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On the Right Foot
Remedial
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developmental courses. Here is the
percentage of first-year undergrads
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32
2-Year
42
4-Year Non-Doctorate
39
4-Year Doctorate
24
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Less than 4-year,non-profit
33
4-year not-for-profit,
non-doctorate
26
4-year not-for-profit,
doctorate
22
Less than 2-year,
for-profit
27
2 years or more,
for-profit
29
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SOURCE:
NATIONAL CENTER FOR EDUCATION STATISTICS
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Spending
Spree
Even as revenues
dry up, Georgia’s
university system
spends lavishly.
8
Obama’s
Initiative
Progress on
ambitious
graduation goals
encounters
obstacles.
o
14
For-Profits
Respond
Renewed
scrutiny causes
some career
colleges to
adjust.
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Top Secret
Training
A Virginia
college offers
a “boot camp”
for aspiring
intelligence
analysts.
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ATLANTA
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ANNAPOLIS, Md.
10 GAUTIER, Miss.
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WARREN, Mich.
7
ST. LOUIS
11 CHARLOTTESVILLE,
Va.
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4
5
Georgia universities have been
on a spending spree even as
billions of dollars have been cut
from the state’s budget due to the
recession.
Page 3
Two years after President Obama
announced his American
Graduation Initiative, progress
toward reaching its goals has
been slow.
Page 8
BATON ROUGE, La.
The Louisiana legislature has
decided to study the state’s
higher education system yet
again.
Page 10
8
ATLANTA
Georgia has been awarded a $1
million grant by Complete College
America to boost college
graduation rates.
Page 10
SACRAMENTO,
Calif.
Under a bill signed by Gov. Jerry
Brown, students who entered the
country illegally can receive private financial aid to attend state
colleges and universities.
Page 12
9
Maryland college students and an
immigrant services group are
going to court in defense of a
state law that would grant in-state
tuition to some illegal immigrants.
Page 12
The University of Southern
Mississippi has no immediate
plans to return to the Gautier
campus of Mississippi Gulf Coast
Community College.
Page 17
For-profit colleges are making
changes in the wake of criticism
and renewed scrutiny from the
Obama administration and
Congress.
Page 14
Piedmont Virginia Community
College has joined in an effort to
train workers for Central Virginia’s
growing defense intelligence
industry.
Page 18
ST. PAUL, Minn.
12 AUSTIN, Texas
The new chancellor of the
Minnesota State Colleges and
Universities system has already
covered thousands of miles to
learn about the system’s 31
colleges and universities.
Page 15
The head of Texas’ colleges and
universities says the time has
come to “reinvent public higher
education.”
Page 20
13 BRUNSWICK, Maine
LOS ANGELES
Work has started on transforming
a former Navy base into a branch
of Southern Maine Community
College.
Page 21
Education is the key to breaking
black men and youths out of a
cycle of unemployment and
crime, African American leaders
said at the close of the annual
NAACP convention.
Page 16
14 RICHMOND, Va.
Virginia undergrads will pay an
average of 7.9 percent more this
year in tuition and fees at public
colleges and universities.
Page 22
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Ga. Colleges on
Spending Spree
Despite Economy
A
TLANTA (AP) — A
newspaper investigation has found that the
University System of Georgia
has been on a spending spree
even as billions have been cut
from the state’s budget during
the recession.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that the state’s 35campus public university system
has gone from $5.4 billion in
spending in 2007 to a projected
$7 billion this year. The spending
includes lavish buildings, highprice administrators and top-ofthe-line technology, as well as
new football teams and dozens of
new academic programs.
That’s at the same time that
tuition has gone up by 50 percent
since 2008, and students are paying 87 percent more in fees. Still,
state support is lagging: perpupil funding is at 1994 levels
this year.
State
lawmakers
have
become frustrated in recent
years, saying that the system
isn’t sharing the burden of state
spending cuts. University system
administrators say they have cut
back but have to raise tuition to
keep up with the cost of delivering a college education.
Former Chancellor Erroll
Davis, who retired June 30, said
the system has cut hundreds of
millions of dollars and is spending the money it has left wisely.
But current Chancellor Hank
Huckaby, a former state lawmaker, said there is “growing consensus” among lawmakers that
the system needs to examine
how it’s spending money.
The newspaper’s probe
found:
— Pay to college deans, vice
presidents
and
presidents
increased 30 percent from 2007
to 2010. That’s faster growth
than the pay for professors.
— Institutions have added
more than 40,000 beds in student
housing since 1991, some with
flat-screen HDTVs and apartment-style layouts.
— As the state technical college system closed down multiple campuses and combined
operations, the university system
spent $200 million starting up
Georgia Gwinnett College, the
first new four-year college in
more than a century in Georgia.
— Two campuses — Georgia
State University and Kennesaw
State University — are adding
football teams that cost millions
in student-approved fees.
— A decade ago, students
paid just 25 percent of their education, while the state paid the
rest. Now, students pay 46 percent of the cost.
The state Board of Regents
gives lump sums of funding to
Georgia’s colleges and lets each
administration decide how to
spend it. By far, the most expensive cost is paying salaries for
the system’s 40,000 employees.
The system expects to enroll
400,000 students in the next
decade. Huckaby said he aims to
be “creative and responsive”
rather than simply increasing
tuition to cover the growing cost
of educating that many students.
He said he wants to limit the
number of new building
requests, while at the same time
charging students less for classes
held at night or on weekends. He
said state funding must be
increased, but the system can
find ways to cut spending in the
meantime.
“The growing consensus is
we’ve got to step back and look
at what we’re doing and what it’s
costing,” Huckaby told the
newspaper.
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Offers New
Energy Courses
BEAUFORT, S.C. (AP) —
The Technical College of the
Lowcountry in Beaufort is offering courses on the installation of
alternative energy geothermal
heating and cooling systems.
School spokesman Leigh
Copeland told The Island Packet
of Hilton Head the college
begins training this month for
accredited installers, designers,
architects and building contractors.
Geothermal systems use the
earth’s relatively constant temperature to provide heating,
cooling and hot water for homes
and commercial buildings. The
systems can generate substantial
savings in energy use and cost.
They circulate water or
antifreeze solutions through
pipes buried underground, carry-
ing heat to a building in the winter and away from it in the summer.
A $25,000 grant from the
South Carolina Energy Office
and contributions from local
businesses paid for training an
instructor and purchasing equipment.
Ark. College To
Buy Land for
Satellite Campus
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP)
— The University of Arkansas
Community College at Hope has
been given approval to buy land
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New Year Means Old Balancing Act
J
ulie, a friend at the gym where I huff
and puff a few days a week has had a
lot on her plate lately.
It was just a few weeks ago that her
mother passed away after a long illness.
Days after returning from the funeral
in Florida, she was stalking the aisles at
Target, explaining the nuances of mattress
pads and pillow cases to her eldest son,
who is off to college at Virginia Commonwealth University. Next on the
agenda: teaching him how to do laundry.
And in perhaps the biggest transition
of all, she is busy buying books and supplies of her own. She’s going back to
college, preparing for her first semester at
Northern Virginia Community College.
After spending a couple of years on a
waiting list, she finally secured a spot in
the college’s massage therapy program.
She turned to the college after learning
that her undergraduate degree is psychology might help in dealing with transition
and loss, but doesn’t count for much in a
lousy economy, especially for someone
who has been away from the workplace
for years raising a family.
In many ways, my friend is typical of
many of the community college students
who are returning to class for the 2011-12
academic year, or going to college for the
very first time. She’s full of eager
anticipation, yet nervous about what
awaits her. She is aghast at the cost of
textbooks, but knows they’ll be valuable
additions to her library now and in the
future. She’s bummed that the labs she got
are so early in the morning, but ready to
start the juggling act that characterizes
students who must balance responsibilities of life and school. Two years from
now, she figures, she’ll be going back to
work.
As the new academic year begins,
community colleges around the country
are striking a balancing act of their own.
The lagging economy has served to
accelerate a trend that has been under way
for a decade. Community colleges today
not only educate recent high school graduates, but also adults whose skills don’t
give them the ability to capitalize on new
job opportunities. There are now more
than 8 million students enrolled in U.S.
community colleges, about half of all college students in America. They are laid off
workers, traditional students, employees
who need more training, Baby Boomers
seeking to change careers.
The fact that community colleges have
been so closely linked to the economic
recovery represents a sea change and
gives community college educators hope
that their moment has arrived. But the
reality falls far short of the rhetoric. Even
as President Obama calls on community
colleges to produce 5 million more graduates by year 2020, the tools for them to do
so are slipping away.
BY PAUL
BRADLEY
EDITOR,
COMMUNITY
COLLEGE WEEK
Lawmakers have been busy disinvesting in community colleges and higher
education, slashing budgets due to the lingering effects of the recession. According
to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 43 states have cut funding to higher
education in the current fiscal year. The
problem, of course, is that even as funding
for higher education has diminished, the
demand has increased.
The praise and attention won’t mean
much if community colleges have to shut
their doors to the people who depend on
them.
The implications are severe, and not
only for the students who won’t be able to
get that needed class or graduate on time,
but also for college athletes, whose
dreams have died as colleges are forced to
choose between funding the classroom or
the playing field.
In a letter to the Orange County Register, Jerry Patterson, president of the
It’s YOUR
TURN
Coast Community College District Board
of Trustees, bemoaned the loss of $24
million in state funding. His words sum
up the predicament facing community
colleges from coast to coast.
“There are no soft cuts left,” he wrote.
“From here on it will be reductions in the
quality of education, loss of vital
resources and reduction of faculty and
staff. It will mean fewer classes available,
and with more students not being able to
meet their scholastic and professional
goals, time delays for those who remain
will not meet our work force demands for
viable economic growth and student
success.”
The long-term implications are more
daunting still. The students of today are
the underpinning of tomorrow’s economy.
Workers without an education will be
trapped in minimum skill, minimum wage
jobs, earning barely enough to get by.
They won’t buy goods and services or
contribute to the country’s consumer
economy. They won’t pay into a tax
system that provides for the care of the
elderly and disabled and funding for
public schools.
To their credit, community colleges
are not shrinking from the challenge.
Whether it’s late-night classes or more
distance learning, colleges are figuring
out ways to do their job against long odds.
Colleges aren’t throwing up their hands.
They are redoubling their efforts.
As the 2011-12 academic years starts,
Community College Week remains committed to chronicling the challenges and
triumphs of community colleges. We’ll
also keep an eye on students like my
friend as she navigates her way. After all,
she sees a light at the end of the tunnel.
May the light at the end of your own
tunnel be nothing but a bright new
academic year.
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Statistics shaping the higher-ed landscape
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Orientation
All Term Long
First Year Experience Programs Guide Students on Path to Success
BY PAUL BRADLEY
PHOTO COURTESY NORTHERN VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE
I
The annual convocation at Northern Virginia Community College welcomes students
to a scholarly community and smooths the transition to college.
t was the fall of 2008 and Kaity Delfin, having graduated
from high school a few weeks earlier, was fretting about the
upcoming semester at Glendale Community College when her cell
phone rang.
She peered at a number she didn’t recognize and hesitated. Should
she answer or let it go to voice mail? She made a quick decision,
punched the answer button and said hello.
Three years later, the 20-year-old Delfin is glad she did.
At the other end of the line that day was Susan High, a GCC faculty
member and counselor, inviting Delfin to join a First Year Experience
cohort — a central effort by GCC
to orient new students to college,
create a sense of community and
set them on a path to success.
“She personally called me,”
Delfin said. “The fact that she
reached out to me was amazing.
I really don’t think I would
have been as successful in
college without the First Year
Experience.”
Delfin, a nursing student,
earned her associate degree last
spring with a 3.2 GPA. She is
“I really don’t
taking a couple of additional
think I would
courses this fall and then plans to
have been as
attend
Northern
Arizona
successful in
University to work toward her
college without
bachelor’s degree. She hopes
the First Year
eventually to become a nurseExperience.”
midwife. Her’s has been a
rewarding community college
— KAITY DELFIN
experience.
STUDENT
GLENDALE COMMUNITY COLLEGE
As the 2011-12 academic year
gets underway, community
colleges around the country are
devising and burnishing programs to welcome students to campus. It’s
part of a growing effort to create a culture of academic success during
that critical first year in college, and they are beginning to show some
results in increasing academic performance and student retention.
For students like Delfin, it has become a critical part of their
college careers. She had, in fact, unsuccessfully tried to sign up for a
different cohort, with some high school friends, but had been put on a
wait list. That only increased her anxiety as she prepared to start her
college career. Then High called.
“A lot of students are intimidated by college,” she said. “You don’t
know anyone on campus. You don’t know what classes you should be
taking. I was scared to death going to college.”
“I would recommend FYE especially to students who are new to
college.”
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First Year Experience students at Northern Virginia Community College are encouraged to get to know
college faculty and staff and forge personal and academic relationships.
“Faculty members
have told me this
is a rewarding
experience.”
— DAVID GERKIN
COUNSELING DEPT. CHAIR
GLENDALE COMMUNITY COLLEGE
The First Year Experience
program at Glendale has been
around since 2003, when it started
with a single cohort of 20 students. It has since grown rapidly,
and this year the college will have
nine FYE cohorts with more than
200 students, said David Gerkin,
chair of the college’s Counseling
Department.
‘Too Easy To Disappear’
The Glendale FYE forms
semester-long cohorts to smooth
the transition to college for new
students who otherwise might get
lost. Throughout the fall semester,
students take classes as a cohort,
sharing the same three classes
taught by a team of three instructors. The goal is to provide
students in their first year of
college with maximum guidance
and feedback on assignments,
increase opportunities to interact
with professors, explore student
success strategies and possible
careers.
“We are trying to connect the
curriculum to students and faculty,” Gerkin said. “It makes for a
more coherent academic experience. The more students are connected, the more likely they are to
persist and succeed. It’s too easy
for students to disappear.”
Elite colleges have long seen
the value of such intensive interventions. The top colleges and
universities provide students
early and often with all kinds of
support on campus, even as they
work with the most capable students. Community colleges, historically focused on access and
struggling with resources, often
offer the least in terms of support
services.
But under pressure to boost
graduation rates, community colleges increasingly are seeing the
value in the first-year programs,
said Tanya C. Ingram, a counselor
who heads the First Year Experience Program on the Woodbridge
campus of Northern Virginia
Community College (NOVA).
“We have 20 years of research
that show if we can engage
students early on, if we can help
them make that transition, they
are more likely to stay,” Ingram
said. “First Year Experience
NORTHERN VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE
First Year Experience Program
Retention rates for new student orientation attendees and all first-time NOVA students:
Fall 2008 cohort
Fall 2008 to
Spring 2009
NSO Attendees
Fall 2008 to
Fall 2009
NSO Attendees
Fall 2008 to
Spring 2010
NSO Attendees
85.7%
All Students
68%
70.2%
All Students
49.3%
63.2%
All Students
43.9%
SOURCE: ACHIEVING THE DREAM
programs are not new. But in
recent years, it has really caught
on. I think it will be a mainstay of
higher education. It’s helping us
answer the question, ‘how do you
shape the experience of the firstyear student so they become a
second-year student?”
