Community College Week articles from September 2005

Community College Week archives from September 2005

Hispanics taking college entrance exams in record numbers.
September 12, 2005... More graduating high school students of Hispanic heritage are planning to go to college and are taking college entrance and aptitude tests, according to recent reports from ACT and the College Board, the two primary college entrance examiners...

Will the word 'minority' soon become taboo?
September 12, 2005... Monika Arreola, a 26-year-old social science student at the College of the Sequoias in Visalia, Calif., does not regard herself as a member of a minority group. "Living in central California, I have never felt like one," said Arreola,...

Former Alamo trustee's corruption conviction upheld.
September 12, 2005... San Antonio, Texas -- The Texas Court of Appeals has unanimously upheld the felony conviction and 12-year prison term of a former Alamo Community College District trustee nabbed in a corruption probe. The three-judge panel rejected a series...

Time to break the leadership mold.(point of view)
September 12, 2005... We Hispanics, or Latinos as some of us prefer to be called, are a diverse group--racially, demographically and culturally. While the majority of Hispanics in this country--59 percent--are of Mexican heritage and a sizable number are Puerto...

Transition patterns can reveal student success levels.(point of view)
September 12, 2005... As registration for classes wraps up this fall, hopefully many community college leaders will be analyzing enrollment growth at their colleges. Expanding enrollments are one of the greatest success stories of community colleges. However, while...

The clock is ticking: with nearly 14 million Hispanics in the U.S. under the of 18, is America's higher education system prepared for the rush of new students?(Cover story)
September 12, 2005... Hispanics are the large minority group in the United States, and recent accelerations in immigration have turned some states into "majority-minority" populations. Texas has announced that it has joined California, New Mexico and Hawaii in the...

College officials lobby Congress for boost in Hispanic-serving institution funding.(dateline washington)
September 12, 2005... Hispanic-serving colleges and universities are asking Congress to create a new $125 million program to enhance graduate education under Title V of the Higher Education Act. That title currently supports an undergraduate education program for...

Vassar program gives Community College students a glimpse of a brighter future.(dateline washington)
September 12, 2005... New York -- When Maribel Perez arrived on the tree-laden campus of Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., in June, she was quickly entranced by the 100-year-old library, a towering Gothic structure with majestic turrets, crystal chandeliers and...

Getting good help for Web site design.(technology today)
September 12, 2005... Whether it's doing your taxes, redoing your kitchen or redesigning your organization's Web site, there comes a time--no matter how good you are--when it makes sense to turn things over to a specialist. To improve the appearance and performance...

Yavapai Community College.(PRESIDENTS)
September 12, 2005... Dr. James F. Horton has been appointed president of Yavapai Community College in Prescott, Ariz. He had previously served as vice chancellor of the Higher Colleges of Technology, a 12-college system in the United Arab Emirates. Horton earned...

Westmoreland Country Community College.(PRESIDENTS)
September 12, 2005... Dr. Steven C. Ender was recently named the fifth president of Westmoreland County Community College in Youngwood, Pa. He was most recently executive deputy to the president at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Ender holds a bachelor's degree...

Haywood Community College.(PRESIDENTS)
September 12, 2005... Dr. Donald S. Stanton has been named interim president of Haywood Community College in Clyde, N.C. He served as president of Oglethorpe University for 11 years, retiring in 1999. Stanton holds a bachelor's degree from Western Maryland College...

Dr. Ana M. "Cha" Guzman, president of Palo Alto College in San Antonio, is one of five recipients of the Ford Salute to Education Award.(Honors & AWARDS)
September 12, 2005... Dr. Ana M. "Cha" Guzman, president of Palo Alto College in San Antonio, is one of five recipients of the Ford Salute to Education Award. The nonprofit organization was established by Ford Motor Co. to provide scholarships to high school...

Wayne Karlin, a professor of language and literature at the College of Southern Maryland in La Plata will receive the Excellence in the Arts Award by the Vietnam Veterans of America.(Honors & AWARDS)
September 12, 2005... Wayne Karlin, a professor of language and literature at the College of Southern Maryland in La Plata will receive the Excellence in the Arts Award by the Vietnam Veterans of America. An award-winning author and screenwriter, Karlin has focused...

