Community College Week articles from November 2005

Community College Week archives from November 2005

Mesa State College back in the Community College Business.(around the nation)
November 7, 2005... GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. -- Mesa State College began straying from its original community college mission years ago, when it dropped the "community" designation from its name in 1980 and became a baccalaureate degree granting institution. Now, 25...

New TOEFL tests ability to combine language skills.(around the nation)
November 7, 2005... PRINCETON, N.J. -- A new Internet-based version of TOEFL, the Test of English as a Foreign Language, was recently administered at Thomson Prometric testing centers in the United States and will be available for educational institutions as early...

Drop in student aid forces hard choices.
November 7, 2005... Tuition increases at public universities were smaller this year compared with the last two years, according to the College Board's annual survey on college pricing and financial aid. But the report also found that college students are taking...

N.J. economic development group zeroes in on gubernatorial race.
November 7, 2005... TRENTON, N.J. -- locked in a tight New Jersey gubernatorial race, Democratic U.S. Senator Jon S. Corzine and Republican businessman Douglas Forrester are at odds over many election-year issues. Amidst the partisan rhetoric, the New Jersey...

Training to keep communities "SAFE".(point of view)
November 7, 2005... When community colleges came into existence in the early 20th century, their primary mission was to help meet the needs of their communities and the local workforce. Today, community colleges provide quality education to 11.6 million students...

Zero tolerance: the only answer for cheaters.
November 7, 2005... Last academic year, I had 77 total students enrolled in my fall semester child psychology course. Halfway through the semester, I was appalled to discover that at least 26 percent of those students had cheated on one or more of the online...

Are they ready to respond? Community Colleges: this year has tested some community colleges' emergency response systems and served as clarion call for others.(Cover story)
November 7, 2005... It's an administrator's worst nightmare. An emergency situation is developing and you have at most a couple of days, maybe only hours, to batten down the hatches. And getting ready doesn't just mean getting everyone out and locking the door...

Center to study effectiveness of higher education overdue.(dateline washington)
November 7, 2005... Next year, a federally funded center will devote itself to studying the effectiveness of higher education. The Department of Education has solicited bids (due Nov. 10) for a cooperative agreement to run a National Research Center on...

Federal grant to fund Pennsylvania vocational programs.(workforce training)
November 7, 2005... A $500,000 federal education grant will expand technical education in northcentral and northwestern Pennsylvania, where business leaders are clamoring for skilled workers and the nearest community college is 100 miles away. "While our area...

Strong advising key to student retention.(CAPITOL briefs)
November 7, 2005... Thirteen percent of freshmen in public four-year institutions will drop out by the beginning of their sophomore year, according to ACT's 2005 "National College Dropout and Graduation Rates" report. "The sophomore slump often goes...

How not to stick your foot in your mouth via e-mail.(technology today)
November 7, 2005... Besides speech, e-mail is possibly the most common form of business communication today. In fact, it's quickly becoming one of the more common forms of communication in general, at least in this country. Yet many people, even the...

Tidewater Community College.(Grants & Gifts)
November 7, 2005... Tidewater Community College in Norfolk, Va., has received a $1.4 million gift from the Beazley Foundation to establish the Beazley School of Nursing on the college's Portsmouth Campus. The gift is the largest in the college's history.

Collin County Community College District.(Grants & Gifts)
November 7, 2005... The Collin County Community College District in Plano, Texas, was awarded a $50,000 grant from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to help offset educational expenses for first-generation college students.

San Jacinto College.(Grants & Gifts)
November 7, 2005... San Jacinto College in Pasadena, Texas, has received a $3.2 million five-year grant from the U.S. Department of Education to fund the Title V Hispanic-Serving Institutions Program. The initial yearly funds for the grant are expected to total...

Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana.(Grants & Gifts)
November 7, 2005... Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana has received a $2.6 million grant from the President's Community Based Job Training Initiative, administered by the U.S. Department of Labor. The college intends to blanket the state with health care...

College of DuPage.(Grants & Gifts)
November 7, 2005... The College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, Ill., has received a $1.4 million grant from the Illinois Community College Board to fund the adult education and family literacy program for the 2006 fiscal year. The grant is the largest competitive...

Waukesha County Technical College.(Grants & Gifts)
November 7, 2005... Waukesha County Technical College in Pekaukee, Wis., was awarded a $750,000 competitive training grant from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The grant will fund the development of a model for maximizing safety and security efforts at...

The Victoria College.(APPOINTMENTS)
November 7, 2005... Dr. Craig T. Follins has been appointed vice president of workforce and economic development at The Victoria College in Victoria, Texas. Follins was most recently director of business development and outreach services for the Houston Community...

