Community College Week articles from January 2011

Community College Week archives from January 2011

School enrollment.(Figuring it Out: A look at statistics shaping the higher education landscape)
January 24, 2011... School Enrollment Less than half of three- and four-year olds are enrolled in school. Here is a breakdown of the percentage of various age groups enrolled in school or college: PERCENT ENROLLED AGE GROUP IN...

Reports detail Loughner's troubling encounters with Pima campus police.(around the nation)
January 24, 2011... TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) -- For four years, Jared Loughner was an unremarkable college student, commuting from his home to Pima Community College where he studied yoga and algebra, business management and poetry. But last year, his classroom...

Brown budget plan slashes CC funding.
January 24, 2011... California's community colleges are bracing for a new round of budget cuts after Gov. Jerry Brown proposed reducing state funding for the schools by $400 million. The cuts represent a 6.5 percent reduction and could mean an estimated 350;000...

Transforming teacher education: preparing education majors for 21st century teaching.(SPECIAL REPORT: TEACHER EDUCATION)
January 24, 2011... On Nov. 9, 2010, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan released the national educational technology plan. "The plan," the document says, "recognizes that technology is at the core of virtually every aspect of our daily lives and work, and...

Precious minds: Colleges at center of push for higher standards in early childhood Ed.(SPECIAL REPORT: TEACHER EDUCATION)
January 24, 2011... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] They have been called our most precious resources--young children, infants and toddlers, pre-schoolers and kindergartners, ever precocious and curious. Yet for the last four decades, as women have flooded into the...

Waiting for me.(SPECIAL REPORT: TEACHER EDUCATION)
January 24, 2011... I have wanted to be a teacher as long as I can remember. I currently am attending Mesa Community College, and I am taking the necessary course-work to receive an associate in arts in elementary education. MCC has an outstanding Education Studies...

NC opening new early college campus for high school students.(SPECIAL REPORT: TEACHER EDUCATION)
January 24, 2011... RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- North Carolina plans next fall to open another high school on a college campus that allows students to earn college credit as they earn a high school diploma. The News & Observer of Raleigh reports the latest early...

Pa. woman to represent USA in car painting contest.(SPECIAL REPORT: TEACHER EDUCATION)
January 24, 2011... EASTON, Pa. (AP) -- Kayla Toncik is looking to become an internationally recognized painter in a male-dominated field when she competes next fall at the WorldSkills contest in London. Toncik doesn't paint with brushes on canvas. Her canvases...

Mesa CC building virtual emergency training center.(tracking trends)
January 24, 2011... MESA, Ariz. (AP) -- For retired fire paramedic Larry Thacker, the training available at a virtual incident command center being built in downtown Mesa is "a leap into the future." Thacker now is dean of instruction for career and technical...

Police seek motive in slaying of professor.(tracking trends)
January 24, 2011... SAN DIEGO (AP) -- A popular San Diego college professor who was found slain in his apartment in Tijuana, Mexico, is being remembered as a stickler for grammar who liked to sing karaoke. Henry Acejo, 45 and a native of the Philippines, was...

Man caps off an education 59 years in the making.(tracking trends)
January 24, 2011... GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) -- He's a great-grandfather and retired metal fabricator who rebuilds antique cars, piddles in drag racing and twice turned down a chance to work for NASCAR. Boyd Culpepper of Fountain Inn has lived a full life. But one...

Budget crunch doesn't slow skyrocketing Texas enrollment.(tracking trends)
January 24, 2011... AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Community college enrollment in Texas surged 12.2 percent from 2008 to 2009, a trend officials expect to continue even as educators worry whether funding levels during a state budget crunch can support the growth. Citing...

Pregnancy motivates Nebraska woman to continue education.(tracking trends)
January 24, 2011... <AUBIO> By MARGARET REIST, LINCOLN JOURNAL STAR </AUBIO> LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) -- For a long time, Ashley Gilliland didn't care about her education. She'd given up on high school, was working at McDonald's and didn't look much...

Police charge man in-fatal shooting of QB.
January 24, 2011... INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- A 20-year-old man has been charged with murder in the fatal shooting of community college quarterback Dominique Corder in front of his grandmother's house in Indianapolis early on New Year's day. The charged was filed...

Teacher who stole laptops gets probation.
January 24, 2011... MINOT, N.D, (AP) -- A former Turtle Mountain Community College teacher accused of stealing laptop computers has been sentenced to two years of probation. Martin Henry pleaded guilty in federal court to larceny. Authorities say he took 17...

