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Working on IT
Patricia Dombrowski, director of the Life Science Informatics Center at Bellevue College, is quoted extensively in this feature story on health care information technology.
Modern Healthcare, May 24, 2010
Part 1 http://bellevuecollege.edu/news/coverage/HealthcareIT1-5-10.pdf
Part 2 http://bellevuecollege.edu/news/coverage/HealthcareIT2-5-10.pdf
America's Best High Schools: The Top 20
If you forward to the 13th school in this Newsweek article about the nation’s top high schools, you’ll find Bellevue College’s College in the High School program among the bragging points for Interlake High.
Newsweek, June 13, 2010
http://www.newsweek.com/photo/2010/06/13/best-high-schools-top-20.html
[Lower Columbia College] ready to give new 'green' gowns a test run
The school colors are red and white, but Lower Columbia College is going green during its graduation ceremony tonight. The LCC faculty will be wearing caps and gowns woven with fabric made entirely of recycled plastic bottles.
The Daily News, June 17, 2010
http://tdn.com/article_8a59cd64-7a75-11df-aa00-001cc4c03286.html?mode=comments
Octopus "graduates" at local Des Moines aquarium
As an audience of local marine life and ebullient visitors looked on, Highline Community College graduated its first cephalopod. On June 5, the Highline Marine Science and Technology (MaST) Center, a small public aquarium at Redondo Beach, invited the community to a celebration of George the giant pacific octopus' release into Puget Sound.
Highline Times, June 18, 2010
http://www.highlinetimes.com/2010/06/18/news/octopus-graduates-local-des-moines-aquarium
465 participate in Clark College graduation
The Daily Insider, June 18, 2010
http://dailyinsider.info/2010/06_18_10.html
Two generations share one [Wenatchee Valley College] graduation
The Wenatchee World, June 19, 2010
http://www.wenatcheeworld.com/news/2010/jun/19/two-generations-share-one-wvc-graduation/
[Grays Harbor College] grads shine
The Daily World, June 19, 2010
http://www.thedailyworld.com/articles/2010/06/19/local_news/doc4c1c686984739484521750.txt
[Lower Columbia College] graduates reinvent themselves for new economy
The Daily News, June 19, 2010
http://tdn.com/news/local/article_254747fe-7b6e-11df-ac8c-001cc4c03286.html
Transit agency set to approve blanket $5 bus pass for Peninsula College students
Peninsula College students have agreed to add a $5 fee to their tuition to reduce the pollution they generate driving to and from school, and Clallam Transit is expected to approve it Monday.
Peninsula Daily News, June 19, 2010
[South Puget Sound CC] honors 1,500 scholars
The Olympian, June 19, 2010
http://www.theolympian.com/2010/06/19/1277691/spscc-honors-1500-scholars.html
One giant step on grads’ paths / [Clark College] GED and High School Completion students celebrate their progress
The Columbian, June 20, 2010
http://www.columbian.com/news/2010/jun/20/one-giant-step-on-grads-paths/
Recession puts Michigan's focus on adult ed reforms /State struggles to help its least educated adults
.. "They don't just need to go up a couple of grade levels in math or reading. They don't need to just get a GED," … What they need is job training, he said, even college, and so the state is pushing forward with a reform program meant to clear that path. .… Those numbers can be improved, as Washington has done with a program called I-BEST, which integrates basic skills instruction with technical classes, placing two teachers in each classroom. But I-BEST is expensive, three times what Michigan pays per adult ed student. Replacing the "second chance literacy program based on the church basement model" with programs oriented toward continuing education and careers does make a difference, Jenkins said. Whether it will be enough without more investment is an open question.
Lansing State Journal, June 20, 2010
http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/article/20100620/NEWS01/6200551/1002/NEWS01
Dreams come true for [Columbia Basin College] grads
Tri-City Herald, June 19, 2010
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2010/06/19/1060881/dreams-come-true-for-cbc-grads.html
Midwest employers eyeing BBCC program
Midwestern employees are calling Big Bend Community College to enroll their employees in a new center pivot training program -- the Mechanized Irrigation System Technology (MIST) Program -- starting this fall. “There are no other programs like this, and there is a need throughout the western states,” said Doug Sly, executive director of the college foundation, on Wednesday. “Word is already getting out, probably because the manufacturers are based in the Midwest.”
Columbia Basin Herald, June 18, 2010
http://www.columbiabasinherald.com/business/article_cf644042-7b24-11df-bf23-001cc4c03286.html
Group launches campaign to bring public radio here
Raise the tower and local radio listeners finally will be free — free for the first time to tune into public radio designed to represent Grays Harbor life, lifestyles, musical tastes and politics. Others involved in the public radio effort include Ed Brewster, president of Grays Harbor College …
The Daily World, June 18, 2010
http://www.thedailyworld.com/articles/2010/06/18/local_news/doc4c1bcc03ce7ad847174377.txt
TRENDS| HORIZONS | EDUCATION
Quick Credentials Are Keys to Putting People Back to Work
Chronicle of Higher Education, June 18, 2010
http://chronicle.com/article/Quick-Credentials-Are-Keys-to/66001/
Get Them In, Get Them Out
Education advocates say government should only give community college grant dollars to institutions that encourage quick completion.
Inside Higher Ed, June 21, 2010
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/06/21/jobs
You’re Not Helping!
Note to Congressional Democrats: you’re not helping! The credit hour is the wrong hill to die on. If anything, it’s a major part of the problem. And I say that as both a bona fide lefty-liberal and a community college administrator.
Inside Higher Ed, June 21, 2010
http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/confessions_of_a_community_college_dean/you_re_not_helping
Interview: Let's Build on Our Progress, Says New Top Higher-Education Official
James Kvaal became the Education Department's deputy under secretary of education this month. … he replaces Robert M. Shireman as the department's top political appointee on higher-education issues.
Chronicle of Higher Education, June 18, 2010
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POLITICS | LOCAL, STATE, NATIONAL
State fine-tunes worker furlough plan
The Olympian, June 20, 2010
http://www.theolympian.com/2010/06/20/1278308/state-fine-tunes-worker-furlough.html
New $203M hole in state budget / Economic forecast: New special session unlikely
The Olympian, June 19, 2010
http://www.theolympian.com/2010/06/18/1276518/new-203m-hole-in-state-budget.html
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