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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Local-colleges-launch-new-courses-about-drones-361830821.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Local colleges
launch new courses about drones</span></a><br />
The job of the future may have you looking up. Unmanned aerial
systems, commonly known as drones, have local colleges offering new courses
and degrees as many see the potential for future employment. At <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Green River College</span></strong>
in Auburn, George Comollo predicts UAS jobs are about to take off.<br />
KOMO News, Dec. 14, 2015<br />
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<a href="http://www.kirklandreporter.com/news/361508401.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Lake Washington
Institute of Technology hires new VP of instruction</span></a><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Lake Washington
Institute of Technology</span></strong> (LWTech) has hired Dr. Elliot Stern
to be the new vice president of instruction and Dr. Suzanne Ames as dean of
design, IT and Baccalaureate Development. ... Stern comes to LWTech
from <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Edmonds
Community College</span></strong> where he was Dean of Science, Technology,
Engineering and Math (STEM) since 2013. Stern’s higher education experience
also includes 10 years at Everett Community College where he served as Dean
of Allied Health as well as a tenured faculty member. ... Ames comes
to LWTech from <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Skagit
Valley College </span></strong>where she served as Director of
Institutional Planning and Effectiveness. Ames has 15 years of experience
working in higher education in director and vice president roles, including
creating the first Advancement Office for Pierce College.<br />
Kirkland Reporter, Dec. 13, 2015<br />
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<a href="http://www.columbiabasinherald.com/news/school_news/big-bend-alumni-students-overcome-all-obstacles-on-road-to/article_52c8fe0e-a064-11e5-bd5e-67b751ce4fe0.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Big Bend
alumni, students overcome all obstacles on road to success</span></a><br />
Timothy Woodiwiss dropped out of high school after ninth grade, instead
opting to work full time at the McDonald’s restaurant in
Ritzville. Now, Woodiwiss is well on his way to becoming a
doctor. After dropping out, he got his GED at age 16 from<strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";"> Big Bend Community College</span></strong>
so he could legally work full time during school hours, and he was pursuing
the possibility of becoming a manager at the fast food restaurant.<br />
Columbia Basin Herald, Dec. 12, 2015<br />
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<a href="http://thesubtimes.com/2015/12/12/bates-celebrates-grand-opening-of-advanced-technology-center/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Bates
celebrates grand opening of Advanced Technology Center</span></a><br />
When Information Technology Specialist student Katie Glaser
begins her second quarter next month, she’ll help set up the student
network and servers in the Advanced Technology Center at <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Bates Technical College’s</span></strong> Central/Mohler
Campus.<br />
The Suburban Times, Dec. 12, 2015<br />
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<a href="http://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/editorials/steven-vanausdles-legacy-at-one-of-washingtons-best-community-colleges/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Editorial:
Steven VanAusdle’s legacy at one of Washington’s best community colleges</span></a><br />
Steven VanAusdle, the longtime president of <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Walla Community College</span></strong>, is
emblematic of change and creative leadership.<br />
The Seattle Times, Dec. 10, 2015<br />
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<a href="http://www.columbiabasinherald.com/opinion/editorials/politics/expanding-remote-testimony-keeps-state-government-accountable/article_00759924-9f8c-11e5-a3e1-5fb62f516bcb.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Editorial:
Expanding remote testimony keeps state government accountable</span></a><br />
Driving across the Cascades to testify in Olympia during a bill hearing
isn’t always doable. If you’re able to take time off work, dicey pass
conditions can either delay arrival or prevent you from crossing the
mountains altogether in the winter. Suffice it to say, those of us in
eastern Washington are location-bound when it comes to participating fully
in state government. ... One idea is to have community college interns
handle the task ... We agree this would be a good idea, as it gets
students involved in state government. Remote testimony for experts
calling into lawmakers has been available for some time. Better connections
for the public happened last year during the test runs in Spokane and
Pasco. <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Big
Bend Community College</span></strong> in Moses Lake is set up as a remote
testimony site for the upcoming session.<br />
Columbia Basin Herald, Dec. 10, 2015<br />
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<a href="http://www.southwhidbeyrecord.com/news/360627811.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Skagit Valley
College to move to South Whidbey High School</span></a><br />
South Whidbey High School students own the day on campus. Starting in early
January, <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Skagit
Valley College’s</span></strong> South Whidbey Center will rule the night.<br />
South Whidbey Record, Dec. 5, 2015</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2015/12/15/colleges-urged-consider-messages-they-send-low-income-students" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Colleges urged
to consider messages they send to low-income students</span></a><br />
New research from Northwestern University scholars suggests that
low-income students' academic confidence depends in part on their
perception of whether the environment is supportive or chilly for their
socioeconomic class.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Dec. 15, 2015<br />
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<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/12/15/achieving-dream-pilots-retail-pathway-four-community-colleges" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">On a retail
path</span></a><br />
Achieving the Dream promotes increased access to "middle skill"
careers for community college students.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Dec. 15, 2015<br />
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<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2015/12/14/counterprotest-larger-fake-mass-shooting" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Counterprotest
larger than fake mass shooting</span></a><br />
Only a few rifle-toting people showed up Saturday for what was billed to be
a fake mass shooting near the University of Texas at Austin. The
controversial event was designed to illustrate what organizers consider the
dangers of gun-free zones. ... A larger counterprotest, organized by a
group called Mass Farting: Say No to Gun Violence at UT, attracted a larger
crowd. Attendees used "fart blaster" toys to make flatulence
sounds, indicating their disgust with the movement to bring guns onto
campus. (Quite aside from the fake shooting, Texas lawmakers have passed a
law that will let carrying guns be legal in many spaces in public higher
education in the state.)<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Dec. 14, 2015<br />
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<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/12/11/groups-band-together-improve-transfer-pathways-community-college-students" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">The leaky pipeline</span></a><br />
Improved transfer pathways from community colleges to four-year
institutions may be the best answer to America's college completion woes,
say three influential groups that will prod states and colleges on
transfer.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Dec. 11, 2015<br />
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<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/12/11/reverse-transfer-plans-go-beyond-handing-out-degrees" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">A degree when
'life happens'</span></a><br />
For some colleges, reverse transfer isn't just a way to hand out degrees to
boost completion numbers.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Dec. 11, 2015<br />
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<a href="http://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article48986390.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Millennials are
still crushed by recession and could be for decades</span></a><br />
Nearly half of all millennials still live at home with their parents. But
Norris and her teacher husband, Bryan, own their home north of the
river. And while studies reveal that many millennials are putting off
big life changes — getting married, buying homes, starting families —
because they’re paying off hefty student loans, [Amy] Norris graduated
owing less than $2,000. The economic news for Americans ages 18 to 34
hasn’t been rosy for quite some time. As a group, millennials are poorer
than the young adults of past generations. Census statistics show that
a large group of millennials — about 28 million out of 70 million in all —
are not enrolled in school and are making less than $10,000 a year at their
jobs.<br />
The Bellingham Herald, Dec. 10, 2015<br />
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<a href="http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/education/article49137820.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Tacoma
continues 5-year climb on graduation rates</span></a><br />
A year after surpassing the state average for the first time, graduation
rates in Tacoma continue to climb, reaching a new high of 82.6 percent for
the Class of 2015. Tacoma Public Schools officials announced the new figure
Thursday. It’s the fifth straight year of increases for Tacoma, and
the highest since the state began tracking the statistic in 2003. The
number represents a 27.3-percent increase from 2010. Tacoma is part of
a national trend that has seen graduation rates ticking upward in recent
years. The U.S. Department of Education says the nation’s high school
graduation rate hit 81 percent for the Class of 2013, the highest level
since states adopted a new uniform way of calculating graduation rates five
years earlier.<br />
The News Tribune, Dec. 10, 2015</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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ACT researchers have found that high school graduates who enter college
with dual-enrollment credits are more likely to complete a four-year degree
in less time than those without the early credits. It's part of the reason
why ACT is launching a dual-enrollment initiative to increase the number of
high school students in those courses. ... ACT is discouraging schools
and states to require students to pay for dual-enrollment courses. Only
eight states have eliminated all or most tuition costs for dual-enrollment
students, but in nine states students are responsible for the full cost of
participating, according to the report. The cost concern has reached the
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="http://www.kirklandreporter.com/opinion/361301291.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Opinion: State
budget not fully funding colleges</span></a><br />
By Amy Morrison Goings, president of <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Lake
Washington Institute of Technology</span></strong>, and Eric Murray,
president of <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Cascadia College</span></strong>. This
week, the presidents from Washington state’s community and technical colleges
are meeting on the Kirkland campus of Lake Washington Institute of
Technology for a Washington Association of Community and Technical College
(WACTC) president’s meeting. The primary agenda item is filling critical
state funding gaps for our community and technical college system.<br />
Kirkland Reporter, Dec. 10, 2015<br />
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<a href="http://www.grandcoulee.com/story/2015/12/09/school/bbcc-creates-new-stem-culture/6655.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">BBCC creates
new 'STEM culture'</span></a><br />
A new "STEM culture" has emerged at <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Big Bend Community College</span></strong>
as a result of a federal grant now in its fifth and final year, the college
says. The college has recorded a 200-percent increase in student use
of the STEM Center this year. With glass walls and abundant natural light,
the center provides 62 hours per week of tutoring and supplemental
instruction. Demand is so great, the center is open on Sundays.<br />
The Grand Coulee Star, Dec. 9, 2015<br />
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<a href="http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20151209/BLOG17/151209099" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">EvCC sustainability
expert brings ideas to state commute reduction board</span></a><br />
In her nine years focused on sustainability efforts at <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Everett Community College</span></strong>,
Molly Beeman has helped the college put recycled paper in printer drawers,
compost its food waste and reduce unwanted junk mail from 200 pounds a day
to 10. As the college continues to grow, one of Beeman’s ongoing
challenges involves scrutinizing how students and staff converge on the
campus.<br />
Everett Herald, Dec. 9, 2015<br />
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<a href="http://thesubtimes.com/2015/12/09/cptc-coding-their-future/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">CPTC: Coding
their future</span></a><br />
Julie Edwards has always had an interest in computers. She first learned
the BASIC language at the age of 6, and in middle school she built
computers from scratch as a member of the computer club. When the time was
right for Edwards, she enrolled in <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Clover
Park Technical College’s</span></strong> Computer Programming and Web
Development Program to earn an associate’s degree, along with a .NET
Developer Certificate.<br />
The Suburban Times, Dec. 9, 2015<br />
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<a href="http://www.king5.com/story/tech/science/aerospace/2015/12/08/boeing-737-max-rollout/76973566/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Boeing rolls
out new 737 MAX</span></a><br />
The Boeing Company rolled out the first of its 737 MAX jetliners on Tuesday
in Renton. The MAX is already the fastest selling airplane in the company's
long history. ... The company also predicts the increased production
rates will mean possibly more jobs in the future. For incoming machinists,
that means a bright future in aerospace. Instructors at <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Renton Technical College</span></strong>
say they are also having to adapt to a more efficient production rate.<br />
KING 5, Dec. 8, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.goskagit.com/skagit/business-briefly/article_48a39034-ffa8-5a25-b045-7227a2a635aa.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">SVC’s auto
program recognized</span></a><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Skagit Valley
College’s</span></strong> automotive technology program was named a top 20
program nationwide by Tomorrow’s Tech, a publication for automotive
students.<br />
Skagit Valley Herald, Dec. 8, 2015</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2015/12/10/fake-mass-shooting-moved-u-texas-campus" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Fake mass
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Two groups that oppose just about all regulation of guns — Come
and Take It Texas and DontComply.com — announced Wednesday that
they would move a planned "fake mass shooting" off the campus of
the University of Texas at Austin, The Austin
American-Statesman reported.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Dec. 10, 2015<br />
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<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/12/09/using-data-driven-advising-colleges-find-more-students-eligible-graduate" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">It's the little
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Colleges are using data to find hundreds of students who are unaware that
they are eligible to graduate. Sometimes it's as simple as asking students
if they've applied.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Dec. 9, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://chronicle.com/article/What-People-Want-to-Know-About/234520" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">What people
want to know about the payoff of different degrees</span></a><br />
For years, Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce
has produced data-rich reports on the job market for college graduates with
various majors and levels of attainment. Lately, its work appears to be
taking a tack even more oriented to consumers: Its most recent release is a
college ranking based on the earnings of former students.<br />
The Chronicle of Higher Education, Dec. 9, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/state/washington/article48658435.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Charter school
system shutting down; schools will stay open</span></a><br />
Washington's charter school system took another step Tuesday toward
shutting down, but the state's nine charter schools were expected to stay
open at least through the end of the academic year.<br />
The Bellingham Herald, Dec. 8, 2015</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/12/10/supreme-court-justices-question-lawyers-key-affirmative-action-case" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">The justices'
questions on affirmative action</span></a><br />
At Supreme Court hearing on case that could alter college admissions, no
big surprises but lots of contentious exchanges -- and anger over Scalia's
comments.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Dec. 10, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/12/10/he-takes-traditional-higher-education-rubio-runs-policy-wonkery" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Rubio's take on
higher ed</span></a><br />
In the Senate, Marco Rubio delved into the weeds of higher education
policy. Now he’s taking his reform push out on the campaign trail, where he
is the lone GOP candidate talking about higher ed.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Dec. 10, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation-politics/senate-clears-major-education-bill-sends-it-to-obama/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Senate clears
major new education bill, sends it to Obama</span></a><br />
The way the nation’s public schools are evaluated — teachers, students and
the schools themselves — is headed for a major makeover, with a sweeping
shift from federal to state control over school accountability and student
testing. The Senate on Wednesday voted 85-12 to approve legislation
rewriting the landmark No Child Left Behind education law of 2002, now
widely unpopular and criticized as unworkable and unrealistic. The White
House said President Barack Obama would sign it Thursday.<br />
The Seattle Times, Dec. 9, 2015</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="http://www.seattletimes.com/education-lab/new-approach-leads-to-math-boom-at-moses-lake-college/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">New approach
leads to math boom at Moses Lake college</span></a><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Big Bend Community
College</span></strong> continues to show strong gains in the number of students
enrolling in math and technology fields. The gains are especially striking
among Hispanic students.<br />
The Seattle Times, Dec. 7, 2015<br />
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<a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/story/half-of-community-college-students-struggle-to-find-housing-food-2015-12-04" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Half of
community college students struggle to find housing, food</span></a><br />
In the American imagination, higher education is supposed to be a ticket to
a better life. But even for a large share of students who make it to
college, poverty can be hard to escape, because its trappings plague them
through school. More than half of community college students experience
some form of housing insecurity, ranging from struggles to afford rent to
sleeping in abandoned buildings or shelters, according to a study
released Friday by the University of Wisconsin’s Hope Lab, a research
organization aimed at increasing equity in higher education. ... At <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Tacoma Community College</span></strong>
in Washington, students who maintain a 2.0 GPA and are at risk of
homelessness are eligible for housing vouchers provided by the school.<br />
MarketWatch, Dec. 7, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://evolllution.com/revenue-streams/workforce_development/unifying-statewide-education-to-create-a-credential-ladder/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Unifying
statewide education to create a credential ladder</span></a><br />
The higher education system is notoriously slow to change, but widespread
concerns about the value of a postsecondary education combined with high
demands for specific skills from employers have pushed innovation in the
credentialing space forward. In Washington, state legislators are finding
ways to create a unified credentialing system that helps learners move
towards advanced degrees through a stackable model. In this interview, Jan
Yoshiwara, deputy executive director of education at the <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">State Board for Community and
Technical Colleges</span></strong>, discusses the importance of stackable
credentials for today’s learners and shares her thoughts on what it takes
to create a higher education system designed for stackability.<br />
EvoLLLution, Dec. 7, 2015<br />
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<a href="http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2015/dec/05/audubon-clubs-prep-for-christmas-bird-count/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Audubon clubs
prep for Christmas Bird Count</span></a><br />
Bird watchers are gearing up for the Christmas Bird Count, an annual census
that gives experienced birders a platform to involve newcomers in
citizen science. ... “Scientists tend to be more interested in
the trends rather than the numbers and species of a single count,” said
Gary Blevins, Spokane Audubon member and biology professor a <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Spokane Falls
Community College</span></strong>.<br />
The Spokesman-Review, Dec. 5, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.goskagit.com/all_access/svc-remembers-former-assistant-fire-chief-jerry-banta/article_984a2d02-cf23-54f2-aa48-eac8542fca05.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">SVC remembers
former assistant fire chief Jerry Banta</span></a><br />
Every day when he came to work, Mount Vernon firefighter Eric Tyree would
thank his assistant chief, Jerry Banta. “I love my job,” Tyree said. “He’s
the one who called and offered me the job.” Banta, who worked for the Mount
Vernon Fire Department between 1973 and 1999 and was known for his passion
for training firefighters, died Wednesday. He was 74. ... Banta was
also instrumental in the construction of the training tower at <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Skagit Valley College</span></strong>
that bears his name.<br />
Skagit Valley Herald, Dec. 4, 2015<br />
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<a href="http://www.kvewtv.com/article/2015/dec/04/300-middle-school-students-learn-stem-conference/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">300 middle
school students learn at STEM conference</span></a><br />
More than 300 middle school students took part in the annual STEM Exporers
Middle School Conference at <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Columbia
Basin College</span></strong>. Students from the mathematics,
engineering, science achievement program, known as MESA, got to learn
directly from the professionals in the field.<br />
KVEW TV, Dec. 4, 2015<br />
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<a href="http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/education/article47801900.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Pierce College
pursues adults who didn’t finish high school</span></a><br />
Mallery Tickle is a 29-year-old single mother who wants to spend more time
with her daughter. Jacob Gottschalk is a 25-year-old steel scaffolding
builder who wants to make up for youthful indiscretions. Both are high
school dropouts who wanted to go back to school and did. Although they
dropped out for different reasons, Tickle and Gottschalk share a common
goal: to earn their high school diploma and get a degree. ... After
more than a decade working long hours at dead-end jobs, Tickle and Gottschalk
found themselves at <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Pierce
College</span></strong>.<br />
The News Tribune, Dec. 3, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.seattletimes.com/sports/other-sports/boxer-andre-ward-hopes-to-provide-turning-point-for-at-risk-youths-during-seattle-visit/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Boxer Andre
Ward hopes to provide ‘turning point’ for at-risk youths during Seattle
visit</span></a><br />
Andre Ward remembers childhood conversations with his father and godfather
as “turning points” that shaped him into a boxing world champion.
... Your House founder Chris Cates-Lopez can relate to the power of
somebody taking an interest. Cates-Lopez, 36, formed the non-profit
boxing club in 2011, years after his own “turning point” in his 20s
diverted the one-time gang member from crime toward a legal career.
... Cates-Lopez got help for the post-traumatic stress he’d suffered
as a result of overseas military duty. He eased away from the gang buddies
he’d fallen back in with upon his return, and eventually he took classes at
<strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Edmonds Community
College</span></strong>.<br />
The Seattle Times, Dec. 3, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/larry-larue/article47429930.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">LaRue: Young,
white and Southern, she helped change the civil rights scene</span></a><br />
She was born into a white Southern family, to a racist mother who would tell
her: “No matter how bad things are, at least ya aren't black.” Joan
Trumpauer Mulholland rebelled, and not just in the Virginia home where she
grew up. At Duke University, she took part in a civil rights protest in
1960 — and the dean of women suggested counseling and demanded she cease
participation. ... “It’s not yesterday’s news, it’s history,” said
Mulholland, now a 74-year-old mother of five, in an interview Tuesday. “We
need to have it taught more.” In that spirit, she is coming to the Puget
Sound area to speak Thursday at <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Pierce
College</span></strong> in Puyallup. Mulholland said she’ll be certain to
make her references to the past relevant.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/yik-yak-on-campus-safe-space-to-vent-or-forum-for-hate-or-both/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Yik Yak on
campus: Safe space to vent, or forum for hate? (Or both?)</span></a><br />
At the center of a hate-speech incident at Western Washington
University over Thanksgiving week was an anonymous-posting app many
students use and many parents may not know about: Yik Yak. It was
the latest in a string of events across the country that have
students, activists and administrators across the country wrestling with
how the anonymous-posting service, extremely popular with millennials,
fits in on campus.<br />
The Seattle Times, Dec. 7, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2015/12/07/higher-education-groups-seek-flexibility-accreditors" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Higher
education groups seek flexibility for accreditors</span></a><br />
Three major higher education groups on Friday urged the U.S. Department of
Education to allow federally recognized accreditors to evaluate colleges
differently based on the colleges’ performance. The goal is to allow
colleges with strong student outcomes to face a less intensive review
process, which many institutions find to be “long, arduous, expensive and
complicated,” the associations wrote in a letter to Education
Secretary Arne Duncan. It was signed by the leaders of the American Council
on Education, the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities and the
Association of American Universities.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Dec. 7, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2015/12/07/college-board-embraces-prior-prior-year" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">College board
embraces prior-prior year</span></a><br />
The College Board decided Wednesday to follow suit with recent FAFSA
reform and begin accepting prior-prior year data for the CSS/Financial
Aid PROFILE.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Dec. 7, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2015/12/07/college-educated-women-have-lasting-marriages" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">College-educated
women have lasting marriages</span></a><br />
Women who have a bachelor's degree are significantly more likely than those
with less education to have lasting marriages, according to a new
analysis by the Pew Research Center. Using data from the National
Center for Health Statistics, researchers estimate that 78 percent of
college-educated women who married for the first time between 2006 and 2010
could expect their marriages to last at least 20 years. For women who have
a high school education or less, the share is only 40 percent.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Dec. 7, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/06/us/meal-plan-costs-tick-upward-as-students-pay-for-more-than-food.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Meal plan costs
tick upward as students pay for more than food</span></a><br />
Tennessee’s contract with its dining vendor, Aramark, is just one example
of how universities nationwide are embracing increasingly lucrative deals
with giant dining contractors, who offer commissions and signing bonuses to
help pay for campus improvements and academic programs. It is part of a new
model of raising money through partnerships with private vendors, officials
say, and with state funding for higher education still
below pre-recession levels, a way to replace lost revenue.<br />
New York Times, Dec. 5, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/12/04/writing-study-finds-quality-assignment-and-instruction-not-quantity-matters" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">When more is
less</span></a><br />
New study suggests that when it comes to writing assignments and
instruction, quality — not quantity — matters most.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Dec. 4, 2015</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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aren’t the same</span></a><br />
Recently over at the Washington Post, Daniel Drezner, a professor at
Tufts, has have a helpful post for how to think about academic reforms.
Be specifc.<br />
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states for debt-free college</span></a><br />
Legislators in 10 states will announce today that they are introducing
bills in their respective legislatures to create debt-free options in
public higher education.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Dec. 7, 2015<br />
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<a href="http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/state-plans-to-start-regular-529-college-savings-program/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">State plans to
start regular 529 college-savings program</span></a><br />
The committee that runs Washington’s college-savings program will ask the
Legislature for startup costs to create a traditional 529 college-savings
plan. Meanwhile, people continue to ask for refunds from the state’s
prepaid tuition program, which will remain frozen for now.<br />
The Seattle Times, Dec. 5, 2015<br />
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<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2015/12/04/accreditor-fight-cfpb-moves-federal-court" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Accreditor
fight with CFPB moves to federal court</span></a><br />
The battle between a national accrediting organization overseeing many
for-profit colleges and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is now
making its way through federal court. The Accrediting Council for
Independent Colleges and Schools, known as ACICS, argued in a court
filing late Tuesday that it shouldn’t have to turn over records to the
CFPB because the agency lacks jurisdiction over college accreditors.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Dec. 4, 2015</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="http://thesubtimes.com/2015/12/02/cptc-from-female-soldier-to-welder/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">CPTC: From
female soldier to welder</span></a><br />
Brook Huffman comes from a family of artists, and while she didn’t get into
illustration and painting, Huffman found a creative outlet with a welding
torch. Huffman is preparing for a career in welding as a student in <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Clover Park Technical College’s</span></strong> Welding
Technology Program. After a 4-year Army career in which she enlisted at age
17, Huffman transitioned from active duty to welding student.<br />
The Suburban Times, Dec. 2, 2015<br />
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<a href="http://www.thurstontalk.com/2015/12/01/spscc-professors/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Four at SPSCC
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Four <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">South Puget
Sound Community College</span></strong> faculty members earned 2015-16 Teacher
Excellence Awards from The Evergreen State College. Eric Chase, James Chen,
Kathy Harrigan, and David Hyde were honored at the SPSCC Board of Trustees
meeting on Tuesday, November 10. The awards, in their fifth year out
of The Evergreen State College, recognize great teachers who have
impacted students’ lives, as nominated by incoming TESC students. Students
submit a letter nominating those professors, who are then sent a letter
highlighting both the honor and including quotes from their nominating students.<br />
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standout in improving grad rates for minority students</span></a><br />
First, the good news: Among Washington’s four-year public universities,
graduation rates are going up, and the graduation rate for minority
students has improved on almost every campus. In fact, one of the
nation’s leaders in improving graduation rates for minority students is
Washington State University, according to a national
report released this week by The Education Trust, a nonprofit advocacy
group that focuses on students of color or those living in
poverty. The bad news: There’s still a significant gap in graduation
rates between students of color and white students.<br />
The Seattle Times, Dec. 3, 2015<br />
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<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2015/12/03/stability-and-modest-growth-expected-us-colleges" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Stability and
modest growth expected for U.S. colleges</span></a><br />
Stability and modest growth. That's what U.S. colleges and universities can
expect over the next year to 18 months, according to a 2016 outlook by
credit rating agency Moody's Investors Service.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Dec. 3, 2015<br />
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<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/12/02/study-shows-rise-graduation-rates-doesnt-always-benefit-minorities" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Graduation
rates rise, for some</span></a><br />
Graduation rates have been steadily improving at universities for about a
decade now. But a report released today by the Education
Trust shows that at some public institutions, the gap in graduation
rates between minority students and white students is actually growing. The
Education Trust is an advocacy group for low-income and minority students.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Dec. 2, 2015<br />
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<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/12/02/survey-sheds-new-light-faculty-attitudes-and-experiences-toward-trigger-warnings" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Trigger warning
skepticism</span></a><br />
Survey of literature and arts professors finds 60 percent see the practice
as harmful to academic freedom — although many favor general
descriptions on a syllabus, even as they avoid labeling particular works.<br />
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Association leader says accreditors could discourage politicians' focus on
economic-driven measure of quality if they jointly embraced indicators of
student learning.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Dec. 3, 2015<br />
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<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2015/12/02/democrats-slam-settlement-profit-college" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Democrats slam
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Three Senate Democrats are criticizing the Obama administration for
settling a fraud lawsuit against Education Management Corporation last
month without forgiving the loans of students who attended the
for-profit college chain or holding the company’s executives personally
accountable.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Dec. 2, 2015</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="http://www.king5.com/story/news/local/2015/11/30/education-program-gives-prisoners-second-chance/76561456/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Education
program gives prisoners a second chance</span></a><br />
The Post-Prison Education Program is helping repeat felons in Washington
transform their lives and stay out of the prison system. Through the
program they have the chance to go to college, get a degree and receive
job training. While they are still in prison, inmates apply to college
in Washington, then the program helps pay their tuition, rent,
transportation and health services when they are released. ...
[Joey] Jensen has spent half his life in prison, and suffers from
addiction and serious mental illness. In the middle of his fourth
prison sentence, Jensen became a dad and knew he had to make a change.
Through Post-Prison Education Program, Joey enrolled at <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Walla Walla Community College</span></strong>.
He went to rehab, took parenting classes and started therapy. Now the
45-year-old has a degree in graphic design and gives back by sharing
his story with current prisoners.<br />
KING 5, Nov. 30, 2015<br />
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<a href="http://www.bellinghamherald.com/opinion/op-ed/article47183445.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Whatcom View:
After Black Friday, give back on Tuesday</span></a><br />
By Kurt Anderson, chair of the <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Whatcom
Community College</span></strong> Foundation Board of Directors. The
Whatcom Community College Foundation has joined #GivingTuesday, a
global day of giving that harnesses social media and the collective power
of individuals, communities and organizations to encourage philanthropy and
to celebrate generosity worldwide. During this season of giving, I hope you
will consider supporting a local non-profit — perhaps the WCC Foundation —
today on #GivingTuesday.<br />
The Bellingham Herald, Nov. 30, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.goskagit.com/all_access/culinary-students-create-holiday-meals/article_41b6c065-5070-58cf-90ac-10fb856dd376.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Culinary
students create holiday meals</span></a><br />
Sixty pounds of mashed potatoes, 60 pounds of roasted squash, 170 pies and
25 turkeys make for one busy Thanksgiving week for the culinary arts
students at <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Skagit
Valley College</span></strong>. Students and staff in the program spent
most of the week cooking and baking to provide food for about 20 families
in need.<br />
Skagit Valley Herald, Nov. 26, 2015<br />
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<a href="http://www.king5.com/story/news/features/2015/11/25/pastry-students-build-unique-gingerbread-house/76383438/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Pastry students
build unique gingerbread house</span></a><br />
The holidays come with a lot of traditions. A group of <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">South Seattle College</span></strong>
pastry students are taking gingerbread construction to a whole new level.