The NOVA program grew
from student and faculty focus
groups that showed that many
incoming students lacked understanding of college expectations
and had poor time-management
and study skills. Research showed
that students aged 18-21 were
particularly vulnerable, with high
rates of being placed in development courses and low rates of
academic success.
The First Year Experience program at NOVA is part of Achieving the Dream, the national nonprofit organization that works
with colleges and foundations to
help more community college students succeed. It consists of a new
student orientation program, early
academic advising, peer mentoring and social networking. FYE
students in Woodbridge will be
reading and discussing the nonfiction novel “Tuesdays with Morrie,” serving to bind the students
and curriculum together. The
approach is based on the three C’s:
connection, critical thinking and
community building.
Building the community starts
at the annual convocation, when
incoming students are “pinned”
and welcomed to a new academic
community. That’s followed by
meetings, in formal settings, with
fellow students, faculty and staff.
“The students take a scholarly
pledge and get a pin,” Ingram
said. “They become part of a
community of scholars. We want
them to know ‘you are no longer
in high school, but in college.
This is what it means to be in
college.’”
The effort is showing some
results. Almost 86 percent of new
students who participated in First
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ARREN,
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Estranged from his
family at 17, Jake Boyd
put himself through Macomb
Community College in suburban
Detroit by working nearly 100
hours a week: 12 hours a day, six
days a week, at a car wash, followed by four-hour shifts as a
security guard at an apartment
complex.
Homeless for a while, Boyd
had to skip a semester when he ran
out of money for tuition. It took
him almost five years to earn his
associate degree in law enforcement from Macomb, the campus
where President Barack Obama
announced his American Graduation Initiative in 2009, setting a
goal of restoring the country to
first place by 2020 in the proportion of 25- to 34-year-olds with
college degrees.
Despite the hurdles in his way,
Boyd has resisted the urge to quit
on his goal of going on to get a
bachelor’s degree this fall, “if I can
squeeze some more pennies
together,” and ultimately joining
the Peace Corps.
Most students like him, however, do give up.
Only one in five of those who
enroll in community colleges
graduates in three years, while
only about half of students who go
to universities get their bachelor’s
degrees within six. That has
helped to push the United States
from first to 10th in the world in
the proportion of the population
that has graduated from college,
threatening to make this generation of college-age Americans the
first to be less well-educated than
their parents.
It’s a trend that Obama, in a
speech at Macomb two years ago
this week, promised to reverse.
The president’s goal made community colleges—which enroll 43
Orientation,
Year Experience were retained
from fall 2008 to spring 2009,
compared to a retention rate of
68 percent of first-time students
who did not participate in the
program. The fall 2008 to spring
2010 retention rate was 63 percent for First Year Experience
participants compared to 44 percent for students who did not
take advantage of the program.
But for NOVA and other
community colleges, a persistent
challenge remains: how to bring
such efforts up to scale. For all
their successes, the First Year
Experience programs reach a relative handful of students. And
successful FYE programs can’t
always be easily replicated. They
are as distinct as the colleges
themselves, said Trudy Bers,
director of research, curriculum
and planning at Oakton Community College.
Biers also works with the
National Resource Center for
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The First-Year Experience and
Students in Transition, based at
the University of South Carolina, which this fall will hold a
conference focusing on community colleges.
“There is no magic bullet,”
Bers said. “It’s much more complex than anyone realized. There
is no clear combination of programs that work. And the real
challenge is taking what works
to scale.”
Both NOVA and Glendale
are among the colleges contemplating making some parts of its
voluntary FYE program mandatory for all students. But that
would present a host of logistical problems and tax already
dwindling resources, Gerkin
said. Still, it would be a good
idea, he said. The FYE program
and its team-teaching approach
has payoffs for both students
and faculty.
“Faculty members have told
TURN
percent of American students—a
linchpin of this strategy, calling on
them to increase their graduation
rates by 50 percent, or five million
more degree-holders, in under a
decade.
Yet conversations with dozens
of experts and reviews of available
data show that obstacles on the
road to graduation have only gotten greater in the two years since
TROUBLING TREND
A review of available data shows
that obstacles to
graduation have
only gotten greater
over the past two
years.
me this a growing, learning
experience,” he said. “The
chance for a faculty member to
work with someone in another
discipline is very rewarding.
They also get a chance to know
their students on many different
levels.”
As part of his doctoral dissertation, Gerkin surveyed Glendale students on their attitudes
about the FYE program. He
found that students felt more
closely connected to their college and believed FYE helped
them make the transition from
high school to college. Most
importantly, he said, FYE
equipped the students with
knowledge and skills that last
well beyond their freshman year.
“I was very pleased to learn
that,” Gerkin said. “The students
told me they continue to use
these skills. The whole aim of
the program is not to just pass a
course, but to be able to apply
these skills for the rest of their
academic careers.”
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then. Few believe the 2020 target
will be met.
“The outlook is not good,”
says Michael Lovenheim, an assistant professor of policy analysis
and management at Cornell
University and coauthor of an
influential study that found students are taking more, not less,
time to graduate.
The study belied the common
contention by universities that
graduation rates are falling because
students are arriving unprepared.
American high-school graduates
are, in fact, better prepared than
ever, it found, but most go to unselective community colleges and
public universities where budgets
and services have been deeply cut,
classes are large and per-student
expenditures are low.
Many of these students, like
Boyd, have to work to pay quickly
rising tuition and other costs, making it harder to get through school.
Boyd sleeps three hours a night—
four, if he’s lucky. “After five
years, you get used to it,” he says.
The researchers also found that
the longer it takes students to finish their degrees, the more likely
they’ll drop out. And a new study
by the same team, scheduled to be
published next year, Lovenheim
says, will show that finishing college is now taking even longer.
Several of the things that have
historically conspired to push
down graduation rates have gotten
worse in the two years since the
president announced his goal.
First, $12 billion he promised
to community colleges at the time
ended up siphoned off to help get
the contentious health-care bill
passed. As a compromise, $2 billion was pledged to community
colleges for career training
through a program administered
by the U.S. Department of Labor.
It took until January of this year
for the first $500 million to be
made available—it won’t actually
be handed out until the end of September—and the rest is in the
sights of congressional budgetcutters.
“The money didn’t happen,”
says Jim Jacobs, who, as president
of Macomb, welcomed Obama to
the stage for his AGI announcement. “He gave a great speech and
the program has now been reduced
from $12 billion to $2 billion in
$500 million chunks.”
States have slashed billions of
dollars from public higher education, and $5.3 billion in federal
stimulus funds they got to prevent
even deeper cuts has, or will soon,
run out.
The proportion of their budgets
that states earmark for higher education fell from 11.4 percent when
Obama called for higher graduation rates to 10 percent last year,
according to the National Association of College and University
Business Officers. The American
Association of Community Colleges has said the president’s 2020
graduation goal will not be
reached unless resources are “significantly increased.”
Cuts in some states have been
even more severe. California has
slashed $2 billion from its public
universities and $695 million from
community colleges, the National
Conference of State Legislatures,
or NCSL, reports. Arizona sliced
$198 million from state universities and $73 million from community colleges. Texas cut $439 million this year from public higher
education and has authorized
reductions of as much as $800 million more over the next two years.
At Macomb, the budget is down
25 percent in the last five years,
including a 4.3 percent cut this
year.
“There isn’t enough support
for higher education, and there
aren’t enough real resources for us
to do the job” of raising graduation
rates, says Jacobs. “There’s no
question about that.” Adds Walter
Bumphus, president and CEO of
the AACC: “We’re looking at
more mission, more work to do,
and fewer dollars, and that’s not a
good recipe long term.”
States have also cut spending
on the financial aid that many students need to pay these rising
costs. Michigan reduced financial
aid by 61 percent, and Illinois by
$255 million, and New York
reduced funding for both higher
education and tuition assistance by
$224 million, the NCSL reports.
One consequence of having
less financial aid available is that
nearly two-thirds of community
college students now work at least
20 hours a week to pay for school,
the New York City-based nonpartisan think tank Demo found — a
factor linked to increased chances
of dropping out.
“It’s ironic that as soon as students take us up on the offer of
aspiring to higher education, we
tell them, ‘Sorry, we’ve run out
of money,’” says José Cruz,
vice president of higher
education practice and policy at
the Education Trust.
Key congressional Republicans
deride the president for putting so
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much attention on graduating
more students at a time of nagging
unemployment.
“A college degree doesn’t do
any good if there aren’t any jobs,”
says U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx, RN.C., who chairs the House higher-education subcommittee and
who has questioned Obama’s
graduation goals.
“I think it’s important that people finish college, if at all possible,” Foxx says. “But the major
reason people go to college is to
get a job. And I think the president
should be focusing a whole lot
more on creating an environment
that allows for job creation.”
Many students, Foxx says, go
to school to get career skills, and
don’t care about degrees. “The
president has created a solution in
search of a problem,” she says.
As for cutting Pell Grants,
Foxx says, “If you’re going to
make cuts in federal spending, you
have to go where the money is.”
And Pell Grants, which took 35
years to reach a cost of $15 billion
annually, have grown to double
that in just the last four.
That’s in part because enrollment continues to increase, despite
rising tuition and fees, as students
opt for college instead of trying
their luck in the sagging labor market. A record 17.7 million students
are enrolled in American colleges
and universities, 35 percent more
than in 2000, and 19.6 million are
projected to be in school by 2020.
The number of full-time students
at cash-strapped community colleges is up more than 24 percent
since 2007. And the crowding
means that fewer can get into the
courses required to complete their
degrees on time—or ever.
“The biggest problem with
achieving the very ambitious goal
the president set is that we have
not backed up that goal with the
resources necessary to accomplish
it,” says Terry Hartle, a senior vice
president at the American Council
on Education. “What we’re trying
to do in higher education is
increase the number of students
enrolling while simultaneously
spending less money on it. And if
that’s the way you’re going about
it, the likelihood of success is very,
very low.”
Twenty percent of communitycollege students had trouble getting into at least one course they
needed last fall, according to a survey by the Pearson Foundation,
the nonprofit arm of the international media company. About 5
percent dropped out during the
first few weeks of the semester,
and 10 percent seriously thought
about it. Students working full
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S TAY I N G T H E C O U R S E
Enrollment continues to increase despite
rising tution and fees as students opt for
college instead of trying their luck in the
sagging job market.
time were among those most likely to have dropped out or considered it, and 20 percent said they
couldn’t get the help they needed.
“The difficult part for me was
getting the courses I needed, and if
you don’t get those courses, it sets
you back six months or a year in
some cases,” says Matt Dolengowski, a Macomb student who
needed one last course, in Spanish—he had hoped to take it this
summer, but it was canceled—
before he transfers to Wayne State
University for a bachelor’s degree.
Higher-education officials say
Obama’s graduation speech at
least has focused attention on the
obstacles to graduation. Governors
and legislators in Arkansas, Indiana, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas,
Washington and other states have
followed suit by changing the way
they dole out money to colleges
and universities, allocating money
based not simply on how many
students they enroll—the tradi-
tional practice—but on how many
end up with degrees.
“We’ve been paying colleges
to enroll people, not to graduate
people,” says Louis Soares, director of postsecondary education at
the Center for American Progress,
a Washington, D.C.-based think
tank. Universities and colleges, he
says, “get paid without any consequence when they don’t deliver.”
State universities and community colleges “are rewarded based
on their student count on a certain
day in the first semester,” says
Carol Lincoln, senior vice president of Achieving the Dream,
which has been working to
improve community-college graduation rates. “What we should be
looking at is how many students
were still in those seats the week
before the course was over. We
need to put the incentive on the
end-game rather than the enrollment game.”
Nicolette Ivezaj, whose parents
immigrated from Montenegro, was
the first in her family to get a
degree when she graduated from
Macomb this year. She’s been
accepted to go on and get her
bachelor’s degree at Michigan
State this fall, but may not be able
to afford it—even though her
father, a tunnel engineer, is living
in New York, away from his family, to make more money than he
could around Detroit.
“We’re still living paycheck to
paycheck,” says Ivezaj, who hopes
to become a nurse. Yet if she doesn’t pay her deposit soon, she’ll
lose her place.
“It’s driving me crazy,” Ivezaj
says. “I’ve really hit a wall. I don’t
think people realize how hard it is.”
“All of these forces are conspiring against the students who
have been traditionally underserved,” Cruz says. “Many kids
say, ‘Well, I believe in myself,’ but
when you get sick, or you can’t
find the courses you need, at some
point you have to come to the decision of whether to go on or not.”
“We can’t meet the country’s
collective goal and place all the
burden on the individuals,” he
says. “You can’t expect to have
hundreds of thousands of heroes
come along and save the day.”
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La. Lawmakers Decide
To Study Colleges Again
BY MELINDA DESLATTE, ASSOCIATED PRESS
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ATON ROUGE, La. (AP)
— Government leaders
love a good study group,
and Louisiana lawmakers can’t
seem to get enough of studying
higher education.
Can’t get an idea passed? Get
some other experts to back it, hoping to gain traction for the proposal.
Don’t like the first recommendations? Convene another group
and try to get a new list.
Don’t want to make a decision,
or stuck in a stalemate? Revisit the
debate with a panel of experts and
talk about it some more.
Study commissions can provide valuable insight, a way to
delay decision-making or simply a
chance for a lawmaker or other
elected official to try to look like
he’s doing something.
But after a recent round of
higher education reviews — and a
commission of national and
regional experts offering ideas last
year that lawmakers only partially
followed — does the state really
need another study of the management of public colleges?
Apparently so, according to
lawmakers who agreed to create
such a commission earlier this year
“to study the governance, management and supervision of public
postsecondary education.”
The latest 18-member panel
will have state leaders, rather than
out-of-state ones. It includes lawmakers, higher education officials,
business leaders and others. It is
scheduled to meet monthly and
required to submit recommendations about college governance
two months before the 2012 legislative session begins in March.
“We plan to provide the commission with national, regional
and state research as well as testimony from experts to assist them
both in analyzing our governance
structure and in forming the best
recommendations to strengthen
Louisiana’s higher education system,” Commissioner of Higher
Education Jim Purcell said in a
statement.
Maybe the study group should
start by looking at the last round of
recommendations and the reams of
data reviewed by that commission.
NO TRACTION
The idea of going
from five higher ed
boards to two oversight boards failed
to get traction with
lawmakers.
Last year, a nine-member
panel called the Postsecondary
Education Review Commission
offered its ideas about ways to
improve and restructure public
colleges in Louisiana, adopting 22
proposals after six months of
work. They recommended changing the way dollars are divvied up
among campuses and reshuffling
governance of the schools.
The panel, filled with national
and regional higher education
experts, suggested cutting the
number of college governing
boards, raising admission standards at four-year campuses, rigorous reviewing of low-performing
programs at schools and giving
colleges more of a say in setting
their tuition rates.