US Rep. Foxx to head key House education panel.
January 24, 2011... RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- North Carolina Rep. Virginia Foxx has been appointed as chair of the U.S. House subcommittee on higher education. The Republican said that quality higher education will be one of the keys to remaining competitive in the...

Ethics charges dropped against Ala. ex-coach.
January 24, 2011... MOBILE, Ala. (AP) -- Ethics charges have been dismissed against a former Bishop State Community College women's basketball coach. Ruling that Alabama's ethics statute is unconstitutionally vague, Mobile County Circuit Judge Joseph Johnston...

Student loan scheme results in 3-year term.
January 24, 2011... CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) -- A 22-year-old Cedar Rapids man has gotten three years in prison for recruiting fake students to sign up for classes at Kirkwood Community College in a student loan scheme. Cory Bailey had pleaded guilty to mail...

WikiLeaks sheds light on online journalism's future.(technology today)
January 24, 2011... One of the criticisms of the New Media of blogs, wikis, and other strictly online attempts to get the word out is the paucity of what the Old Media of newspapers and magazines does best: investigate. It's fine to comment on what others have...

California's MiraCosta College theatre student and standout actor Sassan Saffari has been awarded the prestigious Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival's Award and scholarship for a play he authored entitled "Beacons of Hope.".(around campus)
January 24, 2011... California's MiraCosta College theatre student and standout actor Sassan Saffari has been awarded the prestigious Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival's Award and scholarship for a play he authored entitled "Beacons of Hope." The...

"Resilience," a ceramic sculpture by Lorraine Goldberg, a 75-year-old student at Michigan's Oakland Community College, has been accepted for display by the Holocaust Memorial Center in Farmington Hills, Mich.(around campus)
January 24, 2011... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The three-section, 50-pound piece is 15 inches high, 27 inches across and 23 inches deep. It portrays representations of the Jewish gravestones seen by Goldberg on a visit to Prague, capitol of the Czech Republic....

The Blackwood Campus of New Jersey's Camden County College in Gloucester Township is home to one of the world's highest-quality populations of swamp pink.(around campus)
January 24, 2011... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Blackwood Campus of New Jersey's Camden County College in Gloucester Township is home to one of the world's highest-quality populations of swamp pink. Swamp pink (Helonias bullata) is a wetlands-dwelling member of...

Bronx Community College of The City University of New York has been awarded a $3.7 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to strengthen its criminal justice program.(grants & gifts)
January 24, 2011... Bronx Community College of The City University of New York has been awarded a $3.7 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to strengthen its criminal justice program. The grant seeks to increase the number of students completing...

Clark State Community College in Ohio announced that after a nationwide search, Scholarship America has selected the college to participate in the Dreamkeepers program.(grants & gifts)
January 24, 2011... Clark State Community College in Ohio announced that after a nationwide search, Scholarship America has selected the college to participate in the Dreamkeepers program. A $75,000 grant will provide funding to set up and begin implementing the...

The Bethesda (Md.) Chapter of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association has made a four-year commitment to Maryland's Montgomery College totaling $120,000.(grants & gifts)
January 24, 2011... The Bethesda (Md.) Chapter of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association has made a four-year commitment to Maryland's Montgomery College totaling $120,000. The gift will support engineering and computer science scholarships...

Dawn E. Langley, dean of general education and developmental studies at North Carolina's Piedmont Community College was recently awarded the highly respected designation of "Senior Specialist" in the area of Creative Leadership by the Fulbright Program.(faculty lounge)
January 24, 2011... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Dawn E. Langley, dean of general education and developmental studies at North Carolina's Piedmont Community College was recently awarded the highly respected designation of "Senior Specialist" in the area of Creative...

The campus where Frank Creech spent some two decades teaching his students the fundamentals of painting, drawing, sculpture and photography is now home to an art gallery in his memory.(faculty lounge)
January 24, 2011... The campus where Frank Creech spent some two decades teaching his students the fundamentals of painting, drawing, sculpture and photography is now home to an art gallery in his memory. The Frank Creech Art Gallery debuted in the Arts Building at...

Debbie L. Sydow, president of Onondaga Community College (N.Y.), was presented with an honorary doctor of humane letters degree at Keuka College's midyear conferral of degrees.(honors & awards)
January 24, 2011... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Debbie L. Sydow, president of Onondaga Community College (N.Y.), was presented with an honorary doctor of humane letters degree at Keuka College's midyear conferral of degrees. Sydow also delivered the address at the...

