Community College Week articles from November 2004

Community College Week archives from November 2004

Educators say school-state relations in flux.(around the nation)
November 8, 2004... Washington -- American higher education is burdened with challenges--everything from reduced state appropriations to greater competition among schools for that money to dramatic surges in student enrollment. But strength is often borne of...

Report: rising college costs outstripping student aid.(around the nation)
November 8, 2004... WASHINGTON -- To pay for community college these days, the average student still has to cobble together funds--through Pell Grants and other government, institutional and possibly family support, while often holding down one or more jobs,...

Colorado colleges to get new funding system.(around the nation)
November 8, 2004... DENVER -- Colorado's community and technical colleges, as well as state four-year institutions, will see dramatic changes in how they administer their programs and report their progress, under sweeping new performance standards that will take...

Congress leaves town with unfinished business.(dateline Washington)
November 8, 2004... Congress adjourned for the Nov. 2 elections leaving a full plate of unfinished business behind, from the renewal of the Carl Perkins Act to spending bills for student financial aid and other education programs. "There were a lot of things...

Internationalizing the community college.(point of view)
November 8, 2004... When community colleges began to emerge more than 100 years ago, their primary purpose was to serve local communities by teaching fields of study that pertained to the surrounding area. In the beginning, community colleges focused on general...

Far and away.(point of view)
November 8, 2004... The turbulent, glacial waters of the R6balo River rushed to meet the Beagle Channel as my students, Jeff Damiano and Darrel Strickand, and I stood awestruck. At our feet was the mandible, or jaw bone, of a guanaco, a relative of the llama on...

A global affair: homeland-security reforms put in place after Sept. 11 have discouraged some foreign students from coming to America to study, educators say, a trend that has them worried. One of the keys to reversing that trend, they say, is in the hands of community colleges.
November 8, 2004... WASHINGTON -- Before Sept. 11, 2001, the United States was a Mecca for international students--varied programs, varied options, varied levels of study. An American higher education was widely held as the gold standard, and students from the...

Faculty watchdogs instigate criminal probes at Calif. college.
November 8, 2004... SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- An investigation by faculty watchdogs at California's beleaguered Compton Community College has led to criminal probes, by both federal and county law enforcement authorities. The Los Angeles District Attorney's Office...

Virginia Tech to open doors to two-year Ag. students.
November 8, 2004... RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- Some state community-college graduates will be guaranteed admission into Virginia Tech's agriculture college under a plan that state officials say eases families' financial burdens and begins to address the surge in...

N.C. Attorneys propose reform plan for at-risk students.
November 8, 2004... RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- Under orders from the state Supreme Court to reduce the number of at-risk students across North Carolina, state attorneys presented a preliminary reform plan that proposes expanding a preschool program and linking high...

Illinois faculty union goes on strike.(Brief Article)
November 8, 2004... Illinois Faculty Union Goes On Strike CHICAGO (AP) -- Negotiations broke down last month between administrators and fulltime faculty at the city's community colleges, setting the stage for a strike that has been disrupting class for 60,000...

Arizona college to open health clinic.(Brief Article)
November 8, 2004... TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) -- A new community-health clinic, which officials hope will serve uninsured and underinsured students, is being opened by Pima Community College as a pilot project. The clinic, to be opened next year at the west campus,...

Enrollment drops at Minnesota colleges.(Brief Article)
November 8, 2004... ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) -- Enrollment at Minnesota's public colleges dipped slightly this fall, and officials blamed the first decline in six years on higher tuition. Enrollment dropped by 893 students this fall across the Minnesota State...

Hawaii college gets grant for Construction Academy.(Brief Article)
November 8, 2004... HONOLULU (AP) -- Honolulu Community College will receive a $1.4 million federal grant to a build a "Construction Academy" for high-school students, U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao announced last month. The grant is part of President...

N.M. colleges may reward colleges graduating low-income students.(Brief Article)
November 8, 2004... SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) -- State officials have come up with an idea to encourage universities and two-year colleges to ensure that at-risk students graduate: pay bonuses to schools based on the number of such students earning degrees. The...

Vincennes University OKs four-year degrees.
November 8, 2004... VINCENNES, Ind. (AP) -- t The Vincennes University trustees have approved a plan that would have the school offering its first four-year degree programs. The new bachelor's degrees would expand the school's offerings beyond its current...

SUNY OKs campus presidents' raises, but not chancellor's.
November 8, 2004... ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- The State University of New York board of trustees last month approved a range of salary increases for campus presidents, but it withdrew a raise plan for Chancellor Robert King. Board Chairman Thomas Egan said...