This isn't your grandma's gingerbread house. As a yearly tradition, the
students are commissioned by the Ritz-Carlton to create a truly amazing
gingerbread house that teaches them how to fill a tall order and get
creative.<br />
KING 5, Nov. 25, 20156<br />
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<a href="http://thesubtimes.com/2015/11/25/cptc-pharmacy-technician-instructor-receives-state-award/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">CPTC: Pharmacy
technician instructor receives state award</span></a><br />
Congratulations to Pharmacy Technician Instructor Maureen Sparks,
who was named Outstanding Pharmacy Technician of the Year by the Washington
State Pharmacy Association. Sparks has taught at <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Clover Park Technical College</span></strong>
for nearly 20 years, and worked in industry for 16.<br />
The Suburban Times, Nov. 25, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://thesubtimes.com/2015/11/24/bates-named-top-school-for-service-members-veterans-dependents/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Bates named top
school for service members, veterans, dependents</span></a><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Bates Technical
College</span></strong> recently earned a “Military Friendly School”
designation in the 2016 Victory Media Military Friendly® Schools
List for the fourth consecutive year. The annual list honors the
higher education institutions with services, programs and more that are
designed to help ensure the success of America’s service members, veterans
and spouses as students.<br />
The Suburban Times, Nov. 24, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.westseattleherald.com/2015/11/23/news/south-seattle-college-aviation-maintenance-progra" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">South Seattle
College Aviation Maintenance program gets a Lear Jet</span></a><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">South Seattle
College </span></strong>announced today that its Aviation Department has
acquired a USAF C-21A Learjet. Of the five Aviation Maintenance Technician
(AMT) schools in Washington state, South is the first to have a Learjet.<br />
West Seattle Herald, Nov. 23, 2015</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/12/01/underemployment-rates-college-graduates-decline" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Graduates'
workplace advantage</span></a><br />
Underemployment rates for college grads have sharply declined since the
2008 recession, and degree holders far outpace high school graduates,
especially among African-American and Hispanic adults.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Dec. 1, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2015/12/01/study-40-percent-young-adults-receive-financial-help-parents" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Study: 40
percent of young adults receive financial help from parents</span></a><br />
Students who attend four-year institutions and are from high socioeconomic
backgrounds are more likely to rely on financial help from their parents
than those who did not attend college or those from less affluent
backgrounds, according to a new study published in the
journal Social Currents.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Dec. 1, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2015/11/30/doubts-raised-findings-low-income-students" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Doubts raised
on findings on low-income students</span></a><br />
Many educators have expressed concern about the findings in a new
analysis from the American Council on Education, which note a significant
drop since 2008 in the proportion of low-income recent high school
graduates who enroll in college. But some analysts are raising questions
about the analysis because it is based on data from the Current Population
Survey of the U.S. Census Bureau.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Nov. 30, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/education/wwu-resumes-classes-holds-meeting-to-address-racism-security/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">WWU police
arrest student, 19, in racist-threats case</span></a><br />
Western Washington University police have arrested a 19-year-old student on
suspicion of malicious harassment, a felony, in connection with threats
made to students of color on the social-media site Yik Yak last week.<br />
The Seattle Times, Nov. 30, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/11/30/idaho-direct-enrollment-program-automatically-admits-high-school-seniors-public" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">You're in</span></a><br />
A new statewide initiative automatically admits graduating seniors to
college in Idaho.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Nov. 30, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.bellinghamherald.com/living/family/article45483666.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Learning to
read by third grade is key to education</span></a><br />
Mark Hall, executive director for teaching and learning in Ferndale School
District, said educators are increasingly focused on research indicating
that reading ability at the end of third grade is a strong predictor of
later success in school. That research has been persuasive enough to get
the attention of the Legislature, which has mandated intensive remedial
help for students still struggling to read as third grade draws to a close.<br />
The Bellingham Herald, Nov, 28, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/11/25/what-it-might-mean-when-colleges-discount-rate-tops-60-percent" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Discount much?</span></a><br />
How high is too high a discount to offer students? Nearly 10 percent
of colleges have rates of 60 percent or more. For some it appears to
be a sign of distress, yet others see a strategy.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Nov. 25, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/11/25/study-finds-drop-percentage-low-income-students-enrolling-college" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">The missing
low-income students</span></a><br />
Study finds notable drop in proportion of recent high school graduates from
bottom 20 percent of family incomes who are enrolling in college.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Nov. 25, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/education/campuses-across-the-country-wrestle-with-questions-of-race-security-and-free-speech/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Campuses across
U.S. wrestle with tensions over race</span></a><br />
Western Washington University is the latest college to face difficult
conversations about race, during a season of protests on campuses across
the country.<br />
The Seattle Times, Nov. 24, 2015</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/11/30/education-department-receives-many-complaints-about-racial-harassment-higher" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">More complaints
than findings</span></a><br />
Education Department has received more than 1,000 filings on racial harassment
in higher ed in last seven years. But only a fraction result in any
findings.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Nov. 30, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/education/potential-vote-on-transit-levy-would-benefit-education/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Vote to expand
light rail next year could mean $500M for education</span></a><br />
A likely vote next fall for expanded light rail in the Puget Sound area
could generate about $500 million to boost education for children who are
homeless, from low-income families, in foster care or otherwise need extra
help from preschool all the way to college. What does half a billion
dollars in education money have to do with public transportation? Not
much, but it has a lot to do with politics, the art of compromise and a
late-night maneuver by Rep. Jessyn Farrell, D-Seattle, to help pass a new
statewide transportation package last summer.<br />
The Seattle Times, Nov. 27, 2015<br />
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<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/11/25/studley-leave-her-position-education-department" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Another
department departure</span></a><br />
Jamienne Studley, the No. 2 higher ed official at the Education Department,
will leave this month after a frenetic two and a half years.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Nov. 25, 2015</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20151123/NEWS/311239996" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Peninsula
College wins Best Small Budget Literary Magazine Award with Tidepools
Magazine</span></a><br />
Tidepools Magazine of <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Peninsula
College</span></strong> has won the Best Small Budget Literary Magazine
Award from the Washington Community College Humanities Association.<br />
Peninsula Daily News, Nov. 22, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20151122/NEWS01/151129723" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">New EvCC
housing under construction, set to open fall 2016</span></a><br />
A hole in the ground off Broadway will soon be the site of a new housing
complex for students at <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Everett
Community College</span></strong>. Work crews broke ground Oct. 22 on
the lot on North Broadway behind a Starbucks and within walking distance of
the campus. Work crews are preparing to pour the foundation.<br />
Everett Herald, Nov. 22, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/the-power-of-community-college-in-pursing-a-career/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Opinion: The
power of community college in pursing a career</span></a><br />
No one expects the path to medical school to pass through a community
college. But it is the best way for me. I chose this route as it
builds my qualifications without massive student loans. After I passed
enough college-level courses in high school to earn an associate degree, I
attended the <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Renton
Technical College</span></strong> for certification as a surgical
technologist.<br />
The Seattle Times, Nov. 20, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.bothell-reporter.com/news/352232831.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">UW Bothell
marks 10th year of continuous growth with record enrollment</span></a><br />
The University of Washington Bothell marks its 10th year of continuous
growth since it began admitting first year students in 2006. ... There
are 775 new transfer students beginning at UW Bothell this fall, up from
746 in 2014. The top feeder institutions include <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Bellevue College</span></strong>,
<strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Cascadia College</span></strong>,
<strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Edmonds Community
College</span></strong>, <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Shoreline
Community College</span></strong> and <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Everett Community College</span></strong>.<br />
Bothell Reporter, Nov. 20, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.mycolumbiabasin.com/2015/11/19/vanausdle-to-retire-from-wwcc/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">VanAusdle to
retire from WWCC</span></a><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Walla Walla
Community College</span></strong> President Steven VanAusdle says he will
retire this coming summer. He has been the president of the college for 31
years and has been employed by WWCC for more than 45 years.<br />
My Columbia Basin, Nov. 19, 2015<br />
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<a href="http://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/education/article45558948.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Hanford
contractor donates $127,000 to STEM initiatives</span></a><br />
Cregan Antonson had never heard of electrical engineering until a field
trip to the Reach center in Richland last year. Now he wants to make a career
of it. ... Washington River Protection Solutions, a Hanford
contractor, announced a donation of $127,000 to STEM initiatives during a
Thursday event at Highlands. The money will benefit the Reach center, as
well as mentoring programs for middle school students, college scholarships
and instructional equipment. ... $27,000 to <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Columbia Basin College </span></strong>to
buy equipment for its nuclear technology program and for scholarships.<br />
Tri-City Herald, Nov. 19, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="https://centraliacollege.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/centralia-college-foundation-directors-announces.pdf" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Centralia
College Foundation directors announces $10,000 in 2016 capstone funding</span></a><br />
The <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Centralia
College</span></strong> Foundation Board of Directors has unanimously
approved the allocation of $10,000 to assist students in purchasing
supplies for 2016 Capstone projects and presentations.<br />
The Centralia Chronicle, Nov. 19, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/pacific-northwest-national-lab/article45408912.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Making air
travel cleaner and safer and giving thanks at PNNL</span></a><br />
No sooner than we turn back the clocks, the weather takes a turn and
reminds us that the holidays are just around the corner. For many of us,
this means flying to see family and friends — or picking them up at the
newly remodeled Tri-Cities Airport. Most of us take flying for
granted, trusting that someone somewhere is working to ensure that it is
safe and sustainable. Well, as you might guess, the scientists and
engineers at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National
Laboratory are among those engaged in this endeavor. ... We worked in
partnership with <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Columbia
Basin College</span></strong> to develop and launch CBC’s cyber security
program, which is preparing the future work force in this critical and
growing field.<br />
Tri-City Herald, Nov. 18, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.cascadiaweekly.com/currents/its_all_about_the_fire" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Prometheus
Bound</span></a><br />
In Prometheus Bound, <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Skagit
Valley College</span></strong> drama department chair Damond Morris
decided to tell the story in a new way. Using Aeschylus’ centuries-old text
with a translation by the esteemed Henry David Thoreau, the director and
his creative crew then added a variety of Native American elements to the
mix.<br />
Cascadia Weekly, Nov. 18, 2015</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="http://www.seattletimes.com/education-lab/new-free-course-teaches-the-basics-of-how-to-get-the-most-out-of-college/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Free course
teaches the basics of how to get the most out of college</span></a><br />
A new, free online course produced by the University of Washington is
designed for students who are applying — or have been
admitted — to any college in the U.S. Their parents could get a
lot out of it, too.<br />
The Seattle Times, Nov. 24, 2015<br />
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<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2015/11/24/drop-black-share-physical-science-engineering-degrees" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Drop in black
share of physical science, engineering degrees</span></a><br />
A new study has found that in a recent 10-year period while there has
been an increase in the number of bachelor's degrees awarded in the
physical sciences and engineering, the share of such degrees awarded to
black students has fallen, as other groups are seeing larger increases.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Nov. 24, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2015/11/24/college-board-investigates-international-scores" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">College board
investigates international scores</span></a><br />
The College Board has notified some students who took the SAT outside the
United States this month that their scores are being delayed due to an
investigation into a possible security breach. The review could take up to
five weeks.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Nov. 24, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/amitmrig/2015/11/23/improving-diversity-in-higher-education-beyond-the-moral-imperative/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Opinion: Improving
diversity in higher education - beyond the moral imperative</span></a><br />
Already, dozens of campuses are hosting diversity forums, hosting town hall
meetings, and issuing statements to demonstrate the many initiatives they
are investing in to create a more inclusive and diverse environment. My
hope is that these conversations are sincere efforts to move the diversity
agenda forward. It’s not just the right thing to do; it’s imperative for the
success and sustainability of institutions. And there is no time to waste.<br />
Forbes, Nov. 23, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2015/11/20/most-freshmen-apply-one-college-data-suggest" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Most freshmen
apply to one college, data suggest</span></a><br />
Two-thirds of college freshmen who applied for federal student loans or
grants last year indicated that they were applying to only one institution,
according to new data released by the U.S. Department of
Education on Thursday.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Nov. 20, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2015/11/20/are-colleges-losing-ground-entities-focused-more-sharply-workforce-skills-essay" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Opinion:
Amateur Hour</span></a><br />
Have we reached amateur hour in higher education? The answer depends very
much on how we define expertise. College and university professors are
undoubtedly the leading experts in their domains of knowledge, particularly
as it pertains to published books and research. Some (but far from all) are
also leading experts on effective instruction and assessment. But few
college and university faculty members (or programs or departments or
schools) can credibly claim expertise as to the competencies employers are
seeking in new hires, particularly for easier-to-assess technical and hard
skills. In this area, companies like Udacity — which builds its
nanodegrees with employers like Google — can stake a firmer claim to
“expertise.”<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Nov. 20, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/blog/techflash/2015/11/more-wash-students-are-taking-stem-exams-but.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">More Wash.
students are taking STEM exams — but computer science courses in short
supply</span></a><br />
Washington students are getting more involved in science, technology,
engineering and math or “STEM,” according to data released this week, but
the state still has a problem with access. More than 21,000 students
took Advanced Placement STEM exams this year — a 40 percent increase
compared to five years ago — according to data compiled by College
Board, which administers SAT and AP exams. Four Washington high
schools added computer science courses, College Board reports, in a state
with around 900 high schools.<br />
Puget Sound Business Journal, Nov. 19, 2015</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/11/24/promise-program-sharply-lifts-tennessee-college-freshman-enrollment" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Promise
provides enrollment boost</span></a><br />
In Tennessee, officials now have a clearer picture of the impact of the
country's first statewide, free two-year college program. For more than a
year state officials, with money and rhetoric, have been encouraging high
school seniors to help increase Tennessee's population of adults with a
college degree or certificate. And as of last week, new enrollment data
show 16,291 of them have enrolled in the state's community,
technical and private colleges this fall because of the new Tennessee
Promise program. The Promise is one of the initiatives Governor Bill Haslam
implemented to make sure at least 55 percent of the state's populace has a
degree by 2025.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Nov. 24, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/education/article46134680.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Educators may
soon say good-bye to No Child Left Behind rules</span></a><br />
Pierce County educators breathed a collective sigh of relief Monday morning
after hearing from U.S. Sen. Patty Murray that the No Child Left
Behind system that governs K-12 education could soon be
history. The NCLB Act, which dates from 2001, has long been a thorn in
the sides of educators, who see it as punitive and unhelpful. All schools
and all students were supposed to meet standards on state tests by 2014.<br />
The News Tribune, Nov. 23, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/11/23/latest-developments-campus-racial-protests-and-responses-those-protests" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Responses on
race</span></a><br />
1,000 complaints to U.S. Education Department in seven years; Brown
releases $100 million plan to promote inclusiveness; Occidental sit-in ends
after six days.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Nov. 23, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2015/11/23/colleges-seek-revive-perkins-loan-program" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Colleges seek
to revive Perkins Loan program</span></a><br />
Hundreds of colleges on Friday urged congressional leaders to grant a
one-year reprieve to the federal Perkins Loan Program,
which expired earlier this fall.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Nov. 23, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2015/11/23/republicans-question-white-house-panel-profits" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Republicans
question White House panel on for-profits</span></a><br />
Senator John McCain and Senator Lamar Alexander, both
Republicans, last week wrote to U.S. Education Secretary Arne
Duncan to seek information about what they called the "unfair
targeting" of the University of Phoenix and other for-profits by a
Obama administration-created interagency task force. The task force
includes eight federal agencies, the two senators said. In the letter they
expressed concern about a lack of information about the task force's
authority, mission, duties and activities.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Nov. 23, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/across-washington-residents-vent-about-unequal-education-funding/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Opinion:
Statewide stories of a broken public education system</span></a><br />
From Seattle to Selah, we heard frustration and anger from parents and
taxpayers who feel like the state isn’t taking its paramount duty seriously
and that their children miss out as a result.<br />
The Seattle Times, Nov. 21, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/politics-government/article45603051.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Edit to charter
school ruling helps programs like Running Start, state attorney general
says</span></a><br />
The state Supreme Court on Thursday stuck by its previous
decision striking down the state's system of charter schools. Yet
while declining to reconsider their ruling, the court justices also edited
the decision in a way that the state attorney general said resolves
concerns about how the ruling will affect other programs, such as tribal
compact schools and Running Start.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="http://www.nbcrightnow.com/story/30552148/six-yakima-valley-community-college-students-win-at-tri-cities-wine-festival" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Yakima Valley
Community College wins big at Tri-Cities Wine Festival</span></a><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Yakima Valley
Community College's </span></strong>teaching winery at
the Grandview Campus, Yakima Valley Vintners, said
they received six awards for their student crafted wines at the
2015 Tri-Cities Wine Festival this month.<br />
NBC Right Now, Nov. 18, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.keprtv.com/American-Indian-dances-showcased-at-CBC-351260561.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">American Indian
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<strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Columbia Basin
College </span></strong>students got the chance to see traditional Native
American dances in honor of National American Indian Heritage Month.<br />
KEPR TV, Nov. 17, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://thesubtimes.com/2015/11/17/cptc-bringing-together-the-aviation-community/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">CPTC: Bringing
together the aviation community</span></a><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Clover Park
Technical College</span></strong> has changed the way Andre Hunter has
thought about his future. The college has afforded him opportunities to
grow academically in the Composites Program, followed by
the Aviation Maintenance Technician Program; and also opportunities to
grow professionally as a teacher’s assistant and a substitute instructor.<br />
The Suburban Times, Nov. 17, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.bellinghamherald.com/living/magazine/article43471923.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">WCC wins
cybersecurity grants</span></a><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Whatcom Community
College</span></strong> received two federal grants totaling $6.4 million
that recognize Whatcom’s nationwide leadership in cybersecurity. One grant
provides three years of funding to establish a national network of
community colleges that will prepare qualified students to continue their
cybersecurity education at a four-year school. The second grant provides three
more years of funding for the regional cybersecurity education consortium
led by WCC, with efforts to involve more women and veterans in the program.<br />
The Bellingham Herald, Nov. 16, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.goskagit.com/all_access/following-a-dream/article_7a75d9aa-b529-53e5-9390-28d4f12f7a0c.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Following a
dream</span></a><br />
While growing up in Mexico, Berenice Rodriguez would often play a game with
her young cousins: They would be the students and she the teacher. Even at
8 years old, Rodriguez knew teaching was what she wanted to do.
... That’s why she was surprised to learn in her senior year that she
had been awarded one of <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Skagit
Valley College’s</span></strong> Champions of Diversity scholarships, which
made it possible for her to attend WWU and pursue her passion.<br />
Skagit Valley Herald, Nov. 16, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.bremertonpatriot.com/news/346943982.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Brawl for the
best food-truck fare</span></a><br />
There’s nothing like a little competition and real-world experience to help
prepare students for their futures. Culinary students at <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Olympic College</span></strong>
in Bremerton got a taste of both Tuesday, Nov. 10, when they held a “Food
Truck Brawl” on campus.<br />
Bremerton Patriot, Nov. 13, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20151113/BLOG60/151119650" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">InspireHer
program shows girls many paths to success</span></a><br />
A mentor program offered through Boys & Girls Clubs of Snohomish
County, InspireHer works with girls to foster healthy living, community
involvement and academic success, and plant seeds for career opportunities.
... “The idea is to lift these girls, lift up their energy and their
idea of self through encouragement and mentoring,” said Mary
Heffernan-Trester, director of community education at <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Edmonds Community College</span></strong>.
Heffernan-Trester, also on the InspireHer steering committee, said girls
have toured the EdCC campus “to experience what that college community
looks like.”<br />
Everett Herald, Nov. 13, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.kirklandreporter.com/news/347252802.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">DelBene hosts
annual 1st District career fair at Lake Washington Institute of Technology
in Kirkland</span></a><br />
Congresswoman Suzan DelBene (WA-01) hosted the annual First Congressional
District career fair at <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Lake
Washington Institute of Technology</span></strong> (LWTech) Nov. 12.<br />
Kirkland Reporter, Nov. 13, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://thesubtimes.com/2015/11/12/pierce-college-ranked-no-1-community-college-for-veterans-in-the-state/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Pierce College
ranked No. 1 community college for veterans in the state</span></a><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Pierce College</span></strong>
is proud to announce the Military Times has ranked it as the best community
college for veterans in the state of Washington, and No. 13 in the nation.
The Military Times’ Best for Vets: Colleges 2016 rankings is the most
comprehensive school-by-school assessment of veteran and military student
services and rates of academic achievement.<br />
The Suburban Times, Nov. 12, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://blog.seattlepi.com/washingtonbeerblog/2015/11/12/chuckanut-brewery-opening-second-brewery/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Chuckanut
Brewery opening second brewery</span></a><br />
We first heard about this plan some time ago, but decided not to share the
news until Chuckanut Brewery and Kitchen was ready to make the
official announcement, which it did today. Chuckanut is opening a second
brewery. ... Chuckanut’s South Nut is located in the Innovation Zone
at the Port of Skagit, where Skagit Valley Malting Company, WSU Bread Lab, <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Skagit Valley College</span></strong>
Brewery Program facility, and other businesses are currently located.<br />
Seattle PI, Nov. 12, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.tacomaweekly.com/citylife/article/ceramic-artist-joe-batt-explores-ubiquity-of-digital-technology" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Ceramic artist
Joe Batt explores ubiquity of digital technology</span></a><br />
In “Future Shock,” Alvin Toffler’s 1970 book, the author describes a
post-industrial world in which technological and social change, proceeding
at an ever-accelerating rate, is causing people to live in a state of
disconnectedness and perpetual stress. Toffler calls the condition “future
shock.” A lot has changed since 1970 (at an ever accelerating rate).
Digital technology has transformed the world. Smart phones, iPads and
social media are adding new ways of social interaction to older ways of
socializing. Olympia artist Joe Batt seems particularly interested in
the ways that digital gadgets are increasingly becoming the means by which
we interface with the world around us and with each other. Batt’s one-man
show, “In the Cloud,” recently opened at The Gallery at <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Tacoma Community College</span></strong>
and is one of the best shows to appear there of late. Batt, a
specialist in ceramic art who teaches at South Puget Sound Community
College, has created a series of almost life-sized children out of clay.<br />
Tacoma Weekly, Nov. 12, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.chronline.com/centralia-college-stages-th-play/article_767d56c4-8967-11e5-bed4-1b69f69fd164.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Centralia
College stages 200th play</span></a><br />
As his time at the helm of the <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Centralia
College</span></strong> campus theater program wanes, Brian Tyrrell has
something to celebrate in his fall production.<br />
Centralia Chronicle, Nov. 12, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://thesubtimes.com/2015/11/12/cptc-veterans-day-ceremony-2015/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">CPTC: Veterans
Day ceremony 2015</span></a><br />
The college community joined staff, faculty and student veterans at <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Clover Park Technical College’s</span></strong>
2015 Veterans Day Ceremony on Nov. 12 at the McGavick Event
Center. The event was hosted by CPTC’s Associated Student
Government and brought together former and active duty veterans with
ties to the college.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/11/19/follett-acquisition-neebo-still-erroneously-sending-students-collection-agencies" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">A different
kind of textbook debt</span></a><br />
Renting textbooks is a popular option for frugal students, but one company
has for years — and without notice — erroneously sent students to
collection agencies, in some cases demanding hundreds of dollars in
replacement fees.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Nov. 19, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/11/19/after-recession-and-recovery-students-report-they-remain-financially-stressed" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Students still
financially stressed</span></a><br />
Most students remain worried about money and the cost of required academic
materials, and the impact is worse for minority students, the National
Survey of Student Engagement finds.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Nov. 19, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/11/18/foundation-proposes-national-transfer-pathway-partnership" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Taking transfer
national</span></a><br />
Students are entering community colleges with the goal of earning a
four-year degree, but most don't succeed. More than 80 percent of community
college students want a bachelor's degree, according to federal data, but
only 25 percent of these students actually transfer to a four-year
institution. Solving this dilemma is at the heart of the Edvance
Foundation's call to create a national college transfer partnership.
The foundation has outlined, in a report released today, five core
components to establishing a smooth transfer pathway that encourages more
community college students to transfer and helps them to actually graduate
with a bachelor's degree. Edvance is a nonprofit organization with a focus
on higher education.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Nov. 18, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2015/11/17/college-completion-rates-decline-more-rapidly" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">College
completion rates decline more rapidly</span></a><br />
Fewer students are earning a college credential within six years of first
enrolling in college, according to new data from the National
Student Clearinghouse Research Center. The nonprofit clearinghouse is able
to track 96 percent of students nationwide. It found an overall national
completion rate of 52.9 percent for students who enrolled in the fall of
2009. That rate was down 2.1 percentage points from that of the previous
year's cohort of students, according to the clearinghouse, and the rate of
decline is accelerating.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Nov. 17, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/11/16/study-finds-extent-key-practices-adopted-colleges-and-universities" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">High impact,
largely optional</span></a><br />
The Association of American Colleges & Universities has over the years
embraced numerous practices as key to promoting student learning, student
engagement and student completion. The practices and their goals are all
linked since students who are more engaged tend to learn more and are more
likely to graduate. A study being released today shows widespread
adoption of at least some of these practices, but much more scattered
adoption of others.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Nov. 16, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/11/16/annual-open-doors-report-finds-increases-international-students-study-abroad" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">International
enrollments increase</span></a><br />
Nearly a million international students are studying at colleges across the
U.S. The newest data from the Institute of International Education’s
annual Open Doors survey shows a 10 percent increase in
international students from 2013-14 to 2014-15 -- the highest annual rate
of growth at any point over the last 35 years.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Nov. 16, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2015/11/13/4-higher-ed-groups-oppose-campus-carry" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">4 higher ed groups
oppose 'campus carry'</span></a><br />
Four higher education groups on Thursday issued a joint
statement criticizing the "campus carry" laws being enacted
in some states to permit people to carry concealed weapons on campuses.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Nov. 13, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/education/uw-poised-to-approve-new-biology-building-from-tuition-dollars/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">UW poised to
approve new biology building — from tuition dollars</span></a><br />
Prepare to say goodbye to the old University of Washington
greenhouse. A five-story glass and steel building, to be built where
the greenhouse stands now, will usher in a new way for undergrads to learn
biology. Its design will encourage scientists — those most introverted of
researchers — to mix and mingle, perhaps sharing ideas and inspiration. And
the orchids, cactuses and epiphytes will get a new greenhouse home. On
Thursday, the UW Board of Regents is expected to approve the $165 million
Life Sciences Building, scheduled to open in 2018. UW officials say it’s
sorely needed. Students agree. But they’re unhappy that the university
is using tuition dollars to pay for it.<br />
The Seattle Times, Nov. 11, 2015</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/state-budget-outlook-predicts-big-shortfall-in-next-budget-cycle/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">State predicts
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Washington state lawmakers are facing a projected budget shortfall of
nearly $500 million for the next two-year budget ending in mid-2019,
according to new numbers released Wednesday, not counting the expected
financial obligation needed to increase funding for education as directed
by the state Supreme Court.<br />
The Seattle Times, Nov. 18, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/11/18/us-department-education-says-additional-corinthian-campuses-misled-students" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">More findings
against Corinthian</span></a><br />
U.S. Department of Education officials have determined that a slew of
additional campuses owned by Corinthian Colleges misrepresented job
placement rates, a finding that could help some 85,000 former students have
their federal loans canceled.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Nov. 18, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2015/11/17/democrat-seeks-review-federal-oversight-colleges" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Democrat seeks
review of federal oversight of colleges</span></a><br />
The top Democrat on a Senate investigatory panel is calling on Congress’s
investigative arm to look into how the U.S. Department of Education
oversees colleges and universities. Senator Claire McCaskill of Missouri on
Monday sent a letter asking the Government Accountability Office
to review how the Education Department green-lights colleges to participate
in federal student aid programs as well as how effectively department
regulators uncover problems with colleges.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Nov. 17, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/11/17/education-department-faces-challenges-cracking-down-college-accreditors" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Challenges of
an accreditor crackdown</span></a><br />
In announcing a set of new college accreditation measures earlier this
month, Education Secretary Arne Duncan reiterated his criticism that
accreditors are the "watchdogs that don't bite." But will the
department itself have more bark than bite as it attempts to crack down on
those accreditors? The administration earlier this
month unveiled ambitious legislative proposals on accreditation,
calling on Congress to give the Education Department the power to force
accreditors to stop approving colleges where too few students graduate and
many are unable to repay their loans.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Nov. 17, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/11/17/obama-administration-states-reach-major-settlements-education-management-corporation" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Large
for-profit settlements</span></a><br />
The Obama administration and a large coalition of state attorneys general
announced on Monday a double hit against one of the nation’s largest
for-profit education companies. Federal prosecutors said they secured a
nearly $100 million settlement with the Education Management Corporation to
resolve long-running allegations that the for-profit college chain
illegally paid bonuses to recruiters.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Nov. 17, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.seattletimes.com/education-lab/sen-patty-murray-wants-to-help-more-foster-and-homeless-youth-go-to-college/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Sen. Patty
Murray wants to help more foster and homeless youth go to college</span></a><br />
Young people in foster care, or who are homeless during their school
years, are some of the least-likely students to go to college. One
report puts the number of foster care children who attend college at
10 percent, and of those, only about three percent graduate. A
new bill introduced by Sen. Patty Murray aims to improve those
numbers. The legislation, introduced earlier this month, asks colleges and
universities to boost outreach and resources for homeless and foster
youth. It would make it easier for homeless and foster students to learn
whether they qualify for financial aid, provide housing options between
terms, and designate a single person at each school to work with students.<br />
The Seattle Times, Nov. 16, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2015/11/16/opposition-safe-campus-act-continues-update" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Opposition to
Safe Campus Act continues (update)</span></a><br />
Five college safety and student affairs groups on Friday stressed yet again
that they oppose the Safe Campus Act, a bill that would limit how colleges
can respond to cases of campus sexual assault. The proposed legislation
would bar colleges from investigating incidents of sexual assault unless
the alleged victim reported the crime to law enforcement. It would also
require colleges to allow both the accusers and the accused to have access
to lawyers during the investigation and hearing process, and allow institutions
to choose what standard of proof they use for deciding
responsibility in cases of sexual misconduct.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Nov. 16, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2015/11/16/update-us-settle-fraud-case-profit-college-chain" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Update: U.S. to
settle fraud case with for-profit college chain</span></a><br />
The U.S. Department of Justice on Monday announced a $95.5
million settlement with the Education Management Corporation to
resolve allegations that it defrauded the government. The Huffington
Post reported on the settlement over the weekend. The agreement
ends a long-running lawsuit that accused the for-profit college chain of
illegally paying bonuses to admissions recruiters based on the number of
students they enrolled.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Nov. 16, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/setting-the-record-straight-on-common-core-and-student-data/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Opinion: Setting
the record straight on Common Core and student data</span></a><br />
By Rob McKenna, former state attorney general and current chairman of the
board of Data Quality Campaign, a national nonprofit organization working
on student achievement. Over the past two years, critics of Common Core
State Standards have claimed these new learning goals will
subject students to “cradle-to-the-grave” government surveillance. Common
Core, they say, will do everything from creating databases with sensitive
information, such as religious and political affiliation, to monitoring
facial expressions and eye movement. While such Orwellian predictions
are effective in raising alarm, they simply aren’t true.<br />
The Seattle Times, Nov. 14, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2015/11/12/baby-boomers-and-the-end-of-higher-education/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Opinion: Baby
boomers and the end of higher education</span></a><br />
Fifty years ago this week, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Higher
Education Act, ushering in an era of massive federal support for college
students through a flurry of new programs: tuition grants, guaranteed
student loans, and work-study funds. The law allowed a much greater swath
of Americans to earn a college degree regardless of their family income.