Keith Houck, vice president of administrative services for Valencia Community College in Florida, received the 2010 Exemplary Practice Award from the organization of Community College Business Officers at their annual conference.(honors & awards)
January 24, 2011... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Keith Houck, vice president of administrative services for Valencia Community College in Florida, received the 2010 Exemplary Practice Award from the organization of Community College Business Officers at their annual...

Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.(honors & awards)
January 24, 2011... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Robin Hoffman, president of Georgia's DeKalb Technical College, has been elected to serve on the executive council of the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. The association is...

New York's Fashion Institute of Technology.(APPOINTMENTS)
January 24, 2011... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Dawn B. Duncan has been appointed vice president for development and alumni relations at New York's Fashion Institute of Technology. Duncan brings to FIT an established track record of achievement in higher education...

Moraine Valley Community College in Illinois.(APPOINTMENTS)
January 24, 2011... Pamela Haney has been appointed dean of science, business and computer technology at Moraine Valley Community College in Illinois. She served previously as assistant dean of academic initiatives and accountability at Moraine Valley. She earned a...

San Jose City College.
January 24, 2011... Barbara R. Kavalier has been named president of San Jose City College (Calif.). Kavalier has a career that spans more than 25 years in community college leadership. She served most recently as vice president of student services at San Diego Mesa...

The Georgia Northwestern Technical College Foundation, Inc.(APPOINTMENTS)
January 24, 2011... The Georgia Northwestern Technical College Foundation, Inc., formed last year through a merger of the foundations of Coosa Valley Technical College and Northwestern Technical College, has elected new officers. Louise Smith was appointed chair....

Calendar.(Calendar)
January 24, 2011... JANUARY, 2011 Jan. 29-Feb. 1 COMMUNITY COLLEGE LEADERSHIP CONSORTIUM * Community College Futures Assembly 2011 Orlando, Fla. www.coe.ufi.edu/futures Jan. 30-Feb. 1 THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE CONFERENCE ON LEGAL ISSUES Orlando,...

Tuition Trends.(Figuring it Out: a look at statistics shaping the higher education landscape)
January 10, 2011... Tuition Trends Tuition and fees at community colleges rose faster than any other sector between 2008-09 and 2009-10. Here is a look at trends and comparisons: 2009-10 2008-09 %Chg. Public Two-Year $2,544...

Ivy Tech takes over 13-story hotel building.
January 10, 2011... INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Ivy Tech State College plans to buy and renovate a 13-story former hotel near its main Indianapolis campus. Ivy Tech officials said the project is being paid for with a $22.9 million grant from the Lilly Endowment. The...

Conn. college transfers hit new record.
January 10, 2011... HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- Officials say a record number of community college students are transferring into Central, Southern, Eastern and Western Connecticut state universities. Almost 1,600 students from Connecticut's 12 community colleges...

NC college wins praise as it marks 50th anniversary.(around the nation)
January 10, 2011... ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. (AP) -- For people like Oliver Etheridge, it's hard to believe that College of The Albemarle was founded so long ago. Etheridge vividly remembers when the old Albemarle Hospital was still being converted into classrooms....

La. GED students also earn college credit.
January 10, 2011... BOSSIER CITY, La. (AP) -- Something had to change in Hillary Moore's life. At 19 she had endured more in the previous three years than most people do in a lifetime: her mother's death, homelessness, providing for her son. Now, she not only...

Gadsden job corps scholarships may get pulled.
January 10, 2011... GADSDEN, Ala. (AP) -- Some students enrolled in a college program through the Gadsden Job Corps Center likely will "lose their scholarships. The Gadsden Times reports that an audit by the U.S. Department of Labor found that 73 of the center's...

Options to earn credit for college expanding in Indiana.(tracking trends)
January 10, 2011... FRANKLIN, Ind. (AP) -- Carah Austin still is in high school but already is a college student. The Whiteland Community High School junior drives to Franklin College in the middle of the school day to take a public speaking course, which will...

Outlook 2011: Dream Act Likely to Be Pushed Aside as GOP Eyes Budget Cuts
January 10, 2011... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When the Dream Act died, dozens of immigrants wearing graduation mortarboards watched from the Visitor's Gallery of the U.S. Senate, their glum faces betraying their deep disappointment. In...

