Community College Week articles from December 2007

Community College Week archives from December 2007

Detroit College District loses bid for tax hike.(around the nation)
December 3, 2007... Efforts by the Wayne County Community College District to pass a 10-year renewal of a 150 percent property tax hike were rejected by voters on Nov. 6, but college officials are bullish about their chances of passing the extension before it...

Mont. power company seeks 2-year training program.
December 3, 2007... BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- PPL Montana expects nearly half of its technical employees to retire in the next seven years, creating 280 job openings that it will be hard-pressed to fill. With few programs across the country and no post-secondary...

League's technology conference examines changing students and emerging technologies.(Conference news)
December 3, 2007... The new learning styles of the different generations now attending the nation's community colleges pose difficult challenges to planners and administrators developing technology infrastructures for the future. That was one of the key...

Newsroom noose fuels campus debate in Minn.
December 3, 2007... MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- A noose hung from a newsroom ceiling has led to the firing of the news editor of the Minneapolis Community and Technical College campus newspaper. Gabriel Keith said that when he taped it to the ceiling on Oct. 10 as a...

Foreign language courses boom at U.S. colleges.
December 3, 2007... BOSTON (AP)--Foreign language courses are booming on American college campuses, a new study has found, with enrollment in Arabic more than doubling from 2002 to 2006. The latest figures from the Modern Language Association of America...

Analyzing the data.(Special Report: Fastest-Growing Community Colleges)(Cover story)
December 3, 2007... Community colleges and other public, two-year institutions provide a broad range of personal, professional, and academic training and development opportunities to a diverse array of communities. A significant portion of those opportunities take...

A look back.(from the vaults of Community College Week)
December 3, 2007... The predecessor to Community College Week's annual special report on the Fastest-Growing Community Colleges was a look at which community colleges were the largest. It all started when the Maricopa Community College District sent us a press...

The titans of the community college world.
December 3, 2007... WASHINGTON--What's the biggest community college in the country? Take your pick: Miami-Dade Community College. The Los Angeles Community College District. Maricopa Community Colleges. Each can lay claim to the No. 1 spot. All that really...

By leaps and bounds: three baccalaureate-granting community colleges revel in enrollment gains.(Special Report: Forest-Growing Community Colleges)
December 3, 2007... Is there something in the water at Gainesville State College, Edison College and Daytona Beach Community College? Or are shamrocks, rabbits' feet or horseshoes a factor for these charmed community colleges? Whatever it might be, all three...

College case could establish whether California public employees must go through grievance process before suing.
December 3, 2007... The fired head football coach at Contra Costa Community College has received a green light to sue the district on allegations of racial discrimination, emotional distress and related claims. Jose Ortega wasn't required to exhaust his...

Arkansas officials tout value of athletics at junior colleges.
December 3, 2007... LITTLE ROCK (AP) -- Arkansas Baptist athletic director Charles Ripley figures his school has one big advantage over other junior colleges. The Buffaloes are based in Little Rock. "We dwarf everybody," Ripley said. "We've got 27 high...

House committee unanimously passes revamped Higher Ed Act.(dateline washington)
December 3, 2007... WASHINGTON -- In a year filled with partisan bickering, an overhaul of the Higher Education Act made it out of a House committee unanimously. The bipartisan College Opportunity and Affordability Act of 2007, approved by the Committee on...

Senate, House panels pass cost reduction measures.(capital briefs)
December 3, 2007... WASHINGTON -- While Congress continues work on a new Higher Education Act, it is moving more quickly to repair glitches in other matters. Both the House and Senate have passed bills clarifying ambiguities and fixing errors in recently-passed...

Bill would extend tuition tax deductions for another year.(capital briefs)
December 3, 2007... WASHINGTON -- The House approved the Temporary Tax Relief Act of 2007 which would continue tax deductions for tuition and related expenses another year. Under current law, the deduction of up to $4,000 was set to expire at the end of 2007. ...

Institute to collect student financial aid data.(capital briefs)
December 3, 2007... WASHINGTON -- The Institute of Education Sciences Sis planning a 2008 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study to get nationwide data about financial aid issues. The U.S. See Cap Briefs, pg. 16, col. 1. Department of Education will use the data...

