Community College Week articles from January 2009

Community College Week archives from January 2009

Where the money comes from.(Figuring it Out: A look at statistics shaping the higher education landscape)
January 12, 2009... Where the Money Comes From Community colleges get most of their funding from state and local sources. Revenue Sources by Category and Percentage: State funds 37 Local funds 21 Tuition and fees 17...

Ky. CC leader to forego pay raise, bonus in 2009.
January 12, 2009... VERSAILLES, Ky. (AP) -- The president of the Kentucky Community and Technical College System says he won't accept a raise or bonus in his 2009 compensation package. KCTCS said in a statement that Michael B. McCall has told the board of...

Okla. Colleges want to shoot down campus guns proposal.
January 12, 2009... OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- Legislation that would have allowed some Oklahoma students to carry weapons on college campuses died during the last session of the state legislature, and support seems shaky for the idea in 2009 as well. State Rep....

Despite bleak economy, voters in Detroit-area CC District decisively approve renewal of property tax.(around the nation)
January 12, 2009... Officials at Wayne County Community College District credit an exhaustive information campaign for the landslide vote on Election Day to renew the institution's 1.25-mill property tax. A year after rejecting renewal of a 1.5-mill tax during...

2009 to be marked by challenges, rewards.(FROM THE PUBLISHER)
January 12, 2009... Happy New Year to all our readers! We will be embarking together on a new" and exciting year, full of challenges and the rewards that will come with meeting those challenges. Community colleges will be facing the evolving needs of the...

Early College High School: a bold surge to academic and personal enhancement.
January 12, 2009... Webster's dictionary defines "bold" as "showing a readiness to take risks or face danger, daring and fearless." Could this adjective describe something taking place in academia? The answer is yes, if we're talking about the Early College High...

Calif. budget cuts battering 2-year colleges.(money tree)
January 12, 2009... Budget cuts in the California community college system mean that the state's 110 colleges will turn away an estimated 260,000 students this year, due to lack of money to teach them, a vice chancellor said. "This comes at the worst possible...

Friends in high places: second lady's CC teaching career enlivens school leaders.
January 12, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Takoma Park/Silver Spring campus of Montgomery College is located a mere 6 1/2 miles from the Naval Observatory in Northwest Washington, D.C. That's a small geographic fact college President Brian K. Johnson...

New rules leave student data questions unanswered.(dateline Washington)
January 12, 2009... WASHINGTON -- Final rules leave undefined exactly which state officials can demand what private student data from colleges under amendments to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act. The Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy...

Progress falters on financial aid improvements.(dateline Washington)
January 12, 2009... WASHINGTON -- Efforts to judge progress and planning in managing student financial aid are faltering on nearly all fronts, according to a highly critical federal audit report. The Office of Federal Student Aid "is not meeting its...

Faculty salaries at CC's lag behind those at 4-year schools.(capitol briefs)
January 12, 2009... WASHINGTON -- Faculty salaries in the last academic year averaged $58,522 at two-year colleges, according to a new report by the the National Center for Education Statistics reports. Instructors earned on average about $15,000 less than...

Student aid office rewriting direct loan deferment forms.(capitol briefs)
January 12, 2009... WASHINGTON -- The Office of Federal Student Aid is revising the forms Direct Loan borrowers use when they seek deferment of repayment. The office estimates 737,209 borrowers will need one of the seven different forms--disability, continuing...

House spending panel rejects call for NASA fellowship cuts.(capitol briefs)
January 12, 2009... WASHINGTON -- During the brief December legislative session, the House Appropriations reported three funding bills for the fiscal year that began in October. It rejected the Bush Administration's call to cut funding for science education...

Colleges catering to growing ranks of transfer, older students.(tracking trends)
January 12, 2009... ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Some head to a four-year college campus after two years at a community college. Others wait nearly a lifetime, delayed by jobs, kids and real-world responsibilities. Few find time for fraternities, football games and...

Maine scholarship grant program for babies is now statewide.(tracking trends)
January 12, 2009... AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) -- More than 100 babies and their parents recently joined Maine Gov. John Baldacci to celebrate the expansion of a program that will make $500 college savings grants available to every child born in the state as of Jan. 1,...

