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VOLUME 25, No. 18

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ENGINES OF CHANGE

Point of View: Weaving adjunctsinto the fabric of your college.

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Damage Done: Budget cuts hobbleCalifornia community colleges.

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Hello, Cuz: Two NC college deansdiscover they’re related.

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No Drug Tests: Judge thwarts acollege’s plan to drug-test students.

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Colleges Adapting to Changing Workforce Demands

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Ten StudentsWin Spots in NJCybersecurityCenter

LINCROFT, N.J. (AP) —Ten people have won scholar-ships to attend a new cyberse-curity learning center, whichwill be based at a central NewJersey community college.

The winners earned their

spots during a competition thatdrew 100 participants, includ-ing high school and college stu-dents, veterans and jobseekers.The competitors did battle in ahands-on, interactive learningenvironment used by the U.S.military.

The goal of the learningcenter planned for BrookdaleCommunity College in Lincroftis to develop a career pathwayfor cybersecurity professionals.

It will be funded by a two-year,$300,000 grant from theNational Science Foundation.

Organizers hope to eventu-ally develop a network of simi-lar facilities across the nation.

The center is a public-pri-vate partnership that includesBrookdale, the SANS Institute,the Cyber Aces Foundation andCounter Hack Challenges.

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1 LINCROFT, N.J.Ten students win spots in a newcybersecurity center to behoused at Brookdale CommunityCollege.Page 3

2 DES MOINES, Iowa Iowa lawmakers approve a billthat would require college cafete-rias to follow American HeartAssociation guidelines.Page 3

3 CHARLOTTE, N.C.Central Piedmont CommunityCollege says it has a $430 millionlist of projects to deal with grow-ing enrollment.Page 3

4 SAN FRANCISCOUnprecedented cuts in statefunding have caused dramaticreductions in community collegeenrollment.Page 12

5 TEMPE, Ariz.Tuition is on the rise at Maricopacommunity colleges, in part tocover the cost of increased cam-pus security.Page 13

6 CHARLESTON, W. Va.Colleges would be allowed tobase tuition on credit hours ratherthan charge by the semesterunder a proposed pilot project.Page 14

7 ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.A student newspaper that hadbeen suspended for publishingan edition focusing on sex isallowed to resume publication.Page 15

8 FLAGSTAFF, Ariz.An Arizona Indian tribe and a trib-al technical college have moved astep closer to securing FM radiostations.Page 16

9 SALEM, Ore.Oregon is testing whether anadministrative overhaul can leadto improved educational out-comes.Page 17

10 MORGANTOWN, N.C.Two community college deanswith a passion for tracing theirrespective family history discoverthat they are related.Page 18

11 WASHINGTON, D.C.States should allocate scarcehigher education dollars basedon performance rather thanenrollments, a new report says.Page 19

12 BATON ROUGE, La.Leading Republican lawmakersclaim that Gov. Bobby Jindal ispressuring the Board of Regents to fire the state’s tophigher education official.Page 22

13 TOPEKA, Kan.Kansas moves closer to repeal-ing a decade-old law that allowssome illegal immigrants to qualifyfor in-state tuition.Page 22

14 COLUMBIA, Mo.A federal judge has blockedefforts by a Missouri technicalcollege to dug-test its students.Page 23

15 SPRINGFIELD, Ill.A Senate committee hasapproved legislation to ban smok-ing at all state-supported collegesand universities.Page 24

16 LYNCHBURG, Va.Central Virginia Community Col-lege is considering selling itscampus so it can build a new one.Page 24

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W hile attending the League forInnovations 2013 conference inDallas, I was chatting with a

colleague about collaborative and activelearning and the new language of flippedclassrooms (i.e., technology-deliveredcontent outside of class time to maximizestudent engagement with the material, fac-ulty and other students during face-to-facesessions). We were reminiscing about con-versations in our early faculty years of thelate 1980s. At that time we were shiftingfrom being teaching-centered to learning-centered with the refrain of faculty mov-ing from a “sage on the stage” to a “guideon the side.” A decade later we wereteaching online classes and in technology-enhanced “smart classrooms.”