Brown warns Calif. educators of serious fiscal woes ahead.(money tree)
January 10, 2011... LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Gov.-elect Jerry Brown has warned educational leaders to "fasten your seat belts" when he unveils his 201112 state budget proposal. "It's worse than I thought," Brown said of the state's fiscal crisis during an education...

Wyo. panel approves 4.5% tuition hike.(Dollars & Sense)
January 10, 2011... CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) -- The Wyoming Community College Commission approved a 4.5 percent tuition increase at the state's seven community colleges. The tuition increase, which was approved on a 3-2 vote, takes effect in the 201112 school year...

Community corrections campus allows La. inmates to earn GED.
January 10, 2011... LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) -- Antonio Pulliam dropped out of high school at age 17 after his second attempt to complete his freshman year. It took him another five years--along with two arrests--to decide he needed to finish his high school education....

Program points Ind. workers to careers in steel industry.
January 10, 2011... BURNS HARBOR, Ind. (AP) -- Andrew Sweeney said it wasn't part of his initial plan to work in the steel industry. Hired earlier this year as an electrical maintenance technician working at ArcelorMittal Burns Harbor, Sweeney said his thoughts...

Mich. students repeat classes, audit finds.
January 10, 2011... MONROE, Mich. (AP) -- Some students at a Michigan community college don't give up. State of Michigan auditors have raised concerns after finding nearly 700 students had repeated many classes at Monroe County Community College. Auditors...

Biotech leaders laud programs at Mass. schools.
January 10, 2011... BOSTON (AP) -- The life sciences industry in Massachusetts is putting its seal of approval on a biotechnology degree or certificate programs at eight state community colleges. The Massachusetts Life Science Education Consortium has endorsed...

Capps named president at Central Va. CC.
January 10, 2011... RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- A Virginia Western Community College administrator has been named president of Central Virginia Community College. John S. Capps will succeed Darrell Staat, who was named chancellor of South Carolina's community and...

'Slacktivism' is becoming the new activism.(technology today)
January 10, 2011... The Internet has ushered in considerable advances over the past decade. We've witnessed an explosion in Internet video and audio entertainment, mobile access, and multifaceted social networking, among other things. One phenomenon that hasn't...

Ky. official resigns to take Maricopa job.
January 10, 2011... FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) -- State Personnel Secretary Nikki Jackson is stepping down to accept a position as vice chancellor for human resources with the Maricopa Community Colleges in Arizona. Jackson's last day as head of the Kentucky Personnel...

Interim president gets permanent job in Nebraska.
January 10, 2011... SCOTTSBLUFF, Neb. (AP) -- Western Nebraska Community College no longer has an interim president. The college board decided that Todd Holcomb has earned the job, so members voted to remove the adjective and make him president of the school. ...

Ala. court won't revisit ban on double-dipping.
January 10, 2011... MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- The Alabama Supreme Court has refused to reconsider its decision upholding the ban on two-year college employees serving in the Legislature. The Alabama Education Association had asked the state's highest court to...

Study says more Utah students need to finish.
January 10, 2011... SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- State education administrators are setting their sights on having more university students graduate within six years. The effort is being called the "Big Goal." The Deseret News reports the Utah State Board of...

Neb. college program wins national award.
January 10, 2011... LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) -- Southeast Community College's Entrepreneurship Center has won an award in the 2010 Exemplary Initiatives Competition, sponsored by the National Council of Instructional Administrators. SCC's center won the Community and...

Wallace State Community College in Alabama is planning a trip to Germany and the Alps in May 2011.(around campus)
January 10, 2011... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Wallace State Community College in Alabama is planning a trip to Germany and the Alps in May 2011. The educational and sightseeing tour will depart May 19 and return May 28, with an optional extra day in Berlin....

Northwest Ohio residents who found that perfect greeting card this holiday season might be amazed to know that their choice had a connection to Owens Community College commercial photography student Lois Bowlus.(around campus)
January 10, 2011... Northwest Ohio residents who found that perfect greeting card this holiday season might be amazed to know that their choice had a connection to Owens Community College commercial photography student Lois Bowlus, Bowlus' holiday photo depicting...

State College of Florida, Manatee-Sarasota District Board of Trustees recognized SCF student James Mohan at a December meeting for participation in the National Community College Aerospace Scholars program at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston last fall.(around campus)
January 10, 2011... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] State College of Florida, Manatee-Sarasota District Board of Trustees recognized SCF student James Mohan at a December meeting for participation in the National Community College Aerospace Scholars program at NASA's...