During the following decades, enrollment at campuses across the country
grew threefold, to some 20 million students. But today, Johnson’s
vision of the Higher Education Act as a great equalizer in the American
economy is at risk. Indeed, the divide between the haves and have-nots in
higher education is almost as great today as it was in the mid-1960s. In the
past decade alone, the percentage of students from families at the highest
income levels who received a bachelor’s degree has grown to 82 percent,
while for those at the bottom it has fallen to just 8 percent.<br />
The Washington Post, Nov. 12, 2015</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://www.king5.com/story/news/local/seattle/2015/11/11/8-week-course-teaches-soldiers-aviation-mechanics/75570154/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">8-week
course teaches soldiers about aviation mechanics</span></a><br />
A new eight-week program at <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">South
Seattle College </span></strong>is helping service members
transition out of the military and into the aerospace
industry. Camo2Commerce pays the soldiers' tuition to
get hands-on training to become an aviation mechanic. The
non-profit aims to help service members make a seamless transition into
the civilian workforce.<br />
KING 5, Nov. 11, 2015<br />
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<a href="http://www.sequimgazette.com/community/346179122.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Milestone:
Students, foundation shine at Peninsula College event</span></a><br />
The <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Peninsula
College</span></strong> Foundation celebrated its donors and
scholarship recipients at its annual Donor Appreciation Luncheon on
Oct. 29 in PC’s Cornaby Center. Ninety students have been awarded
scholarships totaling more than $225,000, giving them a much needed
boost for the this academic year. Many of these students were in
attendance to thank the donors personally and let the donors know how
much their gift meant to them.<br />
Sequim Gazette, Nov. 11, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/community/gateway/g-living/article44289087.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Officials
pleased with inaugural Write in the Harbor conference</span></a><br />
The first annual Write in the Harbor conference is being hailed a
success by conference coordinators. Hosted by <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Tacoma Community College</span></strong>
at the Gig Harbor campus on Nov. 6 and 7, the inaugural conference
boasted 75 to 80 registered attendees, according to conference
coordinator Maria Hays.<br />
The News Tribune, Nov. 11, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/education/exiting-service-members-get-help-with-their-next-mission-training-jobs/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">JBLM troops
leaving service get help with their next mission: jobs</span></a><br />
Next year, in training developed by Pacific Gas and Electric Company
and paid for through a federal Labor Department grant, 15 JBLM service
members will be able to take courses in a <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Bates Technical College</span></strong>
program in Tacoma that leads to jobs in the utility industry.<br />
The Seattle Times, Nov. 10, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.konp.com/local/11135" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">PC provides cybersecurity 4-year degree with WWU</span></a><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Peninsula
College</span></strong> has just completed an agreement with Western
Washington University for a seamless transition into a four year
program in the field of cyber security.<br />
KONP, Nov. 10, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="https://centraliacollege.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/chehalis-foundation-commits.pdf" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Chehalis
Foundation commits $1.5 million to school initiatives</span></a><br />
In support of the Chehalis School District’s Student Achievement
Initiative, the Chehalis Foundation has agreed to a commitment of $1.5
million over the next five years to help ensure students in the
district are career and college ready. ... With approximately 50
percent of W.F. West graduates continuing their education at <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Centralia College</span></strong>,
an adviser will also be put in place at the college to help the
graduates with the transition.<br />
Centralia Chronicle, Nov. 10, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.goskagit.com/all_access/latino-students-get-college-pep-talk/article_06359970-2a55-533e-9aef-baa0c04d1c2e.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Latino
students get college pep talk</span></a><br />
Latino high school students spent Friday at <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Skagit Valley College</span></strong>
learning about the opportunities available to them in higher education.
The event, which was organized by Skagit Valley College Multicultural
Recruitment Specialist Diana Peregrina, focused on showing Latino
students the benefits of a college education.<br />
Skagit Valley Herald, Nov. 7, 2015</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://time.com/money/4110102/million-student-march-protest-high-tuition-student-debt/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Student
protesters nationwide demand free tuition, $15 minimum wage, no student
debt</span></a><br />
The grassroots group Million Student March says affordable education is
a human right. Fed up with rising student debt and the continuing
climb of tuition costs, college students across the country are
planning to walk out of classrooms today to demand change.<br />
Time, Nov. 12, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2015/11/11/linking-occupational-training-and-4-year-degrees" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Linking
occupational training and 4-year degrees</span></a><br />
Many occupation-focused associate degrees and certificates are not
designed to lead to bachelor's-degree pathways, according to a new
policy report from New America, a think tank.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Nov. 11, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2015/11/11/poll-veterans-higher-education" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Poll on
veterans in higher education</span></a><br />
A new report from a broad, ongoing Gallup-Purdue
University study of quality-of-life measures for college
graduates looks at how veterans and active-duty members of the U.S.
military are faring in higher education.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Nov. 11, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/11/11/groups-release-principles-improving-remedial-education" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">New guide
to remediation</span></a><br />
Colleges and states have spent years working on ways to improve
remedial education, especially as they find more students are
graduating high school unprepared for the rigors of college.
Sixty-eight percent of community college students and 40 percent of
students at public four-year colleges take at least one remedial
course, and even more students are referred to developmental courses
but never enroll in them, according to the Community College Research
Center. Now a slate of national organizations and states are
endorsing six principles, all in an effort to aid in transforming
and improving remediation.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Nov. 11, 2015</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://chronicle.com/article/Obama-Takes-Steps-to-Assure/234147" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Obama takes
steps to assure quality of education programs that recruit veterans</span></a><br />
In honor of Veterans Day, the White House is announcing new measures to
shield veterans from shoddy colleges and vocational schools. On
Wednesday the administration will release an updated GI Bill
Comparison Tool that will allow veterans to compare colleges based
on veteran-specific graduation and retention rates. In addition, the
Department of Veterans Affairs and the Federal Trade Commission will
sign an agreement to strengthen oversight and enforcement to protect
against programs that engage in deceptive or misleading advertising,
sales, or enrollment practices aimed at veterans.<br />
The Chronicle of Higher Education, Nov. 11, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2015/11/11/analysis-aid-simplification-plans" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Analysis of
aid simplification plans</span></a><br />
Reforming the system by which students and families apply for student
aid is a hot issue in Washington, with numerous plans. The Urban
Institute on Tuesday published a guide outlining the
provisions of eight different proposals to change the application
process for determining eligibility for Pell Grants, as well as three
alternatives for determining how much families should be required to
contribute.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Nov. 11, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2015/11/11/gop-debate-rubio-again-criticizes-philosophy" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">In GOP
debate, Rubio again criticizes philosophy</span></a><br />
Senator Marco Rubio stood out during Tuesday’s Republican debate as the
only candidate to raise higher education as an issue. The Florida
senator criticized an “outdated” higher education system. “It is too
expensive, too hard to access, and it doesn't teach 21st-century
skills,” he said. On the campaign trail, Rubio has similarly been
critical of traditional higher education. As he has
on previous occasions, Rubio on Tuesday also singled out liberal
arts education for special criticism, calling for a greater focus on
vocational training.<br />
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| Veterans Day feature</span></a><br />
By Emily Hall, who served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 2010-13. She
is now a student at <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Olympic
College</span></strong> and an intern at the North Kitsap Herald. Kyle
Broussard was a sergeant in the Marine Corps as a rifleman and the
top-scoring Designated Marksman of his unit, serving from 2009-14. He
attributes operation readiness to open and honest communication.
... Broussard now attends Olympic College, where he is the general
manager of the campus monthly publication, The Olympian. He is ambitious
and plans on one day studying law at the University of Washington.<br />
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<a href="http://www.goskagit.com/all_access/skagit-valley-college-rakes-in-the-grants/article_50c5881d-510a-5d65-9e2a-b4665dd2231a.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Skagit Valley
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Complementing the college's recent federal grants, <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Skagit Valley College</span></strong>
has also been chosen as one of 30 colleges nationwide to participate in a
multiyear Pathways Project, led by the American Association of Community
Colleges and funded through a $5.2 million grant from the Bill and Melinda
Gates Foundation. The project aims to help community and technical colleges
better help students from the beginning of their educational careers to the
end.<br />
Skagit Valley Herald, Nov. 9, 2015<br />
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<a href="http://www.kentreporter.com/news/344197122.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">King County Council recognizes Green River College’s
golden anniversary</span></a><br />
The Metropolitan King County Council on Monday recognized <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Green River College</span></strong>
as the school celebrates its 50th year of serving the communities in south
King County.<br />
Kent Reporter, Nov. 9, 2015<br />
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<a href="http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20151109/NEWS/311099997/quinault-youth-attends-event-at-white-house" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Quinault youth
attends event at White House</span></a><br />
A member of the Quinault tribe was among 27 Native American young people from
across the country who attended the 2015 White House Tribal Nations
Conference. Shavaughna Underwood, 19, is a graduate of Taholah High
School and a student at <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Grays
Harbor College</span></strong>.<br />
Peninsula Daily News, Nov. 8, 2015<br />
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<a href="http://www.krem.com/story/news/local/spokane-county/2015/11/08/giving-backpacks-man-in-spokane-focusing-on-education/75414224/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">"Giving
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The Spokane man who started "Giving Backpacks" in August has
decided to go back to school to help him give back more to his community.
Rick Clark was inspired to start "Giving Backpacks" in August
after a picture of him hugging homeless boy he had just bought food for at
an STA bus stop went viral. ... Clark is now a full time student at <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Spokane Community College</span></strong>
and hopes to use his education to make bigger changes within his community.<br />
KREM, Nov. 8, 2015<br />
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<a href="http://tdn.com/lifestyles/new-lcc-director-welcomes-return-to-community-college-teaching/article_87f5c987-cd57-5e4a-a843-239287ead36f.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">New LCC
director welcomes return to community college teaching</span></a><br />
Betsy Richard is making a gentle entrance onto Center Stage. She says she
wants to get better acquainted with the local acting community — and
audiences — before charting her course. But people who attend plays at <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Lower Columbia College</span></strong>
will notice some changes with Richard’s first production, “Almost, Maine.”<br />
Longview Daily News, Nov. 7, 2015<br />
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<a href="http://kuow.org/post/drones-go-college-northwest-universities-add-programs-unmanned-aerial-systems" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Drones go to
college: Northwest universities add programs in unmanned aerial systems</span></a><br />
If you want to go to college to learn how to design, build, fly or fix a
drone, your time has come. Many institutions of higher learning around the
Northwest are recognizing that unmanned aircraft could become a key
technology of the future. ... Within the last year, Central
Oregon Community College in Bend and <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Green River College</span></strong> in
Auburn, Washington, established Associate of Applied Science degrees in
unmanned aerial systems.<br />
KUOW, Nov. 5, 2015<br />
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<a href="http://www.goskagit.com/entertainment/svc-production-draws-inspiration-from-native-american-myth/article_a745d5b3-96ec-51b6-9c53-8964f2dbd3e0.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">SVC production
draws inspiration from Native American myth</span></a><br />
Growing up in Skagit County, Damond Morris was surrounded by the figures
and myths of Native American tribes. “I had a lot of friends who were
Native American, whether in Skagit or Lummi,” he said. “I’d always been
connected to it, although not always been aware of my connection to it.”
Now Morris, director of the drama department at <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Skagit Valley College</span></strong>,
is overseeing a production that fuses some of those myths to one of the
oldest stories in Western culture.<br />
Skagit Valley Herald, Nov. 1, 2015</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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extends military tuition benefit</span></a><br />
The Starbucks Corporation this week announced that it will offer
a tuition-free education to a spouse or child of its employees who are
veterans or active-duty members of the U.S. military.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Nov. 10, 2015<br />
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<a href="http://chronicle.com/article/Racial-Disparities-in-Higher/234129" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Racial
disparities in higher education: an overview</span></a><br />
Racism on American campuses is a matter of national concern again this week
following protests at the University of Missouri at Columbia that led on
Monday to the resignations of both the campus’s chancellor and the system’s
president. ... While the situation in Missouri is dramatic, and the
protests there particularly successful, racial tensions have flared
up on several campuses in the past year. Those events draw
attention to continuing racial disparities in higher education, where
African-Americans make up a small portion of professors, presidents, and
selective-college enrollments. Let’s take a look at some relevant data.<br />
The Chronicle of Higher Education, Nov. 10, 2015<br />
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<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/11/09/study-questions-whether-elite-college-courses-are-higher-quality-others" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Are elite
college courses better?</span></a><br />
Study's preliminary findings suggest that teaching quality and academic
rigor are not necessarily stronger at prestigious institutions.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Nov. 9, 2015<br />
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<a href="http://chronicle.com/article/Richer-Data-on-College/234109" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Richer data on
college applicants help the prospects of low-income students</span></a><br />
Systematically providing selective colleges with detailed information about
applicants’ high-school backgrounds could significantly raise the admission
rates of low-income students, a new study concludes.<br />
The Chronicle of Higher Education, Nov. 7, 2015</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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industries except drug manufacturing and technology. There are colleges in
every congressional district, and 1 in 40 U.S. workers draw a paycheck from
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SBCTC Communicationshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06734304675604789044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543530878500982884.post-5312749375824529552015-11-06T15:11:00.000-08:002015-11-06T15:11:04.895-08:00News Links | November 6, 2015<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 24.64px;"><tbody>
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<strong><span style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">SYSTEM NEWS | OPINIONS</span></strong></div>
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online voluntary education fair to link troops, schools and counselors</a> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Forty-three
colleges and universities – including <b>Everett Community College</b> -- will join
counselors from each military service for the Defense Department's first-ever online
education fair. The fair is designed to link up troops interested in
using voluntary education programs with schools that cater to
them and education counselors who can help navigate education guidelines set by
the military services. To participate in the fair, each school has signed
agreements to guarantee members access to courses and also to give troops
maximum credit for their military education and experience. … The online fair
will be held Nov. 19… at www.dodeducationfair.com from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Eastern Standard Time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="http://www.kirklandreporter.com/news/340516621.html">Grant allows Lake
Washington Institute of Technology in Kirkland to serve more veterans</a> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">The<b>
Lake Washington Institute of Technology</b> (LWTech) has received a $367,000 grant
from the Department of Education to open a center that school officials hope
will improve the institute’s appeal to military veterans. The grant will fund
the first three years of the Center of Excellence for Veteran Student Success
(CEVSS), which will be on the Kirkland school’s campus … The center will be
part student lounge, part resource center, staffed by a CEVSS coordinator paid
through the grant. The coordinator will provide direct advising for current
veteran students, as well as work to recruit more veterans.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="http://www.chronline.com/centralia-college-plans-for-third-bachelor-degree-program/article_e92f4f0a-83eb-11e5-b0ac-0399717899bc.html">Centralia
College Plans for Third Bachelor Degree Program</a> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"><b>Centralia
College </b>will be offering a new bachelor’s degree program if the accreditation agency
currently considering it approves. The new program lands in the information
technology realm and focuses on application management. Currently, college
officials are waiting for the last step of the process before they can offer
the program in fall 2016. …… At first, 20 students would be able to enroll
in the bachelor’s degree program. Later, the potential for up to 60 students at
the two levels is available. Patrick Allison, the associate dean of
information technology programs, said the program curriculum would center
around application development, by either creating software or web-based
applications, among other ventures. It would focus on the entire software
lifecycle. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"><b>Clark
College</b> in Vancouver is recommending drastic budget cuts because of dwindling
enrollment. Clark College’s interim vice president Dr. Tim Cook issued a
statement to the college community Tuesday. The proposal recommends reducing 12
departments and programs, and completely eliminating 11 more. “These are tough
decisions that impact lives and are not to be taken lightly,” he said. “Please
be assured that we all are committed to supporting our campus community as we
work together to provide a clearer path to Clark’s future.” The proposal would
cut a total of $2,226,406 from the budget. That’s in addition to $600,000
the school recently cut, which reduced sections and medical benefits for
adjunct staff.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Headbanging: Black Metal Concert featuring Spokane Falls CC Choir &
Orchestra</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Local
metal band Age of Nefilim is making a live record with a choir and orchestra. At
first it's only drums. You can't hear the 20-piece orchestra or the singers at
the back of the stage. Not the grand piano, nor or the wailing guitar. Instead,
the double bass drum pedal and wildly crashing cymbals have taken the <b>Spokane
Falls Community College</b>'s music building auditorium hostage. … This is a
school-sanctioned event, but no one is getting paid. The band members don't
even go to SFCC; it was friend and audio engineering student Anthony Stalker's
idea. Stalker, also in the local metal scene, asked Meyer if a metal
collaboration would be possible. The answer was maybe, but other faculty had to
be consulted first. "I immediately said 'Yes,'" says orchestra
director Shelley Rotz, who is playing violin for the concert but admits she
doesn't listen to metal. "I love collaborating, and this is an important
thing for our students to learn how to do, to work with other kinds of groups
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Northwest Inlander, Nov. 5, 2015<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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October 1. The college just finalized a contract with the Douglas County
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Higher Ed, Nov. 5, 2015<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Structure of Instructure</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the LMS provider prepares to go public, financial disclosures show the company
has spent on sales and marketing at a much higher rate than competitors -- but
has rapid growth to show for it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Jill Biden explains why community college is 'one of America's best-kept
secrets'</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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an exclusive Q&A with AOL.com, Dr. Biden explains why people looking to
pursue a college degree should look no farther than their local community
college.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Community College Healthcare program receives $15 million grant</a><br />
<b>Edmonds Community College</b>’s
Innovations in Creating Access To Careers in Healthcare (I-CATCH), recently
received a five-year $15 million healthcare training grant in partnership with <b>Everett Community College</b> and <b>Skagit Valley College</b>. … CATCH is a
multi-year, multi-million dollar federally funded initiative that began in
2010. … The program’s goal is to serve 250 individuals each year; 120 at
Edmonds Community College, 80 at Everett Community College and 50 at Skagit
Valley College.<br />
Mountlake Terrace MLT News, Oct. 28, 2015<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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college, not just high school, is Tacoma group’s new mantra</a><br />
… When Graduate Tacoma launched in 2010, the goal was to boost Tacoma’s high
school graduation rates out of the basement. At that time, only 55 percent of
students finished high school in four years. By 2014, the school district had
recorded a 78 percent graduation rate — the highest since the state began
tracking the numbers in 2003. The numbers were up at every Tacoma high school
and across income and demographic lines. Now, Graduate Tacoma supporters have
set their eyes on a bigger prize: college completion for those TPS graduates. …
Andrea Garcia, a Foss High School graduate who now studies at <b>Tacoma Community College</b>, said her
mentor from Peace Community Center, Kelsey Fischer, helped her navigate high
school. …“I couldn’t have graduated, gone to college — or stood on this stage
today — if it wasn’t for all the help I encountered,” Garcia said.<br />
The News Tribune, Oct. 30, 2015<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Awards Over One Million Dollars in Scholarships This Year</a><br />
On Friday, the <b>Columbia Basin College</b>
Foundation gave away over one million dollars in scholarships. When the
foundation first began awarding students 30 years ago, they only gave away five
awards worth $5,000 each. This year they gave away a record number of
scholarships: 568.<br />
KNDO/KNDU NBC Right Now, Oct. 30, 2015<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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success program Pathways Project coming to South Seattle College</a><br />
<b>South Seattle College</b> … has been
selected to participate in the Pathways Project led by the American Association
of Community Colleges (AACC). Through a highly competitive selection process,
South was one of only 30 institutions from across the country chosen to
participate in this project that is focused on student success and college
completion. The AACC is coordinating a national partnership to build capacity
for community colleges to implement a pathways approach to support student
achievement and college graduation. The project is funded through a $5.2
million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.<br />
West Seattle Herald, Oct. 31, 2015<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Our View: Cheers & Jeers / Cheers: Clark College STEM building</a><br />
<b>Clark College</b> is continuing to
progress on a building to house its science, technology, engineering and math
programs, even at a difficult time for the college.<br />
The Columbian, Oct. 31, 2015<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Bachelor Program Approved at Centralia College</a><br />
… The State Board for Community and Technical Colleges unanimously adopted a
resolution to approve <b>Centralia College</b>’s
application to offer a bachelor’s degree in Information Technology: Application
Management.<br />
Centralia Chronicle, Oct. 31, 2015<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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College holds series of emergency preparedness training</a><br />
<b>Pierce College</b> Campus Safety is
holding four training sessions on each campus, designed to prepare the college
community to respond to the threat of an active shooter on campus. These
training sessions are designed to provide individuals with the tools necessary
to developing a survival mindset in the face of a potentially life-threatening
situation. <br />
The Suburban Times, Oct. 31, 2015<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Community College Foundation to host Breakfast for Champions</a><br />
The <b>Edmonds Community College</b>
Foundation will hold its annual Breakfast with Champions event on Nov. 5 so the
foundation can acknowledge and celebrate over 170 student scholars and the many
generous donors who make the Foundation scholarships possible.<br />
My Edmonds News, Nov. 1, 2015<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Winners: Hilton honored by White House</a><br />
Lela Hilton, part-time English instructor at <b>Edmonds Community College</b>, met President Barack Obama and First
Lady Michelle Obama on Sept. 10 when she joined colleagues to accept the
National Humanities Medal for her involvement with the Clemente Course in the
Humanities.<br />
The Herald (Everett), Nov. 2, 2015<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Faculty Receive Training on Active Threats</a><br />
<b>Clover Park Technical College</b>’s
in-service day for faculty … included training on how instructors can recognize
and respond to the threat of an active shooter on campus. … Institutions of
higher education are placing more of an emphasis on moving from an older “lockdown/safe
room” model toward a doctrine of “Run, Hide, Fight,” in response to
an active threat. A brainstorm session followed the training to gather
input about how to involve students in preparing for and responding to an
active threat.<br />
The Suburban Times, Nov. 2, 2015<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Transforming futures with valuable support services</a><br />
Enrolling in college can be a daunting task. But with the help of <b>Bates Technical College</b>’s Pre-college
Transition Services, students find a supportive path to transforming their
lives. Andrea Cobb, the college’s Pre-college Transition Specialist, provides
valuable support and encouragement to students as they navigate through the
complex process of transitioning from pre-college or military into a career
education program.<br />
The Suburban Times, Nov. 2, 2015<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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College hosts Japanese nursing students during three-day study tour</a><br />
For three days in October, nursing students from Japan spent time at <b>Pierce College</b>, learning about the
American healthcare system, visiting local medical centers, and sharing their
traditions with the college community. The Pierce College Nursing and
International Education departments helped design a program that would benefit
all nursing students, as they shared cultural traditions and healthcare
practices from their home countries.<br />
The Suburban Times, Nov. 1, 2015<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Foundation honored at Lake Washington Institute of Technology Benefit</a><br />
Brian Peierls from the Peierls Foundation was honored this morning with the
first ever “Distinguished Friend of the College” award at the annual LWTech
Foundation "Bright Futures Benefit Breakfast" for their contribution
of more than $800,000 to the high school programs at <b>Lake Washington Institute of Technology</b> (LWTech) over the past 20
years. The Peierls Foundation just announced its 2015 donation in the amount of
$66,000 to the LWTech High School Programs, their largest single donation
to-date.<br />
Kirkland Views, Nov. 3, 2015<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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opens professional-grade health sciences facility</a><br />
<b>Bellevue College</b> opened the doors …
to the new Health Sciences, Education and Wellness T-Building, a
70,000-square-foot facility featuring laboratories and learning spaces
integrated into one area. Prior to the new building, students from the
different disciplines were separated, as were different types of facilities.
Now, nursing students can practice the full-range of patient care, including
transporting their dummy “patients” on a gurney to X-ray machines and other
technology for diagnosis. <br />
Bellevue Reporter, Nov. 3, 2015<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Voice: Providing two free years of college a worthy goal</a><br />
There was a time when a high school diploma was enough to find a good job and
start on the path to a middle-class lifestyle. Those days are long gone,
however, according to the U.S. Department of Education. Now economists predict
that by 2020, nearly two-thirds of jobs in the United States will require some
type of higher education or specialized training beyond high school. But
getting that degree or certificate is out of reach for too many hard working
students because they can’t afford to pay for it. That’s why <b>Columbia Basin College </b>President Rich
Cummins is supporting America’s College Promise program, which was launched by
President Obama earlier this year. Last month the College Promise Campaign
began asking community college administrators and others in higher education to
start promoting the idea of reducing the financial burden for the first two
years of college. Cummins said it is “important to have these conversations
because it’s about prosperity in our community.” <br />
Mid Columbia Tri City Herald, Nov. 3, 2015<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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finds for-profit degree no better than a community college certificate</a><br />
You read it everywhere: advice to prospective college students that they look
first to public community colleges rather than for-profit schools, which can be
five times as expensive. Now a study by researchers at the University of
Missouri finds that hiring managers show no preference for hiring people
with for-profit college credentials compared to those holding comparable
credentials from public community colleges.<br />
Consumer Affairs, Nov. 3, 2015<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Grants in High School</a><br />
The Obama administration will help some high school students pay for college
courses while still in high school by allowing limited access to Pell Grants. When
low-income students take credit-bearing college courses while still in high
school, research has shown they are more likely to graduate from high school,
enroll in college and then stick with it.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Nov. 2, 2015<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Data on Adjuncts</a><br />
Teaching is the primary source of income for nearly three-quarters (73 percent)
of adjunct faculty members, and two-thirds have actively sought a tenure-track
position. Some 38 percent have been on the market for a tenure-track job for
five or more years. Those are some of the preliminary findings of a survey of
part-time faculty members released Friday by the New Faculty Majority, a
national adjunct advocacy group.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Nov. 2, 2015<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Colleges Now See Centers for Teaching With Technology as Part of ‘Innovation
Infrastructure’</a><br />
In the past few years, many colleges have expanded the scale and scope of
centers that support teaching and learning with technology, as part of an
effort to build a new “innovation infrastructure” for instruction. … One key
change has been the creation of new or redefined administrative jobs at
colleges intended “to lead their academic-change initiatives.” And the survey
found that several colleges have reconstructed their centers for teaching and
learning to focus more on student success than just on faculty development,
working more often across various departments such as student services and
academic affairs. <br />
The Chronicle of Higher Education, Nov. 3, 2015<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Talk to Regular People About What’s Happening to College Prices</a><br />
The latest data on college costs, released on Wednesday, show that they
continue to climb. But what’s a nonexpert to make of that news — and how can
experts craft the right message for each group?<br />
The Chronicle of Higher Education, Nov. 4, 2015<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Woes Subside</a><br />
The tuition hikes and high federal borrowing and default rates that
hit higher education in the recession's wake continue to stabilize and
diminish, according to the College Board.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Nov. 4, 2015<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Tuition and Fees at Thousands of Colleges</a><br />
The College Board has released its annual report on college prices. Browse the
charges at more than 3,100 colleges and universities, with historical data to
1998.<br />
The Chronicle of Higher Education, Nov. 4, 2015<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Commission Will Take On the Future of Higher Education</a><br />
The "future of higher education" landscape — already ringing with
cacophonous predictions from all manner of task forces, books, conferences, and
self-styled disruptors — is about to get another. This week the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences will announce its own Commission on the Future of
Undergraduate Education.<br />
The Chronicle of Higher Education, Nov. 4, 2015<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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yesterday's problems constrains tomorrow's solutions: Overregulation of competency-based
education</a><br />
… While most programs are still being designed within traditional credit-hour
frameworks and thus Title IV rules of financial aid disbursement, an increasing
number seek to be untethered to the credit hour and its trumping of time over
actual learning. They have the support of leaders in the Education Department,
the White House and both parties of Congress. Enter the OIG … [which] reasserts
the use of the “regular and substantive interaction between faculty and
students” rule to distinguish between conventional Title IV-eligible programs
and correspondence programs, which have greater restrictions on aid eligibility
and ruinous stigma attached to them. The OIG, acutely aware of the abuses in
correspondence programs in the 2000s, takes a very conservative interpretation
of the rule and posits a traditional faculty instructional role. However, many
of the most innovative CBE programs unbundle that role, using faculty members
in various ways, such as subject matter experts, reviewers and for learning
support, while relying on “coaches” for some of the advising and mentoring
roles often associated with faculty. <br />
Inside Higher Ed, Oct. 26, 2015<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Coalition's Goals for the Higher Education Act</a><br />
A coalition of 12 organizations, including New America, the Business
Roundtable, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Center for Law and Social
Policy, on Wednesday released a set of shared principles for policy makers to
consider in the run-up to the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act, the
law that governs federal aid programs. While the groups have different takes on
many issues in higher education, they said the current formulation of the law
does not meet the needs of students for high-quality, affordable and relevant
educational opportunities.<br />
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at White House</span></a><br />
She gave the keynote address with her parents at the World Down Syndrome Day
conference at the United Nations in New York City in March. She entertained
countless people as a three-year varsity cheerleader during her high school
years in Seattle. Most of us won’t do any of those in our lifetime, but
19-year-old Devon Adelman accomplished them all before beginning her first year
at <b>Highline College</b>. And she did it all and more as a person with Down
syndrome. … Adelman was drawn to Highline for its marine biology program. With
a passion for marine life, she has volunteered as a docent at the Seattle
Aquarium, educating visitors about the ocean’s inhabitants. Another benefit of
attending Highline is its strong ACHIEVE program, which is a comprehensive
postsecondary transition program for students with intellectual disabilities.
The college recently received a boost with $1.79 million in funding to build
capacity and enhance its ACHIEVE program, thanks to a five-year federal award
through a competitive grant process from the U.S. Department of Education.
