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Figuring It Out
Statistics shaping the higher-ed landscape
States with High
CC Enrollment
Community colleges account for
nearly half of the nation’s higher
education enrollment, but some
states have higher proportions of
community college enrollment.
Here are the states with the
greatest percentage of students
enrolled in two-year schools:
Wyoming
70%
California
63%
Arizona
60%
New Mexico
55%
Mississippi
53%
Illinois
53%
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Turning to
Technology
3
Sudden
Departure
The reorganization
of Connecticut’s
higher education
system prompts a
chancellor to step
down.
5
A Fresh
Look
A new commission
will examine the
growing and
evolving mission
of community
colleges.
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Colleges
Dealt In
Developers of a
pair of casinos
in Ohio eye twoyear colleges for
workforce
training.
The Next Generation
Learning Challenges
initiative seeks out
innovative ways
technology can boost
collegereadiness
and completion
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Growth
Industry
A college in
Washington
launches the
state’s first
funeral service
program.
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Index
around the nation
July 11, 2011
newsbriefs
to news around the nation
La. Lawmakers
OK Tuition Hike
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HARTFORD,
Conn.
Connecticut’s chancellor
quits after change in higher
education governance.
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A new commission will look at
the growing and evolving mission of community colleges.
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The Compton Community College District is being sued
over changes in its
boundaries.
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TAMPA, Fla.
Virginia’s education chief, a
community college graduate,
is selected to head Florida’s
public schools.
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WASHINGTON
COMPTON, Calif.
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4
4
5
TALLAHASSEE,
Fla.
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7
A new law requiring public
employees to contribute part
of their pay to the state
pension fund is being
challenged in court.
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3
NEW ORLEANS
The state Board of Regents is
faulted for failing to update
the state’s master education
plan for a decade.
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PHILADELPHIA
8 COLUMBUS, Ohio
A company building casinos in
the state wants community
colleges to help with training.
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KIRKLAND, Wash.
Lake Washington Technical
College starts the state’s first
funeral service program.
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10 JACKSON, Miss.
A legislative proposal would
allow some illegal immigrants
to pay in-state tuition at state
colleges and universities.
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New rules designed to stop
the abuse of foreign exchange
students still leaves them
vulnerable.
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) —
Lawmakers have agreed to raise
tuition rates for students at most
community and technical colleges
across Louisiana, one of the only
college tuition increases to win
passage this session.
The measure, given final passage with a 30-5 Senate vote, will
standardize the tuition rates
charged to students at the community colleges. The two-year
schools will be able to charge
about $2,400 a year for full-time
students, not counting studentapproved fees. Technical schools
will be able to phase in tuition
increases as well.
The tuition hike, backed by
Gov. Bobby Jindal, will generate
$5.3 million in the 2011-12 school
year and $10.4 million two years
later.
Other tuition and fee increases
supported by Jindal failed to gain
traction this session.
Volunteers Will
Train at Oahu CC
HONOLULU (AP) — The
Hawaii Host Committee for the
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation has selected an Oahu community college to train volunteers
and workers for November’s conSee Briefs, page 14, col. 1
Reorganization Prompts Departure
Of Conn. Community College Chief
H
ARTFORD, Conn. (AP)
— The longtime chancellor of Connecticut’s community colleges explained his sudden plans to step down, saying he
decided to retire earlier than
expected after the General Assembly approved a plan to change how
much of the state’s higher education system is governed.
Marc Herzog, who officially
retired as of June 1, said he
believes it’s time for new leadership, given Democratic Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s plans to create a
new Board of Regents that will
ultimately oversee the administration of the community colleges,
the Connecticut State University
system and Charter Oak State College.
“I think there’s going to be a
new team of people and they’re
going to move in a different direction,” said the 63-year-old Herzog.
Herzog’s job as chancellor was
eliminated as of July 1, and he said
he was not interested in filling a
new vice president position that
would oversee the community colleges.
Despite his retirement, Herzog
remained on the job until July 1.
Louise Berry, chairman of the
board of trustees, said the full
board gave her the ability to hire
Herzog on an interim basis until
the new president of the yet-to-be
formed Board of Regents is named
and that person decides what’s
next for the system, which
includes 12 two-year public colleges.
“I feel an absolute dedication
NOT INTERESTED
The chancellor’s
job was eliminated
as of July 1, and he
said he was not
interested in a new
vice presidential
position.
to making sure that we don’t leave
the community college system
without leadership,” Berry said.
But Malloy’s senior adviser,
Roy Occhiogrosso, criticized the
move, saying it highlights one of
the reasons why the state’s higher
education system is not working.
“Something like this should
never be allowed to happen, and
it’s exactly the reason why Governor Malloy proposed and the legislature passed his plan to reorganize
the higher education system, putting the emphasis on student learning in the classroom as opposed to
bloated and inappropriate compensation for executive level employees,” he said.
Herzog confirmed that in June
he received a monthly pension
payment as well as a month’s
worth of salary. He said the salary
will be at a reduced rate — 75 percent — of his current salary, which
is $232,874 annually, or about
$19,400 a month. He said he did
not know the amount of the pension payment, but the Hartford
Courant reported it was $14,000 a
month.
Herzog’s retirement came as a
surprise to many in state government and within the community
college system. He said he kept his
decision quiet because he didn’t
want to overshadow the recent college graduations.
“I didn’t want any attention on
me,” he said.
Malloy and legislative leaders
still need to make appointments to
the Board of Regents, which is
charged with coming up with a
strategic plan, including staffing
levels, for the combined governance of the community colleges,
the four state universities and
Charter Oak State College, a distance learning institution.
Herzog has been chancellor of
See Resign, page 4, col. 1
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How Can Technology Support Today’s
Community College Students?
I
n the current economic climate,
where budget cuts and increasing
enrollments are daily headlines, students and colleges alike continue to face
challenging financial times. Additionally,
a growing number of students no longer
fit within the “traditional student” profile
and are juggling competing priorities
such as jobs, families, and financial
stress.
For thousands of increasingly diverse
students who need an affordable and flexible postsecondary education, community
colleges are the best choice. In fact, community colleges today enroll 45 percent of
all college students—almost 7 million students.
Getting more students ready for and
through college is vital to maintaining the
global competitiveness of our nation and
the well-being of our citizens. Just 12 percent of young people who enroll in college
complete an associate degree by age 26.
Among low-income students, only about
14 percent earn an associate degree. At the
same time, it is predicted that by 2018, 63
percent of all U.S. jobs will require some
sort of postsecondary education.
Unfortunately, creating access to college is not enough to help students achieve
an education and a degree with value in
the workforce. And we can’t expect to
increase student achievement by doing the
same things we have always done.
Students and instructors need new,
flexible tools and systems that can help
engage students in deep and relevant
learning that leads to better outcomes for
students, and ultimately success in careers
and in life. Through the innovative and
committed work of many people and institutions, we are now beginning to see the
promise of technology as a way to transform education. When applied well, technology can amplify the impact of great
instructors, energize students and connect
them to the information and support they
need faster than ever, and help create more
empowering learning environments.
The League for Innovation in the
Community College has long been an
organization focused on catalyzing the
community college movement, and working with experts in the field to create
meaningful change in students’ lives. Last
year, the League joined the Next Generation Learning Challenges as a founding
partner to deepen our commitment to this
work. This initiative is aimed at identifying and helping expand the most promis-
Resign,
even greater impact.
Chattanooga State Community College and City Colleges of
Chicago are expanding cutting
edge developmental math proPRESIDENT AND CEO
grams —one of the greatest chalLEAGUE FOR INNOVATION IN
lenges facing community colTHE COMMUNITY COLLEGE
leges. The colleges are both
using unique, modular online
content that disrupts the traditional math class structure, and
ing programs and tools that can help stu- empowers students to learn and master
dents prepare for and complete college in math at their own pace. These programs
the U.S.
also allow instructors to focus their supNext Generation Learning Challenges port for students where they need it most,
provides investment capital to organiza- and increase one-on-one assistance for stutions, institutions, and businesses through dents who need it most. Both colleges are
waves of funding every six to 12 months focused on increasing college completion
— each focusing on a targeted set of chal- for low-income and minority students.
lenges. The first wave of funding,
Understanding the need to stay laserannounced earlier this year, is focused on focused on the importance of high quality
supporting postsecondary students. Many instruction, whether virtual, hybrid, or in
of the recipients of grant funding are com- the classrooms, technology is an increasmunity colleges which are working to ingly important tool to help optimize
identify and develop technology tools that learning and support student success. To
can help community colleges serve more these ends, the League for Innovation is
students better and smarter, despite tremen- excited to be working in partnership with
dous budget and enrollment pressures.
community colleges, leading educational
Among the field of community col- organizations, K-12, four-year colleges
leges leading the charge to expand promis- and universities, corporate leaders, and
ing technology-enabled learning tools to philanthropists to make a meaningful difmore students, three stand out as particu- ference and bridge opportunities for stularly compelling examples of how the dent completion.
thoughtful use of technology can make a
Simply put, technology is an important
big impact on students.
resource to help more college students
Sinclair Community College (Ohio) succeed. The question now is: how can
uses a program called Student Success community colleges collaborate, conPlan Software to improve outcomes for its tribute and build a community of practice
at-risk students. The program provides that embraces technology and pushes it
tools and information to instructors that forward for the next generation of learners
can help them manage student relation- and leadership?
ships more efficiently, and allow them to
identify and provide supports for at-risk
students more quickly and efficiently. CurIt’s YOUR TURN
rent funding from the Next Generation
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the community colleges since 2000 and has
worked in the system since 1974. He said
he originally intended to remain on the job
as chancellor through the end of this calendar year.
He acknowledged there remain concerns about the fate of the community colleges once the Board of Regents takes over.
The current CSU and community college
boards of trustees are set to remain in place
until the end of the year during the transition.
“There are lots of concerns when community colleges are combined with baccalaureate institutions,” Herzog said,
adding how they have different missions.
Herzog said he hopes the new board
will embrace the concepts of academic and
economic access to higher education as
well as the efforts to develop the workforce, offering training that’s tailored to
specific needs in the job market.
