NEWS LINKS | July 2, 2010

There will be no News Links published Monday, July 5, as it is a state holiday in observance of Independence Day. News clips from the weekend and Monday will be included in the Tuesday, July 6 edition of News Links. Have a great weekend!

SBCTC NEWS LINKS | Articles about – and of interest to – Washington state community and technical colleges

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SYSTEM NEWS | OPINIONS

 

Wenatchee artist John Crew still has ‘something to say’
July 1, 2010
The Wenatchee World
Affable and educated, John has been the director of the Robert Graves Gallery, situated in Sexton Hall at Wenatchee Valley College, “for about five years,” he said. “I don’t keep track of dates.”
http://www.wenatcheeworld.com/news/2010/jul/01/wenatchee-artist-john-crew-still-has-something-to/?online

 

Education News from Around the County
July 2, 2010

KGMI
Also in education news, Bellingham Technical College has announced that Richard Meier has been named Vice President of Student Services. ...

http://kgmi.com/Education-News-from-Around-the-County/7603378

 

 

 

TRENDS| HORIZONS | EDUCATION

 

Knife To A Gun Fight

July 2, 2010

Inside Higher Ed

Some community colleges, experiencing record enrollments, are cutting their student-oriented advertising. Are they ceding ground to the for-profits?

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/07/02/marketing

 

 

 

POLITICS | LOCAL, STATE, NATIONAL

 

Obama Reiterates Support for DREAM Act

July 2, 2010

Inside Higher Ed

WASHINGTON -- President Obama called for bipartisan support of comprehensive immigration reform here Thursday in an address at American University,

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/07/02/qt#231498

 

 

 

Fireworks just for you ! Click mouse repeatedly in random areas for your own fireworks display.

http://www.maylin.net/Fireworks.html

Happy 4^th!

 

 

 

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NEWS LINKS | July 1, 2010

 

SBCTC NEWS LINKS | Articles about – and of interest to – Washington state community and technical colleges

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SYSTEM NEWS | OPINIONS

 

Columbia Basin Health Association welcomes new board members

July 1, 2010
Othello Outlook
Ross Bushong works for Walla Walla Community College ...

http://othellooutlook.com/?p=12210

 

Community Extra: Applause

July 1, 2010
HeraldNet
He will attend Everett Community College this fall and plans to major in computer engineering. Chanelle Carlin, Deaconess Children's Services vice president ...

http://heraldnet.com/article/20100701/NEWS01/707019923/-1/news01

 

New Presidents and Provosts: Brevard CC, Galen U., Hillsborough CC, Pierce College (Calif.), San Jose/Evergreen CC District, Seattle Central CC, Wittenberg U.

July 1, 2010

Inside Higher Education

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/07/01/presidents

 

Brandman University, TCC launch new local option to earn bachelor ...

June 30, 2010
Tacoma Daily News
Students could earn a bachelor's degree in as little as three years through a new partnership between Tacoma Community College (TCC) and Brandman University ...

http://www.tacomadailyindex.com/portals-code/list.cgi?paper=88&cat=23&id=1798112&more=0

 

Cascadia’s Christopher helped college achieve national recognition; he’ll step down from president’s post July 14

Bothell Reporter
Jun 28 2010

“Let’s face it, Cascadia is at the center of the known universe.” Stepping down as head of the center of the universe after five years on the job, Cascadia Community College President William Christopher has made the above claim numerous times.

http://www.pnwlocalnews.com/north_king/bkn/lifestyle/97352504.html

 

 

POLITICS | LOCAL, STATE, NATIONAL

 

Gregoire: Across-the-board cuts or special session if Congress doesn’t extend Medicaid match

June 30th, 2010 by Niki Reading

TVW

Gov. Chris Gregoire is in Washington, D.C. today with a group of other governors to ask Congress to pass an extension of the Medicaid match program, or FMAP. If Congress doesn’t pass the extension, Gregoire said she’d either have to call a special session or make across-the-board cuts.

http://www.tvw.org/capitolrecord/index.php/2010/06/gregoire-across-the-board-cuts-or-special-session-if-congress-doesnt-extend-medicaid-match/

 