Some of the ideas were
embraced by lawmakers. But proposals by the Postsecondary Education Review Commission to
substantially alter the governance
and shrink the number of higher
education management boards —
the issue at the heart of the newest
study group — were rejected in the
Legislature.
Louisiana currently has separate governing boards that manage
the LSU System, the University of
Louisiana System, the Southern
University System and the
Louisiana Community and Technical College System. The Board of
Regents oversees them all. They
have 75 board members combined.
PERC’s members were divided about governance themselves,
narrowly agreeing to a recommendation to merge the management
boards for all four-year public colleges and put all two-year campuses under the control of the community college system. The vote was
5-4 from the commission.
The idea of going from five
higher education management
boards to two oversight boards
failed to gain traction with lawmakers last year, despite the backing of Gov. Bobby Jindal and
House Speaker Jim Tucker. And a
proposal to merge all the higher
education boards into one didn’t
get support this year.
Such a change would require
an amendment to the Louisiana
Constitution. That’s a steep hurdle
because a constitutional change
needs support from two-thirds of
lawmakers and a majority of voters to pass. It also faces strong
opposition from higher education
leaders, who say the changes
wouldn’t improve school performance and wouldn’t save money.
The real talking that needs to
be done is through the legislative
debate. Either lawmakers want to
change college oversight or they
don’t.
Another study group’s recommendations won’t change the
arguments.
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to help more students in the state finish their
degree.
Gov. Nathan Deal announced the grant when he
unveiled his plan to help more students in Georgia get
a college diploma. Roughly three out of five students
graduate from Georgia’s public colleges within six
years.
Deal said the state must do better.
“By 2018, more than 60 percent of job openings
in Georgia will require some form of postsecondary
education. To meet this demand, we must increase the
number of students with access to higher education
and ensure that these students graduate with postsecondary degrees in a timely manner,” Deal said.
Deal’s plan would create system-wide and campus-level college completion plans in the state’s public universities. It calls for the university system and
the technical college system to work together to make
it easier for students to transfer among institutions.
The Republican governor also wants to focus on
remediation programs, with the College of Coastal
Georgia and Georgia Gwinnett College, along with
Athens Technical College and DeKalb Technical College, taking the lead. They will implement technology-based diagnostic assessments to determine how
much remedial help each student requires.
Deal wants to restructure some programs at the
state’s technical colleges to provide more support for
students who work while taking classes.
And he would create a needs-based scholarship
program that would identify low-income middle
school students with college potential and provide
them with help through high school. Students who
complete the program will receive a tuition scholarship.
“With changes to federal grant funding and the
ongoing recession, now more than ever, our students
need alternative methods to pay for their postsecondary education,” said university system Chancellor
Hank Huckaby. “The board and I are ecstatic that the
governor will be creating a needs-based aid scholarship program to help make certain that access to education is affordable to all who wish to attend.”
Additionally, Deal will issue an executive order
setting up the Higher Education Finance Commission, which will consider changes to the state’s funding formula for colleges and universities. It’s been
more than three decades since the formula was
revamped.
That commission could provide financial incentives to those colleges which boost their graduation
rates, Deal said.
Georgia is one of just 10 states to receive a grant
from Complete College America, which received
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Law Opens Private Aid
To Illegal Calif. Students
BY JUDY LIN, ASSOCIATED PRESS
S
ACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Gov.
Jerry Brown signed a bill that will let
students who entered the country illegally receive private financial aid at California’s public colleges, even as debate
continues over a more contentious bill that
would allow access to public funding.
The Democratic governor signed
AB130 at Los Angeles City College. It is
the first of a two-bill package referred to as
the California Dream Act, which is aimed
at getting financial aid for college students
who entered the country illegally.
“It’s crucial that we invest in every
child that lives and is born in this state.
Signing this Dream Act is another piece of
investment in people because people drives
the culture, the economy,” Brown told a
crowd of about 100 students and community leaders who gathered inside the city college’s library. “This is another piece of a
very important mosaic which is a California that works for everyone.”
The governor did not address the second bill in the package, which is more contentious because it would allow illegal
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HATTANOOGA, Tenn.
(AP) — A new solar plant
in southeastern Tennessee
received more than 4,300 applications for its first 60 jobs.
Wacker Chemical Corp.
spokesman Bill Toth said that
applicants who were not picked for
the first jobs will be considered as
hiring continues. The $1.5 billion
plant to be finished in 2013 in
Bradley County will make polysilicon for the solar-panel industry.
The Chattanooga Times Free
Press reports that a Wacker executive said at the first day of orientation for the new hires that up to 700
jobs may be created.
The trainees for lead chemical
operator jobs will spend six
months training at Chattanooga
State Community College and
another six in Germany.
immigrants to receive
tions to its citizens right
IN SUPPORT
state-funded
scholarnow,” Donnelly said.
ships and financial aid.
“The people, who if
State colleges
That bill, AB131, is in
they’re lucky enough to
and universities
the state Senate.
have jobs, certainly
The legislative packwould like those limited
support the bill,
age authored by state
resources to go to their
noting that it
Assemblyman Gil Cedilchildren or grandchillo, D-Los Angeles, difdren. They certainly
affects less than 1
fers from the federal
wouldn’t want that to go
percent of their
Dream Act, which would
to people who come here
include a path to citizenstudent population. illegally.”
ship for those bought to
Cedillo said he
the country illegally as
admired the students
children.
without legal status because of the obstaCritics of the package say granting pub- cles they have had to overcome. He said
lic or private financial aid to illegal immi- allowing students to qualify for private
grants will force citizens and students who scholarships and financial aid is one step
are here legally to compete with them for that will help them get through college.
limited resources. Assemblyman Tim Don“Public education in this great state and
nelly, R-Twin Peaks, said California’s pub- this great country is a great equalizer of
lic colleges and universities have already society,” he said.
had to raise tuition fees in the face of recent
California’s community college and
budget cuts.
public universities systems support the bill,
“Bottom line is California doesn’t have noting that it affects less than 1 percent of
enough money to take care of its obliga- their student population. According to the
University of California, fewer than 80 students across its system of more than
220,000 students would be affected by the
bill signed Monday.
The California State University estimated that some of the 3,600 students who
have permission to pay in-state tuition rates
even though they lack legal documentation
could be affected by the new law. The CSU
system enrolls about 440,000 students.
At least one student who stands to benefit from the California Dream Act said an
education will improve his perspective and
quality of life even if he’ll still have trouble finding work out of college. Rigoberto
Barboza, a 21-year-old from Mexico who
studies sociology at Mt. San Antonio College in Walnut, Calif., said the new law
could help him take more courses and finish sooner.
“Education is the only way to free from
oppression — this oppression we illegals
live with,” he said. “Education allows me
to see which laws affect us and how.”
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Lawsuit Filed To Allow Illegal Immigrant Tuition in Md.
BY BRIAN WITTE, ASSOCIATED PRESS
A
NNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland college students and an immigrant services group are going to
court in defense of a state law that would
grant in-state tuition to illegal immigrants.
Opponents of the law have launched a
petition drive that will put the law on the
ballot in 2012 for voters to decide. Because
the petition drive was certified by the state
elections board, the law has yet to take
effect.
Attorneys for groups that favor the law
filed a lawsuit that challenges the certification of the petition drive. Joe Sandler, an
attorney for the plaintiffs, contended the
legislation cannot be put to a referendum
because it provides government funding for
education.
“Maryland’s constitution forbids subjecting that kind of law to a referendum,
precisely to prevent the kind of disruption
in government programs and operations
that the filing of this petition has caused,”
Sandler said during a news conference outside Anne Arundel County Circuit Court.
Sandler also argued that the board
improperly validated thousands of signatures gathered online that he says are susceptible to fraud.
Last month, the Maryland State Board
of Elections validated 108,923 signatures
collected in the petition drive. Opponents
of the legislation needed 55,726 to put the
measure on the ballot.
However, Sandler argued that more
than 57,000 signatures should not have
been validated. Of them, nearly 44,000
were written on forms in which information like name, date of birth and address
were computer-generated.
“There’s no safeguard to make sure that
they’re the person . . . whose name is
appearing on the form,” Sandler said.
Sandler, who is representing students,
teachers and the immigrant service group
Casa de Maryland, also said another 3,800
people signed forms that did not contain a
summary or the text of the law, and more
than 8,000 failed to meet other requirements under state law and regulations.
Opponents of the legislation described
the lawsuit as frivolous.
“This is 2011, not 1911, and the Internet is used all over the country for various
petition campaigns, including some supported by Casa,” said Delegate Patrick
McDonough, R-Baltimore County.
Wendy Hercules, a 16-year-old Silver
Spring student at Spring Brook High
School, said she has been a student activist
in support of the legislation because she
has family and friends who have come to
the United States looking for the American
dream.
“We look forward to winning this lawsuit and getting youth into college,” she
said.
The legislation was approved by the
General Assembly this year and would
have taken effect July 1 if not for the petition drive. Now, it’s on hold until voters
weigh in next year or a judge issues a ruling.
The measure would allow illegal immigrants to pay in-state tuition at public colleges under certain conditions. First, a student must have attended a secondary
school in Maryland for at least three years
and have graduated from a high school in
the state. Students also would have to show
that either they or their parents have filed
Maryland income tax returns annually for
three years while they attended a high
school in Maryland during any period
between graduation and registration at
community college.
The lawsuit points out the measure’s
financial significance to students. For
example, one student would be able to pay
$3,030 to attend Baltimore City Community College, based on 30 credit hours per
year. However, because the law has not
taken effect, the student would have to pay
$6,690 instead next year to attend.
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For-Profit Colleges Respond To Increased Scrutiny
BY ALAN SCHER ZAGIER, ASSOCIATED PRESS
AP PHOTO/JEFF ROBERSON
S
T. LOUIS (AP) — They
gather in a generic suburban office park, workingclass students chasing a fast track
to success: a college degree.
But the message at the University of Phoenix orientation is not
quite what these secretaries, mental health aides, working moms
and single dads expect.
“We want you to decide if this
is right for you,” says Sam
Fitzgerald, director of academic
affairs at the school’s four St.
Louis campuses. “We’re here to
help you figure it out.”
That candor would have been
anathema not too long ago in the
lucrative world of for-profit colleges, where recruiters received
hefty bonuses and often oversold
career prospects.
Yet these are new times for the
industry that now accommodates
one in every eight American college students, either in class or
online. Lawmakers in Congress
are probing its excesses, from
high loan default rates to reports
of exploitative sales pitches to
wounded veterans.
The Obama administration in
June unveiled new rules that could
cut off government aid for programs where too few students
repay their loans or acquire
decent-paying jobs. Disenchantment — and lawsuits — continue
among both former students and
skittish investors.
“They have a huge bulls-eye
on them,” said Kevin Kinser, an
associate professor at the State
University of New York at Albany
who studies the industry. “They
can’t risk business as usual anymore.”
The for-profit industry, which
prefers the term “career colleges”
or “proprietary” schools, grew rapidly over the last decade amid
renewed calls to increase the
nation’s college graduation rate and
a need to help laid-off workers find
new careers. The private sector’s
slice of federal aid money grew
from $4.6 billion to more than $26
billion between 2000 and 2010.
Now, the industry will see if it
can still make healthy profits from
its challenging demographic —
low income workers, older students and those with spotty academic backgrounds — while being
much more accountable for its
results.
The changes are most apparent
at the University of Phoenix and
its corporate parent, Apollo Group
Inc., which, with nearly 400,000
students, ranks atop the industry.
The school has created its own
social network, PhoenixConnect,
Carl Tabb takes apart a computer at his home in St. Louis. Tabb is a 36-year-old father
of 10 who hopes to earn a bachelor’s degree in information technology from the University of Phoenix while continuing to work full-time for the Missouri Department of
Mental Health and moonlighting from home repairing computers.
to better link its far-flung students
as well as 600,000 alumni who
could help those students and
graduates find jobs. It boasts of
new alumni association chapters,
hundreds of student clubs and
mentorship programs.
The three-week orientation
program is now required of all
prospective students with fewer
than 24 college credits. The program is free, but those who don’t
pass can’t continue. The company
scrapped its financial incentive
program for enrollment counselors
and there’s less reliance on outside
sales companies to generate leads,
and more emphasis on finding corporate partners willing to help pay
for their employees’ education.
The results have been dramatic. New student enrollment has
declined by nearly half, and the
company reported $159 million
less in net revenue after the first
three quarters of fiscal year 2011
compared to the previous year.
Officials expect further enrollment declines and more short-term
financial pain but insist the
approach will pay off with fewer
dropouts, higher graduation rates
and lower federal loan default
rates.
“We have made a conscious
decision to make sure the students
coming through the door are more
likely to be successful,” said Mark
Brenner, senior vice president for
external affairs.
Change is also afoot at Kaplan
University, which is owned by
A N E W D AY
These are new times for the industry
that now accommodates one in every
eight American college students. Congress is probing its excesses, from high
loan default rates to reports of exploitative sales pitches to wounded veterans.
The Washington Post Co. and
serves about 62,000 students.
Another 50,000 students study at
Kaplan Higher Education career
colleges, which focus more on
specific trades.
Stung by a series of whistleblower lawsuits by former
employees and a Florida attorney
general’s investigation, Kaplan
created a program that allows new
students to attend classes for four
or five weeks at no cost before
deciding whether to continue.
Kaplan also stopped paying incentives to recruiters.
The company reported a 48
percent decline in new enrollments as of April and an attrition
rate of 25 percent. Of the latter
group, 60 percent are dismissed
by Kaplan for lack of academic
progress.
The for-profit industry’s
staunchest defenders include Donald Graham, chief executive officer of The Washington Post Co.
“If we are to be guided only by
those factors — student gradua-
tion rates and how much debt they
incur — we would probably close
down all, or almost all, of the
institutions of higher education —
whomever they may be run by —
that serve poor students,’’ Graham
said at the company’s annual
meeting in May.
A committee led by Sen. Tom
Harkin, D-Iowa, has held multiple
hearings on for-profit colleges
over the past year — most recently in early July, after the Obama
administration issued its new
“gainful employment” rules.
Those rules require schools to
meet at least one of three conditions to continue receiving Pell
Grants and other federal paidtuition: a loan repayment rate by
former students of least 35 percent; annual loan payments of no
more than 30 percent of an average
student’s
discretionary
income; or annual loan payments
that don’t exceed 12 percent of a
typical graduate’s salary.
Regulators say those conditions are needed to ensure that for-
profit graduates won’t face crippling debts, which combined with
low-paying jobs could lead to
more loan defaults.
The Senate committee found
an average dropout rate of 57 percent within two years of enrollment at 16 unnamed for-profit
schools. More than 95 percent of
students at two-year proprietary
schools, and 93 percent at fouryear schools, took out student
loans in 2007, the committee
found. That compares to fewer
than 17 percent of community college students and 44.3 percent of
students at four-year public
schools. Students at for-profit
schools also account for nearly
half of all student loan defaults,
the committee found.
“Some for-profit schools are
efficient government subsidy collectors first and educational institutions second,” the committee
concluded in its report.