Critics riled after learning that new job at Florida college could triple House Speaker Sansom's retirement benefits.(politics & policy)
January 12, 2009... TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- Florida House Speaker Ray Sansom's new deal with a Panhandle college could pay him handsomely for the rest of his life. Based on the state's retirement calculation table, the Republican's retirement benefits could...

Wyoming weighs centralizing oversight of state's 2-year schools.(politics & policy)
January 12, 2009... CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) -- Draft legislation awaiting review in Wyoming would give the state's Community College Commission considerably more oversight of construction and academic offerings at the state's community colleges. The state...

Tulsa CC takes steps to unravel severe financial aid delays.(money tree)
January 12, 2009... TULSA, Okla. (AP) -- Problems at Tulsa Community College left as many as 1,500 students without their financial aid last semester. In response, TCC hired an external financial aid company to look at the college's operation and help process the...

Ohio colleges hope to avoid funding cuts and tuition hikes.(money tree)
January 12, 2009... COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- As money gets tighter, Ohio's colleges and universities may need to work together to limit overlapping degree programs in order to balance their budgets, the leader of the state's higher education system said. ...

Montana Univ. board rejects plans for new 2-year college.
January 12, 2009... HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- The board overseeing the Montana university system has voted against a proposed community college in the Bitterroot Valley. The Board of Regents agreed unanimously that the Montana Legislature should reject the idea....

To meet need for engineers, Ala. may offer two-year degree.
January 12, 2009... MOBILE, Ala. (AP) -- Alabama's community colleges may offer a new associate degree in engineering next fall to meet industry demand. Figures from Gov. Bob Riley's Office of Workforce Development show that Alabama needs 1,100 new engineers a...

Trustee at Calif. CC resigns over double dipping travel expenses.
January 12, 2009... LODI, Calif. (AP) -- A San Joaquin Delta College trustee has resigned after pleading no contest to charges she filed duplicate expense reports for the same trips she had taken. Delta officials say Maria Elena Serna of Lodi was reimbursed by...

Georgia board names three leaders to head merged schools.
January 12, 2009... ATLANTA (AP) -- The Georgia Technical College System board has named leaders of three schools formed by mergers. Thirteen of Georgia's technical colleges will become six schools on July 1. The board recently named Bobby Arnold, now...

Technology will continue to evolve--and shrink--in 2009.(technology today)
January 12, 2009... "If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me." Shakespeare's words are just as wise today as when he wrote them, but that hasn't stopped people from trying to divine the...

Allan Hancock College.(around campus)
January 12, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Darlene Littleberry may have started out at another school, but she found a home at California's Allan Hancock College. Four years ago, when Littleberry decided to go back to school, the college closest to her home...

Seminole Community College.(around campus)
January 12, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Seminole Community College's Top Alcohol Funny Car was officially unveiled during the Central Florida International Auto Show in Orlando. The car, which will run on ethanol, shared the stage with hundreds of new 2009...

Anoka-Ramsey Community College.(around campus)
January 12, 2009... Through its newly developed Workforce Retraining Initiative, Anoka-Ramsey Community College in Minnesota is offering the state's unemployed workforce grants covering half the cost of tuition on all credit and non-credit courses for the spring...

Owens Community College.(around campus)
January 12, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Pink volleyballs, pink t-shirts, pink cookies, pink cupcakes, pink ribbons and pink socks were appropriately abundant on a recent Saturday afternoon at Ohio's Owens Community College Student Health and Activities...

Bronx Community College, part of the City University of New York, has been awarded one of the largest grants in its history--$2.4 million over a two-year period--from the U.S. Department of Education.(grants & gifts)
January 12, 2009... Bronx Community College, part of the City University of New York, has been awarded one of the largest grants in its history--$2.4 million over a two-year period--from the U.S. Department of Education. The money will be used to generate greater...

The board of trustees of HACC, Central Pennsylvania's Community College, has accepted a $250,000 grant for a technical college program to be delivered by the Gettysburg campus at the Franklin County Career Technology Center.(grants & gifts)
January 12, 2009... The board of trustees of HACC, Central Pennsylvania's Community College, has accepted a $250,000 grant for a technical college program to be delivered by the Gettysburg campus at the Franklin County Career Technology Center. At the site, HACC...