Highline was one of only 25 higher education institutions nationwide to receive
the grant and one of three community colleges.<br />
Federal Way Mirror, Oct. 28, 2015<br />
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<a href="http://sbctc.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=deef59f1d8ee1e991514ca276&id=4e5e25694e&e=c357118747"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Clark College’s STEM building takes shape</span></a><br />
School plans for facility to be ‘unified space’ for science education. Is there
a better place to witness science, technology, engineering and math in action
than in the skeleton of an unfinished building? How about in the shell of the
new <b>Clark College </b>STEM building? “One of the leading drivers in
education right now is STEM education,” said Clark College Foundation
spokeswoman Rhonda Morin. “And this is going to bring everyone together in one
unified space. ”The $39 million campus addition was getting stitched together
by dozens of workers Wednesday afternoon during a media tour of the
70,000-square-foot facility.<br />
The Columbian, Oct. 29, 2015<br />
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<a href="http://sbctc.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=deef59f1d8ee1e991514ca276&id=82d1083589&e=c357118747"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">GHC holds presidential search forum for faculty and staff</span></a><br />
Faculty and staff gathered in the new Schermer Building at <b>Grays Harbor
College</b> on Wednesday to put forward thoughts on what they wanted to see in
a new president as the college’s current leader, Ed Brewster, is retiring in
June. .... Staff made it obvious they wanted a new president who was
transparent and cared not only about the college, but its involvement in the
community. The meeting was informal and allowed those willing to put in their
two cents on what they thought made an ideal candidate for the job.<br />
The Daily World, Oct. 29, 2015<br />
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<a href="http://sbctc.us8.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=deef59f1d8ee1e991514ca276&id=2adcf3afc6&e=c357118747"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Business is buzzing for Gig Harbor-based hive adoption
service</span></a><br />
A buzz is beginning to spread about Bee Maven, a new beehive hive adoption
service based in Gig Harbor. The business, founded in November 2014 by backyard
beekeeper Jonathan Tuite, provides established beehives and maintenance to
customers. To better understand the underlying causes for [hive loss], and
hopefully prevent them, Tuite is combining his passion for beekeeping with his
experience with software to collect hive data using monitors he’s created. He
is working closely on this project with entomologist Daniel Najera, a professor
at <b>Green River College</b> and trustee of the Puget Sound Beekeepers
Association, and a team of scientists from Green River.<br />
The News Tribune, Oct. 28, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://sbctc.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=deef59f1d8ee1e991514ca276&id=ed4e586a1f&e=c357118747"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Two more degrees: two more opportunities</span></a><br />
Two new degrees means two new opportunities for students at <b>Columbia Basin
College</b>. The College made some presentations [during the State Board
meeting] in Olympia and is now authorized to submit full [applied] bachelor
degree proposals for two new programs in information technology and dental
hygiene for students.<br />
KEPR TV, Oct. 29, 2015<br />
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<a href="http://sbctc.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=deef59f1d8ee1e991514ca276&id=4eaba0231b&e=c357118747"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">MCeducation1030 [Mason County education, Oct. 30]</span></a><br />
Improving the education of all students in Shelton should be the goal of not
just parents and educators, but also the goal of businesses and the greater
community. … [<b>Olympic College</b>] now offers classes at the Mason Transit
Community Center, including culinary and computer courses, and has seen success
with its welding, nursing and mechanical engineering programs across its three
campuses in Shelton, Bremerton and Poulsbo. The college wants to continue to
partner with Western Washington University and Washington State University to
offer more bachelor's degrees, and will work with local school districts to
help high school students be better prepared for college. "Ten percent of
our classes are preparation classes, which means that the students who come to
us are not yet ready for college-level courses," [college president David]
Mitchell said. "We need to work closely with the school district to be
better prepared. It's important these kids come to us college ready."<br />
Kitsap Sun, Oct. 30, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://sbctc.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=deef59f1d8ee1e991514ca276&id=7fd689f839&e=c357118747"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Run, hide, fight: Pierce College wants students, staff
ready if a shooter ever comes</span></a><br />
<b>Pierce College </b>students and staff are being told this month how to
respond if a shooter ever opens fire on campus. Similar to its earthquake and
fire drills, the college has added active shooter training to its repertoire of
preparedness planning. Recent campus shootings around the country, including
the Oct. 1 attack at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon, have added a
sense of urgency to the training.<br />
The News Tribune, Oct. 30, 2015<br />
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<a href="http://sbctc.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=deef59f1d8ee1e991514ca276&id=44a4183e10&e=c357118747"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Four companies band together to help employees get GEDs
for free</span></a><br />
Several major national companies are giving employees free access to prep
classes and tests to earn their high-school equivalency degrees. State
community college leader Marty Brown is praising a new program offered by KFC,
Walmart, Taco Bell and Southeastern Grocers that gives their
employees free access to online and community college programs that can help
them earn their GED, a high-school equivalency degree. “These companies have
sent a clear message that they value education and the opportunities it brings
to their employees,” said Brown, executive director of the <b>State Board for
Community and Technical Colleges</b>, in a statement. “They are setting a great
example for other employers to do the same.”<br />
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #2e4c84;"><a href="http://sbctc.us8.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=deef59f1d8ee1e991514ca276&id=22059c16ef&e=c357118747">Washington State U Will Help Low-Income Students Save</a></span><br />
Washington State University has announced a new program to help low-income
students save money and, officials hope, finish college.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Oct. 26, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://sbctc.us8.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=deef59f1d8ee1e991514ca276&id=2d641a137b&e=c357118747"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Community Colleges Might Not Be for You</span></a><br />
Are you prepared to teach 5 classes a semester for the rest of your career? …
Plus, anyone who has read my columns on The Two-Year Track in The Chronicle for
the past 12 years knows I’m a cheerleader for community colleges. I believe
they serve a vital function and, on top of that, are pretty good places to
work. But the truth is: Teaching at a community college isn’t for everyone.
Two-year schools have their own culture, their own way of looking at things,
and their own set of customs and norms, which may be very different from what
some people are accustomed to or even interested in.<br />
The Chronicle of Higher Education, Oct. 26, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://sbctc.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=deef59f1d8ee1e991514ca276&id=b1719a77d1&e=c357118747"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Working Learners</span></a><br />
A new study from Georgetown University finds that three-quarters of college
students work, but too rarely is the work connected to their studies.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Oct. 28, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://sbctc.us8.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=deef59f1d8ee1e991514ca276&id=744dc74153&e=c357118747"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Encouraging Low-Income Enrollment </span></a><br />
A new report from the Institute for Higher Education Policy identifies
selective colleges that could be do better at enrolling and graduating
low-income students, while also highlighting the colleges that do a good job
with this population.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Oct. 29, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://sbctc.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=deef59f1d8ee1e991514ca276&id=b895f274f7&e=c357118747"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Pierce County school districts boost College Bound
scholarship sign-ups</span></a><br />
More than 91 percent of last year’s eligible eighth-grade students signed up
for the College Bound Scholarship offered to low-income students in Washington
state, according to a report from the Washington Student Achievement Council.<br />
The News Tribune, Oct. 30, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://sbctc.us8.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=deef59f1d8ee1e991514ca276&id=e9f33c5ebf&e=c357118747"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Boosting Productivity</span></a><br />
A new report from the Lumina Foundation examines ways states have introduced
policies to encourage public colleges to be more efficient and focused on
student success after the recession. Performance-based funding,
developmental education reforms and student completion incentives are a few of
the initiatives states have launched in the last few years as ways to invest in
their higher education systems while maintaining quality. And the Lumina
Foundation has helped encourage these -- sometimes controversial -- policies.<br />
The Chronicle of Higher Education, Oct. 29, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://sbctc.us8.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=deef59f1d8ee1e991514ca276&id=9c865270a0&e=c357118747"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Campus Tech Leaders Report More Support for Free
Educational Materials</span></a><br />
College technology leaders appear more optimistic these days about open-source
textbooks and open educational resources — teaching and learning materials that
can be used at no cost. According to the latest Campus Computing Survey of top
technology officers at colleges, released on Thursday, 81 percent believe that
open educational resources will be an important source for instructional
material in the next five years. And 38 percent report that their institutions
encourage faculty members to use open-resource content, compared with 33
percent in 2014.<br />
The Chronicle of Higher Education, Oct. 29, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://sbctc.us8.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=deef59f1d8ee1e991514ca276&id=7a39ad2fac&e=c357118747"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Pell Grants Will Help High-School Students Pay for
College Courses</span></a><br />
High-school students taking college courses for credit will be able to receive
Pell Grants for the first time, under an experiment the Education Department
announced on Friday. The announcement occurred just two weeks after the
department unveiled another pilot that will allow federal grants and loans to
flow to educational-technology companies that team up with colleges to offer
coding boot camps, MOOCs, short-term certificates, and other credentials. More
than 1.4 million high-school students took college courses for credit, a
process known as dual enrollment, in 2010-11, according to department
statistics. Some research suggests that low-income and first-generation
students who participate in dual enrollment and early-college high schools (a
highly structured dual-enrollment program) are more likely to enroll in college
and graduate.<br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="http://sbctc.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=deef59f1d8ee1e991514ca276&id=e69bc7f229&e=c357118747"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Editorial: Paraeducators need, want training</span></a><br />
First-in-the-nation legislation that would have set IA education standards was
passed by both houses of the Washington Legislature this year. But SB 5179 died
when the House and Senate versions could not be reconciled. …
First-in-the-nation legislation that would have set IA education standards was
passed by both houses of the Washington Legislature this year. But SB 5179 died
when the House and Senate versions could not be reconciled.<br />
The Spokesman Review, Oct. 27, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://sbctc.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=deef59f1d8ee1e991514ca276&id=750288bae0&e=c357118747"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Judge Rules Defunct For-Profit College Is Liable for $530
Million in Damages </span></a><br />
A federal judge has ruled that the defunct Corinthian Colleges is liable for
roughly $530 million in damages to former students, concluding a lawsuit
brought by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau a year ago. According to
the judge’s order, Corinthian deceived students by misrepresenting their career
prospects, among other things.<br />
The Chronicle of Higher Education, Oct. 28, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://sbctc.us8.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=deef59f1d8ee1e991514ca276&id=5282a283b5&e=c357118747"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Why Congress Must Revive the Perkins Loan Program</span></a><br />
Unless we can accommodate growing numbers of needy students, the consequences
for them, for higher education and for our country’s future are enormous,
writes Ray Cross.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Oct. 29, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://sbctc.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=deef59f1d8ee1e991514ca276&id=c4d7e4008b&e=c357118747"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Vast Budget Deal, With Good News for Education, Passes
the House </span></a><br />
The legislation, which is expected to win approval from the Senate and the
White House, would provide an additional $40 billion for nondefense spending,
including on students and colleges.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://sbctc.us8.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=deef59f1d8ee1e991514ca276&id=d39c72b795&e=c357118747">Yakima
Chamber of Commerce hands out honors</a><br />
Several businesses and individuals were recognized Thursday at the Greater
Yakima Chamber of Commerce’s annual awards event. ... Linda Kaminski and Ronald
King were given the organization’s biggest award, the Ted Robertson Community
Service Award. ... Kaminski, president of <b>Yakima Valley Community
College</b>, was recognized for overseeing more than $100 million in capital
improvements over her two-decade tenure at the college as well as her
involvement in several community organizations.<br />
Yakima Herald, Oct. 22, 2015<br />
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<a href="http://sbctc.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=deef59f1d8ee1e991514ca276&id=0c9c760b33&e=c357118747">YWCA
Announces 2015 Olympia Women & Business of Achievement Honorees</a><br />
Barbara Clarkson (Racial Justice): Barbara Clarkson is a longtime community
advocate and Trustee at<b>South Puget Sound Community College</b> and the
SPSCC Foundation, passionate about letting us know “It is time for the
community to show up” and leading by example. As a charter member of the
Thurston Group of Washington Board of Directors, she has helped raise over $6M
to support over 850 students with scholarships and financial aid.<br />
Thurston Talk, Oct. 23, 2015<br />
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<a href="http://sbctc.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=deef59f1d8ee1e991514ca276&id=442a18d65b&e=c357118747">Hollywood
comes to Bellevue | Students work as producers, crew members</a><br />
For six days this summer, <b>Bellevue College</b> became a Hollywood
set of sorts, and its students joined the ranks of professionals to film an
innovative new movie. Cameras, production crew members and actors filled main
campus to film “Pendulum,” a film about a disgraced journalist who teams up
with a reluctant veteran detective to investigate the death of a young
girl. The script is full of murder, politics and intrigue, bringing to mind
HBO’s hit miniseries “True Detective”, said Judith Lindsay-Kiama, a Bellevue
College film student and one of the movie’s co-producers. The majority of
the more than 50 crew members were Bellevue College Digital Media Arts and
Advanced Track video students and alumni, and it was produced by Lindsay-Kiama
and fellow alumni Robin Steel Haaseth.<br />
Bellevue Reporter, Oct. 23, 2015<br />
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<a href="http://sbctc.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=deef59f1d8ee1e991514ca276&id=d4eca7dbd4&e=c357118747">New
Recreation Center in Bothell Serves Two Schools</a><br />
The University of Washington Bothell and<b> Cascadia College</b> have
opened a joint recreation and activities center on their shared campus in
Bothell, Washington. The $20 million, 36,000-square-foot Activities and
Recreation Center has numerous amenities: fitness areas, offices for
student life and government groups, multiple meeting spaces, and a space
for large student events and activities.<br />
Club Industry, Oct. 23, 2015<br />
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<a href="http://sbctc.us8.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=deef59f1d8ee1e991514ca276&id=2beb119ac6&e=c357118747">From
Pilot to Inventor to HVAC Student: Tacoma Man’s Career Brings Him Back to
Clover Park TC</a><br />
<b>Clover Park Technical College</b>’s rich history dates back to World War II,
when school districts provided training to area citizens to repair and maintain
military equipment. ... With an interest in aviation, Richard Magoon
chose to study aviation mechanics at Clover Park High School in
1949. ... Since 1979 Magoon has continued to come up with new
ideas and different ways to do things. His latest idea has brought him back to
CPTC, where he is enrolled in the Heating and Air Conditioning
Refrigeration/Service Technician Program at the age of 81.<br />
Suburban Times, Oct. 23, 2015<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Harriette Bryant has been
named to the<b> Olympic College</b> Board of Trustees. She will
replace Alice Tawresey, who served on the College Board of Trustees since
2006. Bryant is the immediate past-chair of the Kitsap Community
Foundation, chairwoman of the Bremerton Housing Authority, has served as the
president of the Kitsap County YWCA board of directors, is a member of the Boys
and Girls Club of South Puget Sound Board of Governors ...<br />
Kitsap Sun, Oct. 25, 2015<br />
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<a href="http://sbctc.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=deef59f1d8ee1e991514ca276&id=05d4e1638a&e=c357118747">Whatcom
View: WCC Foundation scholarships have profound impact on students</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Through
the <b>Whatcom Community College</b> Foundation, I found a rewarding
opportunity to move both convictions to action by establishing a
scholarship. I credit the 2010 WCC Foundation Donor Appreciation Breakfast
for the inspiration. I was moved by the stories shared by scholarship
recipients and by the students’ sincere desire to make a better life for
themselves and their families through education. Soon after, I established the
Pratt Karasik scholarship in memory of my husband and in honor of our shared
commitment to education. Inspired by my own career in science and
engineering, my scholarship is awarded to students who are pursuing a career in
science, technology, engineering or math. | Brenda-Lee Karasik,
Ph.D., is a member of the Whatcom Community College Foundation board of
directors.<br />
Bellingham Herald, Oct. 25, 2015<br />
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<a href="http://sbctc.us8.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=deef59f1d8ee1e991514ca276&id=2e4f7ffad4&e=c357118747">A
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Jason Alfaro wants to attend Western Washington University
to study engineering at its Vehicle Research Institute. College was once
something Alfaro, a Mount Vernon High School student, didn’t think was in his
future; as a sophomore and junior he didn’t have great grades and he struggled
with personal issues. ... A partnership between the Mount Vernon School
District, <b>Skagit Valley College</b> and Western Washington
University can help Alfaro and students like him get a leg up when it comes to
college, particularly for those who want to be teachers. ... While
he doesn’t want to be a teacher, Alfaro is enrolled in Breum’s Ready Washington
Teachers class. The class not only gives kids more insight into the teaching
profession, but helps guide them on the path to college, whether they start at
Skagit Valley College or Western Washington University.<br />
Skagit Valley Herald, Oct. 26, 2015<br />
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<a href="http://sbctc.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=deef59f1d8ee1e991514ca276&id=f54e46cb6a&e=c357118747">CBC
puts support behind national drive to make some college free</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A high school
diploma is no longer the key to landing a good job, says <b>Columbia Basin
College</b>’s student body president ... David Ruiz at a Monday press
conference at CBC. It helped to make the country one of the wealthiest in the
world, he said. But today, more jobs require post-secondary education,
even if it’s just a certificate or associate degree. ... Ruiz and CBC
President Rich Cummins said the national initiative America’s College Promise,
which aims to make the first two years of college as universal and debt-free as
high school, is a ticket to meeting the demand for a more skilled work force and
educating a population that is increasingly being priced out of higher
education.<br />
Tri-City Herald, Oct. 26, 2015<br />
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<a href="http://sbctc.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=deef59f1d8ee1e991514ca276&id=7ddce2d181&e=c357118747">Senior
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Senior Citizens have a chance to get their cars serviced for free. <b>Big
Bend Community College</b> is teaming up with Moses Lake High School and
Skills USA for their annual Senior Citizen Day ... Students and
apprentices, who are learning automotive mechanics and maintenance, are
conducting oil changes, fluid inspections and tire changes or
rotations. Moses Lake High School Auto Tech teacher John Heflin said
students have been putting on the event to give back to the community’s elderly
population, while improving their skills.<br />
iFiberOne News, Oct. 26, 2015<br />
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<a href="http://sbctc.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=deef59f1d8ee1e991514ca276&id=5ccf71053e&e=c357118747">South
Seattle College announces heartfelt vision for tuition-free college</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A lot of
people have asked me, ‘Would have you gone to college if the 13th Year Promise
Scholarship hadn’t happened?” said Carmen Berrysmith, a student at <b>South
Seattle College </b>and featured speaker during the college's major
scholarship announcement Monday morning. "And the answer is ’no.’” she
said. ... The announcement featured South Seattle College president
Gary Oertli, Washington State Senators Pramila Jayapal (37th LD) and David
Frockt (46th LD), Berrysmith, as well as an audience of around 70 people,
including students and stakeholders. The event is in conjunction with
President Obama’s “Heads Up America” initiative which aims to make tuition free
at community colleges nation-wide. South Seattle College’s current 13th Year
Promise Scholarship, has been offering one year of free tuition to high school
graduates from Cleveland, Chief Sealth and Rainier Beach high schools since
2008. The scholarship has opened the doors to those who have been traditionally
underserved in higher education.<br />
West Seattle Herald, Oct. 26, 2015<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Roemon Fields wouldn’t be playing center
field and batting leadoff for the Salt River Rafters of the Arizona Fall League
if not for the support and influence of his grandmother, Rose Pierce, and his
brother, Anthony. The 24-year-old Blue Jays farmhand, who reached Triple-A to
end his first full season as a pro, would instead be delivering mail in his
hometown of Seattle. ... It wasn’t until after his high school graduation that
Fields received a visit from [a] mystery man asking him if he was interested
in playing baseball at nearby <b>Yakima Valley Community College</b>. “A
man just knocked on my door—a college dude—and said, ‘Do you want to play
baseball?’” according to Fields. ... ’ That’s what started me . . . It was
like a miracle, my grandma told me—a random guy knocked on my door. His name
was Coach Wilson—I forgot his first name.” Fields added that he still has
no idea how the mystery man found him, but the mystery man remembers. He’s Ken
Wilson, a former coach at Central Washington and high school principal who had
just been named head coach at Yakima Valley CC when he found Fields.<br />
Baseball America, Oct. 27, 2015<br />
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Hilton, a part-time English Instructor at <b>Edmonds Community College</b>,
got the chance of a lifetime to meet the President of the United States and the
First Lady, when she joined colleagues to accept the National Humanities Medal
for her involvement with the Clemente Course. Hilton has been the National
Program Director for the Clemente Course for the past three years. The Clemente
Course received the medal for improving the lives of disadvantaged adults.<br />
My Edmonds News, Oct. 27, 2015<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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$270K grant to nurture interest in ag science in Yakima Valley</span></a></div>
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University will receive a $270,000 federal grant aimed at increasing diversity
in the field of agricultural science and improving water quality protection and
conservation in the Yakima Valley, the university announced Tuesday.
... The grant will support development of a partnership with <b>Yakima
Valley Community College </b>and Washington State University-Tri Cities to
train more students for careers in the agricultural industry, Black said. She
envisions the partnership including joint workshops and field trips for
students to learn from other programs. ... “The three institutions are
coming together for the first time around ag and the environment to really
train the next generation of students and maximize resources.”<br />
Yakima Herald, Oct. 28, 2015<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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College</b> students Ben Nguyen and Rebekah Waligorski were selected to
travel to NASA's Johnson Space Center to participate in the NASA Community
College Aerospace Scholars project. They were chosen out of nearly 300 students
at the college.<br />
The Herald, Oct. 28, 2015<br />
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<a href="http://sbctc.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=deef59f1d8ee1e991514ca276&id=eb80e38573&e=c357118747">Designing
Her Future: CPTC Alumna Credits Instructors, Degree with Job Success</a></span></div>
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Katie Stock graduated from<b> Clover Park Technical College</b> in
June, she left with more than just a degree in Architectural Engineering
Design. She also left with a job secured at an engineering firm in downtown
Tacoma. “I had a lot of support from my teachers who came from the
industry,” said Stock, who credits CPTC instructors with helping her land a
position at Enginuity Systems before she had finished her program.<br />
Suburban Times, Oct. 28, 2015<br />
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<a href="http://sbctc.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=deef59f1d8ee1e991514ca276&id=ab4718c981&e=c357118747">WSU
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State University is now offering a one year pilot credit transfer program for
the first time. The program helps students transferring from community
college to Washington State stay on track at a four year university.<br />
KNDO/KNDU NBC TV, Oct. 28, 2015<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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flock to community colleges for job skills: As many as one in five
community college students already have bachelor’s degrees</a></span><br />
Iliana Ibarra’s bachelor’s degree in business administration from Washington
State University couldn’t save her from the unemployment line. Now she’s
banking on the idea that something else can: community college. Ibarra is
back in a classroom, but this time it’s at <b>Skagit Valley College</b> ... She
expects to receive an associate degree in accounting in June, and use it to
start her own company. ... A surprising one out of every 14 of the people
who attend community colleges — widely regarded as low-tuition options for the
less-well-prepared — has already earned a bachelor’s degree, according to the American
Association of Community Colleges. That’s 770,000 students. At some community
colleges, the proportion is as high as one in five. Many bachelor’s
degree holders attending community colleges are seeking new careers, especially
in health-related disciplines such as nursing, while others are looking to
upgrade their skills in computer-related professions or other job-rich fields
including biotechnology. ... Washington State has seen an influx of
university graduates at its community colleges, particularly in nursing and
computer programs, said David Prince, policy research director for the <b>state
community college system</b>. Those students tend to be serious and motivated,
he said. ...David Ruiz, a 2014 University of Washington graduate, went back to
school at <b>Columbia Basin College</b>, a community college, for a
cybersecurity degree. At 27, he’s now the student body president and has set up
networking groups for career-focused students like himself.<br />
US News & World Report via Hechinger Report, Oct. 28, 2015<br />
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<a href="http://sbctc.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=deef59f1d8ee1e991514ca276&id=8f647d5308&e=c357118747" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Callie Crossley: Community college
students are a study in drive and determination</span></a><br />
I am a proud graduate of one of the top elite colleges in the country.
Wellesley College, with its sprawling green lawns, and lovely stone buildings,
gave me a stellar education in a challenging academic setting.... But, in
recent years, I’ve also become a champion of community colleges as I’ve spent
time on campuses across the country and here in the Boston area.<br />
Public Radio International, Oct. 28, 2015<br />
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<a href="http://sbctc.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=deef59f1d8ee1e991514ca276&id=4b0e7dd51a&e=c357118747" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">The Struggle of Work-School
Balance: In colleges around the country, most students are also workers</span></a><br />
The reality of college can be pretty different from the images portrayed in
movies and television. ... Even full-time work may not completely
cover the cost of tuition and living expenses. The study notes that if a
student worked a full-time job at the federal minimum wage, they would earn
just over $15,000 each year, certainly not enough to to pay for tuition, room,
and board at many colleges without some serious financial aid. That means that
though they’re sacrificing time away from the classroom, many working students
will still graduate with at least some student-loan debt. And working full-time
can shrink the chance that students will graduate at all, by cutting into the
time available for studying and attending classes. What’s troubling is
that those who tend to struggle under the weight of difficult work and
educational burdens are often those who have few other options when it comes to
financing their education. They’re disproportionately older students who are
black or Hispanic and low-income. ... The labor-market reward for
attending but not finishing college is marginal at best. That means that
students who wind up leaving school because of difficulty managing work and
class are likely to find themselves stuck in some of the same jobs they
might’ve gotten if they hadn’t gone at all.<br />
The Atlantic, Oct. 28, 2015</span></span></div>
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College celebrates Disability History Month</span></a><br />
Throughout the month of October, <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Pierce
College</span></strong> campuses will hold a number of events designed to
raise awareness and understanding of people living with disabilities.
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities
Act, which prohibits discrimination based on a person’s
disability. The Access and Disabilities Services departments on both
campuses are designed to ensure all students with disabilities enjoy
equal access to all college activities and programs.<br />
The Suburban Times, Oct. 20, 2015<br />
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<a href="http://sbctc.us8.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=deef59f1d8ee1e991514ca276&id=8133f4d451&e=c357118747" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Marine
technology program getting rebuilt with high school students’ futures in
mind</span></a><br />
Leaders are planning to revamp the high school marine technology program
in hopes of attracting more interest, and students, so the program can
restart next fall. ... Now, the program has more of a boatbuilding
focus, with jobs focused on companies like Dakota Creek Industries,
Walker said. They’re finding students are interested in other areas as
well, including maintenance, boat chartering and working on a boat crew.
Broadening the program will draw from a deeper pool, he said. That
would make the high school program more of a precursor to the<strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";"> Skagit Valley College</span></strong>
marine tech classes, which are going strong. High schoolers could start
the new high school program in the fall or opt to take the college-level
marine tech classes through Running Start.<br />
Anacortes American, Oct. 21, 2015</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to good people taking action</span></a><br />
If you sometimes despair about the myriad problems the world faces, you
should talk with Ezra Teshome. I guarantee he’ll help you see
possibilities in place of problems. “In a sea of problems you could
walk away saying it is too much, or you could make a difference for one
person,” Teshome told me. ... This week he’s celebrating a victory
over polio, a disease that once preyed on millions of people around the
world. Teshome will be among the speakers at a celebration of World Polio
Day at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on Saturday. And there is
good news this year. ... When he was in high school, young people
were part of a movement demanding changes in the government of Haile
Selassie who had been emperor since 1930. Schools were often closed for
days, weeks, even months because of the protests. A friend
suggested Teshome go elsewhere to finish his education and pointed him
here. So in 1971, at 18, he entered<strong>
Highline Community College</strong>, then earned a pre-law degree
from Seattle University intending to go to law school, then return to
Ethiopia.<br />
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Marine tech program can flourish with new energy, ideas</span></a><br />
... We remember well the excitement when the marine skills center
opened — and the community’s support and the expectations that young
people would get excellent vocational training and be in line for
entry-level positions here and elsewhere in an industry that struggles at
times to fill jobs. Here was an opportunity to grow our local work
force and grow the marine trades here. Those goals can still be
realized. There is also good news at the skills center. The marine
technology classes offered through <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Skagit
Valley College</span></strong> are going strong with college students
getting the training they need and going to work. Also, the aerospace
program for high school students has been a success. A second class has
been added and 34 students are enrolled in all.</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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American, Oct. 21, 2015<br />
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<a href="http://sbctc.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=deef59f1d8ee1e991514ca276&id=948be550c6&e=c357118747" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">A Halloween
competition worth $50,000: Local sugar artist competes on
Halloween Wars</span></a><br />
Halloween Wars just started its fifth season earlier this month, and we
have one of the competitors in the studio with us. Rebecca Wortman, a
sugar artist on Team Morbid Morticians has been creating buttercream
sculptures since 2012. She has many notable titles - one of the Top
Ten Cake Artists in North America in 2014, Best Sugar Sculpture in 2012,
and she is a member of the American Culinary Federation. Rebecca
graduated from the <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Spokane
Community College</span></strong> Professional Baking Program and she is
now a Chef Educator for the Spokane Community College Inland
Northwest Culinary Academy After Dark program. ... Halloween Wars
airs Sundays at 9 p.m. on Food Network.<br />
KING 5 TV, Oct. 21, 2015<br />
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<a href="http://sbctc.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=deef59f1d8ee1e991514ca276&id=8505fe0feb&e=c357118747" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">I don't need
to look like a beast to win': Female lumberjack champion refuses to stop
feeling 'glamorous' and 'sexy' because of her muscular physique</span></a><br />
A stunning female lumberjack is shattering the manly image associated
with the sport by crushing competition twice her size to claim the title
of world champion, three times. Despite not having a big belly or a
bushy beard, Erin LaVoie, 33, from Spokane, Washington, holds two world
records and is a three-time Iron Jill in lumberjack sports. Erin
first joined a lumberjack team - the SCC Gyppos - aged 19 while studying
forestry at <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Spokane
Community College</span></strong>. At that point, in 2002, very few
women were practicing the sport, so she was forced to face off against male
competitors. But while they put up a good fight, it wasn't long before
Erin started winning against even the toughest opponents.<br />
UK Daily Mail, Oct. 21, 2015<br />
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<a href="http://sbctc.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=deef59f1d8ee1e991514ca276&id=3ff85aeffd&e=c357118747" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">A walk
through climate catastrophe with artist Mary Iverson </span></a><br />
What’s the best vantage point for taking in the apocalypse? The rim
of Crater Lake is a possibility. A woodland pond near Mount Rainier
offers another fine option. Or maybe the coast of Maui is the best
alternative. In “You and Me in the Aftermath,” a new show by Seattle
artist Mary Iverson at G. Gibson Gallery, environmental and volcanic
devastation fills every horizon — and the reaction of the tiny human
figures who observe it is pure nonchalance. Hikers keep hiking. Tourists
keep gawking. And kids crane excitedly over a glacier-deep river of ships
and bright cargo containers clogging the Columbia Gorge. Iverson,
who teaches at <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Skagit
Valley College</span></strong> in Mount Vernon, is a landscape surrealist
with an eco-warrior agenda. She deliberately “ruins” her pictures with
inks, acrylics and X-ACTO knives to get her point across.</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;">The Seattle Times,
Oct. 21, 2015<br />
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<a href="http://sbctc.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=deef59f1d8ee1e991514ca276&id=00fc8fc136&e=c357118747" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Aiden Hunter
is 14, and he's been attending college for two years</span></a><br />
In his student ID photo, Aiden Hunter offers a bright, youthful smile.
