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BTC president leaving for Wisconsin job
The Bellingham Herald, June 29, 2010
http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2010/06/28/1502727/btc-president-leaving-for-wisconsin.html
EvCC receives millions to train for high-demand jobs
Everett Herald, June 29, 2010
http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20100629/BIZ/100629848
Teens try their hand at manufacturing trades
Three-week workshop at Spokane Community College lets high schoolers explore careers
The Spokesman-Review, June 29, 2010
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2010/jun/29/trade-route-explorers/?print-friendly
The Give-Back Kids
Doug and Bethany are students at Lower Columbia College, where he is two years into a double major in automotive and diesel mechanics and she has completed three-quarters of the class work for a counseling degree in chemical dependency.
The Daily News, June 28, 2010
http://tdn.com/lifestyles/article_e8e2e508-8300-11df-b5f6-001cc4c03286.html
Wild and Precious Life: New column offers glimpses from a body compromised — and freed
Joan Herman is a faculty member at Lower Columbia College
The Daily News, June 28, 2010
http://tdn.com/lifestyles/article_c23bda52-8302-11df-8a94-001cc4c03286.html
TRENDS| HORIZONS | EDUCATION
Sharing Risk, Sharing Reward
State rivals work together to minimize the cost of expensive back-office technology
Inside Higher Ed, June 29, 2010
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/06/29/carolina
CUNY Program Yields Higher-Than-Average Graduation Rates
The Chronicle of Higher Education, June 23, 2010
http://chronicle.com/blogPost/CUNY-Program-Yields/25044/?sid=cc&utm_source=cc&utm_medium=en
And a bit of news from up north…
In Canada, Colleges Aspire to Expand Study-Abroad Programs
The Chronicle of Higher Education, June 25, 2010
http://chronicle.com/article/In-Canada-Colleges-Aspire-to/66070/?sid=cc&utm_source=cc&utm_medium=en
Does Centralizing Research Hurt the Provinces?: Debate in Canada pits biggest universities against smaller ones, and threatens hopes of a have-not region
His research would have been imperiled had the Saint John campus been turned into a polytechnic—merged with a local community college and refocused as a vocational-training institution, with little or no role for research or graduate study. That's what a provincial commission recommended in late 2007, arguing that the province needed to consolidate institutions and systemically organize their missions to use resources wisely. Proponents of the plan backed off after street protests were held in the city.
The Chronicle of Higher Education, June 21, 2010
http://chronicle.com/article/Does-Centralizing-Research/66008/?sid=cc&utm_source=cc&utm_medium=en
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