Chris Haines, the director of athletics and the Fitness Center of South Mountain Community College in Phoenix, has been selected as the National Junior College Athletic Assocation 2005 administrator of the year by the National Association of Collegiate Women Athletics Administrators.(Honors & AWARDS)
September 12, 2005... Chris Haines, the director of athletics and the Fitness Center of South Mountain Community College in Phoenix, has been selected as the National Junior College Athletic Assocation 2005 administrator of the year by the National Association of...

Sue Canter, associate professor of information systems at Guilford Technical Community College in Jamestown, N.C., has been selected for inclusion in "Who's Who Among America's Teachers.".(Honors & AWARDS)
September 12, 2005... Sue Canter, associate professor of information systems at Guilford Technical Community College in Jamestown, N.C., has been selected for inclusion in "Who's Who Among America's Teachers." This marks the fourth time Canter has been nominated for...

Community colleges and their students breaking the bank to fill the tank.(around the nation)
September 26, 2005... The mumbling and groaning at gas pumps these days is louder than ever, as prices have shattered historical records. The U.S. Energy and Information Administration reports that, as of Sept. 5, the average price per gallon of regular gasoline in...

Clashes over governance peak at City Colleges of Chicago.(around the nation)
September 26, 2005... Chicago -- It got ugly out there. Faculty, staff and some students at the City Colleges of Chicago walked the picket line last fall, several carrying signs with messages directed straight at Chancellor Wayne Watson. "Farm Out the Chancellor,"...

Leading the way in disaster recovery.(point of view)
September 26, 2005... In the aftermath of a disaster on the scale of 9/11 or Hurricane Katrina, one can be confident that community colleges will dedicate their time and resources to meeting the immediate needs of their communities. Just as Borough of Manhattan...

Rescuing the institutions too.(point of view)
September 26, 2005... The media has been doing a good--not excellent, but good--job of showing examples of heroic individual actions to assist victims of Hurricane Katrina. It has also exposed inadequate institutional leadership from local, state and national...

Picking up the pieces: Louisiana's community college system comes to grips with Hurricane Katrina's impact on its ability to fulfill its mission.(Cover story)
September 26, 2005... For Donald Davenport, the first troubling news came two days before Hurricane Katrina brought death and devastation to New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. That was when the Delgado Community College automotive instructor heard weather reports...

Community colleges nationwide welcome Gulf Coast students.
September 26, 2005... Two community colleges and four technical schools in the New Orleans area will be closed for possibly the entire semester or longer due to water and wind damage from Hurricane Katrina. Approximately 23,000 students and hundreds of faculty and...

Report: confusing student aid tax code costing families.(dateline washington)
September 26, 2005... Even as Congress considers increasing student aid, students aren't getting the full benefits of aid already available. That's because they're not choosing the best options when using tax code provisions designed to help pay for education. ...

Louisiana's Bumphus receives award in Baton Rouge.
September 26, 2005... BATON ROUGE, La. -- Louisiana Community and Technical College System President Dr. Walter G. Bumphus didn't make it to Seattle on Sept. 9 to pick up an award from the Association of Community College Trustees honoring him as CEO of the year....

Online educators open virtual doors for displaced students.
September 26, 2005... Some of the stories are dire. One student wrote on eLearners.com that he was working in New Orleans and attending Delgado Community College before Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast. "I'm married and my wife is 7 months pregnant with...

Creative scholarship brings students back to campus.
September 26, 2005... DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Nicole Miller had no plans to resume her post-secondary studies this semester. She had been out of school for about 2 1/2 years, and was busy remodeling the home she had just purchased with her husband. There was too...

Report: Michigan colleges reporting faulty data to state.
September 26, 2005... LANSING, Mich. -- Many of Michigan s community colleges are failing to properly report information necessary for the legislative appropriations process and the distribution of federal and state grants, according to an analysis of seven of the...

Katrina to cost Miss. colleges around $700 million.
September 26, 2005... JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- Hurricane Katrina will cost Mississippi's community colleges and universities close to $700 million, the state college board said. Dr. Richard Crofts, commissioner of higher education, said that the most heavily...