The St. Louis Community College Foundation recently received an $85,000 grant from AT&T.(grants & gifts)
January 12, 2009... The St. Louis Community College Foundation recently received an $85,000 grant from AT&T. to support a high school retention program and to prepare students for engineering- and technology-related programs in higher education. The grant will...

South Plains College in Texas received a $1.6 million Community-Based Job Training Grant from the Department of Labor.(grants & gifts)
January 12, 2009... South Plains College in Texas received a $1.6 million Community-Based Job Training Grant from the Department of Labor. The grant is being used to increase the college's capacity to train, graduate and place more licensed vocational nurses and...

Nadia Hedhli is a young, respected professional in biomedicine who can sometimes be found lecturing at New Jersey's Hudson County Community College (HCCC) as an adjunct professor.(Faculty lounge)
January 12, 2009... Nadia Hedhli is a young, respected professional in biomedicine who can sometimes be found lecturing at New Jersey's Hudson County Community College (HCCC) as an adjunct professor. At first glance, she is a typical professor, but her story reads...

Don Sykora, an automotive technology faculty member at Cicero, Ill.'s Morton College, was selected to serve as a member of the board of directors to the North American Council of Automotive Teachers (NACAT).(Faculty lounge)
January 12, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Don Sykora, an automotive technology faculty member at Cicero, Ill.'s Morton College, was selected to serve as a member of the board of directors to the North American Council of Automotive Teachers (NACAT). Sykora's...

Mary McDaniel, vice chair of the board of the Southwest Tennessee Community College Foundation, is the recipient of the Tennessee Board of Regents Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Philanthropy.(honors & awards)
January 12, 2009... Mary McDaniel, vice chair of the board of the Southwest Tennessee Community College Foundation, is the recipient of the Tennessee Board of Regents Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Philanthropy. The award, bestowed annually, recognizes its...

Illinois' Lewis and Clark Community College soccer player Kaylee Neutzling is the National Soccer Coaches Athletic Association's (NSCAA) Junior College Division I Player of the Year for 2008.(honors & awards)
January 12, 2009... Illinois' Lewis and Clark Community College soccer player Kaylee Neutzling is the National Soccer Coaches Athletic Association's (NSCAA) Junior College Division I Player of the Year for 2008. Neutzling, a member of the 2008 National Junior...

Clark College.(honors & awards)
January 12, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Phoenix, the student art and literary magazine of Clark College, in Vancouver, Wash., has been named the best college literary art magazine in the country by the American Scholastic Press Association. This is the...

Community College of Allegheny County.(APPOINTMENTS)
January 12, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Paul Swearengin has been selected as controller of the Community College of Allegheny County in Pennsylvania. Swearengin comes to the school from Massachusetts, where he was most recently the dean of administration...

Association of Community College Trustees.(APPOINTMENTS)
January 12, 2009... Bakari Lee, a trustee of New York's Hudson County Community College, has been designated an associate member to the Governance and Bylaws Committee of the Association of Community College Trustees. The committee is responsible for reviewing...

Prairie State College.(APPOINTMENTS)
January 12, 2009... Jaime Miller was recently hired as the director of enrollment services at Prairie State College in Chicago Heights, Ill. In her new position, Miller provides leadership in enrollment, recruitment, registration, retention and records. Her...

Montgomery College.(APPOINTMENTS)
January 12, 2009... Montgomery College in Maryland has appointed Brett Eaton as the new director of communications, managing the school's Office of Communications, which includes the areas of media relations, marketing and creative services/publications. Eaton has...

San Diego City College.(APPOINTMENTS)
January 12, 2009... California's San Diego City College has named Jerry M. Davis as its new vice president of administrative services, overseeing the school's $37 million business operations. The college employs more than 1,200 faculty and staff and enrolls 17,000...

Educational attainment.(Figuring it Out: A look at statistics shaping the higher education landscape)
January 26, 2009... About 48 percent of the country's public school teachers hold a master's degree or better. The percentage distribution of public school teachers by highest degree earned, 2004. Higher than master's 7.2 Less than bachelor's ...