La. governor backs technical training for non-college bound.
November 8, 2004... BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- High-school students, most P of whom aren't bound for college, should have access to technical and community-college courses that could better prepare them for skilled jobs while they are in high school, Gov. Kathleen...

Okla. school to open teacher-training institute.(Brief Article)
November 8, 2004... TULSA, Okla. (AP) -- The University of Oklahoma-Tulsa expects to open a center in about a year for training teachers on the best methods for educating young children. The goal of the new Early Childhood Institute is to provide education...

Mississippi instructor puts on a presidential act.(faculty lounge)
November 8, 2004... MERIDIAN, Miss. (AP) -- Elliott Street has portrayed many characters in his acting career--but none more challenging than his upcoming role as President Theodore Roosevelt in the play "T.R." Street, a longtime Meridian Community College...

Findlay-Hancock County Chamber of Commerce.(Honors & Awards)(Brief Article)
November 8, 2004... Mindy Gray, an assistant professor of business, public service and information technologies at Owens Community College in Toledo, Ohio, has been named an Outstanding Educator by the Findlay-Hancock County Chamber of Commerce.

Dr. Hendrik Booraem.(Honors & Awards)(Brief Article)
November 8, 2004... Dr. Hendrik Booraem, a professor in the social and behavioral sciences department at Bucks County Community College in Newton, Pa., was recently named to "Who's Who in America."

Cypress College.(Honors & Awards)(Brief Article)
November 8, 2004... Nancy Deutsch, in English instructor at Cypress College in Cypress, Calif., has been selected as the recipient of the John Fry Individual Merit Award for 2004 by the National Council for Staff, Program and Organizational Development, an...

Christopher Berry, an assistant professor of fine arts, and Douglas Webb, an assistant professor of humanities and philosophy, both at Lakeland Community College in Kirtland, Ohio.(Honors & Awards)(Brief Article)
November 8, 2004... Christopher Berry, an assistant professor of fine arts, and Douglas Webb, an assistant professor of humanities and philosophy, both at Lakeland Community College in Kirtland, Ohio, have won the college's 2004 Excellence in Teaching awards.

Fourteen professors from Hagerstown Community College in Hagerstown, Md., were recently named to "Who's Who Among American Teachers.".(Honors & Awards)(Brief Article)
November 8, 2004... Fourteen professors from Hagerstown Community College in Hagerstown, Md., were recently named to "Who's Who Among American Teachers." They are: Terrie Angle, a professor of foreign languages; Elaine Ashby, an assistant professor of biology and...

Washington Restaurant Association Education Foundation Board of Directors.(Honors & Awards)
November 8, 2004... Gene Holand, a business instructor at Columbia Basin College in Pasco, Wash., has been named to the Washington Restaurant Association Education Foundation Board of Directors.

Dr. Marshall W. Mount.(Honors & Awards)(Brief Article)
November 8, 2004... Dr. Marshall W. Mount, an adjunct assistant professor at New York's Fashion Institute of Technology, has been given a $30,000 award to study art history from the George T. Dorsch Endowed Scholarship Fund and the George T. Dorsch Endowed...

Sue Byers-Connon.(Honors & Awards)(Brief Article)
November 8, 2004... Sue Byers-Connon, an instructor at Mt. Hood Community College in Gresham, Ore., has won the 2004 Sue Nelson Award for Promotion of Occupational Therapy Education.

Butcher, baker, railroad maker?(around campus)
November 8, 2004... Johnson County Community College In Overland, Ken., has launched two new programs--one In baking, the other In railroad welding. Pictured above: Students Linda Mays (left) and Nikki Potter, taking part in the college's pastry-baking...

All bones about it.(around campus)(Brief Article)
November 8, 2004... Skeletons, Jaws and skulls of prehistoric and modern humans and animals are on exhibit at Glendale Community College in Glendale, Calif. The show, "Bones: The Hidden Structures of Life," is on display at the Cimmarusti Science Center through...

Colleges unprepared for cyber threats, group says.(technology today)
November 8, 2004... Many people think they're more likely to get struck by lightening than to get struck by an online security breach. But your odds of the latter stand at 70 percent, compared with the odds of the former, at .0000102 percent. But in a September...

Online buyers beware.(technology today)
November 8, 2004... Despite the ever-increasing technological sophistication of the Internet, legally, it's still largely the Wild West out there, with online fraud and identity theft the latter-day equivalent of cattle rustling and shootouts at high noon. A...