CUNY reports record enrollment.
September 26, 2005... ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- The City University of New York reported that the metro colleges have reached their highest enrollment in three decades. CUNY Chancellor Matthew Goldstein announced that enrollment this fall is 222,933, or 2.2 percent...

College offers Katrina evacuees free year's tuition.
September 26, 2005... TWIN FALLS, Idaho (AP) -- The College of Southern Idaho is offering up to one year of free tuition to Hurricane Katrina evacuees who have relocated to the Twin Falls area. The program is designed to help victims who do not have the...

Calif. bill to give Katrina evacuees in-state tuition.
September 26, 2005... SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- California legislators have approved a bill that would exempt Hurricane Katrina evacuees from higher nonresident tuition at the state's community colleges. If signed into law by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, it...

Iowa schools lead in sustainable agriculture education.
September 26, 2005... CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) -- As farming evolves, so does agricultural education. Marshalltown Community College and Indian Hills Community College's Centerville campus are offering new associate degrees in sustainable agriculture. "It's...

Free college tuition program draws opposition.
September 26, 2005... DENVER (AP) -- More than 100 students were attending community colleges on promises their former high schools would pay their tuition as officials tried to figure out whether the money would actually be there. The students, who are mostly...

Congress helps students affected by Katrina.(CAPITOL briefs)
September 26, 2005... College students whose education was interrupted by Hurricane Katrina might get some relief from their student aid burden. Amid the rush of disaster relief legislation going through Congress early this month, the House of Representatives...

Textbook costs rising faster than tuition.(CAPITOL briefs)
September 26, 2005... Tuition isn't the only sky-rocketing cost for students. The cost of textbooks has been accelerating much faster than the rate of inflation in the last 20 years--even more than the cost of tuition. Textbook costs have risen an average of 6...

Committee approves funding for tribal college.(CAPITOL briefs)
September 26, 2005... A House-Senate conference committee has approved a Department of the Interior appropriations bill that would include federal funding for United Tribes Technical College, said Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D. The final version of the bill still...

Preparing for disasters: getting ready to be ready.(workforce training)
September 26, 2005... Emergency preparedness is more than the responsibility of any one government agency, as we've seen with the tragic results of Hurricane Katrina. The more people there are who are prepared to handle disasters, the better the overall response...

Looking into the crystal ball.(technology today)
September 26, 2005... You wouldn't think that ivory tower academics and computer press pundits would still, a quarter century after the personal computer revolution booted up, be debating how information technology can make us most productive. But they are, in...

The sound of progress.(Bits & Bytes)
September 26, 2005... Just a year ago, Tony Guerrero, a student at San Antonio College in Texas, would have laughed at anyone who suggested he could achieve 170 typed words per minute on a computer. Guerrero suffers from a vision impairment, and has problems...

Finding a story in the sky.(around campus)
September 26, 2005... Robert Squier enjoys fiddling with reality. The 2005 Photographer of the Year at Prairie State College in Chicago Heights, Ill., Squier's goal is to capture mundane images in uniquely artistic ways. His 16-piece portfolio, "Sky Visions and...

Roy E. Disney, former vice chairman of the Walt Disney Co., recently donated a $7 million, 86-foot racing yacht, the Pyewacket, to Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, Calif.(Grants & Gifts)
September 26, 2005... Roy E. Disney, former vice chairman of the Walt Disney Co., recently donated a $7 million, 86-foot racing yacht, the Pyewacket, to Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, Calif. The yacht will be used to train advanced students in OCC's School of...

Amarillo College in Amarillo, Texas, has been awarded $2.5 million over a five-year period by the U.S. Department of Education to fund the High School Equivalency Program.(Grants & Gifts)
September 26, 2005... Amarillo College in Amarillo, Texas, has been awarded $2.5 million over a five-year period by the U.S. Department of Education to fund the High School Equivalency Program. The program provides educational services to migrant students over the...

