Archive for the ‘Community Colleges’ Category
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13 Aug 2009California Community Colleges cut electronic resources budgets. Completely. 100%. No more databases for community colleges there. As Kenley notes, the state is looking at central brokering for the CC’s but what until then? Did they slash the Universities like this? What does this say about how Cal. values community college students? My heart goes [...]
Whither the Community College Library?
10 Aug 2009In a recent article on csmonitor.com, community college librarian William Wisner (Laredo CC) chastises librarians and the library schools that produce them for whoring out to technology and abandoning the rightful mission of the Library. You may recall that Wisner wrote the excellent albeit depressing Whither the Postmodern Library (McFarland, 2000). In this new [...]
Gates Foundation Awards for Remedial
30 Jun 2009From the CHE, Monday June 22, 2009
Gates Foundation Chooses 15 Community Colleges for Grants Under New Program
By CHARLES HUCKABEE
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has chosen 15 community colleges and five states as grant recipients under a new program intended to improve remedial education at the college level and raise graduation rates, the Associated Press [...]
Transforming America’s CC’s
18 Jun 2009Scout Report told me to tell you about:
Transforming America’s Community Colleges: A Federal Policy Proposal to Expand Opportunity and Promote Economic Prosperity [pdf] http://www.brookings.edu/reports/2009/~/media/Files/rc/reports/2009/0507_community_college_goldrick_rab/0507_community_college_brief.pdf
Community colleges are the bedrock of American higher education, and young and old alike use their facilities to gain specific technical skills and explore the world of the liberal arts. This [...]
Arne Duncan Announces Grants for CC’s
15 Jun 2009These FIPSE grants will be for displaced worker training. Sort of rankles me that the grantees have to prove sustainability after grant completion though…what are they thinking?? I wonder who is going to get this money. Stay tuned and I’ll post the awards.
http://chronicle.com/news/article/6585/duncan-announces-grant-competition-for-retraining-displaced-workers
Online University SL Commencement
6 Jun 2009With the President of Linden Labs giving the address. http://online.bryantstratton.edu/slgraduation/
Here’s the news story on Fox News: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,525273,00.html
I’ve never visited the Fox News site before…”fair and balanced,” my Aunt Fanny. Though I appreciate their reporting on education in SL without making it about their Party. hee!
CC/SL Job Posted
6 Jun 2009From the SLED List:
I’m proud to announce that Prince William Sound Community College (in beautiful Valdez Alaska) has posted a 2 year IT position that will include technical coordination of our Second Life educational sites.
With campuses in Valdez and Cordova sitting on the beautiful Prince William Sound and in the Copper River Basin [...]
Watch it…
28 May 2009Then watch it again.
Ken Robinson’s TED talk on how schools kill creativity.
College for the Unemployed
12 May 2009Obama is my favorite person right now. This from Inside Higher Ed, College for the Unemployed:
“‘The president also said that he would soon ‘lay out a fundamental rethinking of our job training, vocational education, and community college programs,’ designed ‘to move beyond the idea that we need several different programs to address several different problems [...]
Community Colleges Step Up
10 May 2009Some community colleges moved quickly and started offering programs and discounts for people effected by the economic downturn.
Warren Community College is offering free job training in retail sales and customer service: http://www.nj.com/warrenreporter/index.ssf/2009/05/warren_county_community_colleg_27.html
Northampton CC in New Jersey is offering free tuition to the unemployed: http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/bethlehem/index.ssf/2008/12/ncc_to_aid_the_unemployed.html
So is Normandale CC in Minnesota, Mott CC in [...]
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