His wavy dark hair flips off his head just above his shoulders and curls
across his forehead in sweeping bangs. He’s 12 in the photo — 20
years younger than the average <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Lower
Columbia College</span></strong> student. Now, at 14, Aiden says he
loves college life. He has prospered, carrying a full course load of
physics, calculus and computer science, getting on the President’s List
this year and carrying above a 3.7 GPA.<br />
The Daily News, Oct. 22, 2015<br />
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<a href="http://sbctc.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=deef59f1d8ee1e991514ca276&id=1b6872e23d&e=c357118747" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">CPTC Sends
Expression of Support to Umpqua Community College</span></a><br />
Umpqua Community College has been on the minds of <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Clover Park Technical College</span></strong>
faculty, staff and students since the tragic shooting Oct. 1. To show
their support, officers from CPTC’s Beta Omicron Gamma chapter of the Phi
Theta Kappa (PTK) International Honor Society designed a banner and
invited the college community to sign it before they mailed it
to the Oregon community college.<br />
The Suburban Times, Oct. 22, 2015</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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colleges changed the whole idea of education in America</span></a><br />
Community colleges have been at the forefront of nearly every major
development in higher education. In January of 2015, President Obama
unveiled his “American College Promise” program – a plan to make two
years of community college education available free of charge to
“everyone who’s willing to work for it.” In offering the proposal, the
president did not just venture a partial solution to the student debt
crisis. He joined a growing community of thinkers who see the community
college as central to solving a wide variety of problems in higher
education, from cost and inclusivity to career-preparedness and community
engagement. The role of problem-solver is one that community colleges are
well-equipped to play. Just over a century old, community colleges have
been at the forefront of nearly every major development in higher
education since their inception. To appreciate the role that community
colleges can be expected to play in reforming higher education today,
Americans would do well to consider their long history of innovation.
... Inexpensive, often publicly funded, and open to a wider
cross-section of Americans than many of their four-year counterparts,
these junior colleges were celebrated as “people’s colleges.” Though a
far cry from full inclusiveness, these male-dominated, majority-white
schools nevertheless catered to a broader swath of working-class
Americans than nearly any other contemporary educational institution.<br />
TIME, Oct. 20, 2015<br />
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<a href="http://sbctc.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=deef59f1d8ee1e991514ca276&id=2e50bde01d&e=c357118747" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Grant
Programs Get Persnickety</span></a><br />
To tame a rising tide of grant proposals, federal agencies are becoming
sticklers about enforcing their application requirements — stating
deadlines in hundredths of seconds and using software to prevent the
submission of error-riddled applications In announcing grant
programs now, a variety of agencies include explicit language warning
applicants that failure to follow the guidelines for file names, content,
and format could result in the proposal’s being returned without review.
It is more important than ever to closely follow all requirements spelled
out in a call for proposals and to submit early enough to fix any
mistakes caught by the submission system. Application guidelines are
nothing new, but the ferocity with which they are being enforced is. The
wrong font size on a proposal could lead to its rejection, forcing the
applicant to wait months until the next grant cycle to resubmit. The
delay can prove damaging with the tenure and promotion clock ticking.<br />
The Chronicle of Higher Education, Oct. 21, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://sbctc.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=deef59f1d8ee1e991514ca276&id=dba42a8cf7&e=c357118747" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Who Should
Prevent Social Media Harassment?</span></a><br />
On Wednesday 72 women's and civil rights organizations urged the U.S.
Education Department to tell colleges that they must monitor anonymous
apps like Yik Yak -- frequently the source of sexist and racist comments
about named or identifiable students -- and do something to protect those
students who are named. The groups said they view anonymous online abuse
as an emerging issue under provisions of the Title IX of the Education
Amendments of 1972. For colleges, Yik Yak and similar apps have
already led to numerous protests and anger, but some experts question the
practicality and legality of administrators doing what the groups want.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Oct. 22, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://sbctc.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=deef59f1d8ee1e991514ca276&id=2280260dbf&e=c357118747" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Report on
Competencies Sought by Employers </span></a><br />
A report last month from the Committee on Economic Development examined
which competencies employers find essential in the workers they want to
hire, as well as which competencies are in short supply. ...The report
found more than 90 percent of business leaders found problem solving and
the ability to work with others of diverse backgrounds the most important
competencies that led to being hired at their organizations. Those two
areas were followed closely by critical thinking and teamwork or
collaboration as important to have.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Oct. 22, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://sbctc.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=deef59f1d8ee1e991514ca276&id=27b01fc767&e=c357118747" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">The “O” word:
Confessions of a Community College Dean</span></a><br />
... Over the last ten years -- twenty, really -- public colleges'
revenues have shifted from states (and sometimes counties) to students.
As their revenue sources start to look more like the privates, they start
to behave more like the privates. Except that the mission is different.
Private colleges can choose to shrink via increased
selectivity ...Selectivity can make life easier for a private
college, since it can outsource the riskiest populations to community
colleges. Change the risk profile of your student body, and you will
change outcomes. Improved retention and graduation rates can offset some
of the tuition loss over time. For community colleges, selectivity
isn’t an option; it would violate the mission. In an environment in which
tuition is sixty percent or more of a college's budget, enrollment drops
mean immediate budget crunches. ... If we want community colleges to
maintain academic standards while serving smaller populations, we're
going to have to come to terms with the trend of cost-shifting to students.
States offloaded costs onto students; then, the students went away. That
leaves colleges in a bad spot. ... If you want to maintain quality
with shrinking enrollments, you'll need to offset the shrinking
enrollments with... Anyone...? Increased operating aid.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Oct. 22, 2015</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Murray and Alexander are working to whittle down a long list of proposals
for the next major education policy bill. ... Discussions between
Murray and Alexander’s staffs began recently, and the panel’s goal
is to write a bill by year’s end. The ongoing conversations between
the panel’s staff follows many bipartisan working group meetings—open
to any HELP Committee member’s aides—that the chairman and ranking
member announced in May. The staff met almost daily during the summer
to discuss the four major issues they were tasked with analyzing: accountability,
accreditation, college affordability and financial aid, and
campus sexual assault and safety.<br />
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<br />
<a href="http://sbctc.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=deef59f1d8ee1e991514ca276&id=c6869819b6&e=c357118747" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Ed Dept. to
Schools: You must teach all students, regardless of legal status</span></a><br />
A new guide offers pointers on how to educate undocumented students. The
Education Department just issued a subtle reminder to educators
across the country: Regardless of citizenship or immigration
status, all students are legally entitled to education in the United
States. Aimed at high school and college students as well as educators,
a new guide lays out information about deferred action
for childhood arrivals (DACA), which offers some young people a temporary
reprieve from deportation and opens access to some jobs and scholarships.
The guide also outlines which states allow undocumented college
students to apply for financial aid.<br />
National Journal, Oct. 22, 2015</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="http://sbctc.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=deef59f1d8ee1e991514ca276&id=c20c114597&e=c357118747" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Green
River College begins college program prioritization</span></a><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Green River
College</span></strong> is seeking input from faculty, staff,
students and the community for its new program prioritization
process. The process will help the college improve its programs
as well as save money as it faces a potential $4 million to $5
million budget deficit, said Derek Brandes, Green River's vice
president of instruction.<br />
Kent Reporter, Oct. 15, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://sbctc.us8.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=deef59f1d8ee1e991514ca276&id=99cb5f437e&e=c357118747" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Smart
software developer training strategies</span></a><br />
To resolve the worldwide shortage of software developers, the answer
is education.But that doesn't necessarily mean a college degree, or
even a vocational-technical school certificate. ... In
Washington state, the shortage is so severe -- 10,000 unfilled
software development jobs just in the Seattle metropolitan area, as
of September 2015 -- the community college system is applying for a
grant to begin offering a credential program to give residents fast
and inexpensive access to coding skills. "This is targeted at
people who already have a bachelor's degree, because companies in
Washington want employees with college degrees," said Maureen
Majury, director of the<strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">
Center of Excellence for Information and Computing Technology</span></strong>
at <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Bellevue
College</span></strong> in Bellevue, Wash. "Our tuition can be a
lot cheaper than those private programs, and the goal is to
eventually have this in most of our 32 locations across the
state."<br />
TechTarget, Oct. 16, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://sbctc.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=deef59f1d8ee1e991514ca276&id=cf0999830b&e=c357118747" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">CBC
Student Safety Day draws many</span></a><br />
Long lines formed for popcorn, and other more important reasons at <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Columbia Basin College</span></strong>'s
pavilion. "We hand out candy, we also hand out popcorn, but
mostly we get them encouraged to understand campus safety," said
Brady Brooks of CBC's administration. Now in its sixth year,
Student Safety Day educates students about campus safety
options. And this year it has many students more at ease in the
wake of the Oregon campus shooting earlier this month.<br />
KEPR TV, Oct. 16, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://sbctc.us8.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=deef59f1d8ee1e991514ca276&id=a0d75e6cf4&e=c357118747" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Drone
technology flies into Bellevue College</span></a><br />
A new <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Bellevue
College </span></strong>course is addressing the next wave in
technology: drones. “Now we’re beginning to see the next wave,
it’s the wave of robots and they’re coming. There’s going to be all
different kinds of automated vehicles out there,” said Greg Foy, a
veteran of the technology industry and one of the men behind the
drone course.<br />
Bellevue Reporter, Oct. 16, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://sbctc.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=deef59f1d8ee1e991514ca276&id=9c89e81524&e=c357118747" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Former
WCC president Harold Heiner dies</span></a><br />
Former longtime <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Whatcom
Community College</span></strong> President Harold Heiner died
Saturday, Oct. 17, at the age of 76 after a battle with Parkinson’s
disease. Heiner was instrumental in creating a central campus
for WCC during his 24 years as president. Family and former
colleagues say he will be remembered for his compassion toward
students. ... Current WCC President Kathi Hiyane-Brown, in a
statement released Monday, said Heiner will be remembered for his
belief in the power of education and for his work to make college
accessible for all students.“Dr. Heiner’s can-do spirit was
infectious. His passionate advocacy on behalf of students inspired
colleagues and community members, who carry on his students-first
philosophy today,” Hiyane-Brown said.<br />
Bellingham Herald, Oct. 19, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://sbctc.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=deef59f1d8ee1e991514ca276&id=6211cef3ea&e=c357118747" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">WSU,
state college board start new transfer student program</span></a><br />
Washington State University Tri-Cities will participate in a pilot
program that will allow transfer students to apply credits earned at
the campus toward unfinished associate degrees. The <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">State Board for Community
and Technical Colleges</span></strong> and the Washington Council of
Presidents are working in partnership with the WSU system on the
program. As many as 1,000 transfer students will be eligible to
participate. ... About 200 new transfer students are enrolled at
WSU Tri-Cities, according to initial enrollment estimates. The north
Richland campus has frequently been a destination for students who
start at <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Columbia
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;">Tri-City Herald, Oct. 18, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://sbctc.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=deef59f1d8ee1e991514ca276&id=3be68b990d&e=c357118747" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">10
campuses receive $2.9 million grant from U.S. Department of Education
to strengthen educational opportunities of Native American, Pacific
Islander, Asian American students</span></a><br />
... Arne Duncan, the nation's secretary of education, said that
"these funds will enhance the quality of these schools to better
prepare Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander students
for success in college and careers, by giving them the skills they
need to compete in the 21st century, global economy." This
program has set specific requirements to be eligible for the grant.
From the enrollment statistics of the school's undergraduates, at
least 10% of the total undergraduate population are Native American
Pacific Islanders and Asian-Americans. Grantees include ...
Washington's <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Highline
College</span></strong> ...<br />
iSchoolGuide, Oct. 19, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://sbctc.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=deef59f1d8ee1e991514ca276&id=6eec0df9ea&e=c357118747" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Running
Start program brings more than 350 North Olympic Peninsula students
into college early</span></a><br />
More than 350 area high school students are gaining a lead on their
education this year by already being enrolled in college thanks to a
program that continues to grow steadily on the North Olympic
Peninsula. In the fall 2015 quarter, 354 high school juniors
and seniors registered for classes at <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Peninsula College</span></strong>,
representing every high school in the area.<br />
Peninsula Daily News, Oct. 19, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://sbctc.us8.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=deef59f1d8ee1e991514ca276&id=0487e966f2&e=c357118747" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">LCC
middle hitter's YouTube video (2.8 million views) led to appearance
on 'Ellen'</span></a><br />
Not everyone gets their 15 minutes of fame, but<strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";"> Lower Columbia
College</span></strong> sophomore middle hitter Madison Studer’s
time in the sun has now stretched for more than two years. In January
2013, Studer posted a YouTube video of her wisdom teeth removal for
her grandmother to see, not knowing it would become one of the
most-watched videos in YouTube history and earn her an appearance on
the “Ellen DeGeneres Show.” ... More than two years since the
video went viral, Studer is leaning toward a career in video
production. At LCC, she’s the vice president for student activities
for the Associated Students of Lower Columbia College. Besides
her wisdom tooth video, she has done several high school video
productions along with promotional videos for LCC.<br />
The Daily News, Oct. 20, 2015</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Graduates</span></a><br />
The City University of New York will today announce a major expansion
of a program that has had remarkable success at improving graduation
rates of community college students. CUNY plans to enroll all new
full-time students at Bronx Community College in the program, with a
goal of having a 50 percent three-year graduation rate. There
are many efforts around the country showing progress at improving
community colleges' graduation rates. But CUNY's announcement today
-- including a goal of applying one of the most promising of these
programs to an entire college -- represents an effort to take such a
program and bring it to scale, something that has not generally been
attempted. The program, Accelerated Study in Associate
Programs, or ASAP, has many fans in New York State and also in
Washington, D.C., where President Obama has praised it. The program
provides students with much more academic and financial support than
most community college students receive: free tuition, textbooks and
public transportation, and regular required contact with an adviser
who has a relatively small caseload.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Oct. 16, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://sbctc.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=deef59f1d8ee1e991514ca276&id=3a238495df&e=c357118747" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">As Campus
Gun Violence Increases, So Do Professors' Fears</span></a><br />
Gallows humor masks feelings of helplessness and anger as faculty members
speculate on the grim probability of more classroom shootings.
... On social media, their comments are a mix of worry and
anger. "I hate being afraid of my students, but I am,"
wrote one. "If I’m the next professor to die because politicians
refuse to act on gun control, please politicize my death. Thank you
in advance," wrote another. "None of us went into
academia with the idea we'd qualify for combat pay," said Kevin
M. Gannon, chairman of the history department at Grand View
University, in Iowa.<br />
The Chronicle of Higher Education, Oct. 12, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://sbctc.us8.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=deef59f1d8ee1e991514ca276&id=b0e475161f&e=c357118747" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Older
parents face college-debt crunch</span></a><br />
Higher education is certainly a priority for this tight-knit Maple
Valley family.<strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">
[Green River] College </span></strong>professor Walter Lowe and
his wife, Annerose Lowe, are determined to help their five children
earn college degrees and start their careers without taking on mounds
of student debt. But the Lowes are also older parents in their
50s and 60s. They have a six-figure mortgage, limited savings and a
break-even cash flow that makes additional savings difficult.<br />
The Seattle Times, Oct. 17, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://sbctc.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=deef59f1d8ee1e991514ca276&id=e2236aa5ee&e=c357118747" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">New grant
will create prizes for faculty using digital courseware</span></a><br />
The Online Learning Consortium, in a move to encourage professors to
develop and use digital courseware, will offer new prizes for
faculty-led teams that advance and adopt sophisticated online courses
with “a strong pedagogical focus and a sustained impact on student
success in gateway courses,” the organization announced at its
conference here last week. The organization, formerly known as
the Sloan Consortium, said it would award up to 10 prizes of $10,000
each to the faculty teams, beginning in 2016. It will also provide up
to three prizes of $100,000 each, it said, to institutions that
showcase sustained innovation “on a broader scale” in the use of the
courses.<br />
The Chronicle of Higher Education, Oct. 19, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://sbctc.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=deef59f1d8ee1e991514ca276&id=13782c2470&e=c357118747" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">High-School
Diploma Options Multiply, but May Not Set Up Students for College
Success</span></a><br />
For too many students, high-school diplomas are "tickets to
nowhere" that offer "false assurances" that graduates
are ready for college or a job, according to a report released on
Monday. The report, "How the States Got Their Rates,"
was issued by Achieve, a nonprofit group that works with states to
raise academic standards and graduation requirements. As states
try to increase their high-school graduation rates and tailor
programs to different goals, the number of diploma options has become
"incredibly complex," the report notes. ... Achieve’s
report was released amid growing concerns that students graduating
from high school aren’t ready for college. Last week the American
Association of Community Colleges, the Association of Community
College Trustees, and Higher Ed for Higher Standards announced a plan
to work together to push for more-demanding standards for high-school
graduation. The three groups reported that about half of
first-year students at two-year colleges and one in five of those
entering four-year institutions require remedial coursework before
they can start college-level classes.<br />
The Chronicle of Higher Education, Oct. 19, 2015</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the First Lady’s New Public-Awareness Campaign All About? And Could
It Work?</span></a><br />
Michelle Obama on Monday unveiled a new element of her work to
encourage young people to pursue education beyond high school: a
public-awareness campaign called "Better Make
Room." The campaign, which rolled out with a diverse list
of partners including the Lumina Foundation, Mashable, and Funny or Die,
has a website, a hashtag, and a video in the style of a
public-service announcement. Users can also sign up for
college-related text-message reminders.<br />
The Chronicle of Higher Education, Oct. 19, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://sbctc.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=deef59f1d8ee1e991514ca276&id=75fed2b1b3&e=c357118747" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">What
Duncan Wishes He’d Done Differently — and What’s Next for the
Education Dept.</span></a><br />
If the departing secretary of education, Arne Duncan, has any regrets
about his supervision of higher education, it’s not cracking down on
"bad actors" in the for-profit-college sector
sooner. Speaking to reporters on Monday, Mr. Duncan, who has
served as secretary since the start of the Obama administration and
who announced this month that he planned to step down in December,
twice said he wished he’d issued the "gainful employment"
rule earlier than in 2009.<br />
The Chronicle of Higher Education, Oct. 19, 2015<br />
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<a href="http://sbctc.us8.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=deef59f1d8ee1e991514ca276&id=1673a39702&e=c357118747" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Colleges
Embrace Pell Grant Expansion for Prisoners</span></a><br />
More than 200 colleges and universities have said they’re interested
in joining the Obama administration’s pilot program that will provide
Pell Grants to incarcerated students, an official said
Monday. Under Secretary of Education Ted Mitchell told reporters
that the Education Department had received “over 200” letters of
interest from colleges and universities that want to participate in
the program, which the administration has dubbed Second Chance Pell.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Oct. 20, 2015</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="http://www.abqjournal.com/659895/opinion/climb-ladder-then-offer-a-hand-to-next.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Opinion: Climb
ladder, then offer a hand to next</span></a><br />
By Jean Jean Hernandez, president of <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Edmonds Community College</span></strong>. How
does a poor Latina from Texas end up as the president of the fourth-largest
community college in the state of Washington? Drive, education and helping
hands. My parents might not have had the opportunity to stay in school
long, but they both realized the value of education.<br />
Albuquerque Journal, Oct. 15, 2015<br />
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<a href="http://www.waheagle.com/story/2015/10/15/wahkiakum-people/lcc-to-receive-education-award/10505.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">LCC to receive
education award</span></a><br />
In celebration of Manufacturing Day and the significant role of
manufacturing in today’s global society, Tooling U-SME, a leader in
manufacturing learning and development, is recognizing <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Lower Columbia College </span></strong>with
its Tooling U-SME Platinum Education Center (TUPEC) award. The school is
one of five colleges receiving this honor, which is given to institutions
considered to be outstanding academic models for the advancement of the
manufacturing industry.<br />
The Wahkiakum County Eagle, Oct. 15, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://thedailyworld.com/community/college-recives-grant-money-students-disabilities" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">College
receives grant money for students with disabilities</span></a><br />
A ceremony was held in the new Schermer building at <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Grays Harbor College</span></strong>
Friday to showcase technology purchased with money from the Alex and
Suzanne Rosenkrantz Scholarship Fund Committee that will help students with
visual or hearing impairments. The college was awarded a $6,000 grant
and members of both the college and the Aberdeen Rotary Club were on hand
Friday as the money was formally presented.<br />
The Daily World, Oct. 14, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.lewistalk.com/2015/10/14/jim-stafford-bronze/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Jim Stafford
sculpts animals in bronze</span></a><br />
He immediately makes you feel drawn to him by his kind smile and warm
handshake, a clasp with hands that have molded and shaped many intricately
detailed pieces of bronze artwork. Jim Stafford, a Chehalis-native, is a
world class artist who has brought bronze to life for charity, public art
and private collections. ... Working from pictures is challenging due
to the lack of dimension but Stafford has done it, and very
successfully so. He has created two works of art for <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Centralia College</span></strong>.
... Stafford has shared his knowledge with others. He spent some time
teaching art classes at Centralia College, and taught at <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Wenatchee Valley College</span></strong> for
six years where he built two foundries.<br />
Lewis Talk, Oct. 14, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://thesubtimes.com/2015/10/14/cptc-pastry-arts-grad-does-stint-in-france-whips-up-new-career/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">CPTC: Pastry
Arts grad does stint in France, whips up new career</span></a><br />
Before Jennifer Phillips put her Pastry Arts Degree to use in the local
industry, she took the culinary skills she acquired at <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Clover Park Technical College</span></strong>
to France. After Phillips completed the Pastry Arts Program in
2013 she lived in France to train under a pastry chef and immerse herself
in the culture. As an intern she learned the French way of desserts, and
brought the experience back to Pierce County.<br />
The Suburban Times, Oct. 14, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.bellevuereporter.com/news/332160012.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Bellevue
College implementing new security measures | College reassessing campus
safety after campus shootings elsewhere</span></a><br />
In the wake of two shootings in the past 16 months at Northwest college
campuses, <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Bellevue
College</span></strong> is in the process of reassessing and implementing
new security measures that it hopes will help increase safety while
maintaining the open, unencumbered feeling of a community college campus.<br />
Bellevue Reporter, Oct. 13, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.kvewtv.com/article/2015/oct/13/cbc-donates-4000-peppers-local-food-banks/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">CBC donates
4,000 peppers to local food banks</span></a><br />
The <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Columbia Basin
College </span></strong>Agriculture Program and about twenty volunteers
just finished picking a big peck of peppers, 4,000 pounds in all. The
agriculture program was growing them as part of a research
project. But now that the project is finished, the question became
what to do with these peppers? Rather than seeing them go to waste,
CBC decided to partner with Fields of Grace to harvest the peppers on the
CBC Pasco campus for local food banks. The red and green peppers will
be distributed as part of Saint Vincent De Paul's weekly food distribution.
<br />
KVEW TV, Oct. 13, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.columbiabasinherald.com/news/school_news/big-bend-fall-enrollment-up-slightly/article_7c06b05c-712c-11e5-867e-67ab7a52bfcb.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Big Bend fall
enrollment up slightly</span></a><br />
Enrollment numbers for the 2015 fall quarter at <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Big Bend Community College</span></strong>
reflected the college’s full-time equivalent enrollment has stayed fairly
level since last year.<br />
Columbia Basin Herald, Oct. 13, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.rentonreporter.com/news/328092221.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">RTC receives apprenticeship grant</span></a><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Renton Technical
College</span></strong> this week was awarded a grant of $468,595 from the
U.S. Department of Labor’s American Apprenticeship Initiative. The funds
will support the purchase of new technology for Heat/Frost, Stationary
Engineers, Pacific Maritime Institute, and Machinist programs. The award is
part of a larger $4.8 million grant to fund the Partnership for Advanced
Technology Apprenticeships in Manufacturing and Marine Engineering project (PATAM)
led by South Seattle College.<br />
Renton Reporter, Sept. 17, 2015</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2015/10/15/community-college-groups-seek-higher-k-12-standards" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Community
college groups seek higher K-12 standards</span></a><br />
The American Association of Community Colleges and the Association of
Community College Trustees today announced that they will partner with the
group Higher Ed for Higher Standards to commit to a push for more
challenging academic standards in K-12. The two primary trade groups for
the two-year college sector said in a joint statement that their
goal is to better help prepare students for success in college and careers.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Oct. 15, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2015/10/14/women-now-lead-men-college-attainment" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Women now lead
men in college attainment</span></a><br />
For the first time in the 75 years that the U.S. Census Bureau has
tracked college attainment, women are more likely than men to have a
bachelor's degree. The shift has been going on for years, but women took
the lead in 2014.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Oct. 14, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://chronicle.com/article/To-Stop-Exam-Cheats/233741" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">To stop exam
cheats, economists say, try assigning seats</span></a><br />
Think seating charts in the classroom are needed only in elementary school?