In contrast to most nonprofit
colleges, proprietary colleges
have emphasized expanding their
student rolls, regardless of the
academic prospects of those
enrolled.
“State institutions might like
to grow, but they can’t afford to.
Elite schools define themselves by
the fact they don’t grow,” said
industry analyst Trace Urdan, the
managing director of Signal Hill
Capital Group. “This is a place
where growth is the essence of the
institution.”
Harkin, the industry’s most
vocal critic, recently compared the
high default rates to the subprime
mortgage loan meltdown. He
remains skeptical that the sector
has mended its ways.
The conversations in Washington and Wall Street mean little to
Carl Tabb, a 36-year-old father of
10 who hopes to earn a bachelor’s
degree in information technology
from the University of Phoenix
while continuing to work full-time
for the Missouri Department of
Mental Health and moonlighting
repairing home computers.
“I really was not the best student when I was in school,” he
said. “I always thought I wouldn’t
make it to college.”
Fitzgerald, a former Price
Waterhouse consultant, said nontraditional students such as Tabb
deserve just a chance to earn a
degree and a shot at better future.
“Yeah, we’re a for-profit. But
that doesn’t mean we’re in it for
the wrong reasons,” she said.
“We want to set up our students
for success.”
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New Chancellor Takes Over
at Minnesota College System
S
T. PAUL, Minn. (AP) —
The new chancellor of the
Minnesota State Colleges
and Universities system has been
on the job just a few weeks, but
already has covered thousands of
miles to learn more about the system’s 31 colleges and universities.
“I’ve been on the road for
about four months, and I have
logged about 4,000 miles,” Chancellor Steven Rosenstone told
Minnesota Public Radio News.
After spending 15 years at the
University of Minnesota, Rosenstone has been giving himself a
crash course in the disparate system that includes the sort of vocational training he didn’t often see
at the university.
Take Southeast Technical, a
typical MnSCU technical college, which offers auto body
repair, nursing, accounting and
massage therapy. The school
also offers distinct programs,
Steven Rosenstone
such as musical instrument
repair, that are only available in
a few places around the country,
President Jim Johnson said.
“Chancellor Rosenstone’s
biggest challenge is going to be
to get to know the different levels of institutions within our
system,” he said.
Rosenstone, who was appointed chancellor in February by the
Board of Trustees, has promised to
help Minnesota’s two higher education systems work more closely
together, but he doesn’t plan to try
to remake MnSCU in the image of
the state’s flagship university.
“We have very different missions and very different roles to
play in the state of Minnesota,”
Rosenstone said.
Instead, he said his goal is to
improve the quality of every
school in the system. He wants
MnSCU’s four-year universities to
be at the top of the wish list for
graduating seniors, not as fallbacks in case they don’t get into
the University of Minnesota.
“That our colleges and universities become the destination of
choice,” he said. “It’s the place
(students) want to go for their college education.”
Winona State University President Judith Ramaley said she supports Rosenstone’s vision of making MnSCU universities a “destination of choice,” but said there’s
more to it than distinctive academic programs.
Winona State markets atmosphere alongside its programs,
including a new residence hall that
looks more like a hotel than a college dorm.
“They care about the course of
study. But they care more about
what it means to be here,” Ramaley said. “How beautiful is the
campus? How friendly are the
people? How good is the reputation of the school?”
Darrell Downs, a political science professor at Winona State,
said he thinks there’s a developing
image problem for the system. Too
often the public and lawmakers
treat the 31 universities, colleges
and technical schools as one entity,
he said, not as separate institutions
with separate missions.
“If we continue to go along
kind of a one-size-fits-all way of
thinking from the top down, it’s
not going to be successful for anybody,” Downs said.
Downs’ challenge for Rosenstone was to identify the strengths
and needs of each of the MnSCU
colleges. Be supportive, he said,
but don’t get in the way.
Leading by decree isn’t his
style, Rosenstone said.
“They’re not conversations
that will occur by a lightning bolt
coming out of the new chancellor’s office,” Rosenstone said.
“Instead they’re conversations that
will occur by people working
together across the system to find
the best way to move forward as
partners on behalf of Minnesota’s
future.”
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NAACP: Education Critical
In Breaking Cycle of Poverty
BY CHRISTINA HOAG, ASSOCIATED PRESS
Here we
Grow
Again
AP PHOTO/NICK UT
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OS ANGELES (AP) _
Education is the key to
breaking black men and
youths out of a vicious cycle of
crime
and
unemployment,
African-American leaders said at
the close of the annual NAACP
convention.
The plight of black males,
which have above average rates of
joblessness, incarceration, HIV
infection and lower rates of educational achievement, was one of the
themes of the six-day convention,
which was attended by more than
5,000 members of the National
Association for the Advancement
of Colored People.
``We are losing a generation of
our children,’’ said Sandre Swanson, who heads the California
Assembly’s Select Committee on
the State of Boys and Men of
Color, at a panel discussion.
``These young men need help and
to know we care.’’
Panelists noted that the problem originated with the loss of
manufacturing jobs that minorities
relied on for decades. Moreover,
government jobs, which employ
21 percent of blacks, are also now
shrinking with government cutbacks, political analyst Jamal Simmons said.
The result is that minority
youth have turned increasingly to
crime.
About 10 percent of black men
born in the 1940s have served time
in prison during their lives, said
Yale University law professor
James Foreman Jr. That figure
doubles for black men born in the
1960s. African-American males
now comprise 40 percent of the
nation’s prison population.
Swanson noted that 70 percent
of parolees return to prison
because they are paroled to isolated communities where there are
few jobs, or schooling or training
opportunities.
``We have to get as much education in front of them as we can,’’
Derrick Johnson, the Mississippi State Conference president of the National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People, speaks at the NAACP's 102nd
annual national convention in Los Angeles.
he said, adding that he is sponsoring a bill to get community college
classes in prisons. ``The most successful tool against recidivism is
education.’’
The national unemployment
rate in July for black males is 17.9
percent, as compared to 8.1 percent for white males and 11.9 percent for Hispanic males. For college-educated black males, the figure drops to 6.5 percent, which is
still higher than the 2.9 percent
rate for college-educated whites.
Foreman, who noted that the
overwhelming majority of prison
inmates are high school dropouts,
D I S PA R I T Y
The national unemployment rate in July
for black males was 17.9 percent, as
compared to 8.1 percent for white males.
said that besides pushing black
students to graduate, the quality of
urban schools must be improved in
order to give youths the skills they
need in today’s high-tech job market.
Half of black high school students do not have access to
advanced level courses, such as
S P E C I A L
calculus, physics and advanced
placement English, he said. Even
if students do not go on to college,
they need higher level courses to
develop essential critical thinking
skills.
``The employment question is
fundamental,’’ he said. ``There are
no more jobs on the line at the
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Ford plant. Those kids have to be
educated to go to college, even if
they don’t go to college.’’
Swanson said he is also working with labor unions to offer more
apprenticeships to minority youth
and to employ more ex-felons.
Simmons urged the audience
to mentor youth, saying the successful people he knows credit one
person in their lives who encouraged them to pursue their aspirations.
``The doors of opportunity are
open to black people but it can still
be challenging to go through
them,’’ he said.
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University Has No Plans to Return to Miss. Campus
G
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University of Southern Mississippi has no immediate plans to
return to the Mississippi Gulf Coast
Community College’s Gautier campus.
That has some Jackson County leaders wishing they could reverse last
year’s rebuff of the University of South
Alabama, The Hattiesburg American
reports.
“As far I’m concerned we were misled,” said Jackson County District Five
Supervisor John McKay.
He backed Southern Miss when
school officials complained last year
about an agreement that would have
given South Alabama free building
space for a year at the campus, because
he believed Southern Miss would eventually return to Gulf Coast.
Southern Miss President Martha
Saunders says that could happen —
maybe next academic year.
“Right now, we’re out,” Saunders
said. But she said she was talking with
Mary Graham, the Gautier campus’s
new president, about returning a pilot
program there.
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hurt.
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here. That’s how I feel about it,” said 2010 with South Alabama, located in
Supervisor Manly Barton.
Mobile. Under the pact, South Alabama
After 25 years in Gautier, Southern would pay for renovations the first year,
Miss moved its classes to the Gulf Coast and pay rent the following two years.
State auditor Stacey Pickering and
some other state officials suggested the
rent agreement was illegal. Attorney General Jim Hood approved the agreement,
but South Alabama pulled out, citing
“unanticipated discord” in Mississippi.
Its position has not changed, said
David Johnson, South Alabama’s vice
president for academic affairs. “If we
see evidence that we’re welcome and
there is no significant discord, then we
are willing to look at returning,” he said.
Johnson said his school would have
offered engineering and several needbased programs such as computer science and business, and could have
recruited engineering students to
Mobile.
“We would need to be convinced
that there is a need in order to come
back,” Johnson said.
For McKay, that need exists now.
“We backed Southern Mississippi, and
in the process, backed South Alabama out
of the picture,” McKay said. ``We’re definitely open to South Alabama coming
back if Southern (Miss) is not.”
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2011 Leadership Symposium on the San Antonio Riverwalk
New Day. New Promise. New Era for
Hispanic Leadership
We invite you to attend the 2011 National Community College Hispanic Council (NCCHC) Leadership
Symposium September 22-24, 2011 at the Embassy Suites Riverwalk – Downtown in San Antonio, TX.
Our hosts, Alamo Community College District and Laredo College, are planning an exciting and informative symposium
with relevant topics that will assist you in thriving as a leader in these challenging times regardless of your cultural
background. You will experience many opportunities to hear from nationally recognized keynote speakers, participate in
dynamic sessions that address issues of concern to our Latino community, develop leadership skills, and network with
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SPEAKERS: You will experience many opportunities to hear from nationally recognized keynote speakers, participate
in dynamic sessions that address issues of concern to our Latino community, develop leadership skills, and network with
seasoned professionals. Additionally, we will offer a total of 15 breakout sessions at the conference. Look for further
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Our keynote speakers and general sessions are:
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President's Panel: Growing Latinos in Leadership Roles
NCCHC Fellow’s Panel: Lessons Learned
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Tours of the Alamo Colleges Mobile GO Center (MGC), an extension of the College for All Texans campaign’s efforts to achieve the student participation
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Exceptional Latin band “Colao” & dancing at Award Dinner
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Va. College Launches
Intelligence Training Program
BY BRYAN MCKENZIE, THE DAILY PROGRESS
C
HARLOTTESVILLE, Va.
(AP) — Getting a job in
Central Virginia’s growing
defense intelligence community
is a difficult proposition for most
area residents without a security
clearance, but Piedmont Virginia
Community College is working to
change that.
The college, in cooperation
with an Ohio-based nonprofit, has
opened a training program to
provide the skills locals need to
qualify for careers in the expanding defense industry and to
help residents obtain the coveted
clearances.
The 10-week “analyst boot
camp” will put hopefuls through
an intense program designed to
prepare them for the industry.
Two introductory courses are
available for those interested in
such careers, but the actual career
training will be through boot
camps, officials said.
The boot camp, with its eighthour classroom days, carries a
$15,000 tuition tag.
“It’s 400 hours with intensive
training and students are expected
to work on homework and projects in the evenings, so it’s a big
investment of time,” said Valerie
Palamountain, dean of workforce
services at PVCC. “It’s not a program for everybody. It’s not the
kind of program that you get into
thinking, ‘I’m not sure what I
want to do, so I’ll try defense
analysis.’ The people who will do
well are those who are already
interested in the career.”
PVCC’s program came about
after nationwide consolidation of
military bases brought the
Defense Intelligence Agency and
about 800 employees to the
Rivanna Station military base
north of Charlottesville last fall.
The base houses the National
Ground Intelligence Center and
the Joint Use Intelligence Analy-
sis Facility in which the DIA is
headquartered.
The DIA is relocating much of
its intelligence analysis function
to the Albemarle County facility
and area research and office parks
are attracting private contractors
associated with the intelligence
community. The jobs feature
salaries ranging from $26,000 for
a security officer to $75,000 for
an intelligence analyst, according
to federal documents.
Unfortunately for most area
residents, many of the DIA and
contracting agencies are looking
to fill jobs that require specific
abilities, training and security
clearances that most locals don’t
have. The Piedmont program is
designed to rectify that.
“Although DIA has no
involvement in the new PVCC
course, we are interested in programs that contribute to the
defense of the nation,” said Lt.
Col. Thomas F. Veale, DIA
spokesman.
The PVCC curriculum comes
from the Ohio-based Advanced
Technical Intelligence Center for
Human Capital Development,
also known as ATIC. The center
was founded by a federal grant in
2006 for the specific purpose of
training new intelligence analysts.
ATIC’s chief executive, Hugh
Bolton, said the course is important now to help fill national intelligence positions and will likely
continue to be important into the
future.
“When you look across the
defense intelligence community,
more than 50 percent of the current analysts are eligible to retire.
Many are staying because of
patriotism and the economy, but
those positions will eventually
need to be filled,” Bolton said.
Bolton said that foreign languages — especially Chinese,
Arabic and other languages spoken in countries developing into
world powers or players — are
important. So are technical and
scientific skills.
“We’re actually graduating
more foreign nationals from our
colleges in technical fields,” he
said. “We don’t, however, plan to
outsource our national security to
foreign countries.”
In its four years, ATIC has
developed programs with several
community colleges in Ohio to
help create qualified intelligence
analysts for contractors and government agencies near WrightPatterson Air Force Base.
“We partner with academic
and government agencies to
develop programs that are tailored to specific needs in specific
communities. Our job is to provide the curriculum, not the
instruction,” Bolton said.
BOOT CAMP
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The 10-week
“analyst boot
camp” will put
hopefuls through
an intense program
to prepare them
for the industry.
With its eight-hour
classroom days,
the program
charges $15,000
in tuition.
Piedmont Virginia
Community College
students hang out in the
Bolick Student Center
between classes. Getting
a job in Central Virginia’s
growing defense
intelligence community
is a difficult proposition
for most area residents
without a security
clearance, but PVCC is
working to change that.
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Hosted by Community College of Philadelphia, The conference provides opportunities for colleagues
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BY REEVE HAMILTON, THE TEXAS TRIBUNE
THE TEXAS TRIBUNE
T
exas Higher Education
Commissioner Raymund
Paredes told reporters that
the state was coming to “the
painful realization that improving
access is not enough” and that the
time had come to “reinvent public higher education.”
His remarks were made on a
conference call in anticipation of
the Texas Higher Education
Coordinating Board’s release of
its annual progress report on a
10-year-old initiative focused on
bringing educational achievement levels in Texas up to parity
with comparable states — or
“closing the gaps,” as its referred
to — by 2015.
Paredes said that, based on
the current rates of improvement,
Texans will have a “mostly positive story to tell” when the deadline hits in four years, though it
won’t meet all of its targets.