What has changed in the 21st century?Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCS),competency-based courses, badges, learn-ing analytics, personalized adaptive learn-ing, open source course materials, institu-tional accountability, efficiency andunbundling of faculty roles. Students areconsuming education in different ways byutilizing multiple institutions and multipledelivery modalities. The 21st CenturyCommission Report, “Reclaiming theAmerican Dream: Community Collegesand the Nation’s Future,” encourages theleaders of community colleges to redesignthe learning experience, reinvent institu-tional roles and reset community collegesfor the century ahead. Mandates forincreased student learning success andcredential completion are permeatingexternal and internal conversations. It isapparent that significant transformation iscoming to community colleges whetherwe are ready or not.

What hasn’t changed in the last 25years? Student success depends not onlyon high tech but also on the high touch.When students recount their college expe-riences, the reflection on what changedtheir lives is not the information or skillslearned, but the faculty and staff withwhom they connected.

The most significant advances in thepedagogic work in community collegescomes with a “joyful conspiracy” of facul-ty, staff, and administrators striving toclose the gaps in student learning and suc-cess. Excitement about innovation in stu-dent learning is witnessed in conversa-tions with faculty. However, 60 percent offaculty who teach community college stu-

dents are missing in these conversations!Where are the voices of the part-time,adjunct faculty?

The future of the adjunct faculty mem-ber is at a crossroads. One direction leadsto the continuing trend of increasing thenumber of students taught by adjunct fac-ulty. In the other direction we may use afull-time faculty member to create person-alized adaptive learning content to be usedacross all of the introductory courses in adiscipline, or license a comparable coursetaught by a prestigious professor in thatfield. In this case, the adjunct faculty rolemay change or not be needed at all. AsBruce Leslie, chancellor of Alamo Com-munity College District, recently wrote,“Traditional teaching will be replaced byfaculty acting as coaches, facilitators, andinformation brokers.” While we areexploring the future road to traverse,adjunct faculty remain critical to the qual-ity of student learning. To students, theadjunct faculty member is the college.

I am currently an adjunct facultymember. I have taught full-time and heldpositions of college dean, provost, andpresident. I understand the challenges anddilemmas from both perspectives. Themutual imperative is for community col-lege leaders to include adjunct facultymembers in the transformative work ofredesigning learning experiences.

Adjunct faculty are specialists (facultywho are employed full-time outside oftheir teaching), freelancers (faculty whochoose to be employed in multiple part-time jobs), career enders (people at theend of a productive career) and aspiringacademics (wanting to move into full-timeteaching or administrative positions). Allcategories of adjunct faculty report thesame top three motivational factors forteaching: joy of teaching; personal satis-faction; and a flexible work schedule.Demotivating factors for adjunct facultyinclude: their perception that community

colleges treat them as second-class citi-zens; ambiguity about job security eachyear; last-minute decisions on hiring; andlack of benefits. Isolation, marginaliza-tion, and lack of recognition are commonfeelings expressed by adjuncts.

But adjuncts do not necessarily wantto be involved in additional requirementsthat are not related to teaching. A com-mon refrain among adjuncts is, “I justwant to teach my class.” They are general-ly student-centered, know the gaps in stu-dent learning, and want students to do bet-ter. They want to improve their skills andunderstand college goals.

Connecting with adjunct faculty toweave them into the fabric of the college ismore than simply handing the adjunct atextbook, syllabus, and login information orincluding them in a meeting at the begin-ning of each semester. The bifurcated facul-ty workforce is not an option for increasedstudent learning, persistence, completion, ora transformed community college.

Following are a few ideas from com-munity colleges across the country:

Ask adjunct faculty for their ideasby engaging them on their terms whenthey are on campus. Presidents and vicepresidents have hallway listening posts forinformal listening time. Have interestedadjunct faculty co-chair academic and cur-riculum committees and provide a seat atthe governance table.