Washington higher education panel drafting ambitious l0-year plan.
December 3, 2007... SEATTLE (AP) -- The Washington Higher Education Coordinating Board got an earful when it traveled the state asking citizens to tell it what needs to improve about the way Washington educates people after high school. Ann Daley, executive...

Military spouses eligible for new education assistance.(capital briefs)
December 3, 2007... WASHINGTON (AP) -- Military spouses will get money to learn an occupation under a program aimed at cutting the high unemployment rate they suffer because they move so often. The program announced by the departments of defense and labor...

Three decades later, Mont. tribal college has grown and evolved.
December 3, 2007... PABLO, Mont. (AP) -- If she so desired, Lois Slater would need only look in a mirror to find a compelling story about how educational opportunities can turn around a life. "I was a statistic," she said, and this is what she means: She...

Iowa college professor making push to promote atheism.
December 3, 2007... DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- An Iowa community college professor is leading an effort to promote atheism and lobby for the removal of religious references from public life. Lydia Hartunian, an assistant professor of humanities at Kirkwood...

Wife of former Alabama chancellor paid for no-show job.
December 3, 2007... BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) -- Linda Johnson, the wife of former state two-year college Chancellor Roy Johnson, was paid for 14 months after leaving her job as an executive assistant at Southern Union State Community College in Opelika and retiring...

Former Shelton State president's home furnishings removed, reused.
December 3, 2007... TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) -- Shelton State Community College is reusing some of the $50,000 in furnishings removed from the home of its former president Rick Rogers. The furnishings being reused in campus offices include a $2,800 Italian...

Kansas colleges seek ways to work together.
December 3, 2007... DODGE CITY, Kan. (AP) -- Community colleges in southwest Kansas are discussing ways to work together to lobby state lawmakers and deal with staffing shortages. Trustees and administrators of the Garden City, Dodge City and Seward County...

Miss. college teams with university to offer classes.
December 3, 2007... GRENADA, Miss. (AP) -- The University of Mississippi is teaming up with Holmes Community College to bring graduate-level courses in education to Grenada, the colleges have announced. University Chancellor Robert Khayat and Holmes Community...

Foreign students seen as boon to Hawaiian economy.
December 3, 2007... HONOLULU (AP) -- A new study says foreign students are a fast-growing boon to the Hawaii economy. The annual Open Doors report states international students at Hawaii colleges and universities are adding nearly $124 million to the state's...

Internet offers myriad ways to share opinions, views.(technology today)
December 3, 2007... What's the best way to share views with others online about topics of interest to you, whether related to work, a hobby, health, family matters, social matters, politics, religion, or anything else you're involved with, reading about, or...

Fresh baked goods prepared by culinary students in the new commercial teaching kitchen topped off an afternoon of celebration Nov. 2 as Allan Hancock College, in Santa Barbara, Calif., officially opened its new Community Education Building.(around campus)
December 3, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Fresh baked goods prepared by culinary students in the new commercial teaching kitchen topped off an afternoon of celebration Nov. 2 as Allan Hancock College, in Santa Barbara, Calif., officially opened its new...

When the Glass Education Center at New Jersey's Salem Community College opens in 2008, it will become only the second East coast glass facility to use methane gas from a landfill to create glass objects ranging from scientific apparatus to works of art.(around campus)
December 3, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When the Glass Education Center at New Jersey's Salem Community College opens in 2008, it will become only the second East coast glass facility to use methane gas from a landfill to create glass objects ranging from...

Two National Science Foundation grants totaling $1 million have been awarded to Bellevue Community College's National Workforce Center for Emerging Technologies for projects to enhance and recruit students into science, technology, engineering and mathematics.(grants & gifts)
December 3, 2007... Two National Science Foundation grants totaling $1 million have been awarded to Bellevue Community College's National Workforce Center for Emerging Technologies for projects to enhance and recruit students into science, technology, engineering...