According to a new study, randomly assigned seats are also the most
immediate way to prevent cheating among college students.<br />
The Chronicle of Higher Education, Oct. 14, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/10/14/survey-reveals-concerns-about-attacks-scholars-social-media" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Controversies
as chilling effect</span></a><br />
A majority of faculty members say they are concerned about attacks on
scholars for their comments on social media, even though only a small
percentage of faculty members use social media to discuss politics and
scholarship. At the same time, faculty members say colleges need to do more
to encourage civil discourse online.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Oct. 14, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/10/14/author-higher-education-and-employability-discusses-books-themes" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">'Higher
education and employability'</span></a><br />
The political and public policy landscape is increasingly dotted (one might
say littered) with those who view the purpose of higher education as about
preparing people for the workplace, from governors questioning whether
their state universities are producing too many graduates
in anthropology or other liberal arts disciplines to
Education Department officials whose college data tool focuses heavily on
economic outcomes.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Oct. 14, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/education/new-uw-president-announcement-expected-today-2/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Ana Mari Cauce
new UW president; popular on, off campus</span></a><br />
Breaking a long-standing tradition of picking outsiders to lead the
University of Washington, the Board of Regents on Tuesday chose longtime UW
professor and administrator Ana Mari Cauce as the university’s next
president. Cauce, a 29-year employee who climbed the university’s
ranks from assistant professor to interim president, joins a rare group
among those tapped to head major American universities: a president
selected from the inside.<br />
The Seattle Times, Oct. 13, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.kplu.org/post/classroom-common-ground-can-transform-gpas" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">In the
classroom, common ground can transform GPAs</span></a><br />
Many people have experienced the magic of a wonderful teacher, and we all
know anecdotally that these instructors can change our lives. But what if a
teacher and a student don'tconnect? How does that affect the education
that child receives? ... These are the sorts of questions that
fascinated Hunter Gehlbach* and his colleagues at the
Harvard Graduate School of Education. For the experiment he had in
mind, Hunter and his team created a survey for students and teachers of a
ninth-grade class. The researchers then selectively shared examples from
the survey results with teachers and students to show them that they had
things in common. When Hunter examined the test scores of students who had
been induced to see that they had things in common with their teachers, he
found something astonishing: students — especially minorities — suddenly
started to perform better in class.<br />
KPLU, Oct. 13, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/university-run-boot-camps-offer-students-marketable-skills-but-not-course-credit/57494" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">University-run
boot camps offer students marketable skills — but not course credit</span></a><br />
Level, a venture that offers students courses in data analytics, has a
motto of sorts. It’s written in large letters across the program’s
website: “Real skills. Real experience. Two months.” The motto
sounds a lot like the boot-camp style of education offered by companies
like General Assembly. But Level, a product of Northeastern
University, is neither a private company nor a Silicon Valley startup. It
is one of the first boot-camp programs created by a traditional university,
and it exists alongside Northeastern’s master’s programs in subjects such
as urban informatics and information design and visualization.<br />
The Chronicle of Higher Education, Oct. 13, 2015</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of U.S.-backed student loans lags</span></a><br />
Nearly one-third of student loan borrowers with old federally guaranteed
loans are either in default or behind on their payments — yet few
are using income-based repayment programs, according to a new
report by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Oct. 15, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/10/15/federal-watchdog-seeks-information-national-accreditor-about-profit-colleges" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Federal
watchdog eyes accreditor</span></a><br />
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is seeking information from a
national accreditor about the for-profit colleges it oversees, which
include several controversial chains. The Accrediting Council for
Independent Colleges and Schools received the civil investigative demand
from the CFPB in August. It is unclear whether the council, which is the
largest national accreditor, is the target of an investigation, or whether
the request is linked to another probe.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Oct. 15, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/complaints-from-private-student-loan-borrowers-rise-as-few-enroll-in-income-based-repayment/105812" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Complaints from
private student-loan borrowers rise as few enroll in income-based repayment</span></a><br />
The number of complaints from private student-loan borrowers to the
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau increased by roughly 20 percent in the
past year, from 5,300 last year to 6,400 in the past year,
according to the annual report of the bureau’s ombudsman. Another key
finding in this year’s report: A whopping 95 percent of borrowers with
federal loans made by private lenders are not enrolled in income-driven
repayment plans, an option heavily advertised by the Obama
administration that allows borrowers to cap their monthly payments.<br />
The Chronicle of Higher Education, Oct. 14, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2015/10/14/democrats-nod-higher-ed-issues-first-debate" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Democrats nod
to higher ed issues in first debate</span></a><br />
Presidential hopefuls Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders clashed briefly
over their college affordability plans during the Democratic Party’s first
debate Wednesday night. Echoing some of the remarks they’ve been
making on the campaign trail recently, the two leading candidates
emphasized differences in their plans to provide new federal
funding to public higher education.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Oct. 14, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://chronicle.com/article/A-Boon-to-Boot-Camps-US/233742" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">A boon to boot
camps? U.S. extends aid to campus deals with nontraditional programs</span></a><br />
The U.S. Education Department is cracking open the door to federal
financial aid for students enrolled in nontraditional education programs —
and trying out alternatives to accreditation in the process. On
Wednesday the department will announce a pilot program that will allow
federal grants and loans to flow to educational-technology
companies that team up with colleges and third-party
"quality-assurance entities" to offer coding boot camps, MOOCs,
short-term certificates, and other credentials.<br />
The Chronicle of Higher Education, Oct. 14, 2015</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="http://www.goskagit.com/community/skagit-valley-college-revives-fall-powwow/article_b3e74b0d-fc97-5d72-b646-db89d83c3802.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Skagit Valley
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After a 15-year hiatus, <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Skagit
Valley College </span></strong>has revived its Fall Powwow. The three-day
event, which concludes today, features an assortment of Native American
cultural performances, primarily song and dance, from tribes across the
country and Canada. However, the powwow is bigger than a mere
demonstration, said Alana Quigley, the event’s organizer.<br />
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<a href="http://www.thesunchronicle.com/vip/opinion/columns/guest-column-columbus-day-needs-to-be-replaced/article_35448d5c-b6fd-5b3a-95f2-98d2c7bb531d.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Guest column:
Columbus Day needs to be replaced</span></a><br />
By Tonya Drake, vice president for college relations and advancement
at <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Edmonds
Community College</span></strong>. When Columbus Day was approved as a
set federal holiday in 1968, the U.S. Congress was swayed by a few key
arguments. The day was already being celebrated in 45 states. And Congress
felt that a fixed federal holiday would honor immigrants. A Senate report
perfectly captured the intent through its proclamation of an "annual
reaffirmation by the American people of their faith in the future, a
declaration of willingness to face with confidence the imponderables of
unknown tomorrow." ... If Columbus Day were proposed as a federal
holiday today, members of Congress would possibly be dissuaded by arguments
that Christopher Columbus has become as much a symbol of oppression as a
figure of hope. Today, only 24 states recognize Columbus Day. Several
cities such as Seattle, where I reside, offer an alternative such as Indigenous
Peoples Day, meant to honor and recognize the rich history of indigenous
people.<br />
The Sun Chronicle, Oct. 11, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.yakimaherald.com/news/business/local/employment-spotlight-pharmacy-technicians-meet-pharmacists-support-needs/article_bdc24e8e-7091-11e5-bb5e-f3fd1038ae2b.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Employment
Spotlight: Pharmacy technicians meet pharmacists' support needs</span></a><br />
As medical providers of all stripes face growing requirements for
electronic documentation and other time-consuming tasks, health care
organizations are depending on more mid-level and technical staff to
maximize efficiency for the whole care team. So it is with pharmacy
technicians, who are stepping in to fill a need as pharmacists take a more
central role in educating patients and managing medications and
prescription refills. ... <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Yakima
Valley Community College</span></strong> has a classroom-based certificate
program, in which students spend one quarter rotating through pharmacy
settings.<br />
Yakima Herald, Oct. 11, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/article38732055.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">WSU Tri-Cities,
Columbia Basin College have alert systems for campus shootings</span></a><br />
Colleges and universities in Washington didn’t require the wake-up call
from Umpqua Community College. They’ve tightened their preparations for
campus attacks since the June 2014 fatal shooting at Seattle Pacific
University. All of Washington’s public four-year schools, including
Washington State University Tri-Cities in Richland, have emergency alert systems
that send text and email messages to students and staff, as well as parents
who opt into the system. The alerts warn of police action near campus, as
well as on-campus hazards. <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Columbia
Basin College</span></strong> in Pasco has a similar alert system available
to students and staff. ... At Washington’s 34 community and technical
colleges, security measures vary from campus to campus, said Laura
McDowell, spokeswoman for the <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Washington
State Board for Community & Technical Colleges</span></strong>. Each
has its own security plans, she said, and some do regional tabletop
exercises or mock drills with the Federal Emergency Management
Agency. “We continually survey our campus for areas where security can
be improved,” said <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Seattle
Central College</span></strong> spokesman David Sandler.<br />
Tri-City Herald, Oct. 10, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.people.com/article/ashley-vanpevenage-responds-makeup-free-meme" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">20-year-old
woman fights back after her makeup-free photo became a cruel internet meme:
'Everyone should feel beautiful'</span></a><br />
After a makeup transformation photo of Ashley VanPevenage turned into a
cruel meme, the college student decided to fight back. According
to Buzzfeed News, VanPevenage, 20, was having an allergic reaction to
benzoyl when she turned to her friend makeup artist Andreigha Wazny to help
cover up her acne. Wazny shared a comparison of VanPevenage with and
without makeup on her Instagram account in January. But it wasn't
until Twitter users captioned her photo that it went viral. ... When
the <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Tacoma
Community College</span></strong> student woke up and began reading the
"disturbing and nasty comments," she became self-conscious of her
natural skin. ... But VanPevenage decided to turn her experience into
something positive.<br />
People, Oct. 9, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.rentonreporter.com/community/331392111.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">RTC receives
$50,000 for precision machining technologies scholarship</span></a><br />
The late Ormand John (O.J.) Harper of Issaquah donated $50,000 to the <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Renton Technical College</span></strong>
Foundation in support of scholarships for students in the precision
machining technologies (PMT) program. The funds will also support the
Foundation’s current emergency services program.<br />
Renton Reporter, Oct. 8, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://edmondsbeacon.villagesoup.com/p/edcc-students-faculty-attend-leadership-summit-in-south-africa/1424964" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">EdCC students,
faculty attend leadership summit in South Africa</span></a><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Edmonds Community
College </span></strong>expanded its horizons by sending seven students,
two staff members and one faculty member to the Global Leadership Summit
held at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein, South Africa from
July 5-17. More than 100 international delegates from various
universities in Asia, the United States and Europe, as well as 40 student
delegates from the University of the Free State were in
attendance. EdCC was the only community college in attendance at the
GLS.<br />
Edmonds Beacon, Oct. 8, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.columbiabasinherald.com/opinion/editorials/school/school-safety-back-in-the-forefront/article_335b54ee-6e15-11e5-833f-bfa0e8a00056.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Editorial: School
safety back in the forefront</span></a><br />
With the recent community college shooting in Roseburg, Ore. that left nine
people dead, it’s natural to wonder what could have prevented the tragedy
and how to stop further loss. ... Such challenges are handled
similarly, yet differently, where adults are involved. <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Big Bend Community College</span></strong>
in Moses Lake introduced “Ready Big Bend” Wednesday.<br />
Columbia Basin Herald, Oct. 8, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.kgw.com/story/news/2015/10/08/clark-college-joins-nationwide-moment-of-silence-for-ucc/73595160/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Communty
colleges hold nationwide moment of silence for UCC</span></a><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Clark College</span></strong>
joined community colleges in a nationwide moment of silence Thursday,
one week after the UCC shooting. Dozens of students and faculty met at
the Chime Tower on campus at 11 a.m. They joined 1,137 community
colleges across the nation, holding a moment of silence at the same
time, honoring the victims, and showing support.<br />
KGW, Oct. 8, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.columbiabasinherald.com/news/school_news/big-bend-campus-safety-director-talks-frankly/article_5a07e0fa-6d41-11e5-aa4b-17ee614f788d.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Big Bend campus
safety director talks frankly</span></a><br />
In the wake of a mass shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg,
Ore. that left nine people dead, <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Big
Bend Community College's</span></strong> Campus Safety and Security
Director Kyle Foreman is addressing safety concerns at the college's
campus. UCC is situated on about 100 square acres, with an estimated
3,330 full-time students. BBCC is located on about 150 acres and has 2,180
enrolled students, including 175 students living in on-campus
dorms. Foreman said the incident at UCC started a conversation at BBCC
about how the college would handle an active shooter on campus.<br />
Columbia Basin Herald, Oct. 8, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://edmondsbeacon.villagesoup.com/p/edcc-honeybees-yield-bumper-crop-of-honey/1424934" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">EdCC honeybees
yield ‘bumper crop’ of honey</span></a><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Edmonds Community
College’s </span></strong>honeybees had a fruitful summer and yielded a
bumper crop of delicious honey. The honey was extracted on Sept. 10
with some assistance from the engineering department’s recent contribution
of a hand-crank extractor.<br />
Edmonds Beacon, Oct. 8, 2015<br />
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<a href="http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2015/oct/07/scc-lands-2-million-grant-to-help-students-succeed/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">SCC lands $2
million grant to help students succeed in school</span></a><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Spokane Community
College</span></strong> landed a $2 million grant that will be used for
programs to help students stay and succeed in school. The U.S.
Department of Education grant will fund the EPIC project − Engage, Prepare
and Intrusively Advise Students to Completion, a news release said. That
project includes new in-person and online advising systems; a required
college success course for new students; beefing up a tutoring program; and
helping faculty add student-support programs through a Teaching and
Learning Center.<br />
The Spokesman-Review, Oct. 7, 2015<br />
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<a href="http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/colleges-roll-out-programs-to-meet-it-workforce-demand_80194555" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Colleges roll
out programs to meet IT workforce demand</span></a><br />
With one four-year degree program beginning its second year and another one
starting in fall 2016, <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Olympic
College</span></strong> is doing all it can to help meet the growing
workforce demands of the information technology sector.<br />
Kitsap Sun, Oct. 7, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.keprtv.com/Competency-Based-Education-a-faster-way-to-earn-a-degree-from-CBC-331173822.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Competency-based
education: a faster way to earn a degree from CBC</span></a><br />
If you want to earn an Associate's degree, but don't have time to step foot
in a classroom … <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Columbia
Basin College</span></strong> has a new program to help. It's called
Competency-Based Education and it's the first one of its kind.<br />
KEPR TV, Oct. 7, 2015</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/10/12/shootings-two-campuses-same-day-each-leave-freshman-dead" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">A tragic Friday</span></a><br />
Shootings at two universities Friday morning each left a freshman dead. The
shootings came a week after a lone gunman killed nine people and
injured seven more at Oregon's Umpqua Community College in the
third-most-deadly mass shooting ever to occur on a college campus. The
events Friday shook the campuses where they took place, Northern Arizona
University and Texas Southern University, but nervousness about security
extended well beyond those campuses. A number of colleges around the
country responded to threats last week, with some campuses shutting down
for a day or more and others on heightened alert while reports of threats
were investigated.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Oct. 12, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://chronicle.com/article/After-Killings-in-Oregon/233721" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">After killings
in Oregon, colleges face threats — and take no chances</span></a><br />
Not long ago, a threat scrawled on a bathroom wall probably wouldn’t have
provoked the panic that spread like wildfire across Eastern Kentucky
University last week. But the graffiti vowing to "kill all by
10-8-15" surfaced just days after a mass shooting at Umpqua
Community College,in rural Oregon, left 10 people dead. Similar
threats have cropped up on campuses nationwide, some of them undoubtedly
copycat crimes by troubled people craving attention. Few people last week
were ready to assume they were hoaxes.<br />
The Chronicle of Higher Education, Oct. 11, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://chronicle.com/article/Students-Who-Feel-Emotionally/233684" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Students who
feel emotionally unprepared for college struggle in the classroom</span></a><br />
Students who feel less emotionally prepared for college than their peers
tend to have lower grades and other negative experiences on campus,
according to survey results released on Thursday.<br />
The Chronicle of Higher Education, Oct. 8, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/measuring-academic-skills-and-grit-to-help-identify-at-risk-students/57476" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Measuring
academic skills and ‘grit’ to help identify at-risk students</span></a><br />
With the help of a grant of nearly $2 million, Excelsior College wants to
use analytics to identify at-risk students. The private nonprofit
institution, in Albany, N.Y., was one of 17 recipients of a First in the
World Grant from the U.S. Department of Education, the college announced on
Wednesday. It plans to use the grant money to fund an open-source
assessment tool that colleges will eventually be able to use free of
charge.<br />
The Chronicle of Higher Education, Oct. 7, 2015</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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free college</span></a><br />
"Free" has been the higher education buzzword of the year, as
Democrats have proposed a range of plans to infuse billions of federal
dollars into public institutions to lower tuition to zero or close to zero.
But as politicians pitch debt-free and tuition-free college, some are also
pushing another narrative: that they expect students to work in exchange
for those new benefits.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Oct. 13, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/10/12/federal-agencies-join-forces-regulate-profit-colleges" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Uniting to
regulate for-profits</span></a><br />
Every few weeks, it seems, a new investigation is launched into one of
the larger for-profit colleges in the country. Or
there's a new sanction or inquiry into past behavior, such as the U.S.
Department of Defense's suspension of the University of Phoenix's
participation in the federal tuition assistance program last week. For many
who work within the for-profit sector, or advocate for consumers who attend
for-profit colleges, these investigations, inquiries and sanctions are
connected to an interagency task force created to oversee the institutions.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Oct. 12, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2015/10/12/ben-carson-public-colleges-should-pay-loan-interest" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Ben Carson:
Public colleges should pay loan interest</span></a><br />
Ben Carson, a leading candidate in the Republican presidential nomination
race, offered ideas on keeping tuition low and reforming student loans in
an interview with The Eagle. Carson said that public universities
should have to pay the interest on student loans, leaving students
responsible only for the principal.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Oct. 12, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2015/10/09/wells-fargo-faces-cfpb-inquiry-student-loan-servicing" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Wells Fargo
faces CFPB inquiry on student loan servicing</span></a><br />
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is investigating Wells Fargo over
its student loan servicing practices, The Wall Street
Journal reported on Thursday. Citing multiple anonymous sources,
the Journal reported that the consumer bureau’s inquiry into the
bank goes back at least to late last year. It’s not clear what
loan-servicing issues the CFPB is investigating.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Oct. 9, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20151008/OPINION01/151009176/Senate-panel-gets-an-earful-on-school-funding-" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Editorial:
Senate panel gets an earful on school funding</span></a><br />
They came to listen and got an earful. The state Senate's
Education Committee was in Everett on Tuesday night to hear from
teachers, school officials, parents and even a couple of students, all who
wanted to make sure legislators understand how important it is to fix the
way public schools are funded in Washington.<br />
Everett Herald, Oct. 8, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/politics-government/article38118252.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Report:
Washington 7th in math scores, 40th in high-school graduation</span></a><br />
Washington’s public schools have some of the nation’s best eighth-grade
math scores but some of the worst high-school graduation rates. Those
are among the ways to quantify the condition of the Evergreen State’s
schools as lawmakers try to comply with a court order to take over the full
cost of basic education from school districts.<br />
The News Tribune, Oct. 7, 2015</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Wesley program marks 2 decades of honoring African American youths</span></a><br />
Two decades ago, a group of Pierce County community leaders was frustrated
at what was happening with local African American high school students: low
graduation rates, underachievement, too few on the road to college.
... What emerged was the Elizabeth Wesley Youth Merit Incentive Award
Program. In 1996, the program recognized five African American kids for
their achievements. At its most recent awards ceremony, held in September
at <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Clover Park
Technical College</span></strong>, there were 203 Wesley honorees.
... CeDrice Howard, a Curtis High School and Running Start student at <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Tacoma Community College</span></strong>,
is a three-time Wesley award winner.<br />
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<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/10/reverence-bachelors-degree/408346/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">America needs
to let go of its reverence for the bachelor's degree</span></a><br />
Many high-school graduates must choose between two bad options: a four-year
program for which they’re not academically or emotionally prepared, or
job-specific training that might put a ceiling on their careers.
... Other community colleges in Washington offer a bachelor’s of
applied science, or BAS, a four-year degree designed explicitly to build on
a two-year technical degree and provide a seamless pathway for students to
continue their education. Some of the programs, like the BAS in
manufacturing operations at <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Clover
Park Technical College</span></strong>, add business and management skills
to a two-year program teaching students how to operate and repair complex
machinery. Others, like the BAS in radiologic technology at <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Bellevue College</span></strong>,
allow students to continue deepening their technical skills in a particular
field.<br />
The Atlantic, Oct. 5, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.goskagit.com/all_access/northwest-career-and-technical-academy-inspires-kids-to-serve/article_b34fff80-c05b-5542-9b00-f7391f9c830b.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Northwest
Career and Technical Academy inspires kids to serve</span></a><br />
One day, a kid in Jack Greaves’ Fire Science and EMT class at
the Northwest Career and Technical Academy could save a life. Be
it a car wreck or a house fire, the 28 high school students in the class
will soon have the skills they need to set them on a path to help people.
... This is the first year the academy has had a fire science program,
said Northwest Career and Technical Academy Executive Director Doug
Walker. ... Next year, the students can continue their studies
through <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Skagit
Valley College’s</span></strong> newly expanded fire science program.<br />
Skagit Valley Herald, Oct. 5, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.seattletimes.com/education-lab/a-plan-to-give-5000-dropouts-a-second-chance/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">A plan to give
5,000 dropouts a second chance</span></a><br />
Carol Cleveland has launched 326 high school dropouts on a path to
graduation. With a big boost from the United Way, she’s likely to launch
many, many more. Cleveland is principal of iGrad, an unusual
school completion program tucked into a Kent strip mall. Organizations like
hers will be the beneficiaries of the United Way’s new “Reconnecting Youth
Project,” which aims to help 5,000 dropouts achieve high school equivalency
degrees. ... iGrad, which currently has 430 students, opened in
June, 2012. Since then, Cleveland said, 326 students have moved on from the
program to receive degrees, diplomas or certificates. They work at
their own pace, on their own schedule, with close supervision from iGrad
mentors. Many of them earn simultaneous credit at <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Green River College</span></strong>,
an iGrad partner, and go on to earn associate degrees.<br />
The Seattle Times, Oct. 5, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2015/oct/04/sharon-brown-and-mike-padden-videoconferencing-the/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Opinion: Sharon
Brown and Mike Padden: Videoconferencing the next step in Washington’s
participatory democracy</span></a><br />
Noted author and publisher Dan Poynter once challenged members of an
audience to always keep moving forward toward reaching their goals. “Each
step you take reveals a new horizon,” he told them. “You have taken the
first step today. Now, I challenge you to take another.” It’s the same
challenge we have made to the Legislature when it comes to providing
Washingtonians an opportunity to testify at legislative hearings using
remote videoconferencing technology. ... Six remote facilities
were used, including locations at <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Spokane
Community College</span></strong>, WSU-Spokane and <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Columbia Basin College</span></strong>
in Pasco. ... The analysis also found that there was a high level
of cooperation from the <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">State
Board for Community and Technical Colleges</span></strong>.<br />
The Spokesman-Review, Oct. 4, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://myedmondsnews.com/2015/10/edmonds-community-college-officials-students-praise-tuition-cuts-for-students/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Edmonds
Community College officials, students praise tuition cuts for students</span></a><br />
The new state budget recently allowed for Washington state to implement a
first-ever drop in tuition by 5 percent for community colleges. Washington
is the only state in the country to lower tuition. The cuts recently took
effect for fall quarter 2015. “This is a huge deal for students,” said Lia
Andrews, student and president of the student executive board at <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Edmonds Community College</span></strong>.
“Even for the students who qualify for financial aid, debts from student
loans are exorbitant in America. The concern over whether one can even pay
for college is a big incentive not to attend college.”<br />
My Edmonds News, Oct. 3, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20151003/NEWS/310039951/north-olympic-peninsula-police-college-personnel-train-to-avert" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">North Olympic
Peninsula police, college personnel train to avert shooting catastrophe
like rampage at Oregon college</span></a><br />
City, county, state and federal agencies on the North Olympic Peninsula
practice plans to avert the kind of carnage that wracked Umpqua Community
College on Thursday in Roseburg, Ore. Security personnel at <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Peninsula College</span></strong>
campuses in Port Angeles, Port Townsend and Forks are not commissioned law
enforcement officers, carry no firearms and have no arrest powers because
the state Legislature has not granted the school such authority.<br />
Peninsula Daily News, Oct. 3, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.bellinghamherald.com/sports/college/article37652904.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">WCC students’
dream comes to fruition in new, improved Pavilion</span></a><br />
Turns out you don’t need to be Kevin Costner’s character Ray Kinsella in
“Field of Dreams” standing in an Iowa cornfield to hear voices — a
community college in the middle of Bellingham will suffice. And much like
Kinsella, <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Whatcom
Community College</span></strong> decided to listen to the voices and build
something much grander. Instead of plowing under a portion of a
cornfield to build a baseball diamond, WCC decided to gut parts of its
nearly 20-year old Whatcom Pavilion, refurbish other portions and nearly
double its size in a $13 million project to create a beautiful new Pavilion
and Student Recreation Center that should now serve as a hub for campus
life.<br />
The Bellingham Herald, Oct. 3, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/everett-college-expands-training-facility-for-advanced-manufacturing/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Everett
Community College expands training for advanced manufacturing</span></a><br />
With the aerospace sector booming, <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Everett
Community College</span></strong> announced Friday a $2.5 million facility
expansion to its year-old Advanced Manufacturing Training & Education
Center. The expansion will add 17,000 square feet for the college’s
precision machining, welding and fabrication, engineering technician,
composites and manufacturing pre-employment programs.<br />
The Seattle Times, Oct. 2, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="https://centraliacollege.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/centralia-college-seeks-balance-of-safety-and-freedom-for-higher-ed.pdf" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Centralia
College seeks balance of safety and freedom for higher ed</span></a><br />
Steve Ward sees a lot of similarities between Umpqua Community College in
Roseburg, Oregon, and <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Centralia
College</span></strong>, where he serves as a vice president for finance
and administration. He finds the shootings that happened at Umpqua, coupled
with threats of violence and the lockdown and evacuation at Centralia High
School on Friday, particularly disturbing. After learning of the threats
made to Centralia High, Centralia College did not go into lockdown. Rather,
administrators sent messages to students and faculty via email and a mobile
phone warning service called e2Campus.<br />
Centralia Chronicle, Oct. 2, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.nbcrightnow.com/story/30175564/students-and-staff-at-yvcc-weigh-in-on-deadly-shooting-at-community-college-in-oregon" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Students and
staff at YVCC weigh in on deadly shooting at community college in Oregon</span></a><br />
The shootings at the small community college in Roseburg, Oregon on
Thursday morning left our country stunned. Other colleges are trying to
make sense of this act of violence and for our students at <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Yakima Valley Community College</span></strong>
it's frightening, knowing something like this could happen so close to
home.<br />
NBC Right Now, Oct. 2, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.nbcrightnow.com/story/30176234/cbc-continues-maintaining-safety-precautions-and-emergency-preparedness" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">CBC continues
maintaining safety precautions and emergency preparedness</span></a><br />
Friday we talked with local law enforcement as well as Franklin County
Emergency Management on their preparations and safety measures with <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Columbia Basin College</span></strong>
in the time of an emergency.<br />
NBC Right Now, Oct. 2, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.king5.com/story/news/2015/10/02/college-tries-to-identify-troubled-students-before-they-strike/73244674/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">College tries
to identify troubled students before they strike</span></a><br />
On Friday, authorities said the Umpqua shooter was a student in the
classroom where the rampage started in Roseburg, Oregon. Some schools
in Western Washington go to extraordinary lengths to try to identify
troubled students before they strike. "Oh, I was terrified. I was
thinking it could be <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Bellevue
College</span></strong> someday. Or it could be <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">South Seattle </span></strong>or <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Seattle Central</span></strong>,"
said Ana Blackstadt, dean of student success at Bellevue
College. Blackstadt heads the team that monitors potentially troubled
students at the Eastside college. The Behavioral Intervention Team –
or BIT – is charged with monitoring "students of concern."<br />
KING 5, Oct. 2, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://thesubtimes.com/2015/10/02/cptc-former-marine-forges-industry-connections-new-career-in-manufacturing/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">CPTC: Former
Marine forges industry connections, new career in manufacturing</span></a><br />
As Jake Boushack prepared to separate from service with the U.S. Marine
Corps, the artilleryman researched employable fields in Washington state.
Manufacturing caught his attention and Boushack found <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Clover Park Technical College</span></strong>
offered the ideal program to prepare him for his post-military career.<br />
The Suburban Times, Oct. 2, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://bbjtoday.com/blog/people-on-the-move-10215/32404" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Whatcom
Community College hires two for leadership roles</span></a><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Whatcom Community
College </span></strong>recently appointed two to its leadership
team. Curt Freed is the college’s new vice president for
instruction and Luca Lewis will serve as the college’s vice
president for student services.<br />
Bellingham Business Journal, Oct. 2, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://tdn.com/news/local/lcc-thoughts-and-prayers-are-with-our-colleagues-at-umpqua/article_74976cc5-0f3a-5199-9bb1-6d5ca5603000.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">LCC: 'Thoughts
and prayers are with our colleagues at Umpqua'</span></a><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Lower Columbia
College</span></strong> operations will continue as normal in the wake of
Thursday’s shooting at Umpqua Community College near Roseburg, Ore. As
normal as possible in this kind of situation, anyway.<br />
Longview Daily News, Oct. 1, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.columbian.com/news/2015/oct/01/oregon-campus-shooting-reverberates-at-clark-college-wsuv/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Oregon campus
shooting reverberates at Clark College, WSUV</span></a><br />
The tragedy at Umpqua Community College was felt Thursday at <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Clark College </span></strong>and
Washington State University Vancouver.<br />
The Columbian, Oct. 1, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.krem.com/story/news/local/northwest/2015/10/01/13-dead-shooter-killed-at-oregon-community-college/73174604/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Ten dead,
shooter killed at Oregon community college</span></a><br />
Video: Security messages keeping <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Spokane Falls Community College</span></strong> safe.<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/crime/at-colleges-its-always-a-balance-between-security-openness/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">At colleges,
‘It’s always a balance’ between security, openness</span></a><br />
From cellphone alerts to emergency call boxes and lockdown drills, colleges
and universities in Washington prepare for the worst, while striving to be
open and welcoming to communities they serve. ... “It is something we
know from SPU, someone can come on campus and commit horrendous crimes,”
said Laura McDowell, director of communications for the <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">State Board of Community and
Technical Colleges</span></strong>. ... This spring, <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Seattle Central College</span></strong> installed
blue emergency call towers and call boxes, with cameras, to provide another
way to assist in or report an emergency on campus. ... At <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Bellevue College</span></strong>,
emergency messages can take over any desktop computer on campus and soon
will be able to take over the college’s Web pages as well, converting them
to an emergency information hub. ... Many colleges also take a
preventive approach, by seeking to identify struggling students who may
need counseling or other support. The so-called Behavior Intervention Teams
are standard practice at <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Whatcom
Community College</span></strong>, said Luca Lewis, vice president of
student services there.<br />
The Seattle Times, Oct. 1, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.goskagit.com/all_access/epperson-takes-over-as-skagit-valley-college-s-athletic-director/article_f08d00e0-8757-501d-a905-e848ce688969.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Epperson takes
over as Skagit Valley College's athletic director</span></a><br />
Steve Epperson has been a fixture at <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Skagit Valley College</span></strong>, both in the
financial aid office and on the sidelines as the women’s basketball coach.
Now, he’ll step into the shoes of another familiar figure. Epperson has
been hired as the college’s new athletic director. He replaces Gary
Knutzen, who has retired after 47 years in the position.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/10/06/study-explores-preparation-and-outcomes-2-and-4-year-college-students" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">A nuanced look
at (some) 2-year students</span></a><br />
The easy headline to be drawn from new research examining the preparation
and outcomes of students at two- and four-year colleges is that
traditional-age students who enroll at community colleges are less likely
to earn a bachelor's degree within six years than are comparably qualified
students who go straight to four-year colleges. That is an undeniable
finding of the study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research,
which was conducted by researchers at the College Board and the University
of Michigan. But it is far from the only, or even the most interesting,
result of the study, given that quite a bit of previous research has found
something similar, and it probably won't surprise a lot of people. What's
more interesting about the study is that it tries, the authors say for
perhaps the first time, to compare the academic preparation that
traditional-age students have when they enter two-year and four-year
colleges, and to show that there is significant
differentiation among community colleges in the preparation of
students.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Oct. 6, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/10/06/army-restructures-educational-system-resemble-civilian-universities" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Army U</span></a><br />
Everyone in the U.S. Army, from top officers to new recruits, gets some
kind of training. Soon, many of those trainees will also be in college.