Promote high expectations withsupport. Studies validate that high expec-tations with wraparound services help stu-dents succeed. Colleges need high expec-tations with wraparound services foradjunct faculty as well. Expectations forstudent success, quality of curriculum,focus on learning and outside-the-class-room requirements need to be clearlyarticulated to adjunct faculty. Ideas forwraparound services may includeoffice/work space, unexpected acts ofappreciation from administrators, a facultymentor for each course in a department,faculty learning communities using tech-nology, such as video chats and sociallearning networks.

Share promising practices withinnovation exchanges. Look to adjuncts toshare their classroom innovations. Provideinstitutional research staff to assistadjuncts in assessing the impact of theseinterventions with the possibility of suc-cessful interventions going to scale for theentire department or college. Allow part-time faculty to submit proposals for inno-vation grants on campus.

Provide professional developmentopportunities. The development activitiesneed to include rich faculty engagementaround student learning, student success,and understanding data. This professionaldevelopment includes adjunct faculty whoteach online as well as face-to-face cours-es. Consider reallocation of resources. Ifstudents are taught by part time faculty,

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financing several thousand dollars in profes-sional development activities is a soundinvestment. If you cannot pay adjunct facultyto participate in these activities, then includethem in meals, team-building activities, in-service, and on-site professional developmentdays. They need to understand the culture ofdata and inquiry as well as student learning,success and completion.

Provide awards to outstanding adjuncts.Faculty and staff are extremely honored whenthey receive national awards, such as the Johnand Suanne Roueche Excellence Awards.Including part-time faculty as nominees, andpaying for the award winners to attend con-ferences to receive their awards, providesrecognition and professional development.Give campus awards to outstanding adjunct

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When we looked back five yearsago on the previous 20 years ofCommunity College Week, we

recognized commonalities in the stories wewrote in 1988 and 1999 and those wereported two decades later. Back then, wereported concerns about high school gradu-ates who could not pass basic skills tests.We wrote about pressures on two-yearcolleges to revive a sagging economy indire need of retraining and retooling to staycompetitive. We noted the impact thattechnology would have on the delivery ofhigher education. Easing articulation andtransfer was becoming a bigger issue. Thesecommon threads continue today. But forcommunity colleges, things may havechanged more dramatically in the past fiveyears than during the previous 20.

In this, our 25th Anniversary Edition,Editor Paul Bradley profiles the dramaticchanges undertaken at Monroe CommunityCollege, where the shrinking fortunes ofEastman Kodak Co. gave rise to innovativeworkforce development efforts. The collegecreated a new administrative arm — theDivision of Economic Development andInnovative Workforce Services — toaddress a profound change in the localeconomy. (See story, page 6)

Keeping to our mission of giving focusand voice to two-year colleges and theirstories, CCWeek posed some questions tocommunity college leaders to help identifywhat they saw as the most significantchanges over the past five years.

First, we asked them to identify significantdevelopments affecting communitycolleges over the past five years. Then weasked them to identify those events since2008 that induced a change of mission ordifferent outcome for community colleges.What, we asked, had taken place that couldnot have been predicted five years ago.

One of the voices from 25 years agowhich is still familiar to us today is that ofGeorge Boggs, president emeritus ofPalomar Community College and presidentemeritus of the American Association ofCommunity Colleges.

Said Boggs: “I think the most significant

movement has been the embrace of thecompletion agenda. The attention given tothis by the (Obama) administration, majorfoundations, and foundation-funded activitieslike Complete College America, Achievingthe Dream, Completion by Design, theAspen Prize, etc.— have caused thecolleges to focus on this issue. Moreover,national community college organizationsissued a call to action to improve completionrates while also improving access and rigor.AACC's 21st Century Initiative resulted ina fairly self-critical report …shifting thecommunity college mission from accessand opportunity to access and success.”

Boggs said the effects of the deepeconomic recession couldn't have beencompletely predicted. It put tremendousenrollment pressure on community collegesat a time when states were cutting back ontheir financial support of colleges.

“These two events are not complementary.Improving college completion in anenvironment of fiscal restraint is a significantchallenge. I think this has led to setting pri-orities in the CC mission (e.g., California'sStudent Success Task Force) and in somecases a shift to limit access to the mostunderprepared students (e.g., Pima CC).”