Yale-New Haven Hospital recently gave Gateway Community College in New Haven, Conn., $1 million to further employment opportunities in nursing for New Haven residents.(grants & gifts)
December 3, 2007... Yale-New Haven Hospital recently gave Gateway Community College in New Haven, Conn., $1 million to further employment opportunities in nursing for New Haven residents. They money will support the nursing program at the college and will be...

The advisory committee to the Arapahoe Community College Foundation's McKinnell Endowment Fund for ceramics students has selected student ceramicist Amelia Marlowe to receive its first-ever monetary award.(grants & gifts)
December 3, 2007... The advisory committee to the Arapahoe Community College Foundation's McKinnell Endowment Fund for ceramics students has selected student ceramicist Amelia Marlowe to receive its first-ever monetary award. The $500 award will fund a research...

Air-quality concerns and the pact of the recent devastating wildfires closed Grossmont and Cuyamaca colleges for a week, along with most school campuses throughout San Diego County, but the two East County community colleges were far from being the ghost towns that many school sites had become.(faculty lounge)
December 3, 2007... Air-quality concerns and the pact of the recent devastating wildfires closed Grossmont and Cuyamaca colleges for a week, along with most school campuses throughout San Diego County, but the two East County community colleges were far from being...

The music department of Lewis and Clark Community College presented the Fall Faculty Recital in the Benjamin Godfrey Memorial Chapel.(faculty lounge)
December 3, 2007... The music department of Lewis and Clark Community College presented the Fall Faculty Recital in the Benjamin Godfrey Memorial Chapel. Professors Teresa Crane, Peter Hussey, Louis Michael, Susan Parton Stanard and Roy Stillwell were all featured...

Susan Summons began her career at Miami Dade College more than two decades ago when she took over the women's basketball program at the college's Kendall campus.(faculty lounge)
December 3, 2007... Susan Summons began her career at Miami Dade College more than two decades ago when she took over the women's basketball program at the college's Kendall campus. Back then, she never imagined that one day she would be named one of the Top 100...

Susan Salvador, vice president of student services at Monroe Community College in Rochester, N.Y., has been named to serve on the National Advisory Group for the National Technical Institute for the Deaf.(honors & awards)
December 3, 2007... Susan Salvador, vice president of student services at Monroe Community College in Rochester, N.Y., has been named to serve on the National Advisory Group for the National Technical Institute for the Deaf. Her term will run from January 1, 2008...

Tidewater Community College's vice president for information systems, Richard F. Andersen, was awarded the Virginia Library Association's George Mason award during the organization's annual conference.(honors & awards)(Conference news)
December 3, 2007... Tidewater Community College's vice president for information systems, Richard F. Andersen, was awarded the Virginia Library Association's George Mason award during the organization's annual conference. The association-wide award goes to...

Polk Community College's chapter of the Florida Nursing Students Association was recently named "Chapter of the Year" at the association's annual convention held in Orlando.(honors & awards)
December 3, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Polk Community College's chapter of the Florida Nursing Students Association was recently named "Chapter of the Year" at the association's annual convention held in Orlando. This is the first time Polk's nursing...

Kirkwood Community College philosophy and humanities professor Robert Sessions has been awarded the 2007 Distinguished Humanities Educator Award by the Community College Humanities Association.(honors & awards)
December 3, 2007... Kirkwood Community College philosophy and humanities professor Robert Sessions has been awarded the 2007 Distinguished Humanities Educator Award by the Community College Humanities Association. Sessions taught at the University of Minnesota and...

St. Louis Community College Board of Trustees.(APPOINTMENTS)
December 3, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The St. Louis Community College Board of Trustees appointed Zelema Harris as permanent chancellor. She was given a three-year contract. Harris formerly served as president of Parkland College in Illinois from July...

Camden County College.(APPOINTMENTS)
December 3, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Sharon N. Wedington has been named vice president for enrollment and student services at Camden County College in N.J. She will oversee the college's testing, admissions, registration, advisement, financial aid,...

Clark College.(APPOINTMENTS)
December 3, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] William Van Dusen, Jr. is the new director of advising and counseling at Clark College in Vancouver, Wash. Studying at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Van Dusen earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in pre-law and...