Anticipating demand, colleges revive dormant nuclear ed programs.(around the nation)
January 26, 2009... RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- Colleges and universities are developing or restarting nuclear-education programs, often working with energy companies to replenish the industry's aging work force in anticipation of new plants going online to meet...

Former Miss. college worker indicted for embezzlement.
January 26, 2009... BOONEVILLE, Miss. (AP) -- A former employee of Northeast Mississippi Community College is charged with illegally taking more than $50,000 from the school. State Auditor Stacey Pickering said Seleta Howell, a former accounts receivable...

North Dakota elementary ed program fills Wyoming gap.
January 26, 2009... VALLEY CITY, N.D. (AP) -- Valley City State University is offering an elementary education program to students at a Wyoming community college as it searches outside the state's borders for prospective students. Seven students at Northwest...

Economy will block plan for free tuition, governor says.
January 26, 2009... RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue is dialing down some expectations for her first year in office, including plans to offer free community college tuition. Before taking office earlier this month, Perdue said she knew...

Myths and realities.(SPECIAL REPORT: TEACHER EDUCATION)
January 26, 2009... As community colleges begin to emerge as a solution to the teacher quality and shortage issue, the National Association of Community College Teacher Education Programs is attempting to dispel persistent misperceptions people may have about the...

Higher education gallops (sort of) into grateful Wickenburg.(tracking trends)
January 26, 2009... PHOENIX (AP) -- Twice each week, Estrella Mountain Community College instructor Michael Maguire in Arizona gets in his car and drives for more than an hour to the small tourist town of Wickenburg, a recreation of the Old West. He's not...

A helping hand: colleges, school districts collaborate to boost STEM education.(SPECIAL REPORT: TEACHER EDUCATION)(Cover story)
January 26, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The grant seemed to be accomplishing just what it was meant to accomplish. Using funds from the Arizona Board of Regents, the National Center for Teacher Education at the Maricopa Community College District was...

New budget submitted by Oregon Governor leaves State's Community Colleges feeling shortchanged.(money tree)
January 26, 2009... OORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- In mid-November, before a room packed with teachers and administrators, Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski called education his "absolute top priority." Weeks later, he seemed to make good on his promise when he unveiled his...

Oklahoma loan applications increase as lending pool shrinks.(money tree)
January 26, 2009... OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- Fewer banks are participating in the Oklahoma Student Loan Authority's college loan program as credit markets have tightened across the country, but applications for loans have jumped 34 percent since July. The...

In Colorado, 1 in 3 new college students need remedial classes.(money tree)
January 26, 2009... DENVER (AP) -- About 30 percent of new college students in Colorado need remedial courses in math, reading and writing--and the number is increasing in some metro area high schools. At Denver's Abraham Lincoln High School, 78 percent of...

New GI Bill rules bar housing benefits for distance learners.(dateline Washington)
January 26, 2009... WASHINGTON -- Military service members and veterans who want to transfer their educational benefits to the new GI Bill might be getting a break. They could be eligible for a refund of all or part of the $1,200 mandatory contribution they...

Vets get preference in job training programs.(capital briefs)
January 26, 2009... WASHINGTON -- Military veterans and their spouses can bump to the top of the line for participation in certain job training programs. The Veterans' Employment and Training Service at the U.S. Department of Labor issued final rules...

Teams being formed to write new rules under HEOA.(capital briefs)
January 26, 2009... WASHINGTON -- Five negotiated rulemaking committees will help the Office of Postsecondary Education draft regulations to implement the Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008. The five teams will deal with: * General loan issues, including...

Private schools lag in offering distance learning.(capital briefs)
January 26, 2009... WASHINGTON -- Distance education has become the norm at public two-year colleges, a federal study shows. But private two-year institutions are lagging far behind, according to a new report by the National Center for Education Statistics....

Maryland student-artist finds new creative outlet through sculpture.
January 26, 2009... FREDERICK, Md. (AP) -- For years, Deborah LaGarde was an accomplished landscape painter, exhibiting her work in the 1990s at Veerhof Galleries and Alia Rogers Gallery in Washington's Georgetown neighborhood, the Watergate Gallery and at the Art...

