SBCTC NEWS LINKS | Articles about – and of interest to – Washington state community and technical colleges
SYSTEM NEWS | OPINIONS
Big Bend unveils center pivot program
Columbia Basin Herald, July 12, 2010
http://www.columbiabasinherald.com/news/local/article_a3db3aba-8df9-11df-94e7-001cc4c03286.html
Degrees of Speed / Millions of unemployed Americans need to upgrade their skills, fast. Community colleges aren’t up to the task, but with help from Washington, they could be.
… If you’re out of work, however, it may not be, for a simple but vexing reason: time. The unemployed need to earn a degree quickly, so they can get back into the workforce. But speed is not the defining quality of most higher education institutions, including community colleges. It takes the average community college student five years to complete a two-year associate’s degree, and four years to earn a one-year certificate. … A handful of education systems around the country—in Ohio, Wisconsin, New York, and Washington State, for example—have attempted to build such programs.
Washington Monthly, June 2010
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2010/1005.merisotis-jones.html
TRENDS| HORIZONS | EDUCATION
University of Washington says its annual economic impact is $9.1B
Puget Sound Business Journal July 13, 2010
http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2010/07/12/daily15.html
What UW means to the state? $9.1 billion
Seattle Times, July 14, 2010
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/education/2012349655_uw14m.html
Colleges Keep Much Assessment Activity to Themselves
Inside Higher Ed, July 14, 2010
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/07/14/qt#232273
Whither the Wikis?
For all the buzz about wikis in higher education, the collaborative tools have gained only modest traction in academe. Why?
Inside Higher Ed, July 14, 2010
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/07/14/wikis
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