Seward County Community College.(APPOINTMENTS)
December 3, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Celeste Donovan was named dean of student services at Seward County Community College, Liberal, Kan. She will oversee student housing, admissions, financial aid, counseling, student records and registration and...

Broward Community College.(APPOINTMENTS)
December 3, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Linda Wood has been appointed dean of Broward Community College's Institute of Public Safety. Wood joined the institute at the Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., college in 1998. Previously, she worked for the Broward County...

Calendar.(Calendar)
December 3, 2007... DECEMBER December 13-15, 2007 ANNUAL CONVENTION AND CAREER TECH EXPO Association for Career and Technical Education Las Vegas, NV http://www.acteonline.org/convention JANUARY January 6-9, 2008 5TH ANNUAL NACCE...

N.C. system chief defends policy on illegal immigrants.(around the nation)
December 17, 2007... RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- The president of the state community college system won't back down from a new policy that allows illegal immigrants to enroll on all campuses, saying that doing otherwise runs counter to a nearly 50-year-old tradition of...

Enrollment dropping at some colleges in fast-growing Phoenix area.(around the nation)
December 17, 2007... MESA, Ariz. (AP) -- Despite a growing population in Maricopa County, enrollment in the county's community college system is dropping. Seven of the district's 10 colleges lost students this fall, according to the Maricopa County Community...

Byrne selects Tenn. educator to head Shelton State.
December 17, 2007... MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- Two-year college system Chancellor Bradley Byrne has chosen a Tennessee college educator for the presidency of embattled Shelton State Community College. Byrne said he selected Mark Heinrich of Carson-Newman College...

Minn. College drops football over loan defaults.
December 17, 2007... INTERNATIONAL FALLS, Minn. (AP) -- Rainy River Community College in International Falls has eliminated its troubled football program because its players were defaulting on federal student loans at an alarming rates. The federal Department...

Texas math instructor captures CASE award.(around the nation)
December 17, 2007... When Rosemary Karr was just a student in high school, her math teachers saw something special in her. She was often called on to assist in teaching the class and was assigned as a peer tutor to help students who were struggling in math. So...

2-year college enrollment surge depresses university attendance.(around the nation)
December 17, 2007... AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) -- Rising enrollment at Maine's community colleges is coming with a cost--declining enrollment at state university campuses. Enrollment at the Maine Community College System has risen about 37 percent since 2002, the...

Making transfer academic: as community college enrollments grow, more states feel the need to beef up transfer agreements.(Cover story)
December 17, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When Lacey Plichta transferred from Middlesex County College, a two-year institution in Edison, N.J., to Rutgers University in 2006, she got some unwelcome news: Rutgers would not accept credits she had taken in...

Self-report gives Federal Student Aid office high marks, but Education Dept. Inspector General says problems persist.(dateline Washington)
December 17, 2007... WASHINGTON -- The annual self-evaluation by Federal Student Aid said the sprawling agency met most of its strategic goals in fiscal year 2007. The office said it met 21 of its key goals, failed to meet just three, dropped two and is still...

Military Reservists would benefit from Bill.(capital briefs)
December 17, 2007... WASHINGTON -- The House Veterans' Affairs Committee approved a bill making it easier for National Guard and Reserve members who serve in Iraq to get education benefits. The Fair Benefits for Guard and Reserve Act would eliminate the...

New Web site aimed at student borrowers.(capital briefs)(Website overview)
December 17, 2007... WASHINGTON -- Borrowers struggling with student debt can check out their options on the new Student Loan Borrower Assistance website, www.studentloanborrowerassistance.org. The site, a collaboration between the National Consumer Law Center...

Missouri loan agency lawsuit dropped, but will be refiled.(dateline Washington)
December 17, 2007... JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- A lawsuit seeking to halt Missouri's student loan agency from supplying money to Gov. Matt Blunt's college construction plan has been dropped, but it may return with more allegations and more clients. Instead of...

Penn. Community College hits the road to educate workers.(dateline Washington)
December 17, 2007... WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) -- The constant evolution of technology means mechanic Roger Baer always has something new to learn. "Everything changes," said Baer, who maintains machines at the Fabri-Kal facility in nearby Mountain Top. "You have...