Obama Calls for Bipartisan Action on Immigration, Including Passage of 'Dream Act'
The Chronicle of Higher Education

July 1, 2010

The president called for comprehensive immigration reform, including provisions that would expand access to higher education for illegal immigrants.

http://chronicle.com/article/Obama-Calls-for-Bipartisan/66126/?sid=pm&utm_source=pm&utm_medium=en

 

 

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NEWS LINKS | June 30, 2010

 

SBCTC NEWS LINKS | Articles about – and of interest to – Washington state community and technical colleges

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SYSTEM NEWS | OPINIONS

 

EvCC gets $4.8M grant to train health professionals

EvCC's grant partners include Bellingham Technical College, Cascadia Community College, Edmonds Community College, Shoreline Community College, Whatcom Community College, Providence Regional Medical Center Everett, Stevens Hospital, St. Joseph Hospital, Snohomish County Workforce Development Council, Seattle-King County Workforce Development Council and the Northwest Workforce Council.

Snohomish County Business Journal, June 30, 2010

http://www.snohomishcountybusinessjournal.com/article/20100629/SCBJ02/100629837/-1/SCBJ

 

Q13 Fox Intern (and Skagit CC grad) SKUNKS NBA Star Aaron Brooks In Game of HORSE!

Q13 Fox Sports intern Caitie Newman challenged the Franklin High School alumnus to a game of HORSE. Little did he know that Newman was a three-sport star (basketball, volleyball, tennis) at Skagit Valley College and South Kitsap H.S. She just returned from competing in the annual Spokane Hoopfest over the weekend.

Q13 Fox News, June 29, 2010

http://www.q13fox.com/sports/kcpq-062810-brooks,0,4154909.story

 

MSA hands out 20k in college scholarships (Columbia Basin College)

KNDO/KNDU TV, June 30, 2010

http://www.kndo.com/Global/story.asp?S=12735565

 

Marysville City Council appoints a new mayor

Nehring graduated from Arlington Christian High School. He earned an associate’s degree from Everett Community College and a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Central Washington University.

Everett Herald, June 30, 2010

http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20100630/NEWS01/706309829

 

Peninsula College honors staffers

Sequim Gazette, June 30, 2010

http://www.sequimgazette.com/schools/article.exm/2010-06-30_peninsula_college_honors_staffers

 

College Life – Wenatchee Valley College

The Wenatchee World, June 30, 2010

http://www.wenatcheeworld.com/news/2010/jun/30/college-life/

 

EvCC calls Hummels distinguished alumni

Cascadia Community College picks new president

EdCC grant writer cited for excellence

Snohomish County Business Journal, June 30, 2010

http://www.snohomishcountybusinessjournal.com/article/20100630/SCBJ08/706309967/-1/SCBJ (scroll down to last three stories on the page)  

 

 

TRENDS| HORIZONS | EDUCATION

 

Driving Home the Point on Accessibility

The U.S. Departments of Education and Justice on Tuesday released an open letter to colleges expressing concern that some institutions might be “using electronic book readers that are not accessible to students who are blind or have low vision” and warning them that the government will crack down on any institutions that are “requiring” disabled students to use emerging technology that does not comply with federal accessibility laws. The departments were aiming to address an issue that came up one year ago, when the American Council for the Blind and the National Federation for the Blind sued Arizona State University for giving out Amazon Kindle DX e-readers to students in an effort to learn more about the device's implications for higher education…

Inside Higher Ed, June 30, 2010

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/06/30/kindle

 

 

 

 

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NEWS LINKS | June 29, 2010

 

SBCTC NEWS LINKS | Articles about – and of interest to – Washington state community and technical colleges

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SYSTEM NEWS | OPINIONS

 

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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Compiled by the Washington State Board for Community & Technical Colleges

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NEWS LINKS | June 28, 2010

 

SBCTC NEWS LINKS | Articles about – and of interest to – Washington state community and technical colleges

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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,….

http://www.nwasianweekly.com/2010/06/south-seattle-applies-2-4-million-toward-helping-those-hurt-by-model-minority-myth/

 

 

 

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 TribuneQuick action will help stanch budget bleed

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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