Valencia Community College.(APPOINTMENTS)
November 7, 2005... Dr. B. Kaye Walter has been named executive vice president at Valencia Community College in Orlando, Fla. She had served as vice president for academic services at Kansas City Kansas Community College. Walter holds a bachelor's degree from the...

Shoreline Community College.(PRESIDENTS)
November 7, 2005... Lee Lambert has been appointed interim president of Shoreline Community College in Shoreline, Wash. Lambert, currently vice president for human resources and legal affairs, will take over presidential duties immediately. He holds a bachelor's...

Hopkinsville Community College.(PRESIDENTS)
November 7, 2005... Dr. James E. Selbe has been named acting president of Hopkinsville Community College in Hopkinsville, Ky. He had most recently been provost at West Kentucky Community and Technical College. Selbe earned a bachelor's degree from Freed-Hardeman...

Berkshire Community College.(PRESIDENTS)
November 7, 2005... Dr. Paul E. Raverta has been appointed interim president of Berkshire Community College in Great Barrington, Mass. He had previously served as vice president for business and community affairs at Holyoke Community College in Holyoke, Mass....

Coming events.
November 7, 2005... November 9-12, 2005 National Council for Staff, Program and Organizational Development (NCSPOD) Annual Conference "Building Bridges" Montreal, Quebec http://www.tfn.net/fdea/Conf2005 November 10-13, 2005 ...

Finding leaders in all the new places.(around the nation)
November 21, 2005... "Oh my god, this is the perfect job for me," thought Dr. Carole A. McCoy when she read the job description for a senior-level position at Anne Arundel Community College in Arnold, Md., years ago. The management and leadership skills she'd...

Report details 'school-hopping' trend in colleges.(around the nation)
November 21, 2005... Forty-five percent of all college seniors took at least one course from another college before enrolling at their current school in the 2004-2005 academic year, according to the National Survey of Student Engagement. The NSSE also reported that...

Community colleges and U. of Md. partner to guarantee transfer admission.
November 21, 2005... Getting into the University of Maryland just got a whole lot easier for some community college students sweating the transfer process. Announced at a signing ceremony Nov. 4, The Maryland Transfer Advantage Program guarantees students at...

IRCC leads the way in innovative teaching methods.
November 21, 2005... Fort Pierce, Fla. -- Veronica Tempone never understood her daughter's study habits. She would enter her daughter's bedroom to see her stretched out on the bed, munching on junk food and listening to music with her textbooks in front of her....

Understanding Canada's community colleges.(point of view)
November 21, 2005... The American community college model has flourished for more than a century. Not only has it been effective in the United States, it has also become one of the world's most copied educational systems. The American model is being adopted and...

Service learning serves a well rounded education.(point of view)
November 21, 2005... The value of service learning as a way to build a community engagement mentality is an idea that is gaining acceptance--especially at the nation's community colleges. After all, at institutions where "community is our middle name," it's no...

Letter to the editor.(point of view)(Letter to the editor)
November 21, 2005... Sara Burnett's article, "Clashes Over Governance Peak at City Colleges of Chicago" (CCWeek, 9/26/05), should remind us of a Shakespearean tragedy, with leaders' hubris as the critical element of the undoing of the social contract. As a...

Northern exposure: U.S. and Canadian community colleges have similar histories and goals, but different approaches.(Cover story)
November 21, 2005... The United States shares much more than just a border with her neighbor to the north. The U.S. and Canada share significant historical, cultural and philosophical traits--similarities which are reflected in their educational systems as well....

Former Mass Bay professor prevails twice in court.
November 21, 2005... Boston -- Federal and state judges have dealt a pair of setbacks to Massachusetts Bay Community College in its fight with a tenured professor who was terminated after a student complained about the teacher's biotechnology course. In a...

GAO looks at state transfer policy inconsistencies.
November 21, 2005... Because they can't get their community college credits transferred, large numbers of students are spending more money and repeating classes. Transfer policies differ wildly depending on where students transfer to and what they study, and the...

Teaching African American students.
November 21, 2005... Instructing and Mentoring the African American College Student: Strategies for Success in Higher Education Edited by Louis B. Gallien Jr. and Dr. Marshalita Sims Peterson Pearson Education Inc., 2005 Paperback, $36.99 According to a...

$30m goes to nursing programs at California Community Colleges.(workforce training)
November 21, 2005... Sacramento, Calif. -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger recently continued his push to address the state's critical shortage of nursing professionals by distributing $30 million to expand the capacity of community college nursing programs in the...

