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Peninsula College tries to reduce carbon footprint
Peninsula College is reducing its carbon footprint by urging bus ridership, recycling paper products and using environmentally friendly construction methods.
Seattle Times, June 4, 2010
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2012030497_apwacollegeemissions.html
People & Places: Congratulations
Derek Sheffield, an English professor with Wenatchee Valley College, is one of 12 writers nationwide named to a Mount St. Helens Field Residency.
Wenatchee World, June 5, 2010
http://www.wenatcheeworld.com/news/2010/jun/05/people-places/
Bates committed to students while addressing budget issues
Guest column by Lyle Quasim, Bates Technical College interim president
The News Tribune, June 6, 2010
http://www.thenewstribune.com/2010/06/06/1215101/bates-committed-to-students-while.html
Seattle Women Among 75 Students at NASA Program in Houston
In a field predominantly made up of men, Ashley Allman and Nichole Porter are making a big name for themselves. The Seattle Central Community College and Edmonds Community College students were chosen out of hundreds of students nationwide to take part in a three day program at NASA headquarters in Houston. NOTE CORRECTION: Nichole Porter is from Edmonds; Ashley Allman from Seattle Central. Mis-identified in the video, Ashley was in brown top; Nichole in red.
Q-13 FOX News, June 6, 2010
http://www.q13fox.com/news/kcpq-060610-roboticspaceexplorers,0,157806.story
We might dig up more history at Bush farm
I was joined by South Puget Sound Community College anthropology professor Dale Croes, who, along with SPSCC students and Thurston County Historical Commission members, conducted a cultural resource inventory of the pioneer property last spring. Using archaeological survey procedures, they recorded more than 200 surface artifacts at what they believe to be the site of the original Bush log cabin and barn.
The Olympian, June 6, 2010
http://www.theolympian.com/2010/06/06/1262093/we-might-dig-up-more-history-at.html
Teachers learn aboard 65-foot research vessel
A workshop aboard the M.V. Indigo and at Edmonds Community College allows teachers to take wildlife, coastal habitat and water quality lessons to their own classrooms. … The workshops were provided with the help of a $100,000 watershed education grant. In 2009, Edmonds Community College and Whidbey Island-based Service, Education and Adventure (SEA) received the grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
The Herald, June 7, 2010
http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20100607/NEWS01/706079967
Peninsula College plans to make parking lot green and more
Peninsula College wants to go green on every portion of the campus -- even the parking lot. The parking lot at the main Port Angeles campus was selected as part of the Sustainable Sites Initiative, which is a project to test the national rating system for green landscape design, construction and maintenance
Peninsula Daily News, June 7, 2010
Video: 2011 Ford Explorer partially revealed during seatbelt airbag demo?
Sometimes, we have to wonder if automakers just like toying with the emotions of those of us who follow their comings and goings on a daily basis. How else can we explain how Ford would show up to the Shoreline Community College Automotive Center in Seattle with what appears to be the back half of a 2011 Ford Explorer in tow?
AutoBlog, June 7, 2010
http://www.autoblog.com/2010/06/07/video-2011-ford-explorer-partially-revealed-during-seatbelt-air/
A Desperate Student's Craigslist Posting?
Columbia Basin College considers whether students shut out of courses are paying others to drop them.
Inside Higher Ed, June 7, 2010
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/06/07/cbc
TRENDS| HORIZONS | EDUCATION
Will a New Federal Rule Do the Trick? /New Rule to Curb Textbook Costs Irks Some Professors
But bookstores, largely on board, say they've been fighting for years to get the faculty to post syllabi earlier. Now it's the law.
Chronicle of Higher Education, June 6, 2010
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Advising the Undocumented
International student advisers discuss how they can better serve students who are in the United States illegally.
Inside Higher Ed, June 7, 2010
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/06/07/nafsa
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