Sort of. They will be in Army University: a soon-to-begin restructuring of
the Army’s educational system that will be modeled after traditional
civilian universities. The idea is to consolidate the Army’s many
educational and training programs, to make them more flexible and
adaptable, and to help students get more college credit for their military
experience.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Oct. 6, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2015/10/06/shifts-major-aid-program-black-students" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Shifts in major
aid program for black students</span></a><br />
The National Merit Scholarship Program has announced that it is
phasing out its National Achievement Scholarship Program, which has
provided aid to black students since 1964. The National Merit Scholarship
Program has been widely criticized for picking semifinalists for its
program based on PSAT scores, and black students, on average, do not score
as highly as white or Asian students on that test.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Oct. 6, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.seattletimes.com/education-lab/statisticians-wanted-the-lesser-known-but-hot-tech-field/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Statisticians
wanted: The lesser-known, but also hot tech field</span></a><br />
In recent years, there’s been a big focus on computer science as a path to
a top job after college. But the American Statistical Association would
like students to know that statistics is also a hot field these days. Even
though more students are earning statistics degrees than ever before,
there aren’t enough statisticians being trained to meet the
demand.<br />
The Seattle Times, Oct. 5, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/10/05/admissions-leaders-debate-coalitions-plan-offer-new-application-and-portfolios-high" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Coalition of
the willing or the wealthy?</span></a><br />
In the question period of a session on whether the admissions profession
has lost its way, an early question came from a woman who said she had
worked in high school counseling and in college admissions, in both cases
at institutions that are not famous. She talked about how reform ideas that
originate among institutions that don't top the rankings lists have a hard
time capturing attention. And she implored the leaders of the most
prestigious institutions to push for reform of college admissions. The
statement drew applause. The admissions development with the most buzz here
at the annual meeting of the National Association for College Admission
Counseling was an effort by prestigious institutions to do just what the
speaker urged — to take a stand for a change in admissions.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Oct. 5, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://chronicle.com/article/Credentialing-Summit-/233623" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Credentialing
‘summit’ will tackle proliferation of degrees, badges and certificates</span></a><br />
More than 150 people from education, labor, business, and public-policy
organizations will gather here on Monday to kick off a process aimed at
making better sense of the myriad of credentials that people use
to advance their careers and employers depend upon when hiring. At issue
are traditional credentials in academe and the workplace as well
as newfangled ones like the badges issued by MOOC operators and
certificates from other so-called alternative providers.<br />
The Chronicle of Higher Education, Oct. 3, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://chronicle.com/article/Community-Colleges-Face-Big/233621" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Community
colleges face big security risks with few resources</span></a><br />
The violence at Umpqua Community College last week was the worst
mass shooting at a two-year college, whose campuses typically have less
security and mental-health resources than those of four-year
institutions. A former president of the college, Joseph Olson, said
that it has only one security guard, who is unarmed, and that it relies
otherwise on the local police force. That’s not uncommon at small, rural
colleges like Umpqua, in Roseburg, Ore., say campus-security experts.<br />
The Chronicle of Higher Education, Oct. 2, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/10/02/oregon-community-college-site-third-worst-mass-shooting-college-campus" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Tragedy at
Umpqua</span></a><br />
Oregon’s Umpqua Community College on Thursday became the site of the
third-most-deadly mass shooting ever to occur on a college campus. A
lone gunman identified as a 26-year-old local man shot and
killed 10 people and injured seven more at the rural two-year
campus, reported The New York Times and many other news
outlets.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Oct. 2, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/10/02/generation-study-abroad-summit-discussions-focus-how-double-us-study-abroad" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">A push to send
students abroad</span></a><br />
Few if any of the attendees at a summit on increasing study abroad
participation would need to be convinced of study abroad’s value, but a key
theme of discussions on Thursday was the need to better communicate that
value to others. To first-generation college students and to students at
community colleges. To students who are military veterans and to students
who have disabilities. To parents. To faculty members. To prospective
employers. The drive to increase and diversify the population of students
going abroad at institutions of all types is a shared goal at the Institute
of International Education’s Generation Study Abroad Summit, which
continues through today.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Oct. 2, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://chronicle.com/article/In-Falling-Default-Rates-an/233529" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">In falling
default rates, an incomplete picture of borrower distress</span></a><br />
Default rates on federal student loans fell at all types of colleges this
year, with the biggest drop occurring among for-profit
institutions. Nationwide, the federal default rate declined by almost
two percentage points, to 11.8 percent for students who entered repayment
in the 2012 fiscal year. Only 15 colleges exceeded the cutoffs
established by Congress and could lose access to federal student aid as a
result. The bit of good news masks a crucial fact, however: Thousands
of borrowers are still struggling to repay their debt.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2015/10/06/clinton-takes-sanderss-free-tuition-plan" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Clinton takes
on Sanders's free tuition plan</span></a><br />
Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton on Monday criticized
efforts to make college “free for everybody,” saying she doesn’t want to
give away such benefits to children from wealthy families.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Oct. 6, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://chronicle.com/article/5-Things-Colleges-Should-Know/233646" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">5 things
colleges should know about the new secretary of education</span></a><br />
John B. King Jr., who will lead the Education Department through President
Obama’s final year in office, isn’t well known in higher-education circles.
Like his predecessor, Arne Duncan, who announced on Friday that he would
step down in December, Mr. King is most famous (or infamous, depending on
whom you’re talking to) for his efforts to remake elementary and secondary
education. Here’s what readers need to know about him.<br />
The Chronicle of Higher Education, Oct. 5, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/10/05/financial-need-aid-priority-most-states" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">States grow
need-based aid</span></a><br />
States are increasing the financial aid they provide to undergraduates,
with need-based aid rising at a much faster pace than non-need-based aid.
Funding for undergraduate need-based grant aid increased nationwide from
about $7 billion in 2013 to about $7.4 billion in 2014, an increase of 4
percent when adjusted for inflation, according to a report released today
by the National Association of State Student Grant and Aid Programs.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Oct. 5, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/10/05/arne-duncans-higher-ed-legacy" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Duncan legacy:
Innovation and regulation</span></a><br />
Arne Duncan, a member of President Obama's inner circle and the
second-longest-serving education secretary ever,announced Friday that
he will resign in December. He will be replaced by John King Jr., who
has been acting as Duncan's deputy secretary since January and is former
commissioner of education in New York. Many observers had assumed that
Duncan would be among those to turn out the lights on the administration in
early 2017, given his close personal relationship to the president; they
are basketball-playing buddies as well as close colleagues. And indeed,
President Obama said in a news conference announcing Duncan's
departure Friday that he had "pushed Arne to stay."<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Oct. 5, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/10/02/obama-administration-backs-easier-bankruptcy-path-private-student-loans" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">New push on
bankruptcy protections</span></a><br />
The Obama administration is calling on Congress to make it easier for some
student loan borrowers to erase their debt through bankruptcy, as part of a
package of proposals aimed at helping Americans who are struggling with
loan payments.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Oct. 2, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://chronicle.com/article/Perkins-Loan-Program-a/233527" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Perkins Loan
Program, a federal stalwart since 1958, meets its demise</span></a><br />
The Federal Perkins Loan Program died on Wednesday, the victim of
a senator who has made it his mission to simplify student
aid. Perkins was the oldest federal student-loan program on the books:
Created in 1958, it spanned 11 administrations and provided $36 billion in
aid to 30 million low-income students during its lifetime. Supporters said
the program made college possible for millions of students who would
otherwise have been unable to attend or been forced to take on costly
private loans.<br />
The Chronicle of Higher Education, Oct. 1, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/group-that-shaped-federal-student-aid-policy-dies-a-quiet-death/105371" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Group that
shaped federal student-aid policy is disbanded</span></a><br />
Lost in the news of the demise of Perkins Loans on Thursday was another
death: that of the Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance. For
nearly three decades, the committee had counseled Congress and the
Education Department on student-aid issues. It played a major role in
shaping federal student-aid policy, issuing reports that led to the
creation and simplification of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid
and the development of two formulas to analyze the financial needs of low-
and moderate-income students. Its work is frequently cited by academic
researchers and lobbyists, and referred to in legislation.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="http://myedmondsnews.com/2015/09/edmonds-cc-hires-drake-as-new-vice-president-for-college-relations-and-advancement/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Edmonds CC
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<strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Edmonds Community
College </span></strong>has hired Dr. Tonya Drake as the Vice President for
College Relations and Advancement. Drake has been serving as the Interim VP
for College Relations and Advancement since August 2014. Prior to that
role, she served as the special assistant to the President for Equity and
Inclusion.<br />
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<a href="http://www.tri-cityherald.com/opinion/editorials/article37153944.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Our Voice:
We’re grateful for many memorable experiences</span></a><br />
Memories are often special moments — times thought back on that bring a
smile. Families together, a simple act of kindness or a community
experience shared can add up, like a savings account, to a lot to be
grateful for. It was rare and a first in 33 years — the blood moon
that rose Sunday evening. Families, friends, astronomy groups and more in
the Mid-Columbia gathered at the Moore Observatory at <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Columbia Basin College</span></strong>
in Pasco and all around the region to witness an event that won’t happen
for another 18 years.<br />
Tri-City Herald, Sept. 30, 2015<br />
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<a href="http://www.goskagit.com/skagit/skagit-valley-college-encourages-lifelong-learning-with-road-scholar-program/article_bee16373-52ec-51ef-accb-9d90a9ccab29.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Skagit Valley
College encourages lifelong learning with Road Scholar program</span></a><br />
Gathered around a map displaying whales of the Salish Sea, about two dozen
students politely raised their hands to ask The Whale Museum’s Cindy Hansen
questions about local mammals. What’s the difference between ‘orcas’ and
‘killer’ whales? Do orcas migrate to California? What’s happening to their
habitat? The questions were probably a little more advanced than those
students usually ask Hansen. Then again, these weren’t typical
students. The men and women sitting in front of Hansen — all at least
50 years old — were taking part in a Road Scholar event hosted by<strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";"> Skagit Valley College’s</span></strong>
San Juan Center.<br />
Skagit Valley Herald, Sept. 29, 2015<br />
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<a href="http://thesubtimes.com/2015/09/29/cptc-instructor-receives-pse-distinguished-faculty-award/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">CPTC:
Instructor receives PSE Distinguished Faculty Award</span></a><br />
In her 25 years as a Dental Assistant instructor at <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Clover Park Technical College</span></strong>,
Roberta Wirth doesn’t remember ever having to confirm her attendance the
night before a college event. It seemed strange to Wirth when she received
a phone call from the CPTC Foundation Office on the evening of
Sept. 17, making sure she was planning to attend Opening Day the
following day. The courtesy call was made because Wirth was set to receive
the 2015 Puget Sound Energy Distinguished Faculty Award at the all-staff
and faculty event. Wirth received the award from Hans Herrmann, community engagement
manager at PSE.<br />
The Suburban Times, Sept. 29, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://darkroom.baltimoresun.com/2015/09/daily-life-in-september-pictures-in-the-news/#17" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Daily life in
September | Pictures in the news</span></a><br />
The waning crescent moon, rounded out with earthshine on the dark side and
followed by Venus, rises above the <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Walla
Walla Community College’s</span></strong> Dietrich Dome before dawn early
Wednesday morning, Sept. 9, 2015, in Walla Walla, Wash.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/survey/pressure-all-sides-2015-survey-admissions-directors" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Pressure from
all sides: The 2015 survey of admissions directors</span></a><br />
The challenges facing college admissions leaders just keep growing. As has
been the case in recent years, many colleges struggle to fill their
classes, according to the 2015 Inside Higher Ed Survey of College
and University Admissions Directors. But in a year full of admissions news
and controversy, the poll suggests additional points of tension that have
been lingering behind the scenes (pressure from higher-ups to admit
applicants), are major societal issues (student loan debt) or could be
about to emerge with new force (the legal battle against the consideration
of race in admissions).<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Oct. 1, 2015<br />
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<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/10/01/study-finds-huge-increase-articles-published-predatory-journals" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">'Predatory'
publishing up</span></a><br />
The rise of open-access publishing, combined with pressure on academics to
get published, has caused a spectacular increase in the number of articles
spewed out by “predatory” journals, according to researchers at Finland’s
Hanken School of Economics.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Oct. 1, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/09/30/clearinghouse-finds-number-first-time-college-graduates-declining" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">More degree
stacking</span></a><br />
For a second consecutive year, the number of students receiving their first
college credential fell, even as the number of students earning a second or
third undergraduate credential continued to increase.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Sept. 30, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/09/30/researchers-faculty-members-explore-texting-email-alternative" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">'Texting pushes
people's buttons'</span></a><br />
It’s a familiar scenario at many colleges: a professor sends a student an
email containing important information about a course, but the message gets
lost in an inbox flooded with news about blood drives, intramural softball
and spam. Many faculty members, administrators and staffers are searching
for ways to improve how they communicate electronically with students. Some
academics argue colleges should be active on whatever platform students
regularly use, whether it be email, Facebook or text messaging. Others say
colleges should require students to use email, as it will likely be one of
their main forms of communication once they enter the workforce. Among
researchers, there is a growing sentiment that colleges should consider
texting — at least until students’ communication habits inevitably
change.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Sept. 30, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/colleges-vow-to-ease-application-process-with-new-website/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Colleges vow to
ease application process with new website</span></a><br />
More than 80 universities, including the University of Washington, have
promised to make the college-application process easier through a new
website where students will be able to submit applications to many schools
and get coaching to compile a “digital portfolio” of their academic
accomplishments. The Coalition for Access, Affordability and Success
includes private colleges like Harvard and Yale, along with public schools
like the University of Florida and Ohio State University. Their goal is to
remove barriers to the application process, especially from low-income
students and first-generation college students.<br />
The Seattle Times, Sept. 28, 2015</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2015/10/01/congress-lets-perkins-loan-program-lapse" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Congress lets
Perkins Loan program lapse</span></a><br />
The U.S. Senate failed to take action on a last-ditch effort to renew the
federal Perkins Loan program, letting the program lapse.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Oct. 1, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/10/01/student-loan-defaults-drop-obama-admin-again-tweaks-rates" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Default rates
drop</span></a><br />
The share of federal student loan borrowers who default on their debt
within three years of entering repayment dropped for the second year in a
row, the U.S. Department of Education announced Wednesday. The national
default rate on student loans made by the government fell to 11.8 percent
from 13.7 percent last year, the department said. Obama administration
officials credited their success in getting more borrowers to sign up for
income-based repayment plans for some of the decline in defaults.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Oct. 1, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2015/09/30/student-loan-default-rate-drops" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Student loan
default rate drops</span></a><br />
The proportion of student loan borrowers who defaulted on their debt within
three years fell to 11.8 percent for those entering repayment in 2012, down
sharply from 13.7 percent the year before, the U.S. Education
Department announced today. Department officials credited the Obama
administration's various efforts to protect borrowers, including its push
to encourage borrowers to enter its income-based repayment program, for
some of the decline in the default rate.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Sept. 30, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/09/30/consumer-financial-protection-bureau-eyes-new-rules-student-loan-servicers" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">CFPB eyes loan
servicer rules</span></a><br />
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau formally announced Tuesday that it
will explore new regulations on student loan servicing companies, calling
for changes in an industry it says is bedeviled by widespread failures that
are harming borrowers. Officials at the consumer agency issued a new
report that outlines some of those problems, which include poor customer
service, surprise fees and a lack of assistance for borrowers struggling to
make payments or enroll in income-based repayment programs.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Sept. 30, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2015/09/30/bill-targets-profit-college-executives" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Bill targets
for-profit college executives</span></a><br />
A handful of Senate Democrats on Tuesday introduced new legislation that
would give the U.S. Department of Education greater powers to hold the
executives of for-profit colleges accountable for fraud committed by the
institutions they run.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="http://www.yakimaherald.com/news/education/yvcc-cwu-split-m-grant-to-attract-hispanic-students/article_5384ec14-6602-11e5-812b-c3fd044ad326.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">YVCC, CWU split
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<strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Yakima Valley
Community College</span></strong> and Central Washington University have
received a $3.25 million grant to attract and keep more Hispanic students
even as Hispanic enrollment continues to grow.<br />
Yakima Herald, Sept. 29, 2015<br />
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<a href="http://www.goskagit.com/all_access/skagit-valley-college-instructors-find-a-winning-formula/article_0afa5cf2-6d84-5e16-b90f-6c8fd1b3efdc.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Skagit Valley
College instructors find a winning formula</span></a><br />
Standing inside a room with mathematical equations scrawled on a dry-erase
board behind them, <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Skagit
Valley College</span></strong> math instructors Abel Gage and Brian Heinze
said they believe they’ve uncovered the formula for winning the annual Trek
For Treasure. The two members of the team Geeks on Peaks became this summer
the first team in the history of the adventure race to win twice. They also
won in 2013.<br />
Skagit Valley Herald, Sept. 27, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/local-news/195-graduate-from-psns-apprentice-program_32961731" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">195 graduate
from PSNS apprentice program</span></a><br />
Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility’s
114-year-old apprentice program graduated 195 journey-level tradesmen and
women Friday at Bremerton High School Performing Arts Center. The
four-year program that combines schooling and on-the-job training.
Graduates, who represent 26 trades, each received a Navy certificate of
apprenticeship and an associate of technical arts degree from <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Olympic College</span></strong>.<br />
Kitsap Sun, Sept. 25, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/education/article36640785.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">CBC to use
grant for math center, student retention</span></a><br />
A $2.6 million grant will allow <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Columbia
Basin College</span></strong> to develop a math tutoring center and find
ways to better advise and guide students through their education. The
Developing Hispanic-Serving Institutions federal grant will be paid out
over the next five years. Heritage University, <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Big Bend Community College </span></strong>and
a partnership between <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Yakima
Valley Community College</span></strong> and Central Washington University
also received grants.<br />
Tri-City Herald, Sept. 25, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/sadness-in-international-student-community-after-tour-bus-tragedy/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Sadness in
international-student community after tour-bus tragedy</span></a><br />
Washington educators who teach students from abroad were deeply saddened by
the news that students in <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">North
Seattle College’s</span></strong> international program were involved in
the deadly accident on the Aurora Bridge Thursday. “It’s just been
horrible,” said Andrea Insley, executive director of global initiatives for
the Seattle Colleges district. Insley spent the afternoon at Harborview,
helping to get emergency contact information for the students to hospital
officials. “We are all certainly very saddened and grieved by this
loss because it hits close to home,” said Diana Sampson, executive director
of international education at <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Shoreline
Community College</span></strong>. “This is our community. It’s a tragedy
all around.”<br />
The Seattle Times, Sept. 24, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20150924/OPINION01/150929523" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Editorial:
Building a home for student success</span></a><br />
The same day that China's president arrived at Paine Field to begin a
three-day visit of the Puget Sound region, including a tour of Boeing's
Everett plant, a gathering across town in north Everett marked the start of
construction for the new home of the Everett University
Center and a focus for Washington State University's North Puget
Sound at Everett on the campus of <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Everett Community College</span></strong>.
... And the next time a Chinese president visits Everett, along with
the Boeing tour, we recommend a walking tour of the shared campus of
Everett Community College, the Everett University Center and WSU North
Puget Sound where that success is being fostered.<br />
Everett Herald, Sept. 24, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.kentreporter.com/community/328924001.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Green River
College student fights fires in Eastern Washington</span></a><br />
Keith Beasley of Renton started his sophomore year at <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Green River College</span></strong>
on Monday knowing that he had made a difference this summer fighting fires
in Eastern Washington. The 21-year-old specialist in the Washington
National Guard spent 25 days in August and September as a squad boss of 24
soldiers on the front lines of the Lake Chelan complex fire.<br />
Kent Reporter, Sept. 24, 2015<br />
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<a href="http://www.kentreporter.com/community/329254991.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Respect
restored to veterans memorial: Highline students initiate campus renovation
project</span></a><br />
During the fall of 2013, <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Highline
College </span></strong>student Kendall Evans was asked a difficult
question: "Is this what Highline thinks of its POWs and MIAs?"<br />
Kent Reporter, Sept. 24, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.king5.com/story/news/local/tacoma/2015/09/24/reducing-youth-gun-violence-in-tacoma/72769814/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Reducing youth
gun violence in Tacoma</span></a><br />
At 17-years old Xavier Ferguson is pinching himself. "I didn't think I
could be here, telling my story." Right now, Ferguson is enrolled in
at <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Clover Park
Technical College</span></strong> where he's studying Aviation maintenance.
But it was only a couple of years ago that Xavier had a gun in one pocket
and drugs in another.<br />
KING 5, Sept. 24, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.ifiberone.com/news/big-bend-community-college-prepares-to-offer-new-drone-program/article_f3e51f0a-6317-11e5-a543-375c8bdb8f16.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Big Bend
Community College prepares to offer new drone program</span></a><br />
The drones are coming to <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Big
Bend Community College</span></strong>. The school announced the start
of a program designed to train technicians and pilots of unmanned aerial
vehicles, or drones, with the help of a $2.6 million federal grant.<br />
iFiberOne News, Sept. 24, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://ccdaily.com/Pages/Workforce-Development/The-nurse-practitioners-of-the-legal-profession.aspx" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Nurse
practitioners of the legal profession</span></a><br />
A state Supreme Court order in Washington state has led to another
solution that some are comparing to the nurse practitioners of the legal
profession and other states are watching and considering: limited liability
legal technicians (LLLTs). ... A statewide legal needs study showed
that a significant percentage of people were going without legal
representation, potentially turning to online services, and that family law
was most profoundly impacted, says Marie Bruin, policy associate in
workforce education at the <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Washington
State Board for Community & Technical Colleges</span></strong>.
... Community colleges to date include <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Highline</span></strong>, <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Edmonds </span></strong>and <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Tacoma </span></strong>in the
northwest part of the state, <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Spokane
</span></strong>to the east, and <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Clark
</span></strong>to the southwest, the last of which is seeking ABA
approval, Bruin says.<br />
Community College Daily, Sept. 4, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://joom.ag/kGqp/p36#.Vgm7EbS0q0Y.mailto" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Upward mobility in the orchard: Wenatchee Valley
College turns ag workers into managers</span></a><br />
Since the start of the Hispanic Orchard Employees Education Program at <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Wenatchee Valley College</span></strong>
in 1994, some 1,300 workers have completed a certificate program that helps
them become managers.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/09/29/students-opt-combine-multiple-2-year-degrees" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">When A.S. +
A.A. > B.A.</span></a><br />
There's an ongoing national conversation encouraging people to pursue at
least an associate degree. But at one Florida college, some students are
finding it's in their best interest to pursue more than one two-year
degree.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Sept. 29, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/09/29/half-college-graduates-say-college-worth-cost-survey-finds" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Not worth it?</span></a><br />
Just half of college alumni “strongly agree” that their education was worth
what they paid for it, according to the newest data from an ongoing
Gallup-Purdue University study of college graduates.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Sept. 29, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/09/28/four-surprising-findings-debt-and-default-among-community-college-students" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Small loans,
big problem</span></a><br />
Community colleges are relatively affordable, and their students tend to
borrow less than those who attend other types of institutions. Yet the debt
students rack up at community colleges is troubling. The reason is that
students who attend two-year colleges struggle to repay even small loans,
and often default on them, a concern that is reinforced by a new
study from one of the sector’s primary trade groups — the
Association of Community College Trustees.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Sept. 28, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.seattletimes.com/education-lab/hands-on-science-education-works-best-in-college-too/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Hands-on
science education works best in college, too</span></a><br />
Learning science by doing it has long been practiced by teachers in K-12
schools. Science educators think it should be more common in college
classrooms, too.<br />
The Seattle Times, Sept. 28, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/09/28/nonacademic-skills-test-ets-fills-blanks-students-likelihood-success" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Measuring
motivation</span></a><br />
Like most colleges, the University of New Mexico is trying to help more of
its at-risk students get to graduation. And officials at the university
know academic preparation isn’t the only factor to watch. There is a broad
consensus that so-called noncognitive skills — motivation, stress
management, organization and even the ability to cope with financial
pressure — influence whether a student succeeds in college. So
the university recently started using a test from the Educational Testing
Service, dubbed SuccessNavigator, to measure those attributes.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Sept. 28, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/09/25/new-effort-aims-standardize-faculty-driven-review-student-work" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Are they
learning?</span></a><br />
The debate over how much actual learning is taking place on college
campuses is a historically heated one, as is the related discussion about
how to measure that learning.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Sept. 25, 2015</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2015/09/29/us-house-passes-one-year-perkins-extension" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">U.S. House
passes one-year Perkins extension</span></a><br />
The U.S. House of Representatives on Monday approved a one-year extension
of the federal Perkins Loan program, which is set to expire this week.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Sept. 29, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2015/09/29/ny-governor-eyes-free-community-college-plan" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">N.Y. governor
eyes free community college plan</span></a><br />
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is in talks with the White House to provide
free tuition at community colleges within the state, according to a report
from the New York Post.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Sept. 29, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2015/09/28/college-abacus-releases-tool-low-income-students" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">College Abacus
releases tool for low-income students</span></a><br />
College Abacus is a free online tool for students and families to compare
college pricing — using net-price estimates taken from colleges and
federal databases. The tool, which is owned by ECMC Group, a nonprofit loan
guarantor, was one of several outside entities the U.S. Department of
Education collaborated with on new data from the White House's College
Scorecard, released earlier this month.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Sept. 28, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2015/09/28/report-questions-free-community-college" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Report
questions free community college</span></a><br />
A new report from the Manhattan Institute for Policy
Research — a conservative think tank — argues that
community colleges aren't ready for the consequences of providing
"free" tuition until they provide intensive counseling and
"emulate" the for-profit college sector with relevant course work
and internships. The consequences of free community college, the report
said, would be a larger number of students looking to enroll in two-year
colleges with low performance rates.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="http://www.kvewtv.com/article/2015/sep/23/cbc-and-heritage-university-partnership-continues/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">CBC and
Heritage University partnership continues</span></a><br />
Classes began on Monday at <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Columbia
Basin College</span></strong> but they held, on Wednesday, a first annual
open house barbeque to help bring more awareness of their partnership with
Heritage University.<br />
KVEW TV, Sept. 23, 2015<br />
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<a href="http://thesubtimes.com/2015/09/22/bates-technical-college-kicks-off-75th-anniversary/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Bates Technical
College kicks off 75th anniversary</span></a><br />
On Tuesday, Sept. 22, <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Bates
Technical College </span></strong>kicked off a year-long celebration of the
college’s 75th anniversary during employee Opening Day. Beginning with
a proclamation from Governor Jay Inslee designating the day Bates Technical
College 75th Anniversary Day, employees watched short videos, heard
department updates, and finished the morning with birthday cupcakes.<br />
The Suburban Times, Sept. 22, 2015<br />
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<a href="http://myeverettnews.com/2015/09/22/everett-university-center-construction-underway/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Everett
University Center construction underway</span></a><br />
A couple hundred people attended the groundbreaking for the Everett
University Center at Tower and Broadway in north Everett this
afternoon. ... The current WSU plan is a two plus two concept where
students begin their first two years at<strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";"> Everett Community College</span></strong>, <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Edmonds Community College </span></strong>and
<strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Skagit Valley
College</span></strong> and then finish the second two-years of their
degree at the WSU managed facility.<br />
My Everett News, Sept. 22, 2015<br />
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<a href="http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/blog/2015/09/patti-paynes-cool-people-international-chocolatier.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Patti Payne's
Cool People: International chocolatier to join forces with Seattle chef
Lisa Dupar</span></a><br />
Northwest Chocolate Week starts Sept. 25 and one of the world’s most
celebrated chocolatiers is moving in. Pastry and confectionary
chef Ewald Notter — I dub him the Chihuly of chocolate — is
conducting demonstrations through <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">South
Seattle College </span></strong>in how to create a chocolate masterpiece.<br />
Puget Sound Business Journal, Sept. 22, 2015<br />
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<a href="http://www.goskagit.com/all_access/a-career-in-manufacturing/article_830642f7-478a-5222-a5a7-fd2e085412e3.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">A career in
manufacturing</span></a><br />
With Skagit County’s manufacturing industry showing continued growth,
WorkSource Skagit is hosting an 11-week training session for displaced
workers looking for entry-level manufacturing jobs. ... The program
has been taught at other locations in the state, but this is the first time
it’s been offered in Skagit County. It is a collaboration between the
Northwest Workforce Council, the Aerospace Joint Apprenticeship Committee,
and <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Skagit Valley
College</span></strong>.<br />
Skagit Valley Herald, Sept. 22, 2015<br />
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<a href="http://thedailyworld.com/news/local/new-schermer-building-and-running" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">New Schermer
Building up and running</span></a><br />
The new Schermer Building is up and running on the <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Grays Harbor College</span></strong> campus
and welcomed students on Monday. The building contains new technology
and more space for students and faculty while also touting environmentally
friendly features.<br />
The Daily World, Sept. 22, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20150913/NEWS01/150919576/College-wake-up-call" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Most county
high school grads must take remedial classes in college</span></a><br />
Six of every 10 graduates in Snohomish County go to college, most of them
to two-year community or technical colleges, based on annual state
data from 2005 to 2013. The majority get a wake-up call on
campus. They aren't ready. ... At local community colleges, the
focus is shifting from upping enrollment numbers to upping completion
numbers for degree and certificate programs. That means finding students'
strengths early on, said Dusty Brannan, an instructor at <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Edmonds Community College</span></strong> and
head of the high school completion department. ... At <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Everett Community College</span></strong>,
the busiest pre-college courses are algebra and writing. More than 1,600
new students took remedial courses there in 2014-15, half of them 18 to 20
years old.<br />
Everett Herald, Sept. 13, 2015</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2015/09/24/survey-tablet-ownership-laptops-remain-no-1" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Survey: Tablet
ownership up, but laptops remain no. 1</span></a><br />
The laptop continues to be the go-to device for students, whether for
educational or personal use, according to a new survey conducted by Harris
Poll and sponsored by Pearson.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Sept. 24, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://chronicle.com/article/Talking-About-Talent-Jamie/233279/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Video: Talking
about talent: Jamie Merisotis on the role of higher education</span></a><br />
Jamie P. Merisotis, president and chief executive of the Lumina Foundation
and a longtime advocate of helping low-income and first-generation students
into higher education, says it’s time to take a broader view of what he
sees as the nation’s “talent” deficit. In his new book, America Needs
Talent: Attracting, Educating, and Deploying the 21st-Century
Workforce (Rosetta Books), Mr. Merisotis argues that the United States
must not only modernize higher education but also open up more paths for immigration.<br />
The Chronicle of Higher Education, Sept. 24, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/09/24/pell-grant-recipients-lag-behind-peers-same-college-and-nationally-report-finds" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Gaps in success
for Pell Grant students</span></a><br />
The University of Alabama and Michigan State University look pretty similar
on paper. Both are selective public research universities. Students enter
with similar standardized test scores. And the proportions of low-income
and underrepresented minority students on each campus are roughly the same.