Owensboro Community and Technical College in Owensboro, Ky., has received a $772,888 grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration, a branch of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.(Grants & Gifts)
September 26, 2005... Owensboro Community and Technical College in Owensboro, Ky., has received a $772,888 grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration, a branch of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The grant will provide evening,...

Bellevue Community College in Bellevue, Wash., has received a $228,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to update information technology skill standards at BCC's National Workforce Center for Emerging Technologies.(Grants & Gifts)
September 26, 2005... Bellevue Community College in Bellevue, Wash., has received a $228,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to update information technology skill standards at BCC's National Workforce Center for Emerging Technologies. The NWCET is a...

Turning arts and crafts into cash.(faculty lounge)
September 26, 2005... TROY, N.C. -- Phil Morgan was looking for a change when he wandered into Montgomery Community College in 1973. He'd finished his business degree at the school before serving in Korea during the Vietnam War. When he returned home, he went to...

Ed Calle.(Honors & AWARDS)
September 26, 2005... Ed Calle, a music professor at Miami Dade College's North Campus, has been nominated for Best Instrumental Album by the 2005 Latin Grammy Awards for his album, "Ed Calle Plays Santana." Calle teaches music business and production at the college...

Three full-time faculty members of Metropolitan Community College in Omaha, Neb., recently received ConAgra Foods Excellence Awards in Teaching.(Honors & AWARDS)
September 26, 2005... Three full-time faculty members of Metropolitan Community College in Omaha, Neb., recently received ConAgra Foods Excellence Awards in Teaching. Math instructor Michael Fleseh, office skills technology instructor Jan Hess and photography...

The Florida Community College Activities Association will induct three members of Florida Community College at Jacksonville's staff into the FCCAA 2005 Hall of Fame.(Honors & AWARDS)
September 26, 2005... The Florida Community College Activities Association will induct three members of Florida Community College at Jacksonville's staff into the FCCAA 2005 Hall of Fame. Charles Satires, dean of liberal arts at FCCJ's south campus; Bettie Hausman,...

Dr. Rich Holl.(Honors & AWARDS)
September 26, 2005... Dr. Rich Holl, a history professor at Hazard Community & Technical College in Hazard, Ky., will have his book, "From the Boardroom to the War Room: America's Corporate Liberals and FDR's Preparedness Program," published by the University of...

Citrus College.(APPOINTMENTS)
September 26, 2005... Paula Green has been named the new director of communications at Citrus College in Glendora, Calif. She was most recently the marketing director for the San Gabriel Valley Newspaper Group. Green holds a bachelor's degree from Pitzer College and...

Polk Community College.(APPOINTMENTS)
September 26, 2005... Dr. Patricia Harrison has been named dean of liberal arts and science at Polk Community College in Winter Haven, Fla. She was most recently associate dean of academic affairs in the college of graduate and professional studies at the University...

Miles Community College.(APPOINTMENTS)
September 26, 2005... Dr. Beth Krueger is the new dean of academic affairs at Miles Community College in Miles City, Mont. She had previously served as assistant professor of biology at Monroe Community College in Rochester, N.Y. She earned a bachelor's degree from...

Orange Coast College.(APPOINTMENTS)
September 26, 2005... Melinda A. Nish was recently appointed vice president of instruction at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, Calif. She had previously served as dean of the school's business and computing division. Nish earned her bachelor's degree from the...

Springfield Technical Community College.(APPOINTMENTS)
September 26, 2005... Adrienne Y. Smith has been named dean of the school of engineering technologies at Springfield Technical Community College in Springfield, Mass. She had most recently coordinated the electronics technology department at Quinsigamond Community...

Golden West College.(APPOINTMENTS)
September 26, 2005... Dr. Lois Miller has been named the new vice president of instruction at Golden West College in Huntington Beach, Calif. She was most recently dean of GWC's math, sciences and health professions division. Miller earned a bachelor's degree from...

Coming events.(Calendar)
September 26, 2005... October 1 Women of Color Leadership Conference and Reception (WCLC) Jersey City State University Jersey City, N.J. Phone: (201) 200-1712 Email: aka_pkq@yahoo.com Web: www.geocities.com/aka_pkq October 5-7 10th Annual National...