Community College Week articles from May 2004

Community College Week archives from May 2004

Bush speech at college convention draws mixed reviews.(around the nation)
May 10, 2004... MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- About 2,000 educators at the American Association of Community Colleges' annual convention listened to President Bush's vision of the future for community colleges and how they'll interact with the business community. ...

Report: N.Y. college system 'job-training powerhouse'.(around the nation)
May 10, 2004... NEW YORK -- With college-based employment training taking center stage in President Bush's jobs initiative, a report says the nation's largest higher-education system has become "a job-training powerhouse" with sharp growth in workforce...

Faculty-salary survey says two-year colleges still lag in reporting.(around the nation)
May 10, 2004... WASHINGTON -- For the third straight year, community-college participation rates in an annual faculty-salary survey are much lower than those of all other higher-education institutions. This year's report by the American Association of...

Navigating the cyber classroom.(point of view)
May 10, 2004... At the Community College of Vermont where I've taught for several ears, I also serve in a couple of faculty mentoring roles. As a distance-teaching mentor, my role is to help instructors overcome their own hesitancy about or fear of distance...

Lighting up New Jersey's Stars.(point of view)
May 10, 2004... New Jersey's state and local governments are increasingly turning to community colleges to spur the educational and economic growth of our communities. The reason is very simply because community colleges help students and businesses rise to...

Learning virtually: harried commuters, working mothers and traveling soldiers are all pursuing higher education online, a trend prompting some educators to wonder if traditional teaching methods will one day be history.
May 10, 2004... The jury is still out on distance education, but everyone agrees on one point: It's here to stay. As much as colleges struggle with the growing pains of the distance-learning boom, most are committing ever more time and resources to it. ...

College access still tied to income, report says.(Dateline: Washington)
May 10, 2004... Income, or lack thereof, may still be the single most important factor determining both college access and completion, according to a study soon-to-be published by the Mellon Foundation. "Is the glass half full or half empty?" Dr. William...

Clinton touts plan for nontraditional students.(Dateline: Washington)(Hillary Rodham Clinton)
May 10, 2004... America must start facing he reality that nontraditional students are becoming the norm throughout higher education--and facing that reality means meeting their needs, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., said during a live interactive Web cast...

Bill spurs debate about building safety at Calif. colleges.(around the nation)
May 10, 2004... SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- A bill working its way through the California legislature could streamline campus-construction projects for the state's 109 community colleges, just as they are preparing to pump $13 billion into new facilities. But the...

Calif. univ. won't get paid for building on college property, court rules.(California private university Azusa Pacific University)(Mt. San Jacinto Community College District)
May 10, 2004... RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- A private university that built on property that it knew a community-college district wanted to acquire through eminent domain isn't entitled to compensation for the value of the new facility, the California Court of Appeal...

Faculty salaries not driving tuition hikes, report finds.
May 10, 2004... WASHINGTON--Increases in average faculty salaries are at their lowest point in more than 30 years, according to an annual faculty salary survey by the American Association of University Professors. Faculty-salary increases are generally thought...

La. colleges stock shipyards with skilled work force.
May 10, 2004... NEW ORLEANS -- The head of Louisiana's largest private employer, Avondale Shipyards, is crediting the Louisiana Community and Technical College System with providing the workforce training needed to keep the shipbuilding operation in Louisiana....

Ethics panel to probe gambling at Iowa College.
May 10, 2004... DES MOINES, Iowa (PIP) -- A state ethics board will investigate whether laws were violated by alleged gambling at a state community college. "What we'd like to know is whether any government property or any employee's time was used to make...

Vt. college trustees OK tuition hike.
May 10, 2004... LYNDONVILLE, Vt. (AP) -- Trustees of the state colleges have approved tuition increases between 5.5 and 7.5 percent at the system's five schools, just a day after the governor said he would have opposed a hike just a few tenths of a percentage...

Kerry campaigns at Fla. college.(around campus)(John Kerry)(Palm Beach Community College)
May 10, 2004... Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., fielded questions at a town-hall meeting April 19 at Palm Beach Community College in Lake Worth, Fla. Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., joined Kerry to discuss the new Job options he had...

Computer repair: when the bit hits the fan.(A Tech Perspective)
May 10, 2004... If you use a PC or Mac for business purposes, and it breaks, and you're like many business people, you're dead in the water. In a home setting, a broken personal computer is no fun, either. Some people like fixing PCs, but if you're among those...