A brave new world in book research.(technology today)
November 21, 2005... For research over the Internet, one of the last great frontiers still largely unexplored is books. Let's say that you regularly search the Internet for background information in preparing your classes. For some time now you've been able to...

Columbia College.(APPOINTMENTS)
November 21, 2005... Dr. Tan Phan is the new articulation officer and research specialist at Columbia College in Sonora, Calif. She was previously assistant professor of education at San Diego State University. Phan earned a bachelor's degree from St. Mary's...

Technical Campus of Hazard Community & Technical College.(APPOINTMENTS)
November 21, 2005... Sonny St. Pierre has been appointed workforce development liaison for the Technical Campus of Hazard Community & Technical College. He had recently worked in a similar position at Henderson Community College in Henderson, Ky. St. Pierre holds a...

Wisconsin Indianhead Technical College.(APPOINTMENTS)
November 21, 2005... Stephanie DeCicco has been named vice president of learning at Wisconsin Indianhead Technical College in Shell Lake, Wis. She had previously been dean of liberal arts at Moraine Valley Community College in Palos Hills, Ill. DeCicco earned her...

Bronx Community College.(APPOINTMENTS)
November 21, 2005... Dr. George L. Sanchez has been named vice president of institutional development at Bronx Community College in New York. He had previously been the college's dean for continuing education, grants and development. Sanchez earned a bachelor's...

Public safety officer Michael Lynch of Camden County College in Camden, N.J., recently received the Class D Certificate of Award from the New Jersey College and University Public Safety Association.(Honors & AWARDS)
November 21, 2005... Public safety officer Michael Lynch of Camden County College in Camden, N.J., recently received the Class D Certificate of Award from the New Jersey College and University Public Safety Association. Lynch and CCC business services technician...

Three staff members of St. Louis Community College in St. Louis have been honored by the Missouri Community College Association.(Honors & AWARDS)
November 21, 2005... Three staff members of St. Louis Community College in St. Louis have been honored by the Missouri Community College Association. Grace Liu, professor of English as a Second Language, received the Global Educator Award. Rosemary Woolley, the...

Arnie Robinson.(Honors & AWARDS)
November 21, 2005... Arnie Robinson, the track and field coach for Mesa College in San Diego, Calif., has been inducted into the Amateur Athletic Foundation of California Community Colleges Hall of Fame for Track and Field/Cross Country. Robinson won the gold medal...

Amarillo College in Amarillo, Texas, has been awarded a $1.53 million Title V grant, in partnership with South Plains College in Levelland, Texas.(Grants & Gifts)
November 21, 2005... Amarillo College in Amarillo, Texas, has been awarded a $1.53 million Title V grant, in partnership with South Plains College in Levelland, Texas. The grant will benefit Hispanic students in the two colleges' combined service areas. The college...

Arizona Western College has received a $1.9 million community-based job training grant from the U.S. Department of Labor to fund the Construction Trades Program.(Grants & Gifts)
November 21, 2005... Arizona Western College has received a $1.9 million community-based job training grant from the U.S. Department of Labor to fund the Construction Trades Program. The new program will include electrical wiring, drafting, carpentry and plumbing....

Bronx Community College, part of the City University of New York, has been awarded a $900,000 three-year grant from the National Science Foundation.(Grants & Gifts)
November 21, 2005... Bronx Community College, part of the City University of New York, has been awarded a $900,000 three-year grant from the National Science Foundation. The grant supports establishment of an associate's degree and a continuing education...

LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City, N.Y., has been awarded a $248,000 two-year grant from the Environmental Protection Agency to fund an asthma assessment and prevention project in Queens and the Bronx, in New York City.(Grants & Gifts)
November 21, 2005... LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City, N.Y., has been awarded a $248,000 two-year grant from the Environmental Protection Agency to fund an asthma assessment and prevention project in Queens and the Bronx, in New York City. Trained...

The Louisiana Community and Technical College System has received $3.6 million from the U.S. Department of Labor to fund a two-year rural job-training program at three colleges.(Grants & Gifts)
November 21, 2005... The Louisiana Community and Technical College System has received $3.6 million from the U.S. Department of Labor to fund a two-year rural job-training program at three colleges. The consortium is led by L.E. Fletcher Technical Community College...

Coming events.(Calendar)
November 21, 2005... November 29-December 3, 2005 Council for Resource Development (CRD) 39th Annual Conference "Community College Beacons: Lighting the Way for Resource Development" Washington, D.C. www.crdnet.org December 4-6, 2005 Higher Education...