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SYSTEM NEWS | OPINIONS
Community colleges to streamline credit transfers
HeraldNet.com
June 28, 2010
http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20100627/NEWS01/706279847&news01ad=1
Local community colleges are embarking on an effort to share more functions and make it easier for students to move between campuses.
CSC Selected to Provide Air Traffic Control Simulation Training ...
June 28, 2010
Centre Daily Times
CSC currently provides NexSim aviation training technology to Aims College, Greeley, ... Daytona Beach, Fla.; Green River Community College, Auburn, Wash.; ...
http://www.centredaily.com/2010/06/28/2063855/csc-selected-to-provide-air-traffic.html
Northern Sons to reunite for concert at MSU-N in Havre
June 28, 2010
KRTV Great Falls News
He taught at Green River Community College in the Seattle area for 36 years, retiring several years ago. He served as faculty president at Green River ...
http://www.krtv.com/news/northern-sons-to-reunite-for-concert-at-msu-n-in-havre/
Walla Walla Valley Bands receives $51000 grant
June 28, 2010
Walla Walla Union-Bulletin
The Walla Walla Valley Bands began as the Walla Walla Community Band in 1989. In 2007, the organization began partnering with Walla Walla Community College ...
http://union-bulletin.com/stories/2010/6/28/walla-walla-valley-bands-receives-51-000-grant
Evergreen, St. Martin’s and SPSCC offer higher education opportunities
June 27, 2010
The Olympian
Three long-standing institutions provide the bulk of the higher education opportunities in South Sound.
http://www.theolympian.com/2010/06/27/1286456/evergreen-st-martins-and-spscc.html
Happening now: 'Field Day' at South Seattle Community College
June 26, 2010
West Seattle Blog
Thanks to Ron Zuber, one of the amateur-radio operators participating in Field Day at South Seattle Community College (who also happens to be a preparedness ...
http://westseattleblog.com/2010/06/happening-now-field-day-at-south-seattle-community-college
College radio station a victim of budget cuts, drops Top 40 format
June 26, 2010
TheNewsTribune.com
…the last song ever aired on the commercial-free station run by Clover Park Technical College. Shortly after midnight June 17, one of the most popular South Sound-based Top 40 stations – known to thousands of local teen- and 20-something listeners as “I-91” – went dead.
http://www.thenewstribune.com/2010/06/26/1242160/college-radio-station-a-victim.html
South Seattle applies $2.4 million toward helping those hurt by model minority myth
June 24, 2010
Northwest Asian Weekly
Alongside schools like the University of Maryland, College Park, City College of San Francisco, and University of Hawaii at Hilo, South Seattle became one of six U.S. institutions of higher education to be chosen for this inaugural grant,….
POLITICS | LOCAL, STATE, NATIONAL
Sen. Robert Byrd, Defender of Academic Earmarks, Dies at 92
The Chronicle for Higher Education
June 28, 2010
http://chronicle.com/article/Sen-Robert-Byrd-Defender-of/66073/
The self-taught scholar of the Constitution rose from poverty to, among other things, create a scholarship program during his long career in the U.S. Senate.
Anti-Bias Rules Upheld
Inside Higher Ed
June 28, 2010
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/06/28/supreme
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court ruled today, 5-to-4, that public colleges and universities may require religious organizations seeking recognition or funds as campus groups to comply with anti-bias rules.
Step Too Far on Textbook Costs?
Inside Higher Ed
June 28, 2010
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/06/28/textbook
With students, parents and politicians all frustrated by high textbook costs, recent years have seen many innovations as well as state and federal legislation. Much of the latter has focused on requirements that involve providing information so students and professors can make sound choices.
Congress blasts Medicaid hole in states' budgets
CNN.com
June 28, 2010
http://money.cnn.com/2010/06/28/news/economy/state_budget_medicaid/
Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire has warned that if the Medicaid money doesn't come through, she'll have to cut 6,000 jobs to plug a $480 million budget gap.
Wall Street Reform and Student Loans
Inside Higher Ed
June 28, 2010
Compromise legislation to regulate financial sector would toughen oversight of private loans and give borrowers new advocate.
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/06/28/wallstreet
Governor talks the talk with state government reset
The News Tribune
June 27, 2010
Gov. Chris Gregoire is sounding the right notes in her hard-nosed plan to resize state government to fit post-recession reality.
http://www.thenewstribune.com/2010/06/27/1243260/governor-talks-the-talk-with-state.html
TRENDS| HORIZONS | EDUCATION
High demand means more denied college aid
The News Tribune
June 28, 2010
http://www.thenewstribune.com/2010/06/28/1244169/high-demand-means-many-denied.html
TACOMA, Wash. -- Another sign of our recessionary times: More college students who qualify for state grants based on financial need are being denied those grants because of a huge increase in demand for limited dollars.
Competing Principles
Inside Higher Ed
June 28, 2010
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/focus/community_colleges/recent/remediation
At City College of San Francisco, trustees and faculty square off over the length of remedial education – and who should make decisions about academic programs.
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