Arizona College places third in IT survey.(Bits & Bytes)(Arizona Western College)
May 10, 2004... YUMA, Ariz. (AP) -- Arizona Western College has been recognized for its information technology service. The American Association of Community Colleges and the Digital Education Center announced that AWC tied for third place nationally in its...

High-tech homeland-security center launched at Ohio College.(Bits & Bytes)
May 10, 2004... TOLEDO, Ohio -- Owens Community College recently broke ground for a new $10 million fire and police training center for homeland security. The new facility will feature a command and simulation center for regional anti-terrorism and...

Calif. schools team up to turn out more engineers.(Bits & Bytes)
May 10, 2004... SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) -- The University of California, Santa Cruz, is teaming up with Silicon Valley community colleges to turn out more engineers with four-year degrees. The arrangement with Foothill College and De Anza College is...

De Anza College.(Appointments)
May 10, 2004... Jeanine Hawk has been named vice president of finance and college services at De Anza College in Cupertino, Calif. Most recently, Hawk was the finance director for the city of Medford, Ore. She earned a bachelor's degree from the University of...

Virginia Community College System.(Appointments)
May 10, 2004... Dr. H. Neil Matkin is the new vice chancellor for information technology at the Virginia Community College System in Richmond, Va. Previously, Matkin was the chief administrative officer of the Illinois Century Network. He holds a bachelor's...

SUNY's Morrisville State College.(Appointments)(Timothy S. Williams)
May 10, 2004... Timothy S. Williams has been named associate dean for enrollment management at SUNY's Morrisville State College in Morrisville, N.Y. Before taking this post Williams was vice president for enrollment management at The Sage Colleges in Troy,...

Keir new chancellor of Eastern Iowa.(Presidents)(Patricia Keir)(Eastern Iowa Community College District)
May 10, 2004... The Eastern Iowa Community College District has announced the appointment of Dr. Patricia Keir as the next chancellor. Keir has been president of Miramar College in California's San Diego Community College District since 1999. She holds a...

Griffin takes helm at W.Va. College.(Presidents)
May 10, 2004... Dr. Ervin V. Griffin Sr. has been appointed president of the West Virginia State Community and Technical College in Institute, W.Va. Previously he was the provost and chief operating officer of the college. Griffin received his bachelor's...

Kingsborough taps Malamet as interim head.(Presidents)(Fred B. Malamet)
May 10, 2004... Dr. Fred B. Malamet has been appointed interim president of CUNY's Kingsborough Community College in Manhattan Beach, N.Y. Malamet, a professor in the department of behavioral sciences and human services at Kingsborough, earned his bachelor's...

Dr. Tim Dong, president of MiraCosta College in Oceanside, Calif., will retire from his position June 30.(Retirements)
May 10, 2004... Dr. Tim Dong, president of MiraCosta College in Oceanside, Calif., will retire from his position June 30. He has been at the college for 10 years, having previously served as a dean for affirmative action programs and assistant vice chancellor...

Dr. Dean P. VanTrease, president and CEO of Tulsa Community College in Tulsa, Okla., will retire July 1.(Retirements)
May 10, 2004... Dr. Dean P. VanTrease, president and CEO of Tulsa Community College in Tulsa, Okla., will retire July 1. VanTrease has served in a leadership role at the college for 34 years. He was previously on the founding staff of the Dallas County...

Coming events.(Career Connections)(Calendar)
May 10, 2004... May 13, Teaching. "The Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method," seminar, Aesthetic Realism Foundation, in New York, NY. Contact: Lois Mason, Aesthetic Realism Foundation, 141 Greene Street, New York, NY 10012; (212) 777-4490,...

Kerry pushes jobs during visit to Mich. College.(around the nation)
May 24, 2004... ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) -- Uncertainty over jobs, worry about Iraq and concern for the environment drew hundreds of John Kerry supporters to Washtenaw Community College recently as the Democratic presidential candidate talked about his plan to...

Former Neb. student loses defamation suit.(around the nation)
May 24, 2004... LINCOLN, Neb. -- A former Southeast Community College student, who had been the subject of frequent harassment complaints from other students, has lost a suit alleging defamation, invasion of privacy and violation of his equal protection, due...

Underpaid and overworked.(point of view)
May 24, 2004... The popular image of community-college faculty brings to mind a group of well-established, well-paid, full-time, tenured professors with the freedom to teach their classes as they choose. This, like alligators in the sewers, can be...

