Opinion:
Community colleges and health care
The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that the healthcare sector
will add the most new jobs between 2012 and 2022. Even before the
Affordable Care Act was passed, the healthcare sector represented nearly 19
percent of all spending in the nation's economy and 13 percent of all jobs.
Community colleges are the pipeline for training and certifying more than
half of all healthcare workers. ... Other innovative programs created
by community colleges for the healthcare industry include Renton Technical College in
Seattle training entry level workers at the Virginia Mason Medical Center
to become medical assistants.
The Huffington Post, July 1, 2015
Outreach from
community colleges helps to build STEM pipeline
Four-year schools can provide an intense curriculum for students interested
in science, technology, engineering or math, but for many STEM majors,
these colleges weren't their starting point. Half of the people who go into
STEM fields start at community colleges, says Cindy Miles, chancellor of
the Grossmont-Cuyamaca Community College District in California.
... Miles was joined in the "Community Colleges: STEM's Secret
Weapon" session by Jean Hernandez, president of Edmonds Community College in
Washington, and Jerome S. Parker, president of Delaware County Community
College in Pennsylvania.
US News & World Report, July 1, 2015
Centralia
College breaks ground on TransAlta student commons
Community leaders and supporters of the new TransAlta Student Commons
building gathered at the corner of West Pearl Street and South Washington
Avenue on the campus of Centralia
College Wednesday to help celebrate a monumental time for
the college.
Centralia College, July 1, 2015
Peninsula sees a rising risk of fires
The increasing fire risk tied to abnormally warm and dry weather conditions
is igniting concerns statewide, including in Clallam County and Sequim.
... Within the county, more than 13,000 homes were identified as being
located in the area’s wildland-urban interface, according to 2009 Center of
Excellence Technical Report at Peninsula
College and Western Washington University Huxley College of
the Environment.
Sequim Gazette, July 1, 2015
LCC tuition
will decrease by 5 percent this fall
Lower Columbia
College students may hear a little more jingle in their
pockets next year. Gov. Jay Inslee signed a state budget Tuesday that
included a 5 percent tuition decrease for Washington’s 34 community and
technical colleges.
Longview Daily News, July 1, 2015
Two-year,
$38.2B state budget passes; shutdown averted
The threat of a government shutdown dissipated Monday as state
lawmakers passed a $38.2 billion budget for government operations
in the next two years. ... The final agreement also will provide a 5
percent reduction in tuition for students at all two-year colleges and
four-year universities this fall. In 2016, it will be reduced further so
that tuition at the University of Washington and Washington State
University will be 15 percent less than the just-completed school year. At
the regional universities it will be 20 percent lower. At Everett Community College,
it means the cost for an in-state student enrolled in 15 credits for three
quarters would drop from $4,000.05 to $3,800.05, or a savings of $200.
Everett Herald, June 30, 2015
Budgets feature
OC degrees, ferry operating money
Education was among the biggest winners in the state operating budget
passed Monday. Kitsap was no exception. Olympic College added
a couple of more four-year degree programs to its growing stable, and its
students got their tuition reduced.
Kitsap Sun, June 30, 2015
UW vice
president heads to Seattle Central College as interim president
Seattle Central
College has a new interim president: Sheila Edwards Lange,
the vice president for minority affairs and vice provost for diversity at
the University of Washington. ... Before she came to the UW in 2007,
Edwards Lange worked for the three-campus Seattle College District at its
main office, and also at North Seattle College.
The Seattle Times, June 29, 2015
Opinion:
Investing In students who need it most
By Tina Bloomer, policy research associate at the Washington State Board for
Community and Technical Colleges. Rather than cutting
costs, we should be focusing on how we can dedicate our limited resources
to provide the best possible supports for students. We must decide: Is it
better to serve fewer students but provide the full supports needed to help
those students reach success, or is it better to serve many and hope that
they are able to get to the end without as many supports?
American Association of Community Colleges, June 24, 2015
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