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Commission Will Take New Look
At Community College Mission
BY PAUL BRADLEY
W
ASHINGTON
—
Community colleges
are preparing to take a
fresh look at their broad and growing mission with the naming this
week of the 21st-Century Commission on the Future of Community Colleges.
Appointed by the American
Association of Community Colleges, the commission is made up
of 36 members, including some of
the nation’s leading community
college experts.. The group will
work to examine the challenges
and opportunities confronting the
nation’s largest and fastest-growing higher education sector.
The commission is the brainchild of AACC president Walter G.
Bumphus, who has lead AACC
since January and has been traveling around the country on a community college “listening tour.”
Earlier this year, Bumphus
announced that the commission
would be headed by three cochairs: San Diego Community
College District Chancellor Emeritus Augustine Gallego; Cuyahoga
Community College president
Jerry Sue Thornton; and Kay
McClenney, director of the Center
for Community College Student
Engagement and former chief
operating officer for the Education
Commission of the States.
“We have very intentionally
selected commissioners who bring
diverse viewpoints and backgrounds,” Bumphus said in a news
release. “That includes a few
friendly critics who have consistently challenged community colleges to increase accountability
and improve student outcomes.”
Over the next 10 months, the
commission will meet in person
and virtually to examine the community college mission in light of
current economic realities. President Obama has challenged community colleges to educate an additional 5 million students with
degrees, certificates or other credentials by 2020, at a time when
states are cutting spending on higher education. The first commission
meeting will be held Aug. 12 in
Washington, D.C.
“We do not intend to be timid
or superficial in confronting the
hard choices and need for innovative thinking our leaders face in
the coming decades,” Bumphus
said. “We will focus the collective
intellect of the commission on
such issues as use of disruptive
technologies to speed learning and
the redesign of structures, calendars and processes to better match
the needs of our increasingly
diverse student population. We
will also not shy from criticism.”
Community colleges currently
enroll nearly 12 million full- and
part-time students, close to half of
all U.S. undergraduates. The lingering recession and persistently
high unemployment rates have
pushed enrollments upward by
double digits over the last three
TIMING
The first commission meeting will
be held Aug. 12 in
Washington, D.C.
years. Families seeking lower college costs and workers seeking
new skills continue to flock to
community colleges. Leading policy makers have called the colleges critical to the country’s economic recovery.
The new commission marks
the third such effort to realign the
community college mission to
reflect national needs and changing times. The Truman Commission (1947) challenged higher education to provide universal access
based on its belief that then-junior
colleges could broaden and further
democratize their mission by
becoming community colleges.
Four decades later, the AACC
Futures Commission (1988) set
forward a reform agenda designed
to strengthen the comprehensive
mission the Truman Commission
originally proposed.
Members of the commission
include, in addition to Bumphus:
J. Noah Brown, president &
CEO, Association of Community
College Trustees; Kenneth P.
Burke, trustee, St. Petersburg Col-
Latino Residents Sue Over
Compton College Voting Areas
C
OMPTON, Calif. (AP) —
Two residents of the
Compton Community
College District sued the district
over its voting areas, charging the
boundaries are preventing Latinos
from fairly participating in governing board elections.
Alex and Luis Landeros,
brothers who are active in local
Latino political affairs, filed suit
in Los Angeles County Superior
Court on grounds that the district
is violating the California Voting
Rights Act of 2001, the U.S. Constitution’s 14th Amendment, and
the California Education Code.
Attorney Joaquin Avila said
the lawsuit seeks to change the
way the college district’s four voting areas are drawn because the
current apportionment dilutes the
Latino vote.
One voting area, which
includes the city of Compton,
elects two trustees on an at-large
basis. Three other trustees are
elected from single-member areas.
The suit seeks to have five,
single-member areas, each representing a similar population based
on the 2010 census, said Avila, a
law professor at Seattle University
who specializes in voting rights
law.
Compton Community College
lost state accreditation in 2005 and
is now operated by El Camino
Community College District, but
retains its own Board of Trustees
as it works to regain accreditation.
The Compton district comprises seven cities with sizeable Hispanic populations located southwest of downtown Los Angeles.
One of the district’s five trustees is
Hispanic.
The lawsuit is similar to one
Avila filed in December against
the city of Compton on behalf of
three Hispanic residents. The suit
seeks to overturn Compton’s system of at-large City Council elections in favor of a district election
system that would more easily
enable a Hispanic resident to win
office.
Although the city is nearly 70
percent Latino, no Hispanic resident has been elected to the City
Council or other offices.
A judge denied a request to
delay the council elections to be
held this month. A full trial is
scheduled on the case next year,
Avila said.
Avila said he is preparing a
lawsuit against the Compton Unified School District board on similar grounds.
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lege (Fla.); Gerardo E. de los Santos, president & CEO, League for
Innovation in the Community College; Myrtle E. B. Dorsey, chancellor, St. Louis Community College District; Peter T. Ewell, vice
president, National Center for
Higher Education Management
Systems (Boulder, Colo.); Bernadine Chuck Fong, senior managing partner, Carnegie Foundation
for the Advancement of Teaching;
and Marie Foster Gnage, president, West Virginia University,
Parkersburg.
Also, Allen Goben, president,
Heartland Community College
(Ill.); Kati Haycock, director, the
Education Trust; Alex Johnson,
president, Community College of
Allegheny County (Pa.); Christine
Johnson, chancellor, Community
Colleges of Spokane (Wash.);
Dwight D. Jones, superintendent,
Clark County School District
(Nev.); Jane A. Karas, president,
Flathead Valley Community College (Mont.); William “Brit” Kirwan, chancellor, University System of Maryland; and Jennifer
Lara, professor, Anne Arundel
Community College (Md.)
Also, Paul E. Lingenfelter,
president, State Higher Education
Executive Officers (Boulder,
Colo.); Michael B. McCall, president, Kentucky Community &
Technical College System (Versailles, Ky.); Mark David Milliron,
deputy director, Postsecondary
Improvement U.S. Program, Bill
& Melinda Gates Foundation
(Seattle, Wash.); Eloy Oakley,
superintendent-president, Long
Beach City College (Calif.); Diana
G. Oblinger, president and CEO,
EDUCAUSE; Daniel J. Phelan,
president, Jackson Community
College (Mich.); and DeRionne P.
Pollard, president, Montgomery
College (Md.).
Also, Richard M. Rhodes,
president, Austin Community College (Texas) as of Sept. 1, 2011;
Rod A. Risley, executive director,
Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society;
John E. Roueche, professor and
director, Community College
Leadership Program, The University of Texas at Austin; James T.
Ryan, chairman, president and
CEO, W.W. Grainger, Inc. (Lake
Forest, Ill.); Randy Smith, president, Rural Community College
Alliance (Okla.); and Mary F. T.
Spilde, president, Lane Community College (Ore.).
Also, John “Ski” Sygielski,
president, Harrisburg Area Community College (Pa.); Vincent
Tinto, distinguished university
professor, School of Education,
Syracuse University (N.Y.);
Philip Uri Treisman, professor of
mathematics and public affairs
and director, Charles A. Dana
Center, The University of Texas at
Austin; and Nancy L. Zimpher,
Chancellor, The State University
of New York.
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What Works
Next Generation Initiative Aims To Expand Technological Innovations
By Paul Bradley
PHOTO COURTESY NEXT GENERATION LEARNING CHALLENGES
B
y now, the statistics and trends
about American education have
become a deflating drumbeat of
bad news and unrealized expectations.
Despite billions of dollars in spending
at federal, state and local levels, educational achievement levels in America remain
astonishingly low. Some 30 percent of high
school students drop out before graduation.
For African Americans, Hispanics and lowincome students, the numbers are even
worse, closer to 50 percent, according to
federal statistics.
For higher education, the landscape is
scarcely better. Though college enrollment
has been on a steady upward climb for
decades, only 42 percent of students who
enroll in college earn a bachelor’s degree
by age 26. Only 12 percent earn an associate degree by the same age, federal data
shows.
The numbers are more that merely data.
In an era of globalization, they have grave
implications for
the future of the
American economy.
Lowerskilled jobs have
vanished, never
to return, due to
technological
advances
and
global competition. Americans
with only a high
school diploma,
or less, face a
“How can
harsh new reality:
we...use our
their education no
longer qualifies
technology
infrastructure them for the kind
of job that can
to scale up
support a family
and get more
or ensure ecostudents
nomic security.
through?”
The long-term
trends seem set in
— STELLA PEREZ concrete.
By
EXECUTIVE VP 2018, 63 percent
LEAGUE FOR INNOVATION of all jobs will
require some kind
of post-secondary credential, according to
the Center for Education and the Workforce at Georgetown University. The center
projects that 22 million workers with postsecondary degrees will be needed by the
American economy 2018, but current
trends will leave the country 3 million
workers short of that mark.
Even as these trends have been accelerating, educational institutions have been
slow to adjust. Hidebound instructional
methods fail to engage a new generation of
learners raised amid technological innovations. Neither do they account for students
with serious challenges such as financial
constraints and work and family obligations.
Ira Fuchs, at left, is executive director of the Next Generations Learning Challenges initiative. He has been
traveling to conferences around the country to talk to educators about it.
To be sure, colleges around the country
— especially community colleges — have
been making great strides to deal with
these sobering realities. They are streamlining developmental education sequences
and improving assessments. They are
embracing distance education and offering
midnight classes. But too often, these
initiatives exist in splendid isolation,
educators say, benefitting only a tiny sliver
of students.
Now, an effort led by the Bill &
Melinda Gates Foundation is seeking to
move these islands of innovation into the
mainstream of American education by
identifying and supporting practices which
use technology to improve both college
readiness and completion.
Scaling Up
Announced last year, the Next Generation Learning Challenges will funnel
tens of millions of dollars to higher education and K-12 public schools to find
technological innovations that work —
and more importantly, that can be scaled
up to the larger education community.
“The purpose is to have a demonstrably solid impact on college readiness and
completion, especially for low-income
students,” said Ira Fuchs, executive director of the initiative. “The goal is to seek
out solutions that have been shown to
work and scale them up to much larger
numbers of students and institutions.”