Maryland College Installs 'Intelligent Classrooms'.(Bits & Bytes)
November 8, 2004... ROCKVILLE, Md.--Maryland's Montgomery College recently deployed 122 "Intelligent Classrooms" from Dell Inc. to help create a more stimulating classroom experience. The Intelligent Classrooms are equipped with OptiPlex(TM) desktops, flat...

Three Rivers Community College.(Appointments)(Brief Article)
November 8, 2004... Dr. Larry D. Griffin has been named vice president for academic affairs at Three Rivers Community College in Poplar Bluff, Mo. Previously, Griffin was a professor of English and the dean of arts and sciences at Dyersburg State Community College...

Baltimore City Community College.(Appointments)(Brief Article)
November 8, 2004... Baltimore City Community College has appointed Dr. Joann Horton acting vice president for learning. Horton was previously deputy chancellor for the City Colleges of Chicago, where she was president of the system's Kennedy-King College. She...

Chattanooga State Technical Community College.(Appointments)(Brief Article)
November 8, 2004... Dr. Dan Throgmorton has been named vice president for economic and community development at Chattanooga State Technical Community College in Chattanooga, Tenn. Prior to his appointment at Chattanooga State, Throgmorton served as the director of...

Edgecombe picks new president.(Presidents)(Brief Article)
November 8, 2004... Dr. Deborah L. Lamm has been named president of Edgecombe Community College in Tarboro, N.C. Previously, she was vice president of curriculum instruction at Southeastern Community College n Whiteville, N.C. Lamm has a bachelor's degree from the...

Coming events.(Brief Article)(Calendar)
November 8, 2004... NOVEMBER Nov. 14-16 National Association of Stale Universities and Land Grant Colleges 117th Annual Meeting San Diego Marriot Hotel and Marina San Diego Phone: (202) 478-6040 Fax: (202) 478-6046 Web:...

Emerging insights in technology and education.
November 8, 2004... In today's world of higher education, technology is the power tool. Course management systems to support in-class and online instruction are bringing learning to life in new and exciting ways. As this push for effectiveness in teaching and...

Assessment + retention = student success.
November 8, 2004... Retention. It's the word that has a stronghold on the focus of faculty and administrators in community colleges everywhere. As these institutions continue to exhibit a genuine commitment to designing programs meeting the needs of the...

Affairs of the heart: dealing with long-distance colleagues.
November 8, 2004... It is amazing how change can sometimes surprise and discombobulate even those of us who pride ourselves on anticipating it, planning for it and embracing it. We accept the reality that change is a constant and that it can be a positive...

Free advice from nonprofits.
November 8, 2004... Once perceived as the great white shark in the community-college sea of students, for-profit higher education's reputation is, to the dismay of many, evolving from ferocious predator to prospective collaborator. Although many were shocked...

Midwestern colleges find strength in numbers.
November 8, 2004... The American Midwest is often associated with a sense of individualism and independence. But taming the wild frontier wouldn't have been possible without the combined efforts and cooperation of brave innovators working together toward a common...

Creativity, collaboration bring results.
November 8, 2004... How do college presidents determine the right technology-related initiatives to support? The answer: they don't! Instead, the president has the leadership ability to create opportunities for college faculty, staff and students to generate...

ETS tool to test tech savvy.
November 8, 2004... Educational Testing Service will soon introduce an assessment to help institutions of higher education and employers measure a test taker's proficiency with information and communications technology. It will test whether they will succeed in an...

Opening doors with video and online learning.
November 8, 2004... Frequently described as 'the new Appalachia,' the rural and economically challenged students served by West Hills Community College, located on the west side of California's Central Valley, walk into state-of-the-art video-conference classrooms...

A case study in technology planning.
November 8, 2004... Bronx Community College of the City University of New York took a great leap forward in advancing management of its technology needs two years ago. BCC wrote and formally adopted an Information Technology Strategic Plan. Its focus was to...

California college takes global exchange to the next level.
November 8, 2004... A new high-tech class at El Camino College links area students with others from around the globe, bringing traditional student exchanges and "pen pals" to a whole new level. The cutting-edge course, "Global Experience Through Technology,"...

Venturing into computer forensics.
November 8, 2004... The College of San Mateo receny received the much-anticipated approval from the state of its Computer and Network Forensics Certificate and associate's-degree program. CSM is the first community college in California to offer the...

Expanding technology's role in the classroom.
November 8, 2004... Our students have only known a technological society. Whereas many of us in the generation before our students grew up gleaning information from reference books or through personal contact, today's students prefer to gather knowledge with a...