Arkansas Colleges team up for more aviation programs.(dateline Washington)
December 17, 2007... NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- Several Arkansas community colleges are teaming up to increase aviation education in the state. Northwest Arkansas Community College in Bentonville and Pulaski Technical College in North Little Rock are...

Virginia Colleges vie for academies emphasizing science, technology.(dateline Washington)
December 17, 2007... RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- Gov. Timothy M. Kaine expects to open up to six Governor's Career and Technical Academies by next fall, with the assistance of a $500,000 grant awarded to the state from the National Governors Association Center for Best...

14-Month Bishop State probe nears completion.(dateline Washington)
December 17, 2007... MOBILE, Ala. (AP) -- Mobile County district attorney John Tyson Jr. said the 14-month investigation into Bishop State Community College is nearly completed and a turnaround has taken place at the Mobile campus. Tyson said his office is...

Hawaii developer to build Community College center.(dateline Washington)
December 17, 2007... KIAAILUA-KONA, Hawaii (AP) -- Work is to begin ext summer on the first building for the planned Hawaii Community College center in West Hawaii, but it's not a state or university project. The 20,000-square-foot building, as well as sewer...

Vermont Tech offering training program for firefighters.(dateline Washington)
December 17, 2007... RANDOLPH CENTER, Vt. (AP) -- The Vermont Technical College is offering a course of study for people who want to become firefighters. This fall, in its first semester of operation, 15 men are leaning everything from the physics of fire to...

Former Alabama instructor takes plea for phone threats.
December 17, 2007... DECATUR, Ala. (AP) -- A former Calhoun Community College criminal justice instructor who was charged in April with making a terrorist threat is on probation after accepting a plea agreement. According to Limestone County Circuit Court...

Oregon College seeking federal grant for renovations.
December 17, 2007... ASTORIA, Ore. (AP) -- Clatsop Community College officials are hoping that federal officials will come through with a grant to help stabilize the crumbling facilities on the campus, which have been rated as 100 percent likely to collapse in a...

Ariz. instructor gets 12 years for hiding felony record.
December 17, 2007... TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) -- A man has been sent to prison for 12 years because he hid his fraud conviction when he applied to teach chemistry at Pima Community College. Prosecutors argued successfully that Patrick Allen Rundhaug violated terms...

Colleges ground plan to merge aviation programs.
December 17, 2007... SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- A plan to consolidate the flight instruction programs at Salt Lake Community College and Utah Valley State College has been grounded after one school auctioned off its equipment. SLCC sold 13 planes and a flight...

Okla. colleges to offer degrees for elementary school teachers.
December 17, 2007... OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -Plans to offer four-year degrees in elementary education at four Oklahoma community colleges will help increase the number of elementary school teachers in the state, authorities said. Mid-America Christian University...

N.M. College president frustrated with trustees.
December 17, 2007... LAS VEGAS, N.M. (AP) -Luna Community College's interim president claims the school's Board of Trustees is micromanaging the college. And Sigfredo Maestas believes the college's next president won't stay under such circumstances. He...

Private business college plans new Minnesota locale.
December 17, 2007... MOORHEAD, Minn. (AP) -- A private, for-profit business school will offer classes here as soon as next summer, making it the school's ninth location in Minnesota, officials said. The Minnesota School of Business has purchased land north of...

$259,00 donation to N.M. College is its largest ever.
December 17, 2007... SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) -- Santa Fe Community College has received its largest single donation ever. The $259,000 contribution is to be used for an endowed scholarship for physically challenged students who are in financial need. Janet...

W. Va. lagging behind nation in number of college degrees.
December 17, 2007... CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- West Virginia is the lowest-performing state in the nation in the percentage of adults who have a college degree, according to data compiled by the nonprofit National Center for Higher Education Management Systems. ...

Cell phone class gets underway in Japan.(Bits & Bytes)
December 17, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] TOKYO (AP) -- The Japanese already use cell phones to shop, read novels, exchange e-mail, search for restaurants and take in video clips. Now, they can take a university course. Cyber University, the nation's...