Though the Gates Foundation is providing most of the funding for the effort
— and grants could eventually total $80
million or more — it is being led by a consortium of groups with a wealth of experience in educational instruction, leadership
and management: EDUCAUSE, the
Council of Chief State School Officers,
the International Association for K-12
Online Learning and the League for Innovation in the Community College.
Gerardo de los Santos, the League’s
president and CEO, said the initiative is
part and parcel of the completion agenda
that now dominates community college
education, but is distinctive in that it also
addresses college readiness.
“As we look at the completion agenda,
we know that we can’t do one without the
other,” he said. “We have to maintain our
focus on the front door, but also concentrate on completion.”
“There is a great deal of pressure on
colleges to make sure students earn credentials,” he added. “But we need to have
students succeed on the front end, where
so many students get lost.”
The initiative is being guided by three
overarching goals: financial support for
innovators to refine and test their ideas;
the compiling of a body of evidence on
what works; and, perhaps most importantly, building a broad community of innovators who can create a robust marketplace
of solutions, and a larger pool of participants.
“We really wanted to do something
that was driven by the community, instead
of a single Gates initiative,” Fuchs said.
The response to the Next Generation
initiative has been promising, Fuchs said.
Plans call for a “wave” of grants to be
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released every six to 12 months and
designed to remove barriers to educational success. The first two waves already
have been released, while a third is in the
planning stages.
More than 600 Apply
More than 600 applications were
received for the first “wave” of grants,
from which 29 were approved in April,
including eight community college initiatives.
The first wave, aimed at post-secondary education, asked applicants to
address four specific challenges:
Increasing the use of blended
learning models, combining face-to-face
instruction with online learning activities.
Deepening students’ learning and
engagement through use of interactive
applications, such as digital games and
social media.
Supporting the availability of highquality open courseware, particularly for
high-enrollment introductory classes like
math, science, and English.
Helping institutions, instructors,
and students benefit from learning analytics, which can monitor student
progress and customize proven supports
and interventions.
Stella Perez, the League’s executive
vice president and liaison to the Next
Generation initiative, said the responses
were both broad and deep, ranging from
online analytics to early warning systems
for developmental math students.
“I think the results, and where we are
now, in this recession, is a very hopeful
sign,” she said. “I
think people captured that unique
blend of innovation and collaboration.”
The second
wave of grants,
aimed at K-12
education,
attracted more
than 200 applications.
Proponents of
the program are
“The goal is
quick to point out
to seek out
that technology is
solutions
not the sole
that have
answer of Ameribeen shown
ca’s educational
to work and
woes, but only
part of the soluscale them
tion.
up.”
“We are not
saying
that tech— IRA FUCHS
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR nology by itself
NEXT GENERATION will solve or save
LEARNING CHALLENGES anything,” Perez
said. “It may be
that a hybrid
approach using technology is the best
way we can scale innovation. The question is, how can we leverage resources,
and use our technology infrastructure, to
scale up and get more of students
through? It’s a resource and a tool.”
Added Fuchs: “Technology is an
amplifier. It’s not the answer, but it’s a
matter of taking what we do well and
expanding it.”
Now that he first two waves of funding have been approved and disbursed,
the initiative is planning the third wave
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Next Generation Learning Challenge Grant Winners
T
he first wave of funding under the Next Generation
Learning Challenges was announced last year and
focused primarily on postsecondary education. Grantseekers were asked to address four challenges: deployment of
open core courseware; scaling of blended learning programs;
encouragement of deeper learner engagement; and mobilizaCentral Piedmont Community College
(N.C.)
Online Student Profile Learning System: A
Learner Analytics Model for Student Success
Central Piedmont Community College
will lead a consortium of community colleges
from across the nation in the adoption of the
Online Student Profile Learning System
(OSPLS), a technology-enabled solution that
has a proven track record of improving the
academic success of young adult learners
enrolled in developmental education courses.
The OSPLS technology platform and four
integrated OSPLS components include an
orientation course, student assessment tools,
online student profile and staff professional
development. The partner colleges will implement the OSPLS on their campuses and will
support the goal of scaling up across the
nation beyond the NGLC project period.
Cerritos Community College (Calif.)
Open General Education Curriculum at
Multi-Institutional Scale
The project will create and scale a comprehensive, first-year, general-education curriculum that uses existing open educational
resources and technologies. The project will
not develop new OER, but will invest to identify and improve the best of the existing stock.
The project will bring together senior leaders
from institutions that are seeking to adopt
OER with OER experts, in order to create
effective, sustainable, collaborative models to
support the academic success of underserved populations.
Chattanooga State Community
College (Tenn.)
Do the Math! Increasing Student
Engagement and Success in Math
through Blended Learning
“Do the Math! Increasing Student
Engagement and Success” will aim to
increase student success in developmental
math by utilizing software, disrupting the traditional math class and introducing a new
approach where students work in the math
classroom and teachers spend their time
assisting students individually. Chattanooga
State Community College, Jefferson Community and Technical College (Ken.), University
of Hawaii Maui and the Education Trust will
join forces in this project which promises to
increase both student engagement and success in the area of developmental math.
and expects to issue an RFP in October.
While details are still being worked out,
Fuchs expects that the third wave will
attempt to bridge the gap between K-12
and higher education. Future waves will
be based on the success of their predecessors, he said.
“It’s all about adoption,” he said. “It’s
all about scaling, where solutions were
built for one school but have the promise
of working for others. We need to find
what’s out there, and scale it up.”
tion of learning analytics. More than 600 institutions and
organizations responded to the RFP. The field was eventually
narrowed down to 29 grant winners. They were announced in
April. Following is a list of community colleges among the
grant winners and their descriptions of their planned work:
Community College of the District of
Columbia, Portland State University
(Ore.), South Texas College, and St. Paul
College (Minn.)
Open Source Blended Learning Solutions
Partnership for Retaining and Graduating
Gatekeeper Course and Developmental
Learners by Eliminating Traditional
Developmental Writing Courses
The goal of this project is to scale alternative methods of avoiding placement of students in developmental non-credit courses by
supporting them in blended learning environments at four colleges led by the Community
College of the District of Columbia and Portland State’s Learner Web. The strategy for
disruptively implementing this project will
include the evaluation of different blended
strategies. This analytic approach to implementation will let the principal investigators
determine see which online blended interventions are the most effective in supporting students toward the goals of improved completion, persistence, content mastery, and mastery of deeper learning outcomes.
Iowa Community College
Online Consortium
eAnalytics — ICCOC Best Practices in
Using Learner Analytics to Enhance Student
Success
The seven community colleges of the
Iowa Community College Online Consortium
(ICCOC) use commonly available learner
analytics to improve instruction and student
learning outcomes. This grant will give the
ICCOC the opportunity to share what it does
and how it does it with others who wish to
start implementing processes of their own. In
addition, the ICCOC will look at how improving communication between student services
and instructors can be used to improve student retention and success.
Sinclair Community College (Ohio)
Scale-up and Sustainability of the Student
Success Plan Software
The project will open-source the awardwinning Student Success Plan system developed at Sinclair Community College. The
system consists of (1) preventive measures,
early alerts, assertive intervention, holistic
counseling techniques, student self assessment; and (2) web-based software for tracking students and data analytics. The software
is designed to increase the success and per-
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sistence rates of students with an emphasis
on first-time, degree- or certificate-seeking
students with key risk factors. Each college
determines risk factors to target, such as lowincome or academically-unprepared students. The software will be transitioned to a
sustainable open source model, including a
community management organization.
The City Colleges of Chicago
Math On-Demand + Early Warning System
Student success in developmental math
courses is one of the greatest challenges facing community colleges. CCC’s project
addresses this issue by adapting and scaling
Math-On-Demand (MOD), a successful program at Wright College, to the district’s six
other colleges. Fully implemented, this project will have two main components – Math
On-Demand (MOD) and Early Alert System
(EAS) – and will be renamed MOD+. Through
the creation of a blended learning environment using computerized, modularized
developmental courses, MOD+ addresses
the objectives of improving content mastery,
course completion and persistence and ultimately increases college completion rates for
low-income young adults in Chicago.
The SUNY Learning Network
The SUNY SLN “Catch-up and Complete”
Enhanced Blended Learning Initiative
We know that education can disrupt the
cycle of poverty and the intergenerational
transmission of poverty. We know that 40 to 70
percent of incoming college students need
remedial education. We also know that more
than half that try, fail and drop out, and that billions of dollars are spent on activity that never
leads to a credential for the student. To
address this “Bermuda Triangle” of developmental education — where most students go
in and never come out — the State University
of New York’s Catch-up and Complete
Enhanced Blended Learning Initiative will help
students catch up so that they can then complete their education. The SUNY Learning Network will work with SUNY campuses to “blend”
and enhance selected degree and certificate
programs for this project, specifically targeting
young adult single parents from underserved
populations with educational options that focus
on student success.
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Va. Educator, a CC Grad,
Is New Fla. Schools Chief
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AMPA, Fla. (AP) — Virginia’s education chief has
been picked to run Florida’s public school system.
The Florida Board of Education voted unanimously to name
Gerard Robinson as the state’s
education commissioner. He was
chosen from among five finalists
interviewed by the board.
Robinson was appointed
Virginia’s education secretary in
January 2010 by Gov. Bob
McDonnell. Before that, he had
focused his interests on charter
schools, vouchers and other
school choice issues. Those are
also priorities for new Florida
Gov. Rick Scott, who ousted previous education commissioner
Eric Smith because the two
clashed over their goals.
“Gerard brings to Florida a
long and remarkable set of
accomplishments in innovation
and proven results that will help
us continue putting children first,
improving our schools and
ensuring Florida has the besteducated workforce,” Scott said
in a statement. “His leadership as
an
experienced
education
reformer and advocate for school
choice and closing the achievement gap is exactly what Florida
needs to reach the next level of
education reforms that will benefit both our students and the
businesses of our state.”
Robinson, who graduated
from a Los Angeles community
college before earning degrees
from Howard University and
Harvard, has served as president
of the Black Alliance for Educational Options and worked on
Virginia’s initial charter school
legislation in 1998 when he was
on the staff of state Del. Mary
Christian.