Yet students who receive a Pell Grant to attend Michigan State are far more
likely — by 20 percentage points — to graduate within
six years compared to their counterparts at the University of Alabama flagship
campus at Tuscaloosa, according to a report published Thursday by
the Education Trust, an advocacy group for low-income students.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Sept. 24, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2015/09/23/guidance-competency-based-education" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Guidance on
competency-based education</span></a><br />
The U.S. Department Education said Tuesday it is poised to
release an extensive reference guide for institutions that are
participating in an experiment on competency-based education. Since
that project was begun last year, the department said it became
clear that more guidance was needed — for both colleges and
accrediting agencies.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Sept. 23, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/get-your-ph-d-without-the-hassle-thanks-to-stephen-colbert/104851" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Get your Ph.D.
without the hassle, thanks to Stephen Colbert</span></a><br />
Haven’t you always wanted a Ph.D. from Princeton — er, Prancetown
University? Thanks to a project by The Late Show With Stephen
Colbert, you can now earn the precious credential
through “Stephen Colbert’s Totally Legitimate Online PhD Program.”Read
the instructions below to see how streamlined online education has
become! Complete Stephen’s online PhD program by proving you can click
on the word Print. Congratulations, Doctor.<br />
The Chronicle of Higher Education, Sept. 22, 2015</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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rules</span></a><br />
Two years ago the Community College of Beaver County had a waiting list for
its air traffic control program. Now the Pennsylvania college has slots
open. A similar story has taken place in Colorado at Aims Community
College. Where a thriving air traffic control program regularly saw about
20 students a semester, it is now hanging on by a thread to stay open. Both
programs have seen high success rates for their graduates in the Federal
Aviation Administration Academy, a formal training program for new air
traffic control hires. And the drops aren't because the air traffic control
field doesn't have jobs. Rather they are due to controversial changes in
the federal hiring process that eliminated — some say
incorrectly — the need for new hires to have the kind of training
provided by Beaver County and Aims, and other colleges. Both colleges
[and Green River College in Washington] are part of the FAA's Air
Traffic Control (ATC) Collegiate Training Initiative (CTI) program.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Sept. 23, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/09/23/new-college-scorecard-repayment-data-fuels-debate-over-accountability-higher-ed" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">A tougher test
for colleges</span></a><br />
For decades, the federal government’s main yardstick for judging how
colleges perform with federal aid dollars has been the default rate on
student loans. Each year the U.S. Department of Education tallies up how
many borrowers from a given college fell so far behind on their federal
loan payments that they defaulted within several years of starting to
repay. But for every borrower who defaults on a student loan, there are
many more who are unable to make progress in repaying their loans and are
watching their balances grow, years after attending college, according to
data released this month by the Obama administration.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Sept. 23, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://chronicle.com/article/Consistent-Research/233307/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Consistent
research regulations could ease the burden on scientists, panel says</span></a><br />
Federal regulation "steals from the nation’s investment in research
and has become self-defeating," a National Academies panel told
Congress on Tuesday. But the burden could be eased through more-uniform
federal rules and the creation of a new independent oversight board, the
panel said.<br />
The Chronicle of Higher Education, Sept. 22, 2015</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="http://www.seattletimes.com/education-lab/new-business-degree-speeds-up-process-of-getting-a-college-credential/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">New business
degree speeds up process of getting a college credential</span></a><br />
A handful of Washington community colleges have launched a new program that
allows people to earn a business degree entirely online, at a sped-up
pace. The business associate degree has a number of unique
features: It’s competency-based, so students who have some business or work
experience can get credit for what they already know. ... And the
work is rigorous, says Rich Cummins, the president of <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Columbia Basin College</span></strong>
in Pasco, who chaired the committee that created the degree. Columbia
Basin is the lead institution, but the degree is also being offered at <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Everett </span></strong>and <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Tacoma </span></strong>community
colleges, as well as <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Centralia</span></strong>,
<strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Pierce </span></strong>and
<strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Olympic </span></strong>colleges
(two-year public colleges that have dropped “community” from their names).
Eventually, it will be offered at all 34 of the state’s community and
technical colleges, he said.<br />
The Seattle Times, Sept. 21, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/education/article36045234.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Columbia Basin
College enrollment down slightly, but class loads up</span></a><br />
Early enrollment figures from <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Columbia
Basin College’s</span></strong> first day of classes show a slight decline
in the number of students, but the college’s president sees plenty of
reason for optimism.<br />
Tri-City Herald, Sept. 21, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://thesubtimes.com/2015/09/21/cptc-opening-day-2015-operation-student-success/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">CPTC opening
day 2015: ‘Operation Student Success’</span></a><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Clover Park
Technical College</span></strong> staff and faculty celebrated the start of
a new academic year with the college’s annual Opening Day event Sept. 18 at
the McGavick Event Center. With the theme “Operation Student Success,” the
event focused on the college’s efforts to help students succeed.<br />
The Suburban Times, Sept. 21, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/northwest/former-violin-students-perform-for-beloved-instructor/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Olympia violin
instructor, 90, has taught 1,000 students</span></a><br />
Daniel Shen and his brother Alan once lived three houses away from renowned
violinist and instructor Helen De Pastel. ... De Pastel taught violin
for more than 65 years at <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Grays
Harbor College </span></strong>in Aberdeen and at the University of Puget
Sound in Tacoma.<br />
The Seattle Times, Sept. 20, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://myedmondsnews.com/2015/09/edmonds-cc-students-faculty-and-staff-participate-in-tribal-canoe-journey/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Edmonds CC
students, faculty, and staff participate in tribal canoe journey</span></a><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Edmonds Community
College </span></strong>students, faculty, and staff took part in a
transformative tribal canoe journey from the Samish nation in Anacortes to
the Muckleshoot Tribe via Golden Gardens in Seattle, this summer. This was
the fifth year that Edmonds CC participated in a tribal canoe journey.
Although the entire journey was 100 miles, many people completed portions
of the journey.<br />
My Edmonds News, Sept. 20, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-snyder/contributions-of-communit_b_8153960.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Opinion: Contributions
of community colleges to cities and towns</span></a><br />
In many small cities and towns, community colleges are more than
educational institutions. They function as civic centers, host wedding
receptions and offer free cultural events. Local businesses rely heavily on
community colleges for workforce development. ... Wine is one of
the fastest growing industries in Washington state. <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Yakima Valley Community College</span></strong> created
associate degrees in viticulture and enology. The college also opened a
teaching winery and two winery incubators — two startups that
offer students on-the-job experience.<br />
The Huffington Post, Sept. 18, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.kentreporter.com/news/328079291.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">STEM award recognizes Highline College faculty member</span></a><br />
Dr. Amelia Phillips has been named one of this year's 100 Inspiring Women
in STEM, an award presented by Insight Into Diversity magazine. A tenured
faculty member at <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Highline
College</span></strong>, Phillips earned the national recognition for her
teaching, mentoring and leadership in the computer science field. STEM
fields include science, technology, engineering and math.<br />
Kent Reporter, Sept. 18, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://thesubtimes.com/2015/09/18/fire-captain-appointed-as-bates-technical-college-trustee/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Fire captain
appointed as Bates Technical College trustee</span></a><br />
Governor Jay Inslee has appointed West Pierce Fire and Rescue Fire Captain
Layne Bladow to serve on the <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Bates
Technical College</span></strong> Board of Trustees.<br />
The Suburban Times, Sept. 18, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/article35649165.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Tacoma
Community College celebrates 50 years, ready for more</span></a><br />
Fifty years ago this month, <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Tacoma
Community College</span></strong> opened its doors to 1,084
students. Next Monday, it anticipates close to 13,000 students will
cross the 150-acre campus in West Tacoma for the first day of fall
quarter. Despite Pierce County’s crowded higher education scene — it
has four community and technical colleges and three four-year universities
— TCC has remained a popular destination for people looking to advance
their education.<br />
The News Tribune, Sept. 17, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.kentreporter.com/news/327952091.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">'You've come a long way, baby': First Green River
president marvels at college's growth, success in 50 years</span></a><br />
A lot has changed on the <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Green
River College</span></strong> campus since the first time Mel Lindbloom
visited the place on Auburn's Lea Hill more than 50 years ago.<br />
Kent Reporter, Sept. 17, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20150917/NEWS01/150919113" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">EvCC to offer
tuition waivers to qualified low-income students</span></a><br />
Acing the class isn't enough. Students in College in the High School
programs can earn college credits, but $210 per five-credit class is more
than some can afford. In Everett Public Schools, nearly a third of students
who take College in the High School courses never get the credits,
according to <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Everett
Community College</span></strong>. A new financial aid program aims to
change that.<br />
Everett Herald, Sept. 17, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.goskagit.com/all_access/mount-vernon-students-find-success-in-gear-up/article_58737687-3783-5551-83dd-d4a645cc19ee.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Mount Vernon
students find success in GEAR UP</span></a><br />
In early August, five Mount Vernon High School students built circuit
breakers, developed 3-D images and toured dormitories as part of the
University of Washington’s Early Engineering Institute. ... While five
Mount Vernon students attended the institute, others have taken nursing
courses at <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Skagit
Valley College </span></strong>or gone to robotics camps.<br />
Skagit Valley Herald, Sept. 17. 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://thesubtimes.com/2015/09/17/cptc-peer-ambassador-receives-statewide-leadership-award/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">CPTC: Peer
Ambassador receives statewide leadership award</span></a><br />
Ask Ashley Duncan a question about student life at <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Clover Park Technical College</span></strong>,
and chances are she’ll have an answer. ... Duncan’s involvement with
CPTC’s Associated Student Government and the Peer Ambassador
program has not gone unnoticed. The Council of Unions and Student Programs
honored Duncan with the Outstanding 2nd Year Student Leader Award at
the Leadership & Activities Institute in Wenatchee earlier this month.
The award recognizes students who demonstrate excellence and exhibit
organizational skills and leadership abilities as a second-year student
leader.<br />
The Suburban Times, Sept. 17, 2015</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/09/the-failure-of-for-profit-colleges/405301/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">The empty
promises of for-profit colleges</span></a><br />
In the past 15 years, students at schools such as Corinthian and University
of Phoenix have taken out loans at drastically higher rates. What are they
getting for their money?<br />
The Atlantic, Sept. 15, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-coddling-of-the-american-mind/399356/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">The coddling of
the American mind</span></a><br />
In the name of emotional well-being, college students are increasingly
demanding protection from words and ideas they don’t like. Here’s why
that’s disastrous for education—and mental health.<br />
The Atlantic, September 2015</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2015/09/22/itt-tech-faces-justice-department-inquiry" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">ITT Tech faces
Justice Department inquiry</span></a><br />
The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating whether ITT Educational
Services defrauded the federal government, the company disclosed Monday.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Sept. 22, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2015/09/18/report-too-little-done-encourage-income-based-loan-repayment" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Report: Too
little done to encourage income-based loan repayment</span></a><br />
Many student loan borrowers who could qualify for the federal government's
income-based repayment plans do not participate in them, and the Education
Department has not done enough to make borrowers aware of their repayment
options, the Government Accountability Office said in a
report Thursday.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Sept. 18, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/09/18/general-assembly-leads-coding-boot-camps-regulated-side-higher-education" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">When regulation
pays</span></a><br />
Regulation stifles innovation, the complaint goes, protecting the status
quo and existing institutions at the expense of alternative providers. But
it's not always so. The biggest player in the rapidly expanding boot camp
and coding academy space, General Assembly, has been through the regulatory
approval process in eight states so far. And the experience hasn’t been too
painful. In fact, company officials said it has helped them cope with
General Assembly’s growth.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Sept. 18, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/borrowers-using-income-based-repayment-plans-are-mostly-low-income-report-says/104677" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Borrowers using
income-based repayment plans are mostly low-income, report says</span></a><br />
Borrowers using the federal government’s income-driven repayment plans are
overwhelmingly low-income and much less likely to default, according to a
new report from the Government Accountability Office. The
report, which was requested by Sen. Patty Murray of Washington, the
top Democrat on the Senate’s education committee, also encourages the
Education Department to better spread the word about the programs.<br />
The Chronicle of Higher Education, Sept. 17, 2015</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="http://www.king5.com/story/news/local/seattle/2015/09/16/free-college-tuition-for-seattle-students/32493215/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">South Seattle
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A scholarship program at <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">South
Seattle College</span></strong> is giving more people a chance at higher
education by offering one year of free tuition for qualifying students.<br />
KING 5, Sept. 16, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.whidbeynewstimes.com/news/327782321.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Skagit Valley
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<strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Skagit Valley
College</span></strong> and area fire districts received a $537,370 grant
to provide scholarships for Skagit Valley College fire protection students,
according to a news release. Students studying fire protection have
the opportunity to apply for the annual scholarships, which are made
possible through a four-year, $537,370 grant awarded to Skagit Valley
College and partners including Skagit County Fire District 14, Skagit
County Fire District 13, Skagit County Fire District 6, City of Burlington
Fire Department and the City of Mount Vernon Fire Department.<br />
Whidbey News Times, Sept. 16, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.auburn-reporter.com/news/327963571.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Highline College earns national award for 'excellence
in diversity' for third consecutive year</span></a><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Highline College</span></strong>
has received the 2015 Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award
from Insight Into Diversity magazine, the oldest and largest
diversity-focused publication in higher education for the third consecutive
year.<br />
Auburn Reporter, Sept. 16, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://kuow.org/post/two-washington-colleges-get-money-veteran-centers" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Two Washington
colleges get money for veteran centers</span></a><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Lake Washington
Institute of Technology</span></strong> in Kirkland and <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Olympic College</span></strong>
in Bremerton will get a little more than $100,000 for the next three years
to help student veterans. The grants from the Department of Education
will help create centers for student veterans.<br />
KUOW, Sept. 15, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://tdn.com/news/indonesian-students-discuss-hard-work-back-home-during-longview-visit/article_76829895-0bd3-5c33-be74-7abad05e432d.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Indonesian
students discuss hard work back home during Longview visit</span></a><br />
For Farhan Widyahartono, breakfasts of eggs and toast are one of the things
that stand out about the United States. Back home in Indonesia, rice is the
typical morning meal, the 15-year-old explained. Widyahartono and 11 other
high school students from Indonesia have become used to all-American
breakfasts during the past two weeks as they visited North Carolina and Los
Angeles. They’re spending six days in the Longview-Kelso area this week
under an exchange with the Friendship Force of Lower Columbia.
... The students performed dances from different regions of their vast
country of 17,000 islands at the <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Lower
Columbia College</span></strong> Student Center on Monday.<br />
Longview Daily News, Sept. 15, 2015<br />
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<a href="http://thesubtimes.com/2015/09/15/cptc-launches-bachelors-degree-holders-into-in-demand-field/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">CPTC launches
bachelor’s degree holders into in-demand field</span></a><br />
When Noah Hebert and Michael Engstrom graduated from their respective
universities, they were confident about their prospects entering the work
force. But Hebert, who majored in communication, and Engstrom, who studied
elementary education, learned that getting started in their careers would
prove a challenge. ... Two years ago Hebert and Engstrom enrolled
in <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Clover Park
Technical College’s</span></strong> Computer Programming and Web
Development to prepare for their second career. They completed the
program in March, and soon after both were employed as application
developers for the Washington State Department of Ecology.<br />
The Suburban Times, Sept. 15, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.westseattleherald.com/2015/09/14/news/new-public-private-partnership-south-seattle-coll" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">New public
private partnership at South Seattle College will train students for
industry</span></a><br />
Since graduating from high school a few years ago, Chantz Hegemann has
worked odd jobs here and there, but nearly all of them have left him
wanting more. Hegemann found what he was looking for in a new seven-quarter
program at <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">South
Seattle College</span></strong> that is a public-private partnership to
train heavy diesel repair technicians and starts Fall Quarter of 2015. The
program was created to satisfy the industry’s growing need to hire
employees with these skills.<br />
West Seattle Herald, Sept. 14, 2015</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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A new study confirms previous research finding strong long-term
economic payoff to earning a college degree, and a larger payoff for
majoring in a science-, mathematics- or engineering-related field.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Sept. 17, 2015<br />
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<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/09/17/study-finds-first-time-enrollment-graduate-school-35-percent" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Going back to
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First-time graduate school enrollment was up 3.5 percent in 2014 from the
year before, the biggest annual increase since 2009, according to a report
out today from the Council of Graduate Schools.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Sept. 17, 2015<br />
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<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/09/17/new-paper-argues-more-investment-instruction-higher-educationhttps:/www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/09/17/new-paper-argues-more-investment-instruction-higher-education" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Valuing the
faculty</span></a><br />
Who needs the faculty? A new working paper by the Campaign for the Future
of Higher Education, a coalition of faculty unions and other academic associations,
asks that question and answers resoundingly that face time with faculty
members is key to student success. Unfortunately, it says, colleges and
universities continue to divert funds away from instruction in an attempt
to cut costs — a strategy that actually hurts them in the long run.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Sept. 17, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2015/09/17/report-urges-new-service-learning-programs" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Report urges
new service learning programs</span></a><br />
American colleges should expand opportunities for their students to
participate in national service programs, the Center for American Progress
recommended in a paper released Wednesday.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Sept. 17, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://chronicle.com/article/Another-Research-Gender-Gap-/233177" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Another
research gender gap: Men get more start-up money</span></a><br />
It's no secret that women seeking to get a foothold in STEM fields often
face serious impediments. Here's another potential one: Junior male medical
researchers are more likely than their female peers to land sizable
start-up packages from some of the nation’s top research institutions and
hospitals, according to a study released on Wednesday.<br />
The Chronicle of Higher Education, Sept. 17, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/bizwomen/news/profiles-strategies/2015/09/staying-relevant-is-gender-neutral-3-college.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Staying
relevant is gender-neutral: 3 college presidents on the state of women’s
schools</span></a><br />
Sweet Briar College, a private women’s school in rural Virginia, brought
a national spotlight to the struggles of a single-sex institution
earlier this year when it announced it would be closing for good. An
alumni group called Saving Sweet Briar gathered $12 million to
rescue the school in time for the fall semester, but the close call had
widespread effects on the national reputation of women’s
colleges. Now, even with hundreds of years of legacy behind them,
women’s colleges are widely assumed to be struggling entities. But in the
eyes of three college presidents, the outlook for women’s colleges is
nowhere near as bleak as some think.<br />
Puget Sound Business Journal, Sept. 16, 2015</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/missing-from-college-scorecard-nearly-1-in-5-community-colleges/104587" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Missing from
college scorecard: Nearly 1 in 5 community colleges</span></a><br />
Students searching for colleges on President
Obama’s new College Scorecard can find detailed information
on costs, graduation rates, and employment outcomes for thousands
of colleges nationwide, from Harvard University to Harcum
College. What they won’t find is any mention of Front Range
Community College or dozens of other institutions like it. That’s
because the scorecard excludes colleges that “primarily” award
certificates, even if they award nearly as many two-year degrees. Front
Range, in Colorado, awarded 1,771 certificates and 1,693 associate degrees
in the 2012-13 academic year.<br />
The Chronicle of Higher Education, Sept. 17, 2015<br />
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<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2015/09/16/obama-criticizes-coddling-students" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Obama
criticizes 'coddling' of students</span></a><br />
President Obama spoke at an Iowa high school this week and was asked about
proposals to cut off federal funds to "politically biased"
colleges. The president didn't think such a plan was workable or desirable,
but he gave a strong statement about the value of being exposed in college
to new ideas, including those that are different from one's own and even
appear offensive.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Sept. 16, 2015<br />
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<a href="http://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/a-plan-to-fix-college-loans-debt-and-the-burden-on-students-and-the-economy/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Opinion: A
plan to fix college loans, debt and the burden on students and the economy</span></a><br />
By U.S. Rep. Suzan DelBene, D-Medina, who serves on the House Judiciary and
Agriculture committees and represents the 1st Congressional
District. Growing up, my family struggled financially, but I was
able to get a great college education with the help of student loans and financial
aid. Together we must ensure today’s students have the same
opportunity. Making higher education more affordable isn’t just the right
thing to do, it’s also crucial to maintaining America’s role as a global
leader in the 21st-century economy.<br />
The Seattle Times, Sept. 15, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/state/washington/article35266866.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">State seeks
some extra dollars in latest revenue forecast</span></a><br />
The updated forecast for Washington state's current two-year nearly $38
billion budget cycle shows that lawmakers have more than $100 million more
available to them through the middle of 2015, and that they'll have an
additional $365 million than additionally projected for the 2015-2017
biennium.<br />
The Bellingham Herald, Sept. 14, 2015</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="http://www.heraldnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?aid=/20150915/NEWS01/150919412/Colleges-work-together-to-add-parking-space-at-EvCC" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Colleges work
together to add parking space at EvCC</span></a><br />
Crews are putting the final touches on new and expanded parking lots for <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Everett Community College</span></strong>
students. And when the work is done, there will be a few more spaces
for students to choose from when they begin classes next week.<br />
Everett Herald, Sept. 15, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.king5.com/story/news/local/2015/09/14/re-thinking-math-community-colleges/72252378/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Colleges
're-thinking' how to teach math</span></a><br />
Math comes easily to some students. For others, it's a real challenge. Many
students drop out of school altogether because they can't pass their math
requirements. So Washington's community and technical colleges are
"re-thinking" math in an effort to change that. <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Seattle Central College </span></strong>is
one of a growing number of schools that are approaching math education in a
new way. Because too many incoming freshmen test below the college level,
Seattle Central has a new approach to complete pre-college math.<br />
KING 5, Sept. 14, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.seattletimes.com/education-lab/federal-grant-will-help-washington-apprenticeship-programs/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Federal grant
will boost Washington apprenticeship programs</span></a><br />
Apprenticeships — adult training programs that are frequently offered
through community colleges and supported by federal training dollars — got
a boost in Seattle this week when <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">South
Seattle College</span></strong> snared a $4.8 million grant to
train people in the advanced manufacturing and maritime sectors.<br />
The Seattle Times, Sept. 14, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.seattletimes.com/education-lab/college-costs-vs-earnings-new-federal-scorecard-rates-the-schools/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">College costs
vs. earnings: New federal scorecard rates the schools</span></a><br />
The federal Department of Education released a trove of data over
the weekend aimed at helping students choose where to go to college —
and whether some colleges are worth the cost and time. The
College Scorecard is not the rating system the Obama administration once
promised, but it does provide some interesting details about Washington
state’s public and private colleges. ... Five community colleges
netted their graduates salaries of $35,000 a year or more 10 years after
graduation: <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Bellevue</span></strong>,
<strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Shoreline</span></strong>,
<strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Highline </span></strong>and
<strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Everett </span></strong>community
colleges, and the <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Lake
Washington Institute of Technology</span></strong>. <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Bellingham Technical College</span></strong>
had an unusually high graduation rate among the state’s two-year colleges
(55 percent) and a notably low average annual cost for financial aid
recipients ($4,491).<br />
The Seattle Times, Sept. 14, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2015/sep/14/aging-students-return-to-school-to-exercise/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Older students
return to school to exercise minds, shape new careers</span></a><br />
You’re never too old for back-to-school, at least that’s the mantra of
Hayden’s Brona Trutton, 74, who puts her oxygen in her backpack with her
books and takes the elevator to her math class at North Idaho College.
... <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Clover
Park Technical College</span></strong> in Lakewood received a grant along
with 138 community colleges across the nation. ... Tim Orton, 59,
will defend his Gonzaga University doctorate thesis Oct. 6 after a 10-year
journey of higher education focusing on leadership. Orton works
for <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Spokane
Community College</span></strong> as a manager of student programs.<br />
Spokesman-Review, Sept. 14, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.goskagit.com/news/news_showcase/from-addict-to-advocate/article_ef0d38f8-49ee-5c86-9fd7-d2b69d5b6109.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">From addict to
advocate</span></a><br />
During the many years he was a heroin user, Jeffrey Paczkowski said he had
a tendency to close into himself, often cutting ties with friends and most
of the outside world for months at a time. But today, the 41-year-old
recovering addict has become a vocal and active proponent of a movement to
change public perception and press for more education and better laws for
other addicts who choose to use prescription medication to help them in
their paths to recovery. ... Paczkowski will attend <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Skagit Valley College</span></strong>
this fall, with hopes of eventually becoming a recovery counselor. He said
he would like to further his education and some day open an outpatient
treatment center.<br />
Skagit Valley Herald, Sept. 13, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.theolympian.com/news/local/article35044104.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">SPSCC’s Lacey
campus ready to open</span></a><br />
With all the furniture in place, office supplies unpacked and landscaping
touched up, <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">South
Puget Sound Community College’s</span></strong> new Lacey campus officially
opens Monday.<br />
The Olympian, Sept. 12, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.seattletimes.com/business/technology/whatcom-community-college-gets-federal-grant-to-stop-hackers/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Whatcom
Community College gets federal grant to stop hackers</span></a><br />
A state college has received $6.4 million in federal grants to expand
cybersecurity education, but it’s not the school you might expect. <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Whatcom Community College</span></strong>
in Bellingham was awarded two grants from the National Science Foundation
to lead computer security education efforts across the West Coast and the
nation.<br />
The Seattle Times, Sept. 11, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.kxro.com/funding-available-for-1000-new-apprenticeships-statewide/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Funding
available for 1000 new apprenticeships statewide</span></a><br />
A new $5 million federal grant awarded to Washington today will expand
technology job opportunities for women, minorities, veterans and others in
the state. ... Along with the technology program, the grant provides
apprenticeship funding for community colleges on both sides of the state. <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Bates Technical College</span></strong>
in Tacoma and <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Spokane
Community College</span></strong>, working with the Spokane Area Workforce
Development Council, will receive funding for traditional building trades
and apprenticeship preparation programs. ... The federal Department of
Labor also announced $4.8 million in grant funding to <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">South Seattle College</span></strong>
for advanced manufacturing and marine engineering apprenticeships.
... “Apprenticeships provide a perfect blend of hands-on training and
classroom learning,” said <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">State
Board for Community and Technical Colleges</span></strong> Executive
Director Marty Brown. “They translate into great jobs and upward mobility
for the people of Washington.”<br />
KXRO, Sept. 10, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.kentreporter.com/news/326117391.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">College’s new, spacious Trades complex set to open
for fall quarter</span></a><br />
When classes begin Sept. 21, students enrolled in four programs at <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Green River College</span></strong>
will use the new Trades Technologies building. The 55,000-square-foot,
$34.6-million project is on budget and schedule, said Sam Ball, Green
River’s capital projects director. ... The school shelved the project
indefinitely during the economic collapse that began in 2008. In June 2012,
the <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">State Board for
Community and Technical Colleges</span></strong>, which provided $28.6
million for the project, informed the college that funding would be
reinstated.<br />
Kent Reporter, Sept. 10, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://thesubtimes.com/2015/09/10/cptc-official-joins-governor-on-trade-mission-to-asia/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">CPTC official
joins governor on trade mission to Asia</span></a><br />
Mabel Edmonds, special assistant to the president and to the vice
president for student learning at <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Clover
Park Technical College</span></strong>, was one of more than 60 delegates
who last week joined a trade mission to Japan and Korea with
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee. Edmonds represented the state’s
two-year college system on the mission because the trip emphasized ways
to strengthen the aerospace and advanced manufacturing industry on
both sides of the Pacific Ocean.<br />
The Suburban Times, Sept. 10, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://myedmondsnews.com/2015/09/edmonds-cc-hires-new-director-of-development-for-foundation/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Edmonds CC
hires new director of development for foundation</span></a><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Edmonds Community
College</span></strong> has hired Andrea Potter as the new Director of
Development for the Edmonds CC Foundation.<br />
My Edmonds News, Sept. 10, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.goskagit.com/community/community_news/svc-administrator-honored-donations-go-to-schools/article_7c084ac8-d7e7-5800-bbc1-5050d7141d73.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">SVC
administrator honored; donations go to schools</span></a><br />
Mary Alice Grobins, <strong><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Skagit
Valley College</span></strong> vice president of administrative services,
was presented the 2015 Award of Excellence in Leadership from the
Association of Community and Technical Colleges during the group’s summer
conference in Blaine. The award recognizes a Washington community and
technical college administrator who has made significant contributions to
education and the community.<br />
Skagit Valley Herald, Sept. 9, 2015</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/09/15/national-workforce-and-technology-program-earns-bipartisan-support" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Training that
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For more than 20 years, the ATE program has been a source for
developing new technologies and training future technicians in science,
manufacturing, technology and engineering fields at community colleges
across the country. ... The program provides grants to improve
programs at two-year colleges that train technicians, as well as provide
professional development for the faculty members who teach them. It also
focuses on funding innovative programs that better connect academic
institutions with various industries.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Sept. 15, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/09/11/study-finds-profit-colleges-drove-spike-student-loan-defaults" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Pointing a
finger at for-profits</span></a><br />
The spike in student loan defaults over the last decade has been fueled by
students attending for-profit colleges and, to a lesser degree, community
colleges, according to a new analysis of millions of federal student loan
records. The paper, released Thursday as part of the Brookings Papers
on Economic Activity, argues that the student loan crisis, to the extent
there is one, is concentrated only among these “nontraditional” borrowers
at for-profit and community colleges.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Sept. 11, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/09/11/will-china-slowdown-stall-growth-international-students" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">All eyes on
China</span></a><br />
Will a slowing Chinese economy lead to a decline in the number of
international students in the U.S.? U.S. universities have grown
increasingly reliant on rapid, double-percentage-point-per-annum growth in
the number of students from China, who now account for 31
percent of international students in American higher education. Many
experts expect this growth will continue in the short to medium term,
albeit at a more moderated rate, but others suggest that a slowdown in the
Chinese economy could, combined with other factors, expedite a flattening
in enrollments, or even herald declines.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Sept. 11, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/09/11/online-program-management-providers-now-billion-dollar-industry-look-ahead" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">A market
enabled</span></a><br />
The online program management space is booming. Eduventures, a
Boston-based higher education research firm, estimates the market is worth
$1.1 billion. The firm this spring surveyed academic leaders at more than
175 colleges and universities to form a picture of the companies known as
online program management (OPM) providers, or enablers. These companies
help institutions bring their programs online, taking a share of tuition
revenue in return.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/09/15/excitement-and-concern-about-prior-prior-year-fafsa-changes" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Next steps on
FAFSA</span></a><br />
Plenty of questions remain unanswered after the White House announced
Sunday a rejiggering of when and how students apply for federal
financial aid. Starting in 2016 for the 2017-18 academic year, the Free
Application for Federal Student Aid will be available earlier, in October
rather than January, and applicants will be able to use income information
from two-year-old completed tax returns rather than sometimes incomplete
information from the previous year.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Sept. 15, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/09/14/obama-administration-publishes-new-college-earnings-loan-repayment-data" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">The new college
scorecard</span></a><br />
The Obama administration over the weekend unveiled the revamped college
information website it created instead of its original plan to rate
colleges, releasing a trove of new federal data about the nation’s colleges
and universities. These new data show publicly, for the first time, the
share of a college’s former students who make some progress in paying down
their federal loans within the first three years after leaving college. And
they provide the first comprehensive look at how much students who receive
federal loans and Pell Grants end up earning after they leave a specific
college, both in the short term and long term.<br />
Inside Higher Ed, Sept. 14, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2015/09/11/inslee-saving-charter-schools-is-not-a-priority.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Inslee: Saving
charter schools is not a priority; focus will be on public schools</span></a><br />
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee on Friday announced he will not call a
special session to address the state Supreme Court’s finding on charter
schools.<br />
Puget Sound Business Journal, Sept. 11, 2015<br />
<br />
<a href="http://kuow.org/post/families-flood-get-office-tuition-refund-questions" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2e4c84;">Families flood
GET office with tuition refund questions</span></a><br />
Calls have doubled and emails have quadrupled to the people who run GET:
the name for the state's pre-paid college savings plan. That's because
last week the plan announced that families can pull their money out without
a paying a penalty. Now the question is how many families will
actually take their money and leave.<br />
KUOW, Sept. 8, 2015</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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