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SYSTEM NEWS | OPINIONS
Local businesses in the market for promotional help / SCCC student projects benefit local shops, community
Seattle Central Community College (SCCC) students and faculty continue to create a web of interdisciplinary partnerships that assign students to real-world projects intended to make an impact on Capitol Hill
Capitol Hill Times, August 18, 2010
http://www.capitolhilltimes.com/main.asp?SectionID=6&SubSectionID=6&ArticleID=28407
Students benefit from grant at Columbia Basin College
Low income and seasonal migrant workers are getting the chance to experience higher education thanks to additional funding to grant programs at Columbia Basin College.
KNDU TV, August 27, 2010
In our view: Knight Guidance
Before Bob Knight took over as Clark College’s interim president in 2006, many people justifiably wondered if the school even had a rudder, let alone a firm hand on one.
The Columbian, August 31, 2010
http://www.columbian.com/news/2010/aug/31/knight-guidance/
New Tri-City dropout program should save kids
Fast Forward is a program designed to help high school dropouts figure out the best way to get them back into school and then support them once they get there. It's for people ages 16 to 21, and schools throughout the Tri-Cities have signed on as partners, along with Columbia Basin College and United Way.
Tri City Herald, August 31, 2010
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2010/08/31/1149653/new-tri-city-dropout-program-should.html#ixzz0yDRVdauc
TRENDS| HORIZONS | EDUCATION
The 'Don't Suck' Theory of Improving Graduation Rates
The Chronicle of Higher Education, August 26, 2010
http://chronicle.com/blogPost/The-Dont-Suck-Theory-of/26483/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
All In the Delivery
Could this be the year higher education finally embraces the e-book?
Inside Higher Ed, August 31, 2010
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/08/31/ebooks
Stuck in the Middle
Two senior administrators at Kansas university gave regents information about the president -- who they say then fired them for doing so
Inside Higher Ed, August 31, 2010
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/08/31/washburn
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