The state is ahead of its 2010
targets for its two chief goals:
increasing success (the number
of degrees conferred) and participation (the number of Texans
Texas Higher Education
Commissioner Raymund
Paredes
enrolling) in higher education,
especially the latter. With record
numbers of Texans signing up for
colleges and universities, the
emphasis has increasingly been
on getting those students through
the system with degrees. The
state’s current overall six-year
graduation rate is only slightly
more than 57 percent.
Still, there are significant lags
in participation among some
groups, particularly Hispanics
and African-American males, and
success rates in both the Hispanic and African-American communities are also below target.
Some remaining gaps are so
significant that there is virtually
no chance of them being closed
in the next few years. Notable
among these, with significant
ramifications for the state’s
future, is the number of teacher
certifications, particularly in science, technology, engineering
and mathematics fields, which
are well below target.
“I don’t think there’s any
question that we’d like to be successful in every area of Closing
the Gaps,” Paredes said,
acknowledging that that would
not ultimately be the case despite
what he generally described as
“substantial and significant
progress.”
The coordinating board is currently in the process of developing
a new plan to implement the
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“Closing the Gaps” initiative ends
in four years. Paredes said it would
focus on making Texas a higher
education leader, and it would do
more than simply adopt more
ambitious targets in the same areas
as the current initiative.
“We want to place more
emphasis on innovation,” Paredes said. In his vision, Texas
would also become a leader in
areas like cost efficiency, continuous improvement and offering
various pathways to degrees —
including low-cost options. Paredes has previously said that a
$10,000 bachelor’s degree, as
proposed by Gov. Rick Perry, is
“entirely feasible.” The actual
plan won’t be released until closer to 2015.
In the meantime, there will be
another legislative session. Paredes shared some of the priorities
he is preparing for 2013. These
include creating a comprehensive
system that allows students to
attain four-year degrees by starting in community colleges and
transferring, restructuring financial aid, improving developmental education, continuing to push
for the implementation of outcomes-based funding, and better
aligning college outputs with
workforce needs.
Admission standards need to
take into account a university’s
ability to actually help the students it admits succeed, Paredes
Briefs,
said. And students should be
encouraged to consider the future
needs and opportunities of the
job market when they select a
major.
As for the need to reconsider
the financial aid process, Paredes
noted that the state’s main needbased aid program, known as
TEXAS Grants, recently suffered
a budget cut for the first time —
immediately
following
an
increase in higher ed enrollments
last fall of 84,000, the secondlargest in the state’s history.
Some view the cuts as an
opportunity for reinvention. “We
must not use this relative decline
in state funding to say that we
cannot do anything differently
right now,” Paredes said.
The backdrop to much of this
discussion is the ongoing — as
Paredes put it — “controversy
and consternation” about the
value, efficiency and purpose of
the state’s institutions of higher
education, brought on by a controversial set of proposals for
changing higher education promoted by Perry and his conservative allies.
Paredes said the debate, which
has dominated higher ed headlines in recent months, was unfortunate because it “distracted from
some of the real accomplishments
of the last ten years.”
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in Texarkana, Ark., for a satellite
campus.
The University of Arkansas
Board of Trustees voted to allow
the college to buy 8.7 acres near
Interstate 30 for about $80,000
and an adjacent 15½ acres for
about $31,000.
Establishing the campus will
allow the college to reach students
who don’t want to make the 40
minute drive from Texarkana to
Hope, school officials said. The
two colleges currently in
Texarkana, Texarkana College and
Texas A&M University at
Texarkana, are both on the Texas
side of the city.
“Miller County is extremely
important to southwest Arkansas,”
said Chris Thomason, chancellor
of the community college. “We see
this as an opportunity for us to
totally engage the power of higher
education in a regional approach to
economic development,” he told
the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
Texarkana Mayor Wayne
Smith told the Texarkana Gazette
that having the campus will help
keep the city’s high school graduates in Texarkana.
“We’ve got an opportunity to
put a stop to the brain drain that’s
been occurring here,” he said.
The process is in its beginning
stages, Thomason said when asked
about the number of buildings
planned or the number of students
expected to attend the satellite
campus.
He said he hopes to see the
campus open by the fall of 2012.
Mid-Plains Opens
New Campus in
Central Neb.
BROKEN BOW, Neb. (AP)
— Mid-Plains Community College has officially opened its new
extended campus in Broken Bow.
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Gov. Dave Heineman was on
hand for the grand-opening celebration. He says the campus will
bring jobs to the area and improve
education in central Nebraska.
Mid-Plains has been offering
classes in Broken Bow since 2001.
The new campus will help MidPlains expand the offerings there.
The project cost $1.3 million.
Mid-Plains contributed $200,000,
with the rest coming through
donations.
Six Colleges
Picked for Green
Energy Program
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP)
— Six colleges in the Tennessee
Valley Authority region have been
picked for a Green Campus Network that will pay student interns
to help develop the pilot energy
efficiency program.
The campuses in the Tennessee
Valley Authority-Alliance to Save
Energy partnership are the University of Memphis; Sewanee: The
University of the South; Western
Kentucky University; Calhoun
Community College at Decatur,
Ala.; the University of Alabama in
Huntsville; and the University of
Mississippi.
The Green Campus Network
will involve students, faculty,
administrators and support staff in
cutting energy use on college campuses. It also encourages students
to pursue careers in sustainability
and increases energy efficiency
awareness.
TVA funding will cover the
program startup and wages for student interns.
The alliance has had a green
campus program in California.
NM College Gets
Funds for Energy
Job Training
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) —
Clean energy job training and
other environmental workforce
programs at Santa Fe Community
College will get a boost thanks to
funds from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
U.S. Sen. Tom Udall says the
college will receive $300,000 that
can be used to teach job skills to
unemployed veterans and Native
Americans in fields with an environmental benefit.
The New Mexico Democrat
calls it a “worthy investment” in
New Mexico’s economy.
The college will use the grant
funding to train participants in
solid waste management, energy
efficiency technologies and
renewable energy preparation and
installation.
It will also offer training in
hazardous waste operations, emergency response training, underground storage tank leak preven-
tion and renewable energy technologies awareness.
After 180 hours of training, the
recruits will be placed in jobs in
the area.
Maine College
Starts Work on
New Campus
BRUNSWICK, Maine (AP)
— Southern Maine Community
College is marking the start of renovation work at its new Midcoast
Campus, at the former Brunswick
Naval Air Station.
The South Portland college
held a ceremony Tuesday to mark
the transfer of deeds for two former Navy buildings that will
become part of SMCC’s satellite
campus in Brunswick. In all, the
college will take over five buildings on the site.
SMCC President James Ortiz
swung a sledgehammer signifying
the start of renovations to one of
the buildings, which will be turned
into the Maine Advanced Technology & Engineering Center.
The first classes at the campus
will be offered in one of the buildings this fall. The entire campus is
slated to open in the fall of 2012.
IG Report Says
Delgado Wrongly
Paid Instructor
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) —
A Delgado Community College
instructor was paid for classes she
did not teach, one of several
instances in which employees
were paid hourly wages while also
being improperly compensated
through teaching contracts,
according to an inspector general’s
report.
Inspector General Stephen
Street’s review covered his office’s
investigation of the college’s
School of Allied Health in New
Orleans and its fitness centers.
Street said instructor Gay
Dawson received $6,000 in 2009
and 2010 to teach six classes she
didn’t teach, with the knowledge
of a supervisor who devised the
contracts.
The report says Dawson
acknowledged the fraudulent contracts but said the compensation
covered extra work in semesters
for which she was not paid, including leading a fitness class and writing a fitness manual. But Street’s
report says if Dawson did extra
work, she should have been paid at
her normal hourly rate — not
through a teaching contract.
Street said investigators found
several employees of the Delgado
fitness centers being paid hourly
like Dawson while also getting
money through teaching contracts.
After investigators began looking into the payments, “Delgado
management halted this practice
and instituted a new policy to prevent its occurrence,” the report
says.
In a written response, Delgado’s acting chancellor, Deborah
Lea, says that Delgado administrators told supervisors that contracts
must accurately represent the
duties to be performed and the
hours worked and that the university was considering disciplinary
actions against Dawson and her
supervisor.
SC Students
Offered $966M
In Scholarships
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) —
The South Carolina Education
Department says the class of 2011
was offered a record $966 million
in college scholarships.
That tops the amount offered
to last year’s public high school
seniors by $49 million.
Education Department officials said the total brings the
amount offered over the past five
years to more than $4 billion.
The total includes scholarships
not accepted by students. It represents all scholarships offered to
students as they considered which
two- or four-year college to attend.
Ken. Colleges
Receive $1M
Completion Grant
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) —
Kentucky has received one of 10
$1 million grants to increase college completion.
Gov. Steve Beshear’s office
says the state will use the funds to
improve developmental education
opportunities for adults in the
Learn on Demand online program
offered through the Kentucky
Community and Technical College
System.
A total of 33 states applied for
the grants in a competition established by Complete College America, a national nonprofit organization.
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R
ICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia
undergraduates will pay an average
of 7.9 percent more this year in
tuition and mandatory fees to attend state
public colleges, according to a report
released by State Council of Higher Education for Virginia.
In-state undergraduates will pay an
average of $704 more, while community
college students will pay about $285 more.
Virginia students at the two-year Richard
Bland College will pay $250 more,
SCHEV says in its annual report.
Among individual institutions, the
increases range from 5.7 percent at Old
Dominion University to 12 percent at the
University of Mary Washington.
The overall increase is less than last
year, when tuition and fees went up an
average of 10.6 percent. SCHEV said the
governor and the 2011 General Assembly
allocated an additional $97 million in general funds to public colleges, allowing
institutions to impose smaller tuition and
fee increases this year.
“This amendment to the original budg-
et provided some much-needed relief, but
could not prevent our colleges and universities from suffering a fifth straight year of
state general fund operating budget reductions,” the report says, adding that the
annual declines “have put the affordability
and accessibility of Virginia’s nationally
acclaimed system of public education at
risk.”
On one key measure of affordability,
the average cost for an in-state undergraduate student living on campus is estimated
at an unprecedented 43.7 percent of per
capita disposable income. The percentage
has crept steadily higher since dipping to
32.2 percent in 2002.
SCHEV also says the state’s contribution to the cost of education has fallen to an
all-time low of 51 percent, with students
footing 49 percent of the bill. The state’s
goal is for it to pay two-thirds of the cost
for in-state undergraduates. Ten years ago,
the state was paying 77 percent of the cost.
Out-of-state undergraduates pay more
than the full cost of their education.
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Good News Websites May
Counter Negativity
BY REID GOLDSBOROUGH
A
n international crisis or two involving war, terrorism, monetary instability, famine, and natural disasters always seems to be happening somewhere in
the world. National problems surrounding the deficit,
employment, housing, the environment and consumer
affairs never end. Local troubles including crime, government corruption, labor issues, fires, and road closures seem
to be an everyday reality.
It’s no wonder that daily newspapers appear at times to
be filled with bad news. The reality also is that people enjoy
reading about the troubles of others and that doing so can
sometimes prevent you from having troubles yourself.
But people have also always complained about what
they regard as the overemphasis on negativity in the news,
and this applies today as well, regardless of how you get
your news, from a printed newspaper, television, radio, personal computer or mobile device such as a Smartphone.
If you want to balance what you see as negativity with
positivity, places exist on the Web today where you can read
only good news.
Good News Stories (www.goodnewsstories.org) is a free ad-supported site
that gathers positive news stories from
around the world. According to its “About”
page, “This site was born out of a frustration with mainstream news sites only
reporting negative news in the main instead
of focusing on the positive side of things.
Good news stories will only report on
happy and upbeat news to put a smile on the
face of people worldwide.”
The site’s opening page presents you
with a selection of what’s regarded as the
most important stories. You can also find
stories according to geographic location
and such categories as business, education,
health, and politics. As with many news
sites, you can leave comments, but first you
have to register with the site, which is free.
Good News Network (www.goodnewsnetwork.org) presents positive news stories
through both text and video. Its mission is
“to provide a ‘Daily Dose of News to
Enthuse.’” Like Good News Stories, it acts
as a news aggregator, collecting upbeat
news from around the globe. The news stories in its “Most Popular” section are free,
but to read other articles you need to subscribe, which starts at $2 per month.
“Negative news is an important staple of
any well-informed citizenry and necessary
for society’s evolution,” according to Geri
Weis-Corbley, the site’s editor and publisher. “But today we are in dire need of a wellbalanced media diet. Local TV news, especially, has been continually feeding us junk
food. We need to be informed by a world
view that is not dripping with sensationalism and attuned to the police scanner.”
Happy News (www.happynews.com)
isn’t updated as frequently as the two previous sites, but it’s also a good repository of
feel-good information. Its emphasis is on
“virtue, goodwill, and heroism,” and it collects news of this nature among other ways
through “citizen journalists” who report
from around the world.
This free ad-supported site also includes video clips,
optimistic quotations from philosophers, regular columnists,
and how-to tips on subjects ranging from quitting smoking
to saving for college. A “Happy Products” section offers
news of products such as chocolate and Earth-friendly candles. As with the two previous sites, news is categorized,
into areas such as national, health, and heroes.
With HelpOthers.org (www.helpothers.org), the emphasis is more on deeds than words. Site visitors share stories of
“real-life acts of kindness,” with the object being to inspire
others and “pay it forward.” The site also includes “kindness
ideas” regarding things you can do for others to help make
them happy.
The site features an “Idea Contest” in which you’re
asked what you would do to bring more kindness to your
community if you had an extra $100. Each month the person who is judged to have submitted the best idea wins
$100. If you have any questions about anything at the site,
YES!
you can send a message to one of its “kindness experts.”
HelpOthers.org doesn’t feature ads or require subscriptions to gain access to extra content. For funding it relies on
donations, which individuals can make through PayPal or
by mailing a check, and on contributions from companies
and foundations.
As with anything on the Web, not everything is always
as it seems, even though the intentions may be quite good.
A lot of “good news” sites are religious in nature,
spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ. This may be very good
news to you, but the content at these sites isn’t news in the
conventional sense -- at least it hasn’t been for close to two
thousand years.
Reid Goldsborough is a syndicated columnist and
author of the book Straight Talk About the Information
Superhighway. He can be reached at
reidgold@comcast.net or www.reidgoldsborough.com.