Some sunshine for Florida colleges.(What Others Are Saying)
May 24, 2004... From The Tampa Tribune, in Tampa, Fla. A year ago, things looked grim for Florida's university system. Lawmakers cut its budget by $40 million and refused to reimburse the cost of 16,000 new students crammed into classrooms. Community...

All things not being equal: when it comes to teaching, adjuncts get the short end of the stick: many are forced to juggle multiple jobs with paltry salaries and no benefits, not to mention no office space or paid office hours. So why do they do it?(working conditions for part-time faculty at community colleges)
May 24, 2004... As a student, Michael Ward said he always admired his professors for their devotion and willingness to help students. School, he said, made him a better person, and because of that he wanted to give back through teaching. These days, Ward...

Republicans' HEA bill prompts rebukes from democrats, educators.(dateline Washington)(Higher Education Act)
May 24, 2004... Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives have proposed legislation which they say would expand access to higher education for more low- and middle-income students by strengthening Pell Grants, reducing loan costs and fees, and breaking...

Congress weighs Perkins reforms.(dateline Washington)
May 24, 2004... For the first time this year, the U.S. Congress has heard testimony on the reauthorization of the Perkins Act and opposition to a Bush administration proposal to cut its funding. Appearing before the House of Representatives Subcommittee on...

New study calls for boosting need-based aid.(dateline Washington)
May 24, 2004... Just as the U.S. Congress debates a Bush administration proposal to revise the formulas for campus-based financial aid programs, a new study is lauding the positive impact that a college education can have on what it calls "our shared economic,...

Congratulations to the recipients of the 2004 NISOD Excellence Awards.(National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development)
May 24, 2004... Aiken Technical College * Susann Deason * Aims Community College * Jeanine Lewis Algonquin College * Janet Crupi ** Pancho Deriger ** Gail Gaffney ** Ralph King ** Peter Larock ** Geoff Mace ** Mario Ramsay ** David Steele * Allan Hancock...

Will student-visa rules leave the U.S. behind?(NAFSA Association of International Educators)
May 24, 2004... In response to continuing concerns about decreasing foreign-student enrollments at U.S. institutions, NAFSA, the Association of International Educators, has released a proposal to streamline the visa-approval process for international students....

Ark. student dies from stabbing.
May 24, 2004... STUTTGART, Ark. (AP) -- A college student whose mother said he was stabbed while trying to break up a fight at a party after a high-school prom has died from his wound. Allen Fortune, 22, a student at Phillips Community College, was home...

Calif. college officials get 24 percent pay hike.
May 24, 2004... COSTA MESA, Calif. (AP) -- The Coast Community College District has approved 24 percent salary increases for six top administrators despite tight budgets caused by a $3.5 million loss in state funding. The district had to cm 1,200 classes...

Ariz. man convicted of murdering student; could face death penalty.(Pima Community College)
May 24, 2004... TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) -- A 30-year-old Tucson man could face the death penalty after being convicted of the first-degree murder of a community-college student. A Pima County Superior Court jury deliberated less than two days before returning...

Layoffs may hit Calif. school.
May 24, 2004... SANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP) -- Budget woes at a Santa Rosa college may force the school to begin what is believed to be its first round of layoffs since the school opened 86 years ago. Officials at Santa Rosa Junior College say they could be...

N.C. colleges to play larger role in biotech job training.
May 24, 2004... North Carolina's community colleges could soon be playing a larger part in providing jobs for the state's growing biotechnology industry, thanks to a unanimous vote by the State Board of Community Colleges approving BioNetwork's plans for $4.4...

Colo. Gov. signs first-in-the-nation college voucher plan.
May 24, 2004... DENVER (AP) -- Gov. Bill Owens recently signed Colorado's first-in-the-nation college voucher plan into law, calling it a landmark step that will empower thousands of students and force colleges to compete for students. Owens said the...

Ky. college reaches out to Hispanic students.(Lexington Community College)
May 24, 2004... LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) -- Lexington Community College is reaching out to Hispanic students, including undocumented immigrants. The school is recruiting students through a task force it organized with Fayette County Schools and the Lexington...

Travel photography students from Lakeland Community College in Kirtland, Ohio, recently travelled to Oaxaca, Mexico.(around campus)
May 24, 2004... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Caption: Travel photography students from Lakeland Community College in Kirtland, Ohio, recently travelled to Oaxaca, Mexico. They accompanied department head and class instructor Dr. Bruce Cline in discovering and...

