celebrating 10 years of growth and changes …
Omak Okanogan County Chronicle, March 4, 2010
http://www.omakchronicle.com/nws/n100304b.shtml
“Mac 'n' cheese throwdown” at SSCC
… in the South Seattle Community College teaching kitchen, Eric Foster, Executive Chef of Morton's Restaurant, is in a heated Mac ‘n Cheese throwdown with Culinary students ...
West Seattle Blog, March 4, 2010
http://westseattleblog.com/2010/03/happening-now-mac-n-cheese-throwdown-at-sscc
Highline Community College Receives $250K To Boost Job Training
Highline Community College's Center of Excellence for International Trade, Transportation and Logistics…
The B-Town Blog , March 4, 2010
http://www.b-townblog.com/2010/03/04/highline-community-college-receives-250k-to-boost-job-training/
Whatcom CC to require sustainability classes for transfer-degree candidates
Bellingham Herald (News Tribune), March 4, 2010
http://www.thenewstribune.com/2010/03/04/1096068/wcc-to-require-sustainability.html
Three Puget-Sound area community colleges earn accreditation as baccalaureate institutions
South Seattle, Bellevue and Olympic offering four-year degree programs
West Seattle Herald, March 4, 2010
Whatcom Community Colleges branches into engineering
Bellingham Herald (News Tribune), March 4, 2010
http://www.thenewstribune.com/2010/03/04/1096068/wcc-to-require-sustainability.html
The Open Course Library Project
Interview with Cable Green, SBCTC eLearning Director, re Washington State Student Completion Initiative and the Open Course Library Project.
Creative Commons News Blog, March 4, 2010
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/20828
Hundreds turn out to protest UW budget cuts
… The event was part of a National Day of Action to Defend Education that took place today on dozens of campuses across the nation, including Seattle Central Community College, … “It’s ridiculous we’re balancing the budgets on the backs of students, workers and people of color,” said Steve Hoffman, an electrician at North Seattle Community College and member of the Washington Federation of State Employees, the union of the UW’s trade workers.
Real Change, March 4, 2010
http://www.realchangenews.org/index.php/site/archives-blog/3912/
Bellevue College gains accreditation for bachelor's programs
Bellevue Reporter, March 5, 2010
http://www.pnwlocalnews.com/east_king/bel/news/86435087.html
Yakima Valley CC students host 'Teach, Tour and Taste' event
Daily Sun News, March 5, 2010
http://www.dailysunnews.com/DSNNews0.shtml
TRENDS| HORIZONS | EDUCATION
OLYMPIA: Students mourn education budget cuts
The News Tribune, March 5, 2010
http://www.thenewstribune.com/2010/03/05/1096833/olympia-students-mourn-education.html
March on Everywhere!
Inside Higher Ed, March 5, 2010
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/03/05/california#Comments
What 'Gen X' Faculty Want
Inside Higher Ed, March 4, 2010
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/03/04/qt#221743
Students, professors protest education cutbacks
CNN.com, March 4, 2010 (Washington in map graphic)
http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/03/04/us.day.of.action/index.html?hpt=T1
Your Taxes Support For-Profits as They Buy Colleges
Business Week, March 4, 2010
POLITICS | LOCAL, STATE, NATIONAL
Rep. Sells seeks $2 million for aerospace training
The Herald, March 5, 2010 (Edmonds CC)
http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20100305/BLOG01/100309878
Republicans eye state workers' pay
The News Tribune, March 5, 2010
http://www.thenewstribune.com/2010/03/05/1097217/republicans-eye-state-workers.html
FRIDAY LITE NEWS
U.S. Economy Grinds To Halt As Nation Realizes Money Just A Symbolic, Mutually Shared Illusion
… if we…if we…" said Bernanke, who then paused for a moment, looked down at his prepared statement, and shook his head in utter disbelief. "You know what? It doesn't matter. None of this—this so-called 'money'—really matters at all."
The Onion, Feb. 2010
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/u_s_economy_grinds_to_halt_as
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