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Theodore Erski
Katherine Midday
Moraine Valley
Community College
Michael Renehan
Nick Thomas
Morton College
Edie Fabiyi
Oakton
Community College
John Carzoli
Jay Cohen
Hollace Graff
Julia Hassett
Jan Thompson-Wilda
Sherrill Weaver
James Barney
Charity Bowling
Sikha Chatterjee
Thom England
Kenneth C. Jones
Janet Teeguarden
Barton Updike
Ivy Tech Community
College-Lafayette
Amy L. Kauffman
Ivy Tech Community
College-Southwest
Daniel J. Dickman
Karen L. Mutschler
Thomas E. Savage
Ivy Tech Community
College-Wabash
Valley Region
Cathy Cole
IOWA
Iowa Central
Community College
Barton
Community College
Wynn Butler
Ed Chandler
Stephannie Goerl
Jane Howard
Ghazi Jahay
Shanna Legleiter
Judy Miller
Jeff Mills
Dan Myers
Anibal Pacheco
Charles Perkins
Amanda Poe
Dee Ann Smith
Steven “Ray” Willis
Mandy Greenfield
Nita Jackson
Lisa Parsons
Cloud County
Community College
Lucas Brown
Cathy Castle
Patrick Sieben
Cowley County
Community College
Joe Clasen
Amy McWhirt
Hutchinson
Community College
Iowa Western
Community College
Christine Buta
Beth Gulley
Jennifer Kennett
Bill Sheldon
Johnson County
Community College
Kansas City Kansas
Community College
Donyel H. Williams
Julie Hernandez
Northeast Iowa
Community College
College of Lake County
Southeastern
Illinois College
Timothy Doffing
Linnae Scheffel
Barbara Clark-Evans
Heidi Garvey
Marisa Gray
Carla Green
Pamela Hall
Theresa Holliday
Elisabeth Kasckow
Connie Northup
Mario Ramos-Reyes
Lesley Strohschein
Sandy Wallace
Bill Yeazel
Ed Fitzgerald
Cathryn Jones
Karla Lewis
Pam McCuan
Stacy Moore
Jennifer Roehm
Ed Rose
Western Iowa Tech
Community College
Neosho County
Community College
IDAHO
College of Southern Idaho
Joseph S. Gardner
Dianne E. Jolovich
ILLINOIS
City Colleges of Chicago
Mary Ann Bretzlauf
Michelle Carter
Frank A. Zera
Danville Area
Community College
Maggie E. Hoover
Elgin Community College
Lori M. Clark
Nicole Scherger
Leticia Starkov
Katherine “Katie” Storey
Laurel Vietzen
Parkland College
Gina Walls
Rock Valley College
Triton College
Joe Beuchel
Lorelei Carvajal
Joan L. Libner
Kirkwood
Community College
Lisa Dutchik
Catherine Finch
M.J. Klemme
Mark Pelzer
Josh Troutman
Kendra Bergenske
Lynne Fleury
Rosanne Lienhard
Marie Gardner
Jon Seibert
KANSAS
James “Koko” Davis
Jared P. Haas
Allen County
Community College
Karen McKarnin
Kentucky Community &
Technical College System
Sydney Baseheart
Ryan Kelly
Becky Mathewson
Ginger Porter
Laurel Tinker
Ashland Community
& Technical College
Larry Ferguson
Aschalew Mengistu
James C. Schmidt
Ella Smith
Big Sandy Community
& Technical College
Butler Community College Clayton Case
Jennifer L. Berte
Julie A. Ehresmann
Dale D. Eldridge
Robert D. Hepperle
Terri L. Schmitt
Kathryn Hagen
Kristin Smith
Barbara Stuckey
Brent Welsch
KENTUCKY
Seward County
Community College
Billie Jean Cole
Juanita M. Parsons
Greta Slone
Kenneth R. Slone
Pamela J. Sykes
Thomas Vierheller
Bowling Green
Technical College
Mark Garrett
Eugenia Scott
Pamela Wilson
Jefferson Community
& Technical College
Luanne Goldsby
Wayne Trueblood
Terri Wood
Madisonville
Community College
Sharon Allen
Cathy Vaughan
Roger Warren
Maysville Community
& Technical College
Jason Butler
Juston Pate
Mary Jane Sharp
Owensboro Community
& Technical College
Mary Kinney
Nicole Nacey
Shawn Payne
Somerset
Community College
Christine Adams
Linda Ballard
Linda Bourne
Southeast Kentucky
Community College
Josh Brooks
Brenda Morris
Elizabethtown Community Ann Schertz
& Technical College
Judy Akers
Jerry Clemons
Joella Spataro
Gateway Community
& Technical College
Linda Brandenburg
Susan Chaney
Amber Decker
Hazard Community
& Technical College
Vickie Combs
Brad Dyer
Misty Feltner
Henderson
Community College
Michael Knecht
Steve McCarty
Saundra L. Ross
Hopkinsville
Community College
Vernell Larkin
Jason Lee
Tony Nelson
West Kentucky
Community &
Technical College
Mellisa Duncan
Edna Pierce
William Wade
LOUISIANA
Baton Rouge
Community College
Erica Burrell
Janet Daniel
Raven Dorá
Wes Harris
Barbara Hasek
Wanda Henderson
Steven Mitchell
Tawna Pounders
Kathryn Seidel
Esperanza Simien
Bossier Parish
Community College
Tara Breeland
Kathryn DefattaBarattini
Barbara James
Kristi Lobrano
I don’t try to teach a class; I try to teach each individual
student. It may be more difficult, but the rewards are
greater. Nothing is more motivating than realizing that
you have just reached another student. It’s what keeps
me going.
—Paul Flaherty, Hillsborough Community College (TX)
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LOUISIANA (cont.)
MARYLAND
MASSACHUSETTS
Delgado
Community College
Allegany College
of Maryland
Bristol Community
College
Kurt W. Hoffman
Milton Clement
José Costa
Lisa Delano-Botelho
Susan Shannon
Marilyn Ciolino
Susan Hague
Lisa Hollis
Jennifer Louis
Christine Mitchell
Donna Pace
Jon Petrie
Renee Randall
Wendy Rihner
Kenneth Ripberger
Miguel Romar-Manuel
Amanda Rosenzweig
Patricia Smart
Kellye Deel Soto
Betty Vicknair
Janet Vila
Louisiana Delta
Community College
Ann Deas
South Louisiana
Community College
Ihssan Alkadi
Richard Ledet
Southern University
at Shreveport
Latanya Brittentine
Major Brock, Jr.
Martin Fortner
Stephanie Graham
Rosalyn Holt
Joseph Orban
Shelia Swift
Olden Wright
Sowela Technical
Community College
Tracy Beaugh
Todd Carrere
Woody Fruge
Bob Groth
Patricia Guillory
Paula Hellums
Barry Humphus
David LaFargue
Mark Peeples
Thomas Richard
Kristine Stout
Cheryl Trahan
MAINE
Southern Maine
Community College
Joan DeCosta
Ed Fitzgerald
Susan Garrett
Valerie Green
Tom Joyce
Diane Scott
Patrick Underwood
Robert Vettese
Anne Arundel
Community College
Mary Jo Bondy
Patricia A. Brady
Kirsten A.L. Casey
Elise M. Couper
Barbara A. D’Anna
Marlow A. Henderson
Jennifer V. Irwin
E. Joseph Lamp
Robert R. Lowe, III
Jessamy J. Rango
Roy D. Van Horn
Gregory C. Wagner
Schoolcraft College
Caroline H. McNutt
Bradley D. Stetson
St. Clair County
Community College
James H. Berry
MINNESOTA
Bunker Hill
Community College
Century College
MaryBeth Barton
Meghan Callaghan
William Hoover
James Rogash
Irene Sancinito
Paula Velluto
M State
Cape Cod
Community College
Nancy Wiley
Mike Mendez
Andrew Nesset
Jennifer Rassett
Nandini Banerji
Loren Haagenson
Jennifer Jacobson
Normandale
Community College
MISSOURI
North Central
Missouri College
Paul Bruinsma
Ozarks Technical
Community College
Edward McGuire
Denise Chambers
Joseph McCulloch
Tom Tollman
College of
Southern Maryland
Middlesex
Community College
North Hennepin
Community College
St. Louis
Community College
Paula Martino
Thomas Russ
Margaret Bleichman
Nora Linskey
Sarah Quast
Mary Ewert-Knodell
Susan Nyhus
Julien Phillips
North Shore
Community College
Riverland
Community College
Baltimore City
Community College
Massachusetts Bay
Community College
Vicki Bolden
Frederick
Community College
Theresa Conko
Chad Heupel
Cindy Osbon
Joe Osmann
Harford
Community College
Karry Hathaway
Christopher Jones
Margaret Mary
Kindsvatter
Timothy Schneider
Montgomery College
Donna Amokomowo
Bradley Beckman
Jeff Chyatte
Eileen Cotter
Burcu Crothers
Teresa Delisi
Sandra Ellis
Audrey Hill
Windy Jefferson-Jackson
Lisa Johnson
Sarah Kimbrough
Carroll Ngo
Mary Owens
Stephanie Pepin
Zeporia Smith
Sharon Tabb
Nevart Tahmazian
Jorinde van der Berg
Catherine Wilson
Steven Wolf
Jay Yu
Irene Fernandez
Martha “Marty”
Rodweller
Scott Stimpson
Northern Essex
Community College
James Brown
Isabelle Gagne
Ethel Schuster
Ruth Young
MICHIGAN
Delta College
David Bledsoe
James Gleason
Jackson
Community College
Angel Fonseca
Heather Ruttkofsky
Macomb
Community College
Lisa Bone
Lori Chapman
Jeanne Collins
Jean Francois Faloppa
Ronald Hood
Jonathan Lathers
Carl Seitz
Northwestern
Michigan College
Diane Emling
Linda Rea
Garyn Roberts
Stephen Siciliano
Jane Zlojutro
Pat Parsons
Pamm Tranby
Tom Wilker
Rochester Community
and Technical College
Gerald Casper
Catherine Egenberger
MISSISSIPPI
Copiah-Lincoln
Community College
Nicole Donald
Mary Warren
East Central
Community College
John Everett
Susan Fox-Smith
Itawamba
Community College
Janet Armour
Betty Jo Maharrey
Harold Plunkett
Bob Swanson
Cynthia Hinds
Nancy Collier
Cindy Epperson
Patricia Finnell
Joanne Galanis
Julie Graul
Gail Hafer
Robert Hahn
George Heth
Casey E. Shiller
Thomas A. Zirkle
Three Rivers
Community College
Kevin Wheeler
MONTANA
Montana State UniversityGreat Falls College
of Technology
Renata Birkenbuel
Jason Harding
Gregory Paulauskis
Lawrence Vaccaro
University of MontanaHelena College
of Technology
Nathan Munn
Candace Pescosolido
NEBRASKA
Meridian
Community College
Metropolitan
Community College
Lynne Anderson
Charles Cogar
Amy Forss
Robert Gronstal
Terry Gutierrez
Darlene Hatcher
Chris Tarr
Mississippi Gulf Coast
Community College
Chris DeDual
John Poelma
Laurie Taft-McIlrath
Mid-Plains
Community College
Marjorie Kouba
Cathy Nutt
Western Nebraska
Community College
Rebecca Kautz
Linda Mattern Ritts
NEVADA
Truckee Meadows
Community College
Patty Avila-Porter
Erin Frock
Armida Fruzzetti
Ted Lambert
Ted Plaggemeyer
John Reid
Maria A. Sefchick
Chris Westin
Jim Winston
NEW JERSEY
Bergen
Community College
Brian Altano
Brookdale
Community College
Ann Tickner Jankowski
Anita Voogt
Sussex County
Community College
Priscilla Orr
NEW MEXICO
Clovis Community College
Shirley DeMaio
Valerie Kyle
Carolyn Lindsey
Doña Ana
Community College
John Carter
Joaquin Tadeo Sr.
Eastern New Mexico
University-Roswell
Dawn Boston
Darlene Klassen
New Mexico Junior College
Joel Keranen
Stephen Townsend
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NEW MEXICO (cont.)
New Mexico State
University-Alamogordo
Jan Starr
Lynette Wedig
New Mexico State
University-Carlsbad
Shannon Vallejos
Santa Fe
Community College
Patty Armstrong
Susan Dugan
Kathryn Nowlin
Margaret Peters
Andre Ruesch
Teresa Schweitzer
Diane Tintor
NEW YORK
Erie Community College
Pablo Pichardo
Adrian Ranic
Michael Rogers
Alfred Stelmach
David Zaccaria
Genesee
Community College
Pamela M. Duttweiler
Catherine Hogan
Marie E. Mandiak
John R. Molyneux
Maria L. Sebastian
Karen E. Todd
Monroe
Community College
Donna M. Augustine
Jason D. Flack
Susan P. Thompson
Westchester
Community College
Robert R. Barnes
Julia A. Daniels
Linda Kalfayan
Timothy M. Magee
Jose Quinones
Paul E. Robinson
NORTH CAROLINA
Asheville-Buncombe
Technical Community
College
Jan C. King
Paula W. Trilling
Carteret
Community College
Doree M. Evans
Central Piedmont
Community College
Kara Allara
Linda Dunham
College of the Albemarle
Community College of
Beaver County
Sharon S. Brown
Angela R. GodfreyDawson
Robin D. Harris
Stephen R. Danik
Judy A. Garbinski
Harrisburg Area
Community College
Davidson County
Community College
Kathleen Doherty
Suzanne O’Hop
Marian Yoder
Jennifer Sink
Forsyth Technical
Community College
Lehigh Carbon
Community College
Tracy Baggett
David Black
William M. Marion
Gaston College
Lori Metcalf
Kimberly Wyont
Guilford Technical
Community College
Lorrie Campbell
Samuel J. Chinnis
Pamela Coldwell
Thomas R. English
Chad Phillips
Halifax
Community College
Daniel Bennett
Betsy Tom Brown
Edwin Imasuen
Daniel Lovett
Shaun Stokes
Nash Community College
Angela D. Blankenship
Faye A. Cahoon
Holly E. Carmichael
Lisa T. Cooper
Brian G. Fowler
Rita B. Joyner
Stanley A. Shields
Tammie W. Webb
Southeastern
Community College
Sharon Mendenhall
Travis Paul
Darian Ransom
Paul Van Gilder
Vance-Granville
Community College
Angela Ballentine
Jean Blaine
Marian Dillahunt
LaTonya Steele
Wake Technical
Community College
Donna Corbett
Olga Harris
Linda Hill
Steven Hitchner
Mary Pearce
Walter Rotenberry
Helen Spain
Lee Wittmann
Judith K. Ehninger
Brad D. Prutzman
OHIO
Clark State
Community College
Jim Anderson
Sandra Horn
Dee Malcuit
Jerome Murray
Columbus State
Community College
Tina Berry
Adam Keller
Bert Vonderahe
John Wallace
Cuyahoga
Community College
Ashlee Brand
Pamela Hardman
John Ndefru
Lorain County
Community College
Vincent Granito
Jennifer Kukis
Sinclair
Community College
Connie Beal
Jennifer Day
Mary Dudash-White
Eric Dunn
Laurel A. Mayer
David Meyer
Richard Morales
Zane State College
Tyler Brown
Peg Earhart
OKLAHOMA
Northern
Oklahoma College
Bart Cardwell
Glenn Cope
Tammy Davis
Brad Matson
Starla Reed
Audrey Schmitz
Kathi Shamburg
Oklahoma City
Community College
Bruce Cook
Lori Farr
Jason Ferguson
Linda Knox
Greg Mellott
Raul Ramirez
Akram Taghavi-Burris
Cindy Williams
Oklahoma State
University Institute of
Technology-Okmulgee
Kelly Kerr
DeLois Middleton
Oklahoma State
University-Oklahoma City
Don Connel
Loretta Hatchett
Guinise M. Marshall
Barbara Perry
Edward Vezey
OREGON
Portland
Community College
Holli Adams
Michael Marciniak
Karen Sanders
Treasure Valley
Community College
Kent Banner
Gerry Hampshire
PENNSYLVANIA
Community College
of Allegheny County
Jean A. Aston
John G. Dziak
Roderic Farkas
Joanne Jeffcoat
Lisa E. McCormick
Janet N. Moynihan
Harry J. VanRiper
Ping An Wang
Luzerne County
Community College
Karen A. Flannery
Alexandria “Sandy”
Hollock
Laura Katrenicz
John Kulick
Gary Mrozinski
Martha Pezzino
Westmoreland County
Community College
Piedmont
Technical College
Suzy Murray
Technical College
of the Lowcountry
Ashley Gess
York Technical College
Jyron Baxter
TENNESSEE
Chattanooga State
Community College
Lulu Copeland
Shirley Kilgore
Cleveland State
Community College
Ann Cunningham
Jason Sewell
Columbia State
Community College
Joni Lenig
Kaye Richards
Candace Warner
Cindy Komarinski
Dyersburg State
Community College
RHODE ISLAND
Andrea Franckowiak
Robert Martin
Community College
of Rhode Island
Hilary S. Jansson
Raymond Kilduff
Richard G. Pendola
Pamela J. Wood
SOUTH CAROLINA
Greenville
Technical College
Robin Baumgarner
Ricky Perry
Sheryn C. Robinson
Lori Trumbo
Patrick Wagner
Gene Wilson
Midlands
Technical College
Wesley Abercrombie
Dianne BouFawaz
Devin J. Henson
Gregory J. Mancini
Bruce Martin
Stephen McMillion
Julie Nelson
Ivelisse Ortiz-Hernandez
Kathy Patnaude
Bruce Prunty
Anthony Scotti
Orangeburg-Calhoun
Technical College
Tracy Dibble
Amy Ott
Melissa Plummer
Motlow State
Community College
Michael Mehlman
(Deceased)
Judith Russell
Northeast State
Community College
Joshua Crowder
Garry Grau
Angela Huddle
Pellissippi State
Community College
Barbara Bailes
Judy A. Gosch
David S. Key
Regina D. McNew
Rebecca A. Napier
Laxman Nathawat
Norman P. Riddle
Tracy B. Smith
Gregory Walters
Roane State
Community College
Kristi L. Beason
Vickie F. Harris
Lesha A. Hill
Michael D. Hill
Deborah L. Miles
Diane Raines
Kristi Roberson-James
Beverly J. Rogers
Peter A. Souza
Excellence is doing not only what is required of you, putting forth all your effort and going above the call of duty.