Boggs sees the narrowing of thecommunity college mission as the mostsurprising outcome of the economic down-turn. “We’re setting priorities and reducingaccess. This we could have never forecast,”said Boggs.

Walter Bumphus, AACC president andCEO, concurs with Boggs that thecompletion agenda represents the biggestchange in the last five years. Bumphus saidthe emphasis is on success more than everbefore.

“We want to build education diagnosticsinto our programs,” he said. “The com-bined goal-setting efforts of Achieving theDream, Gates Foundation, Lumina, andAspen has led to much improvement instudent success. The results may still not be what we want, but in the past we hadnone.”

According to Bumphus, the mostsurprising occurrence that could not havebeen predicted in the last five years is thenumber of students choosing onlinematriculation.

“Students are enrolling in multipleinstitutions, bundling courses online, beingvery entrepreneurial in their approach tocompleting their degrees. Also MOOCs –what’s next?” said Bumphus.

Gerardo de los Santos, president andCEO of the The League for Innovation inthe Community College, agrees with Boggsand Bumphus.

“Particularly regarding an event thathas induced a change in mission ordifferent outcome, I would have to say thecompletion agenda,” he said. “Never beforehave we seen such strong alignment acrossthe federal government, major foundations,state governance and coordination agencies,and community colleges. The completionagenda has resulted in changes in statepolicy, changes in mission of many com-munity colleges, and changes in priority oforganizations that support communitycolleges.”

One of the most unexpected changescommunity colleges have experienced overthe last five years, according to de losSantos may be the emergence of a newbusiness model for higher education.

Said de los Santos: “Online is providingthe primary source for content andinformation today. Will this change thenature of higher education?”

He said that looking at MOOCs andonline learning, online is out-pacing onsiteand hybrid, and online quality is beinganalyzed.

“We have a white paper about ‘DisprutiveInnovation,’ a business model that says thatchange will be initiated by an unexpectedand unforeseen innovation that creates anew market and value network. If we usethe criteria of ‘Disruptive Innovation’ thereis the potential to change the businessmodel of higher education. We’re waitingto see what happens.”

We also spoke to John Roueche,president of the Rouche Graduate Center at

National American University, and formerdirector of the Community College LeadershipProgram for the Department of Educationat the University of Texas, Austin.

What is worth noting here is that thethree leaders quoted above, and indeed allthose except one queried for this piece, areCCLP graduates who studied underRoueche. This is a coincidence, but it issignificant in light of his response to ourquestions.

Rouche said that the biggest changeover the last five years is the increase indemands made of community colleges.

“There are more and more mandates.This is not new, but the last three yearshave been unprecedented. Many leaders Italk to think more money will come (tofund the mandates). Well, more money isnot coming. It’s not that politicians andcommunity leaders don’t care, there just isno money,” he said.

Rouche noted that baby boomers areretiring, and entitlements are skyrocketing.

“We could not have foreseen that at thetime of community colleges’ greatest need,community college leadership programswould be ramping down. In the 60’s and 70’sthere were 100 community college teachingprograms, now there are maybe five.”

Rouche sees the solution to funding innew business models and an aggressiveentrepreneurial spirit, borrowing andsharing facilities, sharing faculty and busi-ness partnerships with community basedinstitutions to build new local workforces.

As CCWeek has promised in the past,we try to help the community college“community” see itself with an objectiveeye on accountability for the good and thebad. It is worth noting here that anotheroccurrence that could not have beenforeseen was undoubtedly the departure of Rouche from the UT, Austin CCLPprogram.

Looking back over the last 25 years,CCWeek has been committed to reportingthe issues, policies and stories that aresignificant to community college educators.

The unprecedented changes seen in thelast five years may best be summarized inBoggs’ last comment to us.

“It is a dynamic time for communitycolleges. We are more visible, and heldmore accountable. The attention may notalways be positive, but it often can be.Who would have thought communitycolleges would be featured on the CBSEvening News?”

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faculty at college events with a certificatepresented by the president or vice presi-dent. Advancement opportunities and jobsecurity for adjuncts with outstanding eval-uations and participation in professionaldevelopment can be another type of awardthat addresses concerns of adjuncts.