“Florida needs his energy,
passion and leadership,” board
chairman Kathleen Shanahan
said in an e-mail. She was absent
Gerard Robinson
from Tuesday’s meeting because
of a family emergency.
Board member John R. Pad-
get said he was impressed that
Robinson started at a community
college and then went on to pur-
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sue a university education. That
will allow him to relate to students with a wide range of education potential and “connect the
dots” throughout the state system, Padget said.
Other finalists included
former New Jersey Education
Commissioner Bret Schundler;
Stacia Smith, also a top candidate for education superintendent in Ohio; Florida Career and
Adult Education Chancellor
Loretta Costin; and Thomas Jandris, vice president and dean of
graduate programs at Concordia
College in Chicago.
Robinson applied for the job
after the board extended the
original application deadline.
The process was reopened after
only 19 people applied by the
original deadline. The department ended up with 26 applications.
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Teachers Union Sues over Fla. Pension Plan Changes
BY BILL KACZOR, ASSOCIATED PRESS
T
ALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP)
— Florida’s statewide
teachers union is taking the
lead in a lawsuit that seeks to
block a requirement for teachers,
state workers and many local government employees to contribute 3
percent of their pay to the state
pension fund.
The suit filed also challenges a
phase-out
of
cost-of-living
increases in retirement benefits.
The Florida Education Association filed the class action on
behalf of 11 government workers
representing several unions in state
circuit court here against what
FEA President Andy Ford called
“essentially an income tax” on
public employees.
Two other unions later filed
motions to intervene. The Florida
Police Benevolent Association has
asked to add two members, an
Orange County sheriff’s deputy
and a state correctional officer.
The Florida Public Services
Union, part of the Service
Employees International Union,
wants to add four members. They
include Palm Beach County
School District maintenance worker Bobby Mcghee, who said he
took his job with the understanding it included a district-paid paid
retirement plan.
“By showing up to work every
day and doing everything I’m
asked, I have held up my end of
the agreement,” Mcghee said.
“Now they are trying to change the
rules in the middle of the game so
they don’t have to uphold theirs.”
The Florida Retirement System covers 655,000 active
employees and provides benefits
to 219,000 retirees.
The suit alleges the contribution requirement and benefit
reduction violate existing public
employees’ contract rights that
date back to a law passed in 1974
and which are guaranteed by the
Florida Constitution.
“We believe that a promise is a
promise and the state of Florida
should abide by promises it
makes,” Ford said.
The suit, though, doesn’t challenge the state’s ability to impose
the changes on workers hired after
the new pension law goes into
effect on July 1.
It also alleges the law violates
a state constitutional provision that
guarantees employees the right to
bargain collectively. The Republican-controlled Legislature passed
the law without negotiating with
public employee unions.
Gov. Rick Scott, who had
sought an even larger 5 percent
contribution, said he was confident
the law will stand up in court.
“Asking state employees to
pay a small percentage into their
FIRST OF MANY?
The suit is expected
to be the first of
many challenging
what critics say is a
string of “reckless
legislation.”
pensions is common sense,” the
Republican governor said in a
statement. “Floridians who don’t
work in government are required
to pay into their own retirement.
This is about fairness for those
who don’t have government jobs.
Plus, we are ensuring a pension
will be there for state employees
when they retire.”
The suit, though, won applause
from Florida House Democratic
Leader Ron Saunders of Key
West. He said House Democrats
“fought this unconstitutional
attempt to balance the state budget
on the backs of our public servants.”
The employee contributions
won’t be used to strengthen the
pension plan, which is rated as one
of the nation’s best-funded.
Instead, they will be offset by
equal reductions in employer con-
tributions. That’s expected to save
the state and local governments
$1.2 billion the first year.
At least one public employer in
Pensacola, though, is not taking
the savings. Escambia County is
giving its employees a 3.1 percent
pay raise to offset the pension contributions
The suit was filed on behalf of
two teachers from Hillsborough
and Columbia counties, a pair of
school maintenance workers from
Leon and Madison counties, two
Santa Rosa County sheriff’s
deputies, a Hillsborough Community College staffer, a Hillsborough County solid waste worker
and three employees of the Jackson Health System in Miami-Dade
County.
The plaintiffs are members of
FEA, local teachers unions, the
Fraternal Order of Police, the
AFL-CIO, American Federation of
State, County and Municipal
Employees and the Service
Employees International UnionHealth Care Florida Local 1991.
The suit names Scott as a
defendant along with Attorney
General Pam Bondi and Chief
Financial Officer Jeff Atwater, all
members of the State Board of
Administration, as well as Department of Management Services
Secretary John Miles. The board
oversees pension fund investments
and Miles administers the plan.
FEA lawyer Ron Meyer said
he expects the case to wind up in
the Florida Supreme Court regardless of how it’s decided at the trial
court level.
The plaintiffs have asked Circuit Judge Jackie Fulford to order
that the state set aside the employee contributions in an interestbearing account until the issue is
resolved. The employees then
could be reimbursed with interest
if they ultimately win.
The suit is the first of what
may be several by the teachers
union challenging what Ford
called ``reckless legislation that
was dreamed up by legislative
leaders and heartily endorsed by
our governor.’’
Meyer said “it would be a fair
statement to say we will be litigating” portions of a new law affecting teacher pay and work conditions. It sets up a merit pay system
based heavily on how much each
teacher’s students improve on
standardized tests and eliminates
tenure for new hires.
Ford said the Republican-controlled Legislature made “the
state of Florida a colder and
harsher state” by passing such
laws instead of trying to fix the
state’s economy.
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Audit Report Cites La. Board of Regents’ Weaknesses
BY KEVIN MCGILL, ASSOCIATED PRESS
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EW ORLEANS (AP) —
Louisiana’s top higher
education board hasn’t
updated a constitutionally required
“master plan” for state colleges
and universities in 10 years, the
state Legislative Auditor’s Office
says in a new report that outlines
numerous political and legal factors that muddle the board’s mission and weaken its ability to do its
job.
In its response, the state Board
of Regents takes issue with some
of the findings in the audit report,
noting, for instance, that parts of
the master plan have been updated
from time to time and that other
states’ master plans are five- to 10year plans. The board agreed with
the report’s finding, however, that
laws clarifying the board’s role are
a good idea.
The report was made public
near the end of a legislative session that saw the failure of efforts
to consolidate the state’s five higher education boards into a single
body. The report doesn’t call for
consolidation
but
suggests
changes for the Legislature to consider in future sessions.
More clarity is needed in budgeting for universities, the report
said. Legislators appropriate
money for colleges and universities and the Board of Regents has a
role in creating a formula to
distribute the money. But state law
gives each of the board’s governing the different education systems
— LSU, Southern, University of
Louisiana and the Community and
Technical Colleges system —
authority to spend and allocate the
money appropriated, the report
notes.
Plans for distributing funds are
part of what is supposed to be
included in the Board of Regents’
master plan for higher education.
That plan also is supposed to
include a broad statement of longterm policy and goals and an outline of the role, scope and mission
of each institution. But the Board
of Regents hasn’t updated its
master plan since 2001, according
to the audit.
While the constitution calls for
the Regents to have a master plan,
there is no specific deadline for
updating or replacing it, according
to the audit. Historically it has
been done every 10 years, but
there was an effort to update the
latest plan in 2006. Still that effort
did not result in an updated plan,
for a variety of reasons cited in the
report, including changes in
Regents leadership in 2008.
Lawmakers should consider
legislation spelling out what con-
The report was
issued at the end
of a legislative session marked by the
failure of efforts to
consolidate the
state’s five higher
education boards
into a single body.
to require a regular report on the
achievement of the Master Plan
goals and BoR’s analysis of the
appropriateness of the goals in the
Master Plan, including the institutions’ mission statements.”
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Pa. Bill Seeks In-State Tuition for Illegal Immigrants
BY KATHY MATHESON, ASSOCIATED PRESS
Illegal immigrant students Keren Murillo,
left, and Cesar Marroquin, with State Rep.
Tony Payton Jr. Payton has proposed legislation that would allow some illegal immigrant students to pay in-state tuition.
would allow them to pay resident tuition at
14 state-owned universities, four staterelated universities and community colleges.
In-state tuition for the Pennsylvania
State System of Higher Education is $5,804
annually, compared with $8,706 to $14,510
for out-of-state residents. A system spokeswoman declined comment.
Cesar Marroquin, 20, is among those
who would qualify. He has been living in
Pennsylvania for a decade and graduated
two years ago from Springfield Township
High School near Philadelphia.
Now attending Montgomery County
Community College, Marroquin pays about
$900 a class — the tuition rate for foreign
students — instead of the $300 paid by his
in-state peers. Because his immigration status makes him ineligible for financial aid,
Marroquin can afford only a small courseload.
Marroquin said at the news conference
that his parents, who brought him to this
country from Peru when he was 9, “work
hard and pay taxes every single year.” But
the high tuition makes him feel like pursuing an education is impossible, he said.
“All I’m asking for is the opportunity to
contribute to the country that has given me
so much,” Marroquin said. “An affordable
education is the first step toward fulfilling
my dream of giving back to my country, the
United States.”
DREAM Act supporters say the bill’s
direct cost is negligible, in part because of
the small number of students who would
qualify. They also note that many illegal
immigrants could not afford college without the benefit, so their in-state tuition payments would represent new revenue.
DREAM stands for Development,
Relief and Education for Alien Minors.
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NJ Student Aid Bid Rejected Due To Mom’s Status
BY SAMANTHA HENRY, ASSOCIATED PRESS
N
EWARK, N.J. (AP) —
An American-born high
school student from
New Jersey has been denied state
tuition assistance because her
mother is an illegal immigrant,
according to the American Civil
Liberties Union.
The ACLU and a Rutgers
University legal clinic are representing the high school senior —
identified only as A.Z. — in an
appeal filed on her behalf in a
case they claim violates both state
and federal laws.
The 17-year-old, who has
lived in New Jersey for at least a
decade and is a graduating senior,
applied for a Tuition Aid Grant
from the state’s Higher Education
Student Assistance Authority, or
HESAA. Her state aid application
was rejected, according to the
ACLU, with the explanation that
“her parents are not legal New
Jersey residents.”