Online courses: tackling a new frontier.
November 8, 2004... Technology learning is an exploding phenomenon. This is the common experience of community and technical colleges whose missions are to anticipate and provide courses, certificates, and degrees in emerging areas that are significant and needed...

The Advanced Technology Center: a model for educational partnerships.
November 8, 2004... By the time Rob Bridgman finished his junior year in high school last year at Daytona Beach Community College's Advanced Technology Center, he already was gaining on-the-job experience doing digital media design work for a small Ormond Beach...

Where the jobs will be.
November 8, 2004... Community colleges are acknowledged experts at spotting trends in the local labor market and adjusting their training programs accordingly. However, even the best training programs are useless if the jobs they are targeting are not in the...

Tech. grants help students gain access.
November 8, 2004... All the technology in the world is of little help to the student who does not have access to a computer. For students who can barely afford tuition, purchasing a computer and software can be one more barrier to their education. That's why The...

Striving for continuous improvement.
November 8, 2004... Louisiana's Delgado Community College provides a learning-centered environment in which to prepare students from diverse backgrounds to attain their educational, career and personal goals. They are taught to think critically, to demonstrate...

What's new.(On The Web)
November 8, 2004... * NEW FEATURE! Visit the "Getting Into College" section of our homepage and examine over 3,800 colleges and universtities to find the one that is right for you or your prospective student. Take a virtual campus tour, ask questions, apply online...

Nurturing future biotech workers.
November 8, 2004... On road maps, Interstate 270 is the major north-south thoroughfare in Montgomery County, Md. But, the immediate region served by the interstate has two other nicknames that you won't find on maps, the 1-270 Tech Corridor and "DNA Alley," which...

CourseSpace reinvents college curriculum.
November 8, 2004... The days are gone when incorporating technology into college classrooms meant flipping the side switch on an overhead projector. In increasing numbers, faculty members are wiping the chalk dust off their fingers to aim the remote to turn down...

California college deep in financial muck, report says.(around the nation)
November 22, 2004... SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- A new report by a fiscal-management team assigned to California's troubled Compton Community College District has found that the college's financial problems run very deep and won't be resolved overnight. The report...

Report lauds Oregon's adult-literacy efforts.(around the nation)
November 22, 2004... Oregon has built an efficient and effective system for providing adult-literacy and education services by housing such programs almost exclusively at the state's 17 community colleges and providing state guidance and budgetary support to run...

Officials say many two-year schools making fiscal comebacks.(around the nation)
November 22, 2004... What a difference 12 months can make. A year ago, according to a just-released survey of the members of the National Council of State Directors of Community Colleges, more than two-thirds of the nation's community-college leaders recorded...

Four convicted in Pennsylvania college fraud scheme.
November 22, 2004... PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Prosecutors won their first convictions recently in a case related to a wide-ranging corruption investigation that involved FBI wiretapping of city officials and their political supporters. Faridah Ali, 54, the...

Note to President Bush: help community colleges, and they'll help us all.(point of view)
November 22, 2004... Going into his second term, President Bush will face many complex domestic, social and economic challenges, and he will need real solutions. With the right policies and incentives, community colleges can play a central role in addressing our...

Minding tomorrow, with an eye on yesterday.(point of view)
November 22, 2004... In a presidential election determined by moral values, a virtually jobless economic recovery, global terrorism and Iraq, community colleges may lament that issues from access to excellence did not assume more prominent roles. Based on...

Blue East, meet the red West.(point of view)
November 22, 2004... Everything changed while we weren't looking. Well, not everything--but enough changed on Election Day that many Democrats are more than a little dismayed. I have always been a registered Independent, but I must confess that my political...

Election 2004: where do we go from here? With the GOP's major victories in the White House and the U.S. Congress on Nov. 2, community-college leaders and students are wondering what lies in store for higher education during the next four years.(Cover Story)
November 22, 2004... WASHINGTON -- After a long, dramatic campaign season often dubbed "contentious," and after an election that saw the highest voter turnout since 1968, President George W. Bush held onto the White House, and the Republican party netted four seats...

Nevada College caught in campus-funding crisis.
November 22, 2004... LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Higher-education officials are anxious to see whether the Legislature will fund the first building for the Nevada State College at Henderson. Should lawmakers decide not to fund it, some have predicted the college's...

Audit prompts testing, enrollment reforms at Michigan College.
November 22, 2004... TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. -- Northwestern Michigan College is improving its management of placement testing and enrollment requirements and establishing a formal minimum enrollment policy in response to criticisms in a state audit. The report...