Laptop or desktop? Decisions, decisions.(technology today)
May 24, 2004... One remarkable reality of the personal-computer revolution is that computers and their components are growing ever faster, smaller and cheaper. One dilemma this has led to, for many buyers, is deciding just what type of computer to buy when...

A May Breeze?(Bits & Bytes)(Macromedia Inc.)
May 24, 2004... SAN FRANCISCO -- Macromedia is offering higher-education faculty and staff a free Breeze account for the month of May. Macromedia Breeze allows educators and administrators to transform teaching, collaboration, and research by building online...

Mass. college unveils online trade database.(Bits & Bytes)(MISERTrade Institute Holyoke Community College, Massachusetts)(MISERTrade source of international trade statistics)(Brief Article)
May 24, 2004... HOLYOKE, Mass. -- With construction on its new Kittredge Business Center underway, Holyoke Community College announced its newest resource for regional business growth: the MISERTrade Institute. MISERTrade is an online database for...

Forsyth Technical Community College.(Appointments)(Dr. Cynthia Bioteau appointed vice president of instructional services)(Brief Article)
May 24, 2004... Dr. Cynthia Bioteau was recently appointed vice president of instructional services at Forsyth Technical Community College in Winston-Salem, N.C. Most recently, she was the dean for developmental learning and academic support at Bunker Hill...

Pima Community College.(Appointments)(Dr. Suzanne Miles appointed provost and executive vice chancellor )(Brief Article)
May 24, 2004... Pima Community College in Tucson, Ariz., has appointed Dr. Suzanne Miles as the new provost and executive vice chancellor for academic services. Miles has been the dean of instruction at the East Campus since 1998. She received her bachelor's...

Warren Hodges has been named interim dean of business information technologies at Forsyth Technical Community College in Winston-Salem, N.C.(Appointments)(North Carolina)(Brief Article)
May 24, 2004... Warren Hodges has been named interim dean of business information technologies at Forsyth Technical Community College in Winston-Salem, N.C. In his previous position, he was department chair of paralegal technologies and real estate at Forsyth....

Great Basin College.(Appointments)(Dr. Mike McFarlane becomes president of academic affairs)(Brief Article)
May 24, 2004... Dr. Mike McFarlane is the new vice president of academic affairs at Great Basin College in Elko, Nev. He previously headed the college's integrated and professional studies program. He earned his bachelor's degree from Humboldt State...

Tidewater Community College.(Appointments)(Deborah M. Edson appointed dean)(Brief Article)
May 24, 2004... Deborah M. Edson has been appointed dean of social sciences and public services at Tidewater Community College in Virginia Beach, Va. An assistant professor of Spanish, Edson has been on the TCC faculty since 1989. She received her bachelor's...

Central Florida Community College's Citrus Campus.(Appointments)(Dr. Torri Lilly is the new provost )(Brief Article)
May 24, 2004... Dr. Torri Lilly is the new provost at Central Florida Community College's Citrus Campus in Lecanto, Fla. Before taking this post, she was the dean of work-force development at Florida Community College at Jacksonville's Kent Campus. She holds a...

Hagerstown Community College.(Appointments)(Dr. Donna Rudy named dean of students)(Brief Article)
May 24, 2004... Dr. Donna Rudy has been named dean of students at Hagerstown Community College in Hagerstown, Md. She most recently held the position of vice president for student services at Kellogg Community College in Battle Creek. Mich. Rudy holds a...

Florida's Miami Dade College.(Appointments)(Dr. Norma Martin Goonen becomes provost for education)(Miami-Dade Community College)(Brief Article)
May 24, 2004... Dr. Norma Martin Goonen has been appointed provost for education at Florida's Miami Dade College. Most recently, Goonen served as dean of the Farquhar Cotlege of Arts and Sciences at Nova Southeastern University. She received an associate's...

Gullickson to head Front Range.(Presidents)(Dr. Janet Gullickson)(Front Range Community College, Denver )(Brief Article)
May 24, 2004... Dr. Janet Gullickson, instructional consultant for the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities, was named president of Front Range Community College in Denver. She will assume her new position July 1. Gullickson holds a bachelor's degree from...

Ramirez tapped as Pima Campus chief.(Presidents)(Dr. Raul Ramirez )(Pima Community College-East Campus )(Brief Article)
May 24, 2004... Dr. Raul Ramirez has been appointed president of Pima Community College-East Campus in Tucson, Ariz. He will take his position June 1. Ramirez most recently was the special assistant to the provost at New Mexico State University. He received...