HESAA
representative
Marnie Grodman, the acting
director of legal matters for the
agency, said she could not comment on active litigation or specific student cases. She said the
agency requires students — or if
they are not yet legally adults,
their parents — to prove they
have been domiciled in New Jersey for a period of at least a year
immediately before the academic
period for which they are requesting aid.
Alexander Shalom, policy
counsel for the ACLU’s New Jer-
sey chapter, said what appears to
be at issue in this case — and similar rejections he’s seen in recent
months — is HESAA’s definition
of “domiciled.”
“HESAA is apparently taking
the position that to be domiciled in
New Jersey, you must be a legal
(U.S.) resident, which is contrary
to established New Jersey Supreme
Court precedent,” he said.
Ronald K. Chen of the Rutgers Constitutional Litigation
Clinic said immigration and legal
advocacy groups have seen an
uptick in New Jersey of students
who are U.S. citizens born to illegal immigrants getting rejected
for tuition aid.
“As far as we can tell, it’s not
an isolated incident or a bureau-
cratic mistake; it’s clearly a policy decision HESAA has decided
to take,” Chen said. “We respectfully think it’s not lawful to discriminate against a U.S. citizen
because of their parent’s status.”
Grodman said HESAA had
not changed its policies or reinterpreted its regulations.
Chen said the student at the
center of the case was a hardworking senior at the top her
class. Both Chen and the ACLU
declined to give her hometown or
her mother’s nationality, saying
they wished to protect the family’s identity.
The ACLU’s appeal, filed
with the Appellate Division of
New Jersey Superior Court,
argues that the immigration status
of an applicant’s parents is not
listed as a determining factor in
the legislation that created the aid
program. They claim the denial
violates equal protection laws.
Access to education for the
American-born children of immigrants — or for illegal immigrants who were brought to the
U.S. as children — has been the
subject of fierce debate in New
Jersey and at the federal and local
level nationwide.
Much of the debate has
focused on whether illegal immigrant students should be allowed
to enroll in higher education or
pay in-state tuition rates.
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HILADELPHIA (AP) — Illegal
immigrants would qualify for the
less expensive in-state tuition rates
at Pennsylvania colleges and universities if
they meet residency requirements included
in proposed legislation.
The DREAM Act would offer an affordable education to college-bound teens who
are here illegally through no fault of their
own, its primary sponsor, state Rep. Tony
Payton Jr., said at a news conference in
Philadelphia.
“They grew up Americans, they show
civic pride, they have American values,”
said Payton, a Democratic lawmaker from
the city. “We should not be punishing kids
for a choice that their parents made.”
About a dozen states already offer
tuition benefits to undocumented college
students, many of whom were brought to
America as children. Supporters say such
legislation leads to a more educated workforce and costs the states almost nothing.
But state Rep. Daryl Metcalfe, founder
of a national group of lawmakers critical of
illegal immigration, blasted the proposed
Pennsylvania bill and predicted it would
fail to pass the Legislature.
“All Pennsylvania parents and college
students should be outraged that Rep. Payton has introduced legislation to make it
more affordable for illegal aliens to attend
college,” Metcalfe, R-Butler, said in a statement.
The federal DREAM Act, which contains similar provisions, has repeatedly
failed in Congress. Critics say it would
encourage foreigners to sneak into the U.S.
and amounts to amnesty.
About 850 illegal immigrants graduate
from high school in Pennsylvania each
year, according to the Pennsylvania Immigration and Citizenship Coalition.
If they are admitted to college and meet
certain residency criteria — and if their parents have paid state income taxes for the
past three years — the state DREAM Act
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Colleges Coveted as Training
Sites for New Casinos in Ohio
C
OLUMBUS, Ohio (AP)
— A company building
casinos in Columbus and
Toledo wants local colleges to
train blackjack dealers and slotmachine technicians for the gaming operations.
An increasing number of colleges nationwide are adopting
casino-related training programs
as more states legalize table-gaming.
In Ohio, Penn National Gaming Inc. has been talking with officials at Columbus State Community College, Franklin University
and Central Ohio Technical College in Newark about creating programs to train workers the $400
million
Hollywood
Casino
Columbus, The Columbus Dispatch reported.
Up to 2,000 people will be
hired for the Columbus casino, and
many of them will require specialized training, Penn National
Status,
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lege takes seats away from legal
residents, usurps scarce taxpayerfunded resources and encourages
illegal immigration.
Supporters of granting instate tuition rates to illegal immigrants say those who are brought
to the United States as children
and grow up in the local school
system are faced with few
options after graduating high
school — regardless of how hard
they work.
Several of New Jersey’s community colleges, and some private colleges, currently allow
illegal immigrants to enroll or
don’t ask for immigration status
on school applications.
The County College of Morris, after pressure from the freeholder board and members of the
public, recently reversed part of a
new policy that allowed illegal
immigrants who met certain criteria to enroll at in-county rates.
State legislation that would
have allowed illegal immigrant
students who grow up in New
Jersey to pay in-state tuition
failed to garner enough support
for a vote.
In the current case, both Chen
and Shalom emphasized that their
client is a legal resident, born in
the United States, who meets the
criteria for state tuition aid.
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spokeswoman Karen Bailey said.
“The nearest gaming operation
to the area is in Cincinnati, so we
don’t really have an existing work
force that we can draw on,” Bailey
told the newspaper.
Penn National also will open
the $250 million Hollywood Casino Toledo next year and is in discussions about training those
workers through a college in the
Toledo area, Bailey told The Associated Press. About 1,200 workers
will be needed for that operation.
The Wyomissing, Pa.-company has promised to hire at least 90
percent of its workers from central
Ohio for the Columbus casino and
the same percentage from northwest Ohio for the Toledo one, but
the specific numbers of workers
needed won’t be known until later,
she said.
Penn National expects to begin
holding recruitment and job fairs
six months before the casinos
open. Workers will be needed in
general areas such as accounting,
food service, maintenance and
security, but table-game dealers
and slot-machine technicians need
the most specialized training, Bailey said.
“They’ll represent a large proportion of our workforce, and
they’re labor-intensive jobs that
require very specific skills,” Bailey said.
The average salary across the
pool of workers is about $40,000,
she said, adding that dealers can
make much more than that
because most of what those
hourly-wage employees make
comes through tips.
Representatives of the Columbus area colleges say it is too early
to know whether they can help, but
they are excited about the possibility, the newspaper reported.
“We stand ready to help customize a specific program for the
company or help it tap into one or
all of our credit and noncredit
work force development courses,”
said Ann Signet, Columbus State’s
supervisor of continuing and professional education.
Signet wasn’t sure about dealer training, but thought the school
likely could help with slotmachine maintenance, customerservice and hospitality needs.
Garry McDaniel, an associate
dean and professor in Franklin’s
MBA program, thinks that college
could provide business-management and leadership training to
Penn National.
The Knox County Career Center in Mount Vernon offered classes in blackjack and baccarat dealing last fall but canceled them
because not enough students
signed up. The center hopes to try
again next year, adding a ninemonth casino program that
includes classes in customer serv-
ice, hospitality and surveillance,
said Jane Marlow, the adult-education director.
“We’ve had some manufacturing jobs go away, and this is a
great new industry for Ohio and
our students,” Marlow said.
A college in neighboring West
Virginia also helps train workers
for casino work.
Blue Ridge Community and
Technical College in Martinsburg,
W.Va. has trained Penn National
workers in leadership and computer skills, as well as English as a
second language, for the Hollywood Casino in Charles Town,
W.Va., for about six years, said Pat
Hubbard, director of customized
training and workforce development.
“We trained over 400 people to
start up the operation, and now
we’re down to training about 40
people every six weeks,” Hubbard
said.
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First Class in Funeral Service Graduates from Wash. College
BY SUSAN GILMORE, THE SEATTLE TIMES
AP PHOTO/THE SEATTLE TIMES, STEVE RINGMAN
K
IRKLAND, Wash. (AP)
— One student was painting a mustache, completing the process of turning a waxcovered skull into the image of
Walt Disney. Another was crafting
the elongated ears of poet Allen
Ginsberg.
Randi Cloud had chosen to
create the visage of Conan
O’Brien, with a picture of the television talk-show host propped in
front of her.
The students were in one of the
required classes of a new Funeral
Service Education program at
Lake Washington Technical College in Kirkland, the first such program in Washington state. The first
class of seven students graduated
in June, and a second class of nine
will graduate in August.
“This is something I’ve wanted
to do for quite a while,” said
Cloud, who has experienced
deaths in her family. “I felt like
this was something I could do a
good job at because I’ve been
through it. People don’t like going
to funerals, but if I can be sensitive
to those things I can be a good
funeral director.”
The need is so great for funeral directors and embalmers that the
state added the program two years
ago.
Until Lake Washington began
its program, local mortuary-science students had to travel to Oregon, California or even farther
away to receive training required
to be licensed in Washington.
The program is complex. Students learn business aspects of
running a funeral home, the psychology of dealing with grieving
family members and the science of
embalming. They also learn
restorative art. They may be faced
with restoring the body of a gunshot victim, or someone who died
in a car accident — hence the skull
class.
Christina Graylee, 32, will
graduate in August. She said she
has wanted to become a funeral
director since she was a teenager.
She was reared by her grandparents, and she saw all the care that
the funeral director gave when her
grandmother died.
“I want to help people who are
grieving and be there for strangers
who go through their worst days,”
said Graylee, a single mother and
former college dropout who was
working for a tool company before
she went back to school. “I had an
interest in science and art, and I
really respect the dead. The dead
don’t have a say.”
She said she was a little nervous about embalming. Once she
did it, though, she realized the
human body is a beautiful thing. “I
Randi Cloud shows a wax figure she made to resemble television talk-show host Conan O’Brien. Students in the
funeral service education program at Lake Washington Technical College in Kirkland have to learn how to restore a
human face if it’s been disfigured.
know the person is not there anymore, so I want to make them look
as good as possible.”