Central Community College.(grants & gifts)
January 10, 2011... Central Community College in Nebraska has received a $9.5 million Health Profession Opportunity grant from the federal Health and Human Services Department to prepare more than 1,600 low-income people for careers in health care professions over...

Pennsylvania's Montgomery County Community College has been selected to participate in the AmeriCorps program "Scholars in Service to Pennsylvania," which is administered through the Philadelphia Higher Education Network for Neighborhood Development at the University of Pennsylvania.(grants & gifts)
January 10, 2011... Pennsylvania's Montgomery County Community College has been selected to participate in the AmeriCorps program "Scholars in Service to Pennsylvania," which is administered through the Philadelphia Higher Education Network for Neighborhood...

Michigan Community College Association.(grants & gifts)
January 10, 2011... The Kresge Foundation awarded the Michigan Community College Association a $1.05 million, multi-year grant to launch the new Center for Student Success this year. The new center will accelerate efforts to improve student persistence and degree...

Robert Bridge, music professor at New York's Onondaga Community College, joined many of the world's most talented percussionists at the second annual Shenyang International Percussion Festival in Shenyang, China.(faculty lounge)
January 10, 2011... Robert Bridge, music professor at New York's Onondaga Community College, joined many of the world's most talented percussionists at the second annual Shenyang International Percussion Festival in Shenyang, China. Bridge's snare drum and marimba...

Laura Yarbrough, dean of financial and administrative services at North Carolina's Davidson County Community College, recently received the third annual James Turner Outstanding Leadership Academy Graduate Award.(faculty lounge)
January 10, 2011... Laura Yarbrough, dean of financial and administrative services at North Carolina's Davidson County Community College, recently received the third annual James Turner Outstanding Leadership Academy Graduate Award. She received the award during...

MiraCosta College.(honors & awards)
January 10, 2011... California's MiraCosta College student-focused Extended Opportunity Programs and Services Textbook Loan Program has earned the prestigious statewide Academic Senate Board of Governors' 2010 Exemplary Program Award. The program lends textbooks,...

Phoenix business consultant Ronnie Lopez was named as the 2011 recipient of Arizona's Maricopa Community Colleges Heroes of Education Award at the event's recent kickoff reception.(honors & awards)
January 10, 2011... Phoenix business consultant Ronnie Lopez was named as the 2011 recipient of Arizona's Maricopa Community Colleges Heroes of Education Award at the event's recent kickoff reception. Sponsored by the Maricopa Community Colleges and the Maricopa...

Zachary Hodges, president of Houston Community College's Spring Branch and Katy Campuses, received the Diamond Leadership Award from the West Houston Leadership Institute for his leadership, vision and commitment to West Houston.(honors & awards)
January 10, 2011... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Zachary Hodges, president of Houston Community College's Spring Branch and Katy Campuses, received the Diamond Leadership Award from the West Houston Leadership Institute for his leadership, vision and commitment to...

Calendar.(Conference news)(Calendar)
January 10, 2011... JANUARY, 2011 Jan. 24-26 NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF TRANSFER STUDENTS * 9th Annual Conference Jacksonville, Fla. transferinstitute.unt.edu Jan. 29-Feb. 1 COMMUNITY COLLEGE LEADERSHIP CONSORTIUM * Community College Futures...

Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College.(APPOINTMENTS)
January 10, 2011... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Mary S. Graham has been named president of Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College. A native of Mississippi, Graham earned her Ph.D. in higher education administration from the University of Southern Mississippi. Her...

Judith Cawhorn.(APPOINTMENTS)
January 10, 2011... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Judith Cawhorn, executive director of grant development at Mott Community College in Michigan since 1998, has been named to the 2011 Board of Directors for the Council for Resource Development. She will serve a one-year...

National Coalition of Certification Centers.(APPOINTMENTS)
January 10, 2011... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Shoreline Community College President Lee Lambert has been named vice chair of the board of the National Coalition of Certification Centers, a coalition of business and education representatives charged to support...

Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.(APPOINTMENTS)
January 10, 2011... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Vicki Hawsey, president of Wallace State Community College (Ala.), has been re-elected to the Board of Trustees of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. She is serving her second three-year term. The SACS...

National Association of Biology Teachers.(APPOINTMENTS)
January 10, 2011... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Illinois' Waubonsee Community College Professor of Biology Dan Ward has been elected president of the National Association of Biology Teachers. The NABT provides professional development, supports biology and life...