Lead by example to show students how to believe in themselves and exceed expectations.
—Dawn Cunningham, Texas State Technical College
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TEXAS
Alamo Colleges
Margaret L. Quintanilla
Veronica Reyes
Sherry Toliver
Austin Community College
Marilyn Burke
Christie Carr
James Hanson
Cynthia Lovick
David Lydic
Michael Martino
Véronique Mazet
Lisa McCartney
Grant Potts
William Brian Voss
Blinn College
Amanda Chau
Douglas Peck
Olympia Sibley
Connie Youngblood
Brazosport College
Kathy Cannon
Donald Payne
Brookhaven College
Christi Carter
Melinda Franklin
Charlie Warnberg
Cedar Valley College
Mikal McDowell
Del Mar College
Barbara Finnegan
Eastfield College
Michael G. Noble
Carlos S. Ojeda
El Centro College
Constance Bennett
Linan Bo
Catherine M. Carolan
Hollie D. Carron
Bob Chambers
Reenu Eapen
Jason W. Fletcher
Catherine M. Henon
Charles I. Holloway
Megan J. Howard
Dudley L. Knox
Joseph T. Lawley
Betty W. Moran
Jermain C. Pipkins
Pamela J. Posey
Eddy Rawlinson
Nickie N. Ray
Delia L. Seaman
Charles R. Senteio
Donna Strain
Anand B. Upadhyaya
Cindy A. Valles
Joshua Woods
El Paso
Community College
Lone Star
College-Montgomery
Dennis Brown
Patricia Duran
Jan L. Eveler
Myshie Pagel
Ernst E. Roberts
Debra Tomacelli-Brock
Richard Yanez
Karen Buckman
Jared Cootz
Danny Kainer
James Zipperer
Galveston College
Michael Berberich
Larry Blomstedt
Janene Davison
Hill College
Brian Bennett
Kathleen Miller
Houston
Community College
Mahmoud Basharat
Roger Boston
Katherine Chirinos
Linda Daigle
Herbert Jackson III
Glenn “Mel” McQueary
Kilgore College
Bennie Brown
Lucy Carroll
Bettye Craddock
Mary Kates
Cindy J. Lavine
Wendy McKinnon
Julie Payne
Mary Weirich
Lamar Institute
of Technology
Luke Bourgeois
William C. Holton
Stephanie Lanoue
Tina Swiniarski
James Allen Welch
Laredo
Community College
Virginia Avila
Sergio Lujan
Sara Thompson
Lee College
Amma Davis
Gregg Lattier
Evan Richards
Corbett L. Taylor
Lone Star College-CyFair
Sharon Bippus
Heather Gamber
Maria Sanders
Venancio Ybarra
Lone Star
College-Kingwood
Anne E. Amis
Noel C. Bezette
Lee A. Jerls
Susan Ouren
Lone Star CollegeNorth Harris
Gary M. Conners
Theresa Kurk McGinley
Shelley W. Penrod
Jennifer L. Travis
Palo Alto College
Ann Bolton-Brownlee
Carolyn DeLecour
Camille Fiorillo
Ruth Ann Gambino
Edgar Gonzalez
Diane N. Lerma
Chuck Squier
Elizabeth Tanner
Panola College
Karen McClellan
Ranger College
Lone Star College-Tomball Jerry Glidewell
Greg Oaks
Terra Ruppert
Rachel Whitten
Bruce Zarosky
John Gresham
Terry Johnson
Roger Jones
Dava Washburn
McLennan
Community College
Richland College
Derek Clapp
Ken Culver
Tammy Thompson
Stas Voskoboinikov
Midland College
Nicholas Elderkin
Robert Weidmann
Mountain View College
Vonice Champ
Janice Franklin
David Kirkland
Marcy Miller
Navarro College
Pamela Jordan
Mary Ruth Neal
Beverly Pearson
Renee Ramsey
Amy Young
Northeast
Lakeview College
Wes Adams
Diane Beechinor
Stephanie Burns
Tangila Dove
Kathleen Johnson-Hodge
Susan Kazen
Cheryl LeGras
Julie Nichols
Lisa Strain
Northwest Vista College
Suzanne Bravo
Andrea Cordaway
Julie Hoshizaki
Gary Johnson
Robert Marbut
Bobby Martinez
Odessa College
Wende Ramos
Irma M. Rosales
Francisco Salinas, Jr.
Southwest Texas
Junior College
Jill Coe
St. Philip’s College
Maria Botello
Maureen Cartledge
Jessica A. Cooper
Lauri Humberson
Warren A. Parker
Tarrant County
College District
John C. Carmichael
Judy N. Cline
Joe Cortina
Donna M. May
Jennifer D. Millspaugh
William B. Neal
Barbara L. Oakes
Raj P. Seekri
Doreen R. Stewart
David J. Wozniak
Michael J. Wright
Ashley Alfaro
Regina Cannon
Betty Dalton
David Dollar
Lori Fowler
Altheria Gaston
Vicky Gatewood
Peter Hacker
Gerald Handley
Thomas Kemp
Paul Luyster
Elise Price
Allison Randolph
Jim Schrantz
Bobbi Stringer
Mary Williams
San Antonio College
Temple College
Jeff Hunt
Denise Ingledue
Conrad D. Krueger, Sr.
Francisco E. Solis
Dehlia Wallis
Toni Cuellar
Lesley Keeling-Olson
Anna Machalek
Alicia McQueen
Valerie Peyer
San Jacinto
College District
Texas State Technical
College System
Tom Arrington
Suzanne DeBlanc
Serita Dickey
Teri Fowle
Kathy Miller
Kelly Simons
Randy Snyder
Stasi Stewart
Connie Taylor
Susan Titus
Laurel Williamson
Kaye Moon Winters
South Texas College
Mike A. Ayala
Christie M. Candelaria
Richard Coronado
George A. Garcia
Liza E. Gonzalez
Christopher Peter
Leonard
Arturo Montiel
Joann Ordaz
Arnoldo Perez
Kelly E. Peterson
Pedro L. Pompa
Robbie Anderson
Tad Baird
Gina Cano-Monreal
Dawn Cunningham
Armando Duarte
Terry Ehrhardt
Susan Hash
Christine Kinslow
Jason Mallory
Sarah-Jane Menefee
Roger Miller
Ronnie Pitts
Keith Plantier
Jane Thompson
Aurelio Torres
University of Texas
at Brownsville/Texas
Southmost College
Thomas Britten
Jose Davila-Montes
Carlos Figueroa
David Fisher
Celia Flores-Feist
Adiel Garcia
Vanessa Garza
Olivia Gutierrez
Mark Horowitz
Mari Huerta
Noor Islam
Michelle Keck
Genaro Lopez
Mostafa Malki
Carol McNabb
Ana Pena-Oliva
Mary J. Radford
Reynaldo Ramirez
Angela Reyes
Richard Urbis
Taeil Yi
Vernon College
Linda Haney
Scott McClure
Sharon Winn
Weatherford College
Beau Black
Carolyn Boggs
David Daniel
Andrew Ha
Kim Hopkins
Cal Lewiston
Nina Maniotis
Kay Meredith
Shanna Moody
Paula Roddy
Erin Sagerson
Allison Stamatis
Brad Tibbits
Wharton County
Junior College
Sean Amestoy
Connie J. Bibus
Linda Clark
James Kelley
Amelia Maretka
Sharon Prince
Robert Sanchez
Sharla Walker
Tyler Junior College
Mandy L. Palmer
Compasses are useful tools, pointing the way through
choppy waters and uncharted territory. My teaching
compass is a mental snapshot: two little boys fingering
each other’s very different hair, amazement and delight
on their faces. This thrill of discovery is the journey’s
end I seek for all my students.
—Elise Couper, Anne Arundel Community College (MD)
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UTAH
WASHINGTON
CANADA
Salt Lake
Community College
Centralia College
ALBERTA
Brandon Alva
Melaney Birdsong Farr
Rolayne Day
Luther Giddings
VIRGINIA
Blue Ridge
Community College
Debra Stevens Fitzgerald
Germanna
Community College
Leigh Hancock
Cheryl Huff
Patti Lisk
Sarah Somerville
Lord Fairfax
Community College
Frank E. Borleske
Mary Anne Keefer
Mountain Empire
Community College
Chris Jones
Stephen Norton
Bob Peters
Ken Rakoz
Cheryl Williams
Kelly Hollowell
Northern Alberta
Institute of Technology
David Arnold
Anita Smith
Limin Zhang
Highline
Community College
Richard Bankhead III
Pierce College District
Denise Arnold
David Lippman
Tom McCollow
Leslie Watts
Skagit Valley College
Northern Virginia
Community College
Regina Daigneault
Paul Safstrom
Diane Mucci
Nan Peck
Spokane Falls
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Dave Thompson
Stacey Watkins
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Jared Bowden
Scott Nolan
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Len Sperling
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ConocoPhillips provided five scholarships to the Lewis and Clark Community College
Engineering Explorers camp this summer, held at the National Great Rivers Museum in
Alton, Ill.
C
hildren attending Ohio’s
Owens Community College Child Care Center
will display their artistic qualities,
creative impressions and imaginative masterpieces as part of the
seventh annual Children’s Art
Show this summer. This year’s
show is being held for the fourth
time in Owens’ Walter E. Terhune
Art Gallery. Young artists ages 4
months to 5 years are showcasing
a variety of works, including multiple 3-D sculptures, paintings,
drawings and self-portraits. The
art exhibit is the culmination of a
year of artistic training at the College’s Child Care Center. The
Children’s Art Show was inspired
by the Reggio Emilia educational
philosophy. The Owens child care
instructors utilize the Reggio
Emilia philosophy in their art curriculum, inviting the children’s
interests to guide artistic cre-
ations. Books and other literature
incorporated into the art education program influenced many of
the masterpieces. The mission of
Owens’ Child Care Center is to
provide quality child care for the
children of employees, students
and the surrounding communities.
T
his year, 938 area children
made 2011 a summer of
learning and fun at Lewis
and Clark Community College
(Ill.), including 11 who attended
College for Kids on scholarships
funded by local businesses. The
popular summer learning program geared toward area youths,
presented by the college’s Corporate and Community Learning
division, offered more than 80
non-credit classes this year on
topics ranging from math and science to cooking, horseback riding, sports, performing arts and
outdoor exploration. Scholarships
were awarded to recipients identified with help from the Madison
County Urban League and 100
Black Men of Alton, based on
need. Scholarship funding was
provided by Newquist & Schulmeister P.C.; The Bank of
Edwardsville; Mormino, Velloff,
Edmonds and Snider, P.C.; the
Madison County Urban League;
and ConocoPhillips.
M
cHenry County College
(Ill.) student Erin
Brown is looking forward to working with her “first
patients” as she participates in a
three-day workshop at Indiana
University School of MedicineNorthwest in Gary, Ind. She will
learn how to prepare cadavers for
anatomy and physiology classes.
She is the only community college student chosen for this train-
International Human
Cadaver Protection
Program student
Erin Brown.
ing. The workshop is sponsored
by the International Human
Cadaver Protection Program. It is
facilitated by Ernest Talarico Jr.,
assistant professor of anatomy
and cell biology at Indiana University School of Medicine–
Northwest. It is reportedly the
only workshop of its kind in the
country. Brown is finishing up
some classes at MCC this fall
toward her associate in science
degree and will concurrently be
enrolled at Roosevelt University
as an allied health/nuclear medicine major with a minor in psychology. She plans to work in
research for childhood cancers.
Artwork made of tiles and
stones and a “Young
Artists” chalk drawing
wall welcome visitors at
the entrance to the Owens
Community College’s
Walter E. Terhune
Art Gallery.
grants&gifts
Pioneer Natural Resources USA,
Inc. was honored at a ceremony
at Coastal Bend College in
Texas for a $25,000 charitable
donation. Pioneer representatives presented the check to college President Thomas Baynum.
New chairs and tables will be
purchased for the Petroleum
Industry Training Room, which
is used for continuing education.
Part of the donation will go to
the purchase of equipment to
outfit mobile classrooms that
will be taken to field training
sites throughout the region.