When Robin Grant graduated
from Washington State University
with a biology degree, she couldn’t find a job. So she decided to
become a funeral director and
embalmer. Grant, 24, was in the
first graduating class.
“I really liked it,” Grant said.
“I love the science and the anatomy, putting things back together
and seeing how it works.”
Erin Wilcox, director of the
program, said she began in the
field by working at a funeral home
in college, mowing lawns, washing the hearse and taking out the
garbage. She graduated from college with degrees in English and
religion, but her boss then asked if
she’d consider being a funeral
director.
“I figured maybe deep down I
did,” she said. “But I didn’t want
to admit it.”
She graduated from mortuary
school in California and worked as
a funeral director and embalmer
“You sacrifice a lot for it, and it takes up a
lot of your life. It’s very fulfilling, but it’s
not for everyone.”
— ERIN WILCOX
DIRECTOR
FUNERAL SERVICE EDUCATION PROGRAM
LAKE WASHINGTON TECHNICAL COLLEGE
for five years before joining Lake
Washington.
“It takes a special kind of person,” Wilcox said. “It’s very emotionally stressful, and you’re on
call 24/7. You sacrifice a lot for it,
and it takes up your life. It’s very
fulfilling, but it’s not for everyone.”
Although Lake Washington
trains its students in both aspects, a
funeral director and an embalmer
have separate roles in treating
deaths. The funeral director
arranges for disposal of the body,
prepares the deceased for viewing
and arranges an embalming.
The embalmer might not have
contact with the family. He or she
has been trained in the art and science of embalming, including
anatomy and chemistry.
Embalming involves washing
a body and injecting a preservative
to ready it for viewing and placement in a casket. Once that is completed, the embalmer rewashes the
body, including shampooing the
hair and cleaning the fingernails.
The embalmer also applies cosmetics.
Adam Horton, 33, has a teaching degree from the University of
Washington and almost had his
master’s degree in education, but
he decided to change careers.
He had worked in administration at a funeral home and decided
he would like to be a funeral director. “It’s meaningful and worthwhile,” he said, while crafting his
plastic skull into Ginsberg, one of
his favorite poets.
According to the Department
of Licensing, the state has 285
licensed embalmers and 396
licensed funeral directors, and
many hold both licenses. King
County has 68 embalmers and 95
funeral directors.
The Lake Washington program
expects to receive accreditation
from the American Board of
Funeral Service Education this
summer.
Cameron Smock, president of
the Washington State Funeral
Directors Association and president and CEO of Bonney-Watson,
said he is so pleased by the new
program that he’s already hired a
graduate.
“For many people who are
doing this as a second or third
career, they have families and
mortgages and can’t relocate out
of state,” he said. “Having an instate program really aids their ability. And we don’t have an appropriate pool of qualified applicants.”
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New Visa Rules Leave Foreign
Students Vulnerable to Abuse
BY HOLBROOK MOHR AND MITCH WEISS, ASSOCIATED PRESS
AP FILE PHOTO
J
ACKSON, Miss. (AP) —
The State Department is publicly acknowledging that one
of its most popular exchange programs leaves foreign college students vulnerable to exploitation,
but it’s unclear if new regulations
the agency is pushing will do
enough to stop the abuses.
The revised rules aim to shift
more responsibility onto the 53
entities the department designates
official sponsors in the J-1 Summer Work Travel Program. Historically, many sponsors have farmed
out those duties to third-party contractors, making the sponsors
“mere purveyors of J-1 visas,”
according to the State Department’s proposed new rules published this spring in the Federal
Register.
Federal auditors have criticized the department for years for
depending on sponsors, some of
whom make millions of dollars off
J-1 students, to oversee the program and investigate complaints.
Yet the new regulations would
require little or no direct oversight
by State Department employees,
leaving sponsors free to continue
policing themselves and their partners.
The changes are to take effect
July 15, too late for thousands of
students already in the country for
another season of cleaning hotel
rooms, waiting tables and working
checkout counters.
Students visiting under J-1
visas make ideal victims since they
are here temporarily and may not
know how to seek help. An Associated Press investigation published six months ago found that
many participants paid thousands
of dollars to come to the U.S., only
to learn the jobs they were promised didn’t exist. Some had to
share beds in crowded houses or
apartments, charged so much for
lodging and transportation that
they took home no pay. Others
turned to the sex industry, while
some sought help from homeless
shelters.
In posting the proposed new
rules, State Department officials
detailed problems that largely mirrored the AP’s findings, then
blamed lack of oversight by the
sponsors, and expressed confidence the changes will help clean
up the program, partly by requiring sponsors to verify that students
have jobs and that the employers
are legitimate.
A review of the new regulations shows they have few teeth,
however. While the changes spell
out how sponsors are to vet thirdparty brokers and how often they
Ievgen Kondzateko, an 18-year-old student from the Ukraine, stands by his only form
or transportation, bicycles he found in the garbage. Kondzateko came to the U.S. and
was promised a job in Florida as a lifeguard, but it never materialized.
are to touch base with visiting students, the rules are vague on how
vigorously the State Department
will check to verify those duties
are done.
The proposed rules call for
sponsors to compile reports,
including background checks, on
overseas brokers who put students
in touch with them, and to submit
those reports to U.S. consulates.
The department also will conduct
a spot check of the biggest sponsors.
But the agency has just a handful of employees who keep track
of this and other foreign exchange
programs, which handle more than
300,000 participants, according to
the Economic Policy Institute, a
nonpartisan think tank that plans to
publish a report on the program.
While the State Department
acknowledged that housing and
living conditions have been a
problem, there’s nothing in the
new regulations that addresses
oversight of those issues. The
revised policies also contain no
mention of penalties if sponsors
are found lacking.
State Department spokesman
John Fleming said rules already on
the books allow sanctions ranging
from written reprimands to revocation of sponsors’ designations.
But the department also
acknowledged that no Summer
Work Travel sponsor has ever been
removed from the program for its
L A X R E G U L AT I O N S
The new rules
require little or no
direct oversight
from the State
Department. Sponsors are free to
police themselves.
treatment of students, despite
years of complaints of exploitation
and deplorable living and working
conditions, according to documents obtained by the AP. And
only a few sponsors have ever
been reprimanded, according to
the State Department.
“You can have all the rules and
the regulations in the world, but if
you don’t have enforcement, the
rules are worthless. They’re not
worth the paper they’re written
on,” said George Collins, an
Okaloosa County, Fla., sheriff’s
inspector who has been complaining to the State Department for 10
years about the problems.
The Summer Work Travel Program allows foreign college students to live and work in the United States for four months. It
brought more than 130,000 men
and women to the United States
last year alone.
Participation has increased
dramatically over the last decade,
but so have the problems. In one of
the worst cases unearthed by the
AP, at least two J-1 students from
Ukraine were beaten and forced to
work in strip clubs in Detroit. One
said she was raped by her captors.
“This is a dangerous program
because the State Department has
outsourced its oversight role to the
program sponsors and employers
who hire the participants,” said
Daniel Costa, an immigration policy analyst who is working on the
Economic Policy Institute’s report.
State Department officials
insist the “safety and well-being of
all J-1 exchange participants is our
top priority,” and note that the vast
majority of visitors under the
sprawling program enjoy their
stays and return home with little
trouble.
The new regulations also
promise closer scrutiny of participants from several nations, including Belarus, Bulgaria and Russia,
that are “known sources of the
types of criminal activity that the
State Department wishes to
avoid,” according to the Federal
Register. Students have been used
to launder money stolen from U.S.
banks, and women forced into the
sex industry through the J-1 program often come from Eastern
Europe.
The State Department, again
shifting blame, said in the Federal
Register that it wanted to publish
the proposed rules changes sooner
but waited after sponsors complained they had already signed
contracts to provide workers this
season to resorts and other
employers.
“Inadequacies in U.S. sponsors’ vetting and monitoring procedures contribute to potentially
dangerous or unwelcomed situations for these participants,” the
State Department said in the Federal Register. ``This past summer
the Department received a significantly increased number of complaints from foreign governments,
program participants, their families, concerned American citizens.”
Yet the AP found that while
law enforcement and others had
complained to the State Department for years about abuse in the
J-1 program, the agency didn’t
start tracking complaints until last
year — after the AP asked for the
documents in a Freedom of Information Act request. Once the
agency began keeping a log of
complaints, the list quickly grew
into the dozens, according to documents the AP obtained through
the Freedom of Information Act.
The AP investigation found
abuse of hundreds of students in
more than a dozen states. More
recently, the AP obtained emails
between several Thai students and
their sponsoring organization, the
International YMCA, based in
New York. The emails said 12 foreign students were each paying
$400 a month — a total of $4,800
— to live in the Florida Panhandle
in a mobile home infested with
cockroaches and rodents.
The Thai students complained
to U.S. Rep. Jeff Miller, R-Fla.,
saying they were afraid of a thirdparty labor broker, Ivan Lukin,
who arranged for their housing
and jobs. They said Lukin threatened them with deportation when
they complained, and that the State
Department and the International
YMCA did little to help them.
When the AP asked about
Lukin, the State Department said
in an email the agency cuts ties
with people or businesses that violate established procedures. Yet
Florida police warned the State
Department as far back as 2007
that Lukin was subjecting students
to crowded living conditions in
violation of housing codes,
according to emails obtained by
the AP. There also were concerns
the students weren’t being paid.
Lukin declined to comment
about the allegations.
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Cyberspace Is The Next (and Current) Theater of War
BY REID GOLDSBOROUGH
I
f you thought that cyber warfare was the stuff of science
fiction, think again. A number
of recent events point to its current
reality, and how it will become an
increasing presence in the future.
In the name of the new civil
defense as well as self-protection,
there are steps you can take now
to avoid becoming a civilian
casualty.
As commander-in-chief of the
U.S. armed forces, President
Obama in May signed an executive order laying out guidelines
specifying how far military commanders should go in using cyber
attacks and cyber espionage
against adversaries.
The guidelines deal with matters ranging from planting computer viruses to bringing down
another country’s electrical grid.
Needless to say, the new Pentagon
policy statement also stresses the
need for cyber defense, with
regard to government networks as
well as those of critical private
sector
industries,
including
defense contractors, nuclear and
other power plants, and the financial sector.