Donation means arts center at Ala. College to house $9.5 million China collection.
January 26, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] CULLMAN, Ala. (AP) -- World War II was raging when Evelyn Burrow began collecting antique fine china and porcelain pieces. Burrow, who at the time was running the local Western Union office in Cullman, bought a...

Nev. 2-year college enrollments spike due to faltering economy.
January 26, 2009... RENO, Nev. (AP) -- Community colleges cross Nevada say they are seeing jumps in enrollment as laid off workers or those fearful of losing their jobs seek to update their job skills. At Truckee Meadows Community College in Reno, enrollment...

Judge enforces settlement between Alabama College and administrator.(legal corner)
January 26, 2009... A federal judge in Alabama has upheld an agreement in which a white Trenholm State Technical College employee, who was passed over for promotion, settled her suit alleging race and gender discrimination. U.S. District Judge Mark Fuller...

Poor economy has Wisconsin rethinking plan for dairy farm.
January 26, 2009... MARSHFIELD, Wis. (AP) -- The poor economy has organizers scaling back plans for a dairy school in Marathon County in central Wisconsin. The Dairyland State Academy Board and Northcentral Technical College are partnering on the project. ...

Immigrants get retraining in health field at Wash. College.
January 26, 2009... DES MOINES, Wash. (AP) -- A program at Highline Community College helps immigrants trained as health professionals in their home countries obtain credentials to continue their careers. The Puget Sound Welcome Back Center at the Des Moines...

Bill to offer at-risk high school students college credits.
January 26, 2009... CHEYENNE, Wyo, (AP) -- Wyoming lawmakers are looking at new ways to discourage high school students from dropping out of school. A bill prepared for the new legislative session would encourage at-risk students to take college credit...

Laramie gets turbine for its program in wind tech training.
January 26, 2009... CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) -- Wyoming's Laramie Community College has acquired an 18,000-pound wind turbine to help students prepare for work in the wind-power industry. Duke Energy and Cheyenne Light, Fuel and Power donated a turbine damaged...

Schools in ND, Manitoba plan joint program in wind tech.
January 26, 2009... DEVILS LAKE, N.D. (AP) -- Officials from Lake Region State College in Devils Lake and Assiniboine Community College in Brandon, Manitoba, want to collaborate on a wind turbine technician training program. Doug Darling, Lake Region's vice...

Graduation at Pierpont marks school's new independent ID.
January 26, 2009... FAIRMONT, W.Va. (AP) -- Pierpont Community & Technical College is celebrating its new role as an independent school. Formerly part of Fairmont State University, Pierpont recently held its first independent graduation ceremony. Pierpont...

Avoid becoming an internet victim through some easy steps.(technology today)
January 26, 2009... People have been trying to cheat and otherwise victimize one another since, no doubt, we learned to walk uptight. On the other hand, some people subordinate all or almost all personal goals to help their fellow man and woman. The vast majority...

Dressed in bunker gear and ready for action, cadets from Lamar Institute of Technology's fire academy in Beaumont, Texas, waited for the sky to turn dark.(around campus)
January 26, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Dressed in bunker gear and ready for action, cadets from Lamar Institute of Technology's fire academy in Beaumont, Texas, waited for the sky to turn dark. With family and friends watching, they put on their helmets...

The innovative designs of three Fashion Institute of Technology students are included in flat knitting machine builder Stoll's current Trend Collection for Autumn/Winter 2009-10.(around campus)
January 26, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The innovative designs of three Fashion Institute of Technology students are included in flat knitting machine builder Stoll's current Trend Collection for Autumn/Winter 2009-10. Entitled "Nomads," the designs are...

Tammi Harvey has accepted the position as the first principal of Edison State College's Collegiate High School in Punta Gorda, Fla.(around campus)
January 26, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Tammi Harvey has accepted the position as the first principal of Edison State College's Collegiate High School in Punta Gorda, Fla. An unlikely Edison student, Harvey grew up in Arizona. She is a first-generation...