Coastal Bend College partnered
with Pioneer Natural Resources
almost a year ago to train new
employees. They come to CBC
for four days where they spend
10-12 hours each day in the
training center. The session
includes a 30-hour OSHA certificate; an 8-hour certificate for
spill responders; classroom
instruction on safety; prepara-
Pioneer Natural Resources USA, Inc. presented
Coastal Bend College with a $25,000 equipment
donation. From left are Joey Hall, PNR vice president;
David Wood, geoscience specialist and CBC graduate;
CBC President Thomas Baynum; and Louis Goldstein,
PNR vice president.
tion for forklift operator’s
licensing; and a medical questionnaire required for those who
will have to wear respirators for
work. More than 300 Pioneer
Natural Resources employees
from across Texas and Louisiana
have gone through eight sessions
with a ninth group coming in
early October.
Erie Community College (N.
Y.) has been awarded $1.1 million funding from the New
York State Department of Education under the federal Carl
D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act. Slated to
receive funding for new equipment and technology under this
grant are college’s culinary
arts, graphic arts, construction
technology, computer repair,
electrical engineering technology, health information technology, industrial technology
and students services. The
grant will also be used to
implement and coordinate
service learning projects in
career and technical education
programs, while strengthening
and sustaining community
partnerships. Grant activities
will focus on increasing the
number of CTE programs that
offer a course with service
learning requirements.
Durham Technical Community College (N.C.) has received
its first National Science Foundation Advanced Technical
Education grant award through
the Advanced Technological
Education grant program in the
amount of $199,458. The
award will fund a project
designed to use computers from
traditional training labs as a
virtual machine platform that
students can access through the
Internet. Specialized platforms
already exist for this type of
remote access, but this one will
specifically involve regular
classroom PCs. Students will
be able to work on specific
technical class assignments
directly from home or other
locations, rather than scheduling their time around available
computer lab hours. Durham
Tech President Bill Ingram said
that the NSF grant award is a
milestone for the college.
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Workforce Education Curriculum Model V Workshop coordinators Don Perry from Dallas
Community College (standing left) and Deana Savage from Midland College lead
discussions with energy industry representatives on improving core curriculum for
technical education programs in Texas. The workshop was held at San Jacinto College.
A
s an entire industry’s
workforce is preparing to
retire, decades and sometimes a century’s worth of experience go with them. While this will
create numerous job openings
nationwide, many employers are
having difficulty finding a new
generation of employees to take
on these jobs. Recently, San Jacinto College (Texas) hosted a twoday
Workforce
Education
Curriculum Model V Workshop
on expanding energy pathways,
which developed a proposal for a
new career foundation core to
submit to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. As part
of the THECB Perkins-Funded
Leadership Project 2010–11,
spearheaded by Tarrant County
College, faculty and various
industry partners from all over
Texas met to discuss industry
needs for incoming new hires and
what changes to make in the
current core curriculum for twoyear associate degrees. As the
fiscal agent for the project, TCC
has organized previous workshops
and meetings, continuing to analyze and improve technical education programs throughout Texas.
The cause for concern comes from
industry employers who have
come to the consensus that, year
after year, their employment pool
is shrinking. Technical education
programs are not seeing as much
growth within the younger student
population. With the current
workforce in industries such as
petrochemical, oil and gas, power
generation, instrumentation and
other technician-heavy employment sectors beginning to retire,
many energy companies are
questioning how they will fill
those positions if young people
simply aren’t taking notice of
these fields. By reintroducing
these industries to high school and
college students, faculty and
administrators hope to meet the
needs that industry partners
continue to emphasize. By
presenting earning opportunities,
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Myra M. Medina, a professor in the Department of ESL
and Foreign Languages at Miami Dade College.
job placement programs, and job
stability statistics, perhaps it will
be worth a second glance to new
students.
M
yra M. Medina, a
professor
in
the
Department of ESL
and Foreign Languages at Miami
Dade College’s North Campus,
will join the ranks of notable
scholars and professionals in the
U.S. recently selected for the prestigious Fulbright Specialist Program. Medina will spend three
weeks at Universidad APEC in the
Dominican Republic, where she
will present lectures on language
acquisition theories, conduct
workshops on second language
learning methodology, and consult
with administrators and faculty on
the faculty evaluation process.
Universidad APEC, a private
university located in the city of
Santo Domingo, has one of the
best language programs in the
nation, with courses taught in six
different centers throughout Santo
Domingo and other parts of the
country. Medina’s visit will play a
significant role in the area of faculty development, which is part of
the objectives in the university’s
strategic plan. Some of the goals
of the Fulbright Specialist
Program are to increase the
participation of leading U.S.
scholars and professionals in Fulbright academic exchanges and to
promote connections between
U.S. institutions and non-U.S.
degree
granting
academic
institutions.
honors&awards
The nursing program at Collin
College has been named a Center of Excellence in Nursing
Education by the National
League of Nursing. The college’s nursing program, which
officially will be recognized for
this prestigious designation at a
national ceremony in September,
becomes Texas’ first and only
Center of Excellence in Nursing
Education. Of the more than
1,800 college nursing programs
nationwide, only 19 have earned
the Center of Excellence designation. The New York Citybased NLN invites schools to
apply for Center of Excellence
status based on their demonstrated sustained excellence in faculty development, nursing education research, student learning
and professional development.
Programs must also have a
proven commitment to continuous
quality
improvement.
Specifically, Collin College
earned the designation in the categories of professional development and enhancing student
learning.
July 1, 2001. He is
the second longesttenured chancellor in
VCCS history.
Left to right: Vol State Assistant Professor Clay Scott;
Rep. Debra Maggart; Sen. Mae Beavers; Sen. Kerry
Roberts; Samantha Hearn, editor; Josh Deardorff, photographer and writer; Matt Phillips, writer; and Vol
State President Warren Nichols.
The triple-digit heat and humidity
may have played a part in turning
Glenn DuBois’ face red as he
walked into what he thought was
a routine dinner with the 15 members of his state board. More likely, his blush and big smile was his
reaction to the 150 colleagues and
friends who came to surprise him
with a celebration of his first
decade serving as the chancellor
of the Virginia Community College System. The surprise event
was hosted by the Virginia Foundation for Community College
Education and raised more than
$130,000 for the Glenn DuBois
Student Success Fund, which was
created to help students in the
VCCS Middle College program
Tennessee state senators Kerry Roberts
and Mae Beavers
recently
honored
Volunteer
State
Community College
students who worked
on the award-winning student magazine, The Pioneer.
They presented the
Glenn DuBois celebrated 10 years
students with a resoas chancellor of the Virginia’s
lution from the legisCommunity College System, where
lature, sponsored by
he has initiated a number of programs to make higher education
Roberts and co-sponmore accessible.
sored by Beavers.
The resolution recognized the students
with minor emergency expenses and faculty advisor Clay Scott,
that could otherwise derail a stu- for being selected as national
dent’s higher education pursuit. finalist in the “Best Magazine”
DuBois was toasted through the category of the 2010 Society of
evening by colleagues, former Professional Journalists’ Mark of
board members and a former gov- Excellence Awards. The Pioneer
ernor. DuBois was hired to lead is written, edited and produced
Virginia’s community colleges on entirely by Vol State students.
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APPOINTMENTS
James P. Toscano
Michele Bresso
Tidewater Community College
(Va.) announced the appointment
of James P. Toscano as vice president for institutional advancement, a new position at TCC. With
more than nine years of experience
in community and government
relations, communications and
marketing, Toscano served most
recently as vice president for public affairs and communications and
chief communications officer for
Hampton Roads Transit (HRT).
Toscano holds a bachelor of science degree in communications
from Old Dominion University
and a master’s in public policy and
management from the University
of London.
Kim Jones has been hired as chief
financial officer of Texarkana College (Texas). Jones began her postsecondary education at Texarkana
College and went on to complete a
bachelor’s degree in business
administration with a major in
accounting from Stephen F. Austin
State University. She is currently
serving as the assistant superintendent of business operations for
Elizabeth Bhimjee, a marketing
executive with more than two
decades of project management
and new business development
experience, has been named the
director of development for the
Foundation for Seminole State
College (Fla.). Bhimjee has bachelor’s degrees in art and sociology
from Western State College of
Colorado. Before transitioning to
the nonprofit and education sectors, she specialized in consumer
products and marketing, representing corporations such as Sony and
Magnivision..
Liberty-Eylau School District.
When
Kim
OsteenPetreshock was in high school
and a member of Central Arizona
College’s Bell Choir Ringers, she
was taken under the wing of Kim
Freyermuth who oversaw the
vocal music at CAC. OsteenPetreshock remembers developing an admiration and respect for
Kim Jones
Kim Osteen-Petreshock
Freyermuth who engaged students by visiting area schools and
scouting for talent. Fast forward
to the present day and it is
Osteen-Petreshock who is now in
the leadership position. OsteenPetreshock, who earned her doctorate of musical arts degree from
Arizona State University, has
been handed the reins to CAC’s
vocal music department as a pro-
fessor of choral studies and the
college choral director. OsteenPetreshock doesn't intend on trying to be the second coming of
her mentor, but she does hope to
put forth that same level of effort
in her new position. Like her
mentor, she said she will be on the
lookout for high school students
and community members who are
musically inclined.
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Denver, and a master of arts in
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Stark State College provides quality, high-value associate degrees and
professional development in a student-centered learning environment.
The College offers more than 230 programs of study in academic and
workforce development disciplines to 15,500 credit students, 4,579 noncredit students and serves the culturally and economically diverse
population of Stark County (population 380,000) and surrounding
counties in northeast Ohio. Through its main campus in North Canton
and through satellite sites across the county and distance learning
modalities, SSC plays a vital role in providing educational and economic
development opportunities. Through public-private partnerships with
organizations such as the Rolls-Royce Fuel Cell program and the Gates
Foundation “Completion by Design” program, SSC is in the van-guard
of national initiatives while it remains focused on serving the
educational needs of area citizens and businesses of Stark County. The
Board of Trustees of Stark State College seeks an experienced higher
education administrator to serve as a dynamic, innovative and energetic
leader of SSC. The successful candidate will maintain and enhance
Stark State College’s growing leadership in national higher education
initiatives, lead the College’s strong commitment to student success and
position it as the primary resource for academic opportunities in Stark
County.
Applicants are encouraged to submit a complete application no
later than September 12, 2011 for consideration. For confidential
inquiries, nominations or additional information contact Narcisa
Polonio, ACCT (202) 276-1983, npolonio@acct.org or John
Steinecke, ACCT, (202) 384-6539, jsteinecke@acct.org
In compliance with Federal and State laws, Stark State College is an
equal opportunity employer and Stark State College prohibits
discrimination in employment because of race, color, religion, national
origin, sex, age, disability or veteran status. Applications are considered
for all positions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national
origin, age, marital or veteran status, or the presence of a non-job related
medical condition or disability.
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Vice President, Student Affairs
Edison State College seeks an accomplished Vice President to provide
strategic vision, leadership and direction for the College’s comprehensive
student affairs division.
Celebrating nearly 50 years of excellence, Edison State College is
Southwest Florida’s largest, most accessible and most affordable institution
of higher education. As one of Florida’s State Colleges, Edison delivers
learning from collegiate charter high schools through bachelor’s degrees.
Edison’s diverse student population of 25,000 may pursue one of more than
60 associate degrees and 10 bachelor degrees on our Charlotte, Lee or
Collier campuses, the Hendry Glades Center or through Edison Online.
Each of our campuses is uniquely positioned to address the needs of its
community and the voice and spirit of its individual counties. Beginning
with the Fall 2012, Edison will become a residential college with the
opening of its first student housing building on the Lee Campus.
The Vice President of Student Affairs serves on the President’s Cabinet and
is responsible for the development of partnerships, programs and policies to
achieve the College’s strategic initiatives related to students in collaboration
with campus leadership. Working closely with the Cabinet, the Vice
President will develop initiatives in support of student success. Functional
areas of responsibility include admissions and registration, advising, assessment, counseling, judicial affairs, student life, student support services, and
adaptive services.
The successful candidate will hold an earned doctorate from a regionally
accredited higher education institution, a substantial record of
accomplishments in a senior level student affairs position and a strong
commitment to advocacy for students to insure every student has the
opportunity to be successful and achieve their educational goals. Salary is
commensurate with education and experience.
For additional information and to apply for this position, please visit the
Edison employment page at: jobs.edison.edu. This position is open until
filled, however, to receive full consideration your online application and
resume should be submitted by September 11, 2011. Inquiries may be
directed to Pamela Fairfax, Vice President-Human Resources, at
239.489.9495.
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Chancellor
Baton Rouge Community College (BRCC) invites nominations and applications for the position of Chancellor. The Chancellor reports to the president
of the Louisiana Community & Technical College System. The System is comprised of seven community colleges, two technical community colleges
and seven technical colleges all offering world class programs. Each college has its own character with consistent System goals and plays an important
role in expanding Louisiana’s workforce by offering degrees and certificates to meet the needs expressed by their communities and that complement the
local community.
Baton Rouge Community College is located in the state capital about 80 miles northwest of New Orleans, a city rich in culture, entertainment, and
heritage. Baton Rouge has a population of approximately 230,000. Established in 1998, BRCC has evolved into a major center of education.
The enrollment has grown to approximately 8,500 students that reflect a growing statewide, national and international representation.
Located on a 60 acre campus, the college has 13 buildings that are less than 12 years old, with an additional location near downtown Baton Rouge.
At BRCC, students have a choice of over 17 associate degrees and ten certificates. It is a fully accredited institution with the Southern Association of
Colleges and Schools (SACS) and has continuously developed world-class curricula in traditional and new disciplines, utilizing state-of-the-art
technology to facilitate learning.
The mission of Baton Rouge Community College is to identify and meet the educational
and workforce needs of our community through innovative, accessible and dynamic programs.
To learn more about BRCC and the position, please visit www.mybrcc.edu.
Required qualifications for the position include:
A minimum of five years high level executive experience with demonstrated performance of exceptional quality,
preferably in a comprehensive community college.
An earned doctorate with a background in high education administration is preferred.
Administrative experience in other disciplines will also be considered.
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CHANCELLOR
August 22, 2011
Salary and benefits are competitive. The review of the applications will continue until the position is filled.
Candidates are encouraged to submit a complete application prior to: Wednesday October 5, 2011
An Association of Community College Trustees Assisted Search
Confidential inquiries regarding the application process or nominations should be directed to Dr. Narcisa Polonio,
ACCT Vice President for Research, Education and Board Leadership Services
at (202) 276-1983 mobile, (202) 775-4670 office or npolonio@acct.org.
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2011
…
Where the Rubber
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October 2-5, 2011
JW Marriott Indianapolis
Indianapolis, Indiana
Join us in Indianapolis at the beautiful JW Marriott as we gather for the second annual STEMtech
conference. This interactive learning experience will help educators ramp up their STEM programs
and curricula, as well as increase their effective use of technology across the institution.
STEMtech features timely tracks focused on STEM disciplines — science, technology, engineering,
and mathematics — in general education and workforce training. In addition, STEMtech continues
the 25-year legacy of the League’s Conference on Information Technology as the place to explore
the intelligent application of information technology in community and technical colleges.
OPENING KEYNOTE SPEAKER
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Thornburg Center
CLOSING KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Jim Brazell
Technology Forecaster
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