In one of its infamous leaks,
Briefs,
WikiLeaks
last
November
revealed that government officials
in China oversaw a cyber attack on
the U.S. information technology
company Google. According to
U.S. State Department cables,
China’s Politburo tried to sabotage
Google’s computer systems.
Allegedly, China was angry
because Chinese human rights
activists had been using Google’s
services to communicate with one
another.
Chinese officials have repeatedly denied involvement in the
attack on Google or other U.S.
companies. American officials, in
turn, said that the WikiLeaks leaks
were harmful to U.S. relations
with other countries.
China is among other countries
devoting considerable resources in
gearing up for cyber warfare,
according to an article last year in
the British publication The Economist. The others include Russia,
North Korea, Iran, and Israel. In an
article he wrote last year for the
U.S. publication Foreign Affairs,
William J. Lynn III, U.S. deputy
defense secretary, said “the Pentagon has formally recognized
cyberspace as a new domain in
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ference in Honolulu.
The committee said Kapiolani Community College is to be
responsible for training those
who will be interacting with delegates and attendees of the APEC
2011 Leaders’ Week. More than
20,000 are expected to attend,
including leaders of the 21 APEC
economies, ministers, business
leaders and media.
About 1,200 volunteers are
needed for roles such as greeting
guests at the airport and escorting
them on shuttles. Volunteers are
to be trained in areas including
customer service and Hawaiian
culture.
Maricopa CCs
OK Tax Increase
PHOENIX (AP) — The
Maricopa County Community
College District governing board
has approved a 3 percent increase
in the county property tax. The
district says it was forced to raise
the property tax to offset a big
decrease in state aid.
The property tax on a house
assessed at $100,000 will
increase about $2.95 per year.
The new tax will generate about
$11.3 million in revenue for the
10-college system.
The Arizona Republic reports
the vote was 4-1, with one board
member voting no.
Board members Dana Saar
and Doyle Burke say the increase
was needed because the system
had absorbed rising enrollments
while revenue shrank. State aid to
the 10-college system has fallen
about 85 percent, or $38 million.
Lawsuit Aims To
Save CC Garden
SAN MATEO, Calif. (AP) —
A lawsuit has been filed in an
effort to save part of a Northern
California college garden from
being turned into a parking lot.
Friends of the College of San
Mateo Gardens say in a lawsuit
filed that San Mateo County
Community College District
trustees failed to perform a staterequired environmental review
before approving the paving project last month.
The suit says the parking lot
will destroy a campus green
space that supports wildlife and is
popular with students.
About 13,500 square feet out
of 50,000 square feet of garden
will be uprooted for the lot.
warfare ... just as critical to military operations as land, sea, air,
and space.”
Meanwhile, much of the combat in cyberspace over the past
year remains of the terrorist sort,
carried out by rogue groups that
appear unconnected to governmental entities. The group that has
attracted the most attention, which
goes by the name LulzSec, appears
to be a small band of computer
hackers. It has claimed responsibility for high-profile attacks
against the likes of the U.S. Senate, the CIA, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Fox Broadcasting Company and the Public Broadcasting
System.
Another major type of maliciousness waged over the Internet
is carried out by international
crime rings. In June, the CIA broke
up several that had frightened
more than a million people into
forking over a total of several hundred million dollars.
With one scam, fake pop-up
ads directed users to a fake Web
site promising a free virus scan.
Only the virus scan planted viruses instead of getting rid of them.
The virus subjected users to
repeated pop-up ads saying that
their computer was infected with a
virus and the only way to kill it
was to buy an antivirus program
costing $129.
The day may soon be arriving
when many large companies feel
compelled to pay protection
money to “cyber mafia” groups to
ensure that their databases are kept
safe, worries David Seltzer, a selfdescribed “cyber crimes and criminal
defense
attorney”
(www.cybercrimesdefense.com).
Naturally, consultants have
come out of the woodwork offering their security services to companies and individuals alike. In
some cases, it can make sense for
companies to take advantage of
such services if their in-house
expertise isn’t adequate.
Internet service providers are
also beefing up their protection to
subscribers. The largest ISP in the
U.S., Comcast, just rolled out its
Constant Guard service. This free
service supplements the existing
free security offerings from
Symantec that Comcast subscribers receive.
Constant Guard protects
against your PC or network being
District spokeswoman Barbara Christiansen tells the San
Francisco Chronicle that an attorney and a consultant say a full
environmental review isn’t needed because the district is only
modifying an existing project.
State, Evansville, Southern Indiana and Franklin and St. Maryof-the-Woods colleges.
Grants To Aid
Ind. Veterans
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind
(AP) — Twenty-five Indiana colleges and universities are receiving a total of more than $1 million in grants to provide services
for the state’s student service
members, veterans and their families.
Purdue University’s Military
Family Research Institute awarded the grants last week to Purdue
and Indiana universities and several of their branches. The grants
also went to Ivy Tech Community College, several of its branches
and other schools.
The grants were made
through Operation Diploma, the
Purdue institute’s higher education initiative. Since 2009, it’s
awarded more than $2.4 million
to Indiana colleges and universities for support services for the
students and their families.
Other universities getting
grants were Ball State, Indiana
PRCC Will Not
Increase Tuition
POPLARVILLE, Miss. (AP)
— The Board of Trustees has
approved a $32.4 million budget
that does not raise tuition for students at Pearl River Community
College.
Full-time, in-state students at
PRCC will continue to pay
$1,000 per semester in tuition.
PRCC raised tuition in 2008
and 2010.
The Hattiesburg American
reports fall semester enrollment
in 2010 set a record of 5,469, a
5.5 percent increase over fall
2009.
Spring enrollment, historically less than fall, topped out at
4,908 in 2011, a 2.5 percent
increase over the previous
spring.
Although tuition will not
increase, students who live in
campus residence halls will face
a $100 per semester increase in
room and board.
Roger Knight, dean of business services, said the increase is
due to rising food and supply
costs.
taken over by a bot, or Web robot,
which engages in malicious activity against other computers over the
Internet, including shutting down
websites through “denial of service” attacks and email phishing
attacks.
But individual users still need
to be vigilant, which can also help
in the larger arena of cyber warfare. The tried-and-true advice still
applies: Use reputable anti-virus
and anti-spyware software; keep
your operating system, web
browser, and other software up to
date with automatic patches; and
be cautious about clicking on links
in emails and instant messages. It’s
always safer to go to websites
directly through your browser by
typing in their addresses or by
pulling down a favorite or bookmark.
Reid Goldsborough is a syndicated columnist and author of the
book Straight Talk About the Information Superhighway. He can be
reached at reidgold@comcast.net
or www.reidgoldsborough.com.
Mo. Students To
Rebuild Lodge
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP)
— College students will help
rebuild a historic lodge that burned
down at Lake of the Ozarks State
Park.
Gov. Jay Nixon said that an
agreement is being finalized in
which students from State Fair
Community College in Sedalia will
rebuild the lodge as part of a yearlong training and education project.
A fire destroyed the dining
lodge at Camp Pin Oak last September. It had been built by the
Civilian Conservation Corps
between 1934 and 1938.
.
College Balloon
Festival Ending
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) _
The Pellissippi State Community
College Hot Air Balloon Festival
has become a victim of its own success.
College President Allen
Edwards told faculty and staff
members in an email that the event
will be stopped. Increasing upfront costs, risks associated with
weather and massive traffic jams
on the Pellissippi Parkway did it in,
according to The Knoxville News
Sentinel.
around campus
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Gina Grasty and her father David
Grasty graduated together from
Salem Community College.
G
From left to right are Dale Ride interns Christina
Humphrey, Cameron Ajdar, Jennifer Christine Alcaraz and
Bryan Cortes.
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our outstanding students
from California’s Santa
Monica College have been
selected for the prestigious Dale
Ride Internship Program and are
serving this summer in Congress
and with various organizations in
Washington D.C. The interns, who
come from a wide variety of backgrounds and interests, are gaining
valuable experience through the
eight-week summer internship
program, believed to be unique for
a community college. Each intern
receives funding to cover housing,
transportation and $2,250 in
spending money. The program,
which is celebrating its 20th
anniversary, has sent 97 students
(excluding this year’s group) to
the White House, Congress and
other agencies. The internship program was established in 1991 in
the memory of a man who had a
long and distinguished career as
an educator, administrator and
public servant. Ride taught political science and served in administrative posts at SMC for 33 years
until his death in September 1989.
A still life by Richard Kilbride, part of the Raritan
Valley Community College Creativity Expo.
T
he 8th Annual Creativity Expo 2011, featuring the creative works of people with traumatic or acquired brain
injury, will be held this month at Raritan Valley Community College in New Jersey. The exhibition will feature the
creative works of more than 40 brain injury survivors. It will
be held in the art gallery at the College’s Branchburg Campus.
The Creativity Expo has provided a much-needed creative outlet for the brain injury survivors since 2004. Participation in the
Expo has been life-changing for many of the presenters, aiding
recovery and helping them to foster a positive identity after the
trauma of brain injury. The Expo provides a rich professional
arts experience for each presenter and for the viewing public.
Although the event is non-profit and primarily for educational
and entertainment purposes, participants are encouraged to sell
their work.
ina Grasty now has another name
for her father: fellow graduate.
David and Gina Grasty graduated
from Salem Community College (N.J.) last
month. David earned an associate of science degree in business administration
while Gina received an associate of arts
degree in liberal arts. Father and daughter
even took Spanish course together. Gina,
who played on the women’s soccer and softball teams, was named SCC’s New Jersey
Association of Intercollegiate Athletics
Woman of the Year. She completed her
degree in two years. David took a bit longer.
He began taking evening classes in 1995;
however, due to a battle with colon cancer
and a liver transplant, as well as a job that
requires constant travel, David took 16
years to finish his degree. While Gina and
David enjoyed the past two years together at
SCC, they’ll soon be studying on different
university campuses. David plans to transfer
to Wilmington University where he’ll continue studying business. Gina is off to
Rowan University to major in psychology.
grants&gifts
The Texas Workforce Commission has approved a $1.2 million
grant to the Lamar Institute of
Technology, the largest in LIT’s
history. LIT is the fiscal agent for
the Texas Workforce Commission Skills Development Fund
Healthcare Consortium Grant.