"Typosquatting" can mean trip to surprising, unpleasant Web sites.(technology today)(Website overview)
December 17, 2007... In getting to Web sites, neatness counts. If you type in the wrong Web address, you might be in for a surprise. You could be taken to a site run by a business that competes with the site you were trying to get to, to a rogue site that...

Queensborough Community College.(around the campus)
December 17, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Queensborough Performing Arts Center, of Queensborough Community College in Bayside, N.Y., is presenting A Christmas Carol, their version of the long-running Broadway musical adaptation of the Charles Dickens'...

Owens Community College.(around the campus)
December 17, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Twenty-eight members and coaches of the Owens Community College men's baseball team recently spent a Saturday morning making sure hundreds of northwest Ohio needy families look forward to the upcoming holiday season...

Clover Park Technical College.(around the campus)
December 17, 2007... Comedian, actor, activist, educator and philanthropist Bill Cosby brought Clover Park Technical College and the city of Lakewood, Wash., to the center of his nationally acclaimed "Call Out" message. Cosby, who traveled to Lakewood at the...

The Helios Education Foundation, a nonprofit organization with offices in Arizona and Florida, has donated $763,986 to the Maricopa Community Colleges Foundation to support the Maricopa Community Colleges' ACE (Achieving a College Education) program.(Grants & gifts)
December 17, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Helios Education Foundation, a nonprofit organization with offices in Arizona and Florida, has donated $763,986 to the Maricopa Community Colleges Foundation to support the Maricopa Community Colleges' ACE...

Camden County College.(Grants & gifts)
December 17, 2007... The Professional Automotive Technicians Association of Camden County, N.J., recently presented a $3,325 check to the Camden County College Foundation in support of the association's scholarship endowment. The association established the...

St. Louis Community College.(Grants & gifts)
December 17, 2007... St. Louis Community College has received a $350,000 startup grant to become a Gateway to College replication site, a national drop-out recovery model developed by Portland Community College in Oregon. The Gateway to College National Network is...

Kirkwood Community College.(faculty lounge)
December 17, 2007... Paintings created in Iowa will soon be seen by diplomats, dignitaries and everyday citizens in the Horn of Africa. Arbe Bareis was recently contacted by the Art in Embassies program of the U.S. Department of State and invited to have his work...

Los Angeles Community College District .(honors & awards)
December 17, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Officials from the Los Angeles Community College District traveled to Sacramento to accept the state's highest and most prestigious environmental honor, the 2007 Governor's Environmental and Economic Leadership...

The Missouri Community College Association bestowed the honor of the Mel Carnahan Hall of Fame Award on James B. Tatum, president of the Crowder College Board of Trustees.(honors & awards)
December 17, 2007... The Missouri Community College Association bestowed the honor of the Mel Carnahan Hall of Fame Award on James B. Tatum, president of the Crowder College Board of Trustees. The Missouri Community College Association instituted a special award in...

Florida's Manatee Community College President Sarah It. Pappas received a President's Award for Professional Excellence at the Florida Association of Community Colleges statewide convention in Orlando. (honors & awards).
December 17, 2007... Florida's Manatee Community College President Sarah It. Pappas received a President's Award for Professional Excellence at the Florida Association of Community Colleges statewide convention in Orlando. The annual award was established to...

Montgomery County Community College.(APPOINTMENTS)
December 17, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Montgomery County Community College in Blue Bell/Pottstown, Pa. announced the appointment of Cheryl Taylor-Mearhoff as director of dual enrollment initiatives. In her new position, Mearhoff assumes responsibility for...

Elgin Community College.(APPOINTMENTS)
December 17, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Philip Garber has been named executive director of planning and institutional effectiveness at Elgin Community College in Elgin, Ill. Garber brings more than 10 years of experience in higher education, psychometrics,...

Camden County College.(APPOINTMENTS)
December 17, 2007... A longtime Camden County (N.J.) College administrator has been named vice president for academic affairs. Margaret A. Hamilton has been at the college for nearly 20 years. In 1994, she was promoted to dean of math, science and health careers....