Court won't resurrect former Pa. college employee's gender-bias suit.
November 22, 2004... NANTICOKE, Pa. -- A federal appeals court has refused to revive a former employee's gender-bias, age-bias and retaliation suit against Luzerne County Community College. Mary Ann Morrissey failed to offer enough evidence to justify a trial...

Kansas colleges challenge 4-year schools' Hispanic outreach efforts.
November 22, 2004... WICHITA, Kan. (AP) -- Four-year colleges in Kansas, eager to expand the diversity of their student body, are reaching out to Hispanic students across the state, but are facing competition from community colleges. "I think in the Hispanic...

California Colleges launch one-stop student-aid Web site.(Brief Article)
November 22, 2004... SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- While one-stop shopping for financial aid hasn't yet materialized, one-stop shopping for financial-aid information has--at least for the California Community Colleges, the nation's largest two-year system. Students can log...

Prelude to victory.
November 22, 2004... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Caption: First Lady Laura Bush stumped Nov. 1 at Macomb Community College in Clinton Township, Mich., in her last solo appearance during the president's re-election campaign. Aside from touting her husband's tax cuts...

California college sells TV station.(Brief Article)
November 22, 2004... SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) -- The sale of KOCE-TV by the Coast Community College District has been finalized with the delivery of a required down payment, officials said. The district's board and the KOCE-TV Foundation held a special...

Seven students charged with cheating government on student aid.(Brief Article)
November 22, 2004... CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) -- Seven people have been indicted for allegedly cheating the federal government out of $400,000 in student aid to attend Kirkwood Community College without intending to go to classes. U.S. Attorney Charles W. Larson...

Lawsuit over Montana college's expansion appealed.(Brief Article)
November 22, 2004... KALISPELL, Mont. (AP) -- A state lawmaker and a radio-station owner are taking their lawsuit over Flathead Valley Community College's planned expansion to the Montana Supreme Court. John Stokes, owner of radio station KGEZ, and Rep. George...

N.Y. college administrator resigns over plagiarism flap.(Brief Article)
November 22, 2004... DICKINSON, N.Y. (AP) -- A top academic official at Broome Community College has stepped down, saying a new school policy may include plagiarism. Dr. Keith Cotroneo, the college's vice president of academic affairs, resigned Oct. 26 over a...

Candidates for Calif. college board bicker about land development.(Brief Article)
November 22, 2004... OAKLAND, Calif. -- (AP) Nine candidates are battling for four positions on the Peralta Community College District board, and land development rather than education has emerged as a key issue. The new majority could decide whether a swathe...

Virginia community-college graduates work on 4-year degrees at home.
November 22, 2004... VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) -- Missy Cannon, a Tidewater Community College graduate and executive assistant to a financial adviser, always wanted a bachelor's degree. But instead of seeking that degree at one of the local public...

Ohio colleges welcome less combative police training.
November 22, 2004... CLEVELAND (AP) -- The abrasive, militaristic training typical in many police academies is giving way to techniques more fit for community-college classrooms. In the past, an instructor would stand an inch from a student's face and yell and...

A room with a view.(faculty lounge)
November 22, 2004... FOREST, Ohio (AP) -- Retired history teacher Jim Taylor knows his political campaign buttons--all 4,000 of them. He keeps them in what his family has dubbed the "history room" of his home in this village 70 miles south of Toledo. Taylor, a...

Dr. Dianne Luce.(Honors & Awards)(Brief Article)
November 22, 2004... Dr. Dianne Luce, an English instructor at Midlands Technical College in Columbia, S.C., has received the Governor's Professor of the Year Award for two-year colleges.

Sallie Wolf.(Honors & Awards)(Brief Article)
November 22, 2004... Sallie Wolf, an English and literature instructor at Arapahoe Community College in Littleton, Colo., has received a $250 stipend from "Who's Who Among America's Teachers" in recognition of her service as a chapter adviser for Phi Theta Kappa,...

Denise Simmons Graves.(Honors & Awards)(Brief Article)
November 22, 2004... The Maryland Association of Higher Education recently named Denise Simmons Graves --an associate professor at the Rockville campus of Montgomery College--as the Outstanding Educator of the Year in the adviser/mentor category.

Dr. Karin Costello.(Honors & Awards)(Brief Article)
November 22, 2004... Dr. Karin Costello, an English professor at California's Santa Monica College, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to be a lecturer at the Intercollege in Nicosia, Cyprus. There she will lead an intercultural workshop for Greek- and...