The consortium is composed of
LIT, San Jacinto College, Lone
Star College, Houston Community College and four components
of the CHRISTUS Healthcare
System: CHRISTUS Hospital
(St. Elizabeth and St. Mary),
CHRISTUS Gulf Coast (St.
Catherine and St. John) and the
CHRISTUS Corporate Support
Center. The purpose of the grant
is to provide critical healthcare
training to more than 1,500
CHRISTUS employees over a
15-month period. The training
that all four colleges will provide
will assist the CHRISTUS
Healthcare System by offering
industry-specific courses geared
toward professional development
in nursing, allied health and
healthcare administration.
be used to provide training that
will help increase production,
improve efficiency and upgrade
industry-specific skills for 93 new
and incumbent workers. Those
trained will include packaging
and filling machine operators and
tenders, store clerks and filers,
and technical and scientific products sales representatives. Upon
completion of the training, the
workers will earn an average
hourly wage of $18.47.
Lone Star College representatives accept an incentive
check from CenterPoint Energy for energy-efficient projects. Pictured left to right are: Al Lewandowski, director
of energy and sustainability, LSCS; Jimmy Martin, associate vice chancellor facilities and construction; David
Kaczynski, LSCS project director; Chad Crocker, executive director, facilities operations, LSCS; and Megan
Frisa, representing CenterPoint Energy.
Texarkana College has partnered
with HUMCO Holding Group
Inc. to provide job training, using
a $179,454 Skills Development
Fund grant from the Texas Workforce Commission. The grant will
Lone Star College System
(Texas) has been awarded an
incentive of more than $200,000
from the School Conserving
Resources Program (SCORE).
The incentive funds come from
CenterPoint Energy and Entergy
Texas Inc. to boost energy efficiency of lighting and air conditioning systems in several buildings. SCORE is a program offering technical and financial support to help educational facilities
identify and implement energy
efficiency projects. LSCS was
awarded an incentive check of
$126,870 from CenterPoint Energy for increasing the energy efficiency of the lighting and air conditioning systems in several
buildings at LSC-Tomball, LSCCy-Fair, and LSC-North Harris,
and at its LSC-Greenspoint Center and LSC-Fairbanks Center.
LSCS also received $73,950 from
Entergy Texas for increasing
energy efficiency at LSC-Kingwood and LSC-Montgomery as
well as in its system office. The
incentives were determined by
the total amount of energy LSCS
will save through the planned
efficiencies. The CenterPoint
Energy projects will save nearly
1.9 million kilowatt-hours of
electricity per year, equivalent to
preventing the yearly carbon
dioxide emissions of nearly 260
passenger vehicles, according to
EPA calculations. The Entergy
Texas projects represent savings
of more than 964,000 kilowatthours of electricity per year,
equivalent to preventing the carbon dioxide emissions of more
than 130 passenger vehicles.
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winner of the 2011 Lindback Distinguished Teaching Award during
Pennsylvania’s
Montgomery
County Community College commencement ceremony. Each year,
a faculty member is selected by his
or her peers, students and alumni
to receive the award, given by the
Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback
Foundation. Donohue integrates
classroom lecture with in-the-field
research. In 2006, she established
a partnership with the Noyes
Foundation for Schizophrenia
Research, enabling 10 students per
year to participate in research with
a University of Pennsylvania
research team. Several of those
students went on to co-author articles in such publications as the
Journal of Clinical Psychology.
Donohue also served a faculty representative to the Psychology
Advisory Board of the Pennsylvania Department of Education
Statewide Articulation Project.
The project strives to create a
seamless educational pathway
from community colleges to the
four-year state system institutions.
T
Victoria Bastecki Perez, left, interim vice president and
provost, presents Ann Marie Donohue with the 2011 Lindback Award for Teaching Excellence.
C
ynthia Gilliam, chief
financial officer for Lone
Star College System
(Texas), has been recognized by
the Houston Business Journal as
the region’s 2011 best CFO in the
large nonprofit category. The Best
CFO of the Year Award luncheon
recognized winners and finalists,
all of whom were nominated by
peers and associates for their outstanding performance in their roles
as corporate financial stewards.
Gilliam studied accounting at the
University of Texas Austin where
she earned her accounting degree.
In her first job after college, she
worked with a public accounting
firm. She soon found herself auditing Splendora Independent School
Cynthia Gilliam was
honored by the Houston
Business Journal.
District student activity funds.
That launched a career in government auditing. She worked with
the Harris County Department of
Education, where she was first
exposed to Lone Star College System, then known as the North Harris Montgomery Community College District, eventually becoming
CFO.
ony Fontes of Bunker Hill
Community College has
been invited to present the
college’s first student-run, sustainable business at the annual conference of the National Association
for Community College Entrepreneurship. Fontes is an assistant
professor of business administration and advisor to the Entrepreneurship Club. NACCE is dedicated to helping community colleges
gain new ideas, strategies and tactics that can be useful in developing their entrepreneurship programs. The annual conference
brings together community college
professionals and successful entrepreneurs to discuss entrepreneurship education, as well as local
business development initiatives.
Fontes’ presentation, “Entrepreneurship and Sustainability: Creating a Profitable and Green Student-Run Business,” is planned as
part of a special extended breakout
session at the conference. Fontes
will showcase the business plan he
developed with BHCC students
for selling eco-friendly clothing
and merchandise, adorned with the
college logo, at a mobile kiosk.
The kiosk will open on campus in
fall 2011.
honors&awards
CSM Professor and CAE2Y Certification Coordinator Renee Jenkins
works with one of her information
technology students
The College of Southern Maryland has
been designated a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance 2-Year Education by the National
Security Agency and the U.S. Department
of Homeland Security. The college joins
an elite group of 13 community colleges
across the nation to receive this honor,
which recognizes the quality of the college’s cybersecurity educational practices
and curriculum. The CAE2Y designation
was announced by federal officials in a
ceremony at the annual Colloquium for
Information Systems Security Education
in Fairborn, Ohio. NSA and DHS
launched their joint effort to recognize
exemplary cybersecurity education curriculum in 2004 in response to the Presi-
The two wind turbines tower over the campus of
Mount Wachusett Community College.
dent’s National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace. The “CAE2Y” designation for twoyear college cybersecurity programs was
added in 2010.
Mount Wachusett Community College
(Mass.) has been nationally recognized
with a Climate Leadership Award from
Second Nature, the supporting organization of the American College and University Presidents’ Climate Commitment. In
recognizing MWCC, Second Nature highlighted the college’s successful renewable
energy measures, including the recent
installation of two 1.65 MW Vestas V82
wind turbines expected to propel the college to near-carbon neutrality for campus
operations. With the college’s biomass and
solar technologies incorporated into the
mix, coupled with significant efficiency
improvements, MWCC will be generating
nearly all of its energy on-site to operate
as a near-zero net energy campus.
Eddie Triste, president of Allan Hancock
College’s Associated Student Body Government, was recently chosen by the Student Senate for California Community
Colleges as the President of the Year for
the Southern Region of California. It was
an honor that Triste never imagined he
would receive. Triste has a lot of experience with the concept of duty. An Army
veteran, he served for six years, first in
Georgia, then Hawaii and finally Iraq. He
is currently working at Hancock as a peer
Eddie Triste
advisor for the College Achievement Now
program, helping low-income and first
generation students navigate their way
through college. Using the skills he gained
in the Army as a topographical surveyor,
he transitioned into the workforce, drafting
for architecture companies. In 2007, Triste
realized the importance of education and
the importance of a college degree. Initially working during the day and taking classes at night, Triste made slow progress on
his degree until 2010, when he decided to
go to school full-time. Being Native American, Triste said he feels strongly about
government and being involved in the
democratic process. His goal this past year
was to get more students involved in activities on campus.
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PROFESSIONAL NOTES
Kevin Glen Walthers
Ronald G. Cantor
Melissa Denardo
Pam Foust
John Martin
Kevin Glen Walthers has been
named president of Las Positas
College in Livermore, Calif.
Walthers currently serves as the
vice chancellor for administration
for the West Virginia Community
and Technical College System and
the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission. Walthers
earned his Ph.D. in educational
leadership and policy from the
University of Utah, a master’s in
educational administration from
Texas A&M University-Commerce and a bachelor’s degree
from the University of Texas at
Austin.
Community College in Bothell,
Wash., and a workforce education
program coordinator for the community college system in Spokane,
Wash. Foust is finishing her doctorate in higher education leadership with a community college
emphasis at Washington State University. She holds a master’s
degree in organizational management from University of Phoenix.
She earned a bachelor’s degree
from Texas A & M University and
an associate degree in agriculture
economics from Casper Community College.
ed to the position in August 2008
on a temporary basis to fill the
position vacated by former vice
president Kent Propst. Martin was
selected to permanently fill the
position in January 2009. He
served as the regional director for
U.S. Senator Larry Craig’s North
Idaho office from 2004 to 2008.
Prior to that, he was the disabled
veterans outreach program manag-
er for the Idaho Department of
Labor. His background also
includes more than 30 years in
both in private industry and the
military. He retired as lieutenant
colonel from the U.S. Air Force
after 24 years of service. At NIC,
Martin is responsible for overseeing the college’s marketing efforts
and furthering the college’s agenda with local and state legislators.
John Martin, vice president for
community relations and marketing at North Idaho College, has
announced his retirement, effective Dec. 31. Martin was appoint-
The Community College of
Beaver County (Pa.) announced
that Melissa Denardo is the new
vice president for learning and
student success/provost. Denardo
most recently served as the assistant campus dean for Kent State
University in Salem, Ohio, a
position she has held since 2009.
She earned her doctorate in educational leadership in higher education administration from the
University of Pittsburgh. She also
holds a master’s degree and a
bachelor’s degree in business
education from Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
Pam Foust recently joined John
Wood Community College (Ill.) as
dean of career, technical and workforce education. Prior to joining
JWCC, Foust was a workforce
education manager at Cascadia
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