A $106,500 grant from Meyer Memorial Trust will help pave the way for the electronic delivery of core healthcare classes at Clark College in Vancouver, Wash., which will purchase videoconferencing and production equipment to provide new learning options for students interested in healthcare careers.(grants & gifts)
January 26, 2009... A $106,500 grant from Meyer Memorial Trust will help pave the way for the electronic delivery of core healthcare classes at Clark College in Vancouver, Wash., which will purchase videoconferencing and production equipment to provide new...

Quinsigamond Community College in Massachusetts has received a $95,849 grant from the Fairlawn Foundation to upgrade its nursing education programs with state-of-the-art medical simulation technology equipment in its on-campus laboratory and off-campus clinical practice settings.(grants & gifts)
January 26, 2009... Quinsigamond Community College in Massachusetts has received a $95,849 grant from the Fairlawn Foundation to upgrade its nursing education programs with state-of-the-art medical simulation technology equipment in its on-campus laboratory and...

Lone Star College-Montgomery and NOV ReedHycalog, a worldwide drill bit manufacturer with an advanced technology and manufacturing facility in Conroe, recently partnered to secure a $301,000 Skills Development Grant from the Texas Workforce Commission.(grants & gifts)
January 26, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Lone Star College-Montgomery and NOV ReedHycalog, a worldwide drill bit manufacturer with an advanced technology and manufacturing facility in Conroe, recently partnered to secure a $301,000 Skills Development Grant...

New Jersey's Hudson County Community College has been awarded a $663,000 College Bound Program grant to provide 60 high school students with after-school and Saturday instruction and tutoring, counseling and cultural enrichment activities each year for four years.(grants & gifts)
January 26, 2009... New Jersey's Hudson County Community College has been awarded a $663,000 College Bound Program grant to provide 60 high school students with after-school and Saturday instruction and tutoring, counseling and cultural enrichment activities each...

The job market today is more competitive than ever, leading many people to consider returning to school to burnish their skills or gain new ones.(faculty lounge)
January 26, 2009... The job market today is more competitive than ever, leading many people to consider returning to school to burnish their skills or gain new ones. But pursing a college or career/technical degree does require an investment of both time and...

The winning Middlesex Community College team.(grants & gifts)
January 26, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The winning Middlesex Community College team, from left: Scot Weisman, Professor Robeert Kaulfuss, Justijn Durso, Robert Searle, Damian Gray, Ben Blieden, Adam Nichols, Boston Federal Reserve Director of Education...

Randy Dominguez.(honors & awards)
January 26, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Randy Dominguez, dean of distance learning for Tulsa Community College in Oklahoma, recently received the Oklahoma Distance Learning Association's top honor, its award for outstanding leadership in the field of...

Mary Rittling.(honors & awards)
January 26, 2009... Mary Rittling, president of Davidson County Community College, was named recently as a 2008 "Women Extraordinaire" in the Piedmont Triad of North Carolina. She received the honor during an awards event in Greensboro. The Women Extraordinaire...

Middlesex Community College.(honors & awards)
January 26, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Students in Massachusetts' Middlesex Community College's Business and Economics Club are community college national champions in the Federal Reserve Bank's annual College Fed Challenge Competition, held in December....

Beth Batturs.(honors & awards)
January 26, 2009... Beth Batturs, director of nursing at Anne Arundel Community College in Maryland, received the 2008 Nurse Recognition Award recently from the National Organization for Associate Degree Nursing Foundation. The foundation developed the award in...

Clark College.(APPOINTMENTS)
January 26, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Clark College in Vancouver, Wash., has announced two appointments. Blake Bowers has been appointed dean of health sciences. Bowers holds both bachelor's and master's degrees from Southern Oregon University and a...

Tulsa Community College.(APPOINTMENTS)
January 26, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Ric N. Baser has been appointed vice president for academic affairs at Tulsa Community College in Oklahoma, where he will oversee a variety of functions for the college, including distance learning, financial aid,...

Tarrant County College Northeast Campus.(APPOINTMENTS)
January 26, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Timothy Gilbert, former dean of business/social sciences at Tarrant County College Northeast Campus in Texas, has been named associate vice chancellor for teaching and learning services for the Tarrant college...