Community college leaders canchoose to shape the learning experienceof the future, or be shaped by externalforces. Leaders need to collaborate withadjunct faculty to identify their biggestchallenges. They need to be proactive sothat part-time faculty understand the cul-ture of evidence and student success,and are integrated into the fabric of the

college. We do not have the luxury oftime as students, employers, andcommunities are depending on us fortheir future.

This article is the continuation of aseries being authored by principalsinvolved in National American University’sRoueche Graduate Center, and othernational experts identified by the center.John E. Roueche and Margaretta B. Mathisserve as editors of the monthly column, apartnership between NAU’s RouecheGraduate Center and Community CollegeWeek. For additional information sendemails to [email protected] or call512-813-2300.

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For Colleges, Demands Grow, Change Accelerates

When Anne M. Kress arrived inRochester, N.Y., to begin hertenure as president of Monroe

Community College, she was stepping intoa city coping with a wrenching economictransition.

It was 2009, and the ultimate companytown was witnessing the long slide intobankruptcy of the Eastman Kodak Co. —

the company that was founded in 1880,brought photography to the masses and pro-vided secure, good-paying jobs to genera-tions of Rochester residents. In the 1980s,62,000 people worked for Kodak; today,Kodak employees number fewer than 6,000.

George Eastman’s legacy andphilosophy live on in Rochester, embodiedby the University of Rochester, the

Rochester Institute of Technology,institutions he lavishly supported, and theGeorge Eastman House museum of photog-raphy and motion pictures, which drawsshutterbugs from around the world.

But when Kodak emerges from bank-ruptcy protection, expected later this year, itwill be a far different enterprise than it wasbefore. So, too, is MCC, which aggressively

remade its workforce developmentfunctions in the wake of Kodak’s demise.

Most visible among the many stepstaken by the college was the creation of anew administrative arm, the Division ofEconomic Development and InnovativeWorkforce Services. Removing workforcedevelopment activities from its longtimeplace in the academic services division wasan urgent acknowledgment of Rochester’seconomic distress; in addition to Kodak,Xerox and Bausch & Lomb had been elimi-nating thousands of jobs. The three industrialgiants once accounted for 60 percent of


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Rochester’s workforce. It’s now closer to 5 percent.

In times past, the workforce needs ofRochester were easy to define. They werewhatever the Big 3 needed. The companieswould routinely send legions of workers toMCC to burnish their skills and the collegewould happily open up their classrooms.Now, the workforce development landscapewas fragmented. The economy hadremained relatively robust due to Big 3 spin-offs. The question was how to keep it thatway.

“When I got here, one of the initiativesthe board was interested in was how torestore workforce development to a place ofprominence,” Kress said. “At that time, itwas difficult for the college to get its moor-ings. We went from the Big 3 with thou-sands of workers to lots of companies withfewer than 100 employees. They could notnecessarily afford training. How does a col-lege do workforce development when thecompanies are bringing you very differentneeds and demands?”

Kress said the college had to begin toassume the role of “convener,” looking atclusters of industries rather than workingwith individual businesses,

MCC stands out as an example of thegrowing, essential role community collegesare playing in the economic development oftheir regions. Since Community CollegeWeek published its first edition in 1988, thecountry has weathered three recessions andundergone unprecedented technologicalupheaval and globalization.

All the while, community colleges havebeen important players in workforce devel-opment, but the Carl D. Perkins Vocationaland Applied Technology Act of 1990 was aturning point. Not only did the law directmoney to the states for workforce training— the current iteration of the law provides$1.3 billion in funding — but it also stressedcombining vocational skills training withacademics. It was a new notion at the time,but has provided a template for currentworkforce training programs.

Today’s employers say workplace skillsare no longer enough. Factory floors andhigh-tech equipment demand not only theability to perform a task, but also the so-called soft skills: the ability to calculate, tocommunicate, to collaborate, to make wisedecisions and work as a team.

As these new workforce demands haveemerged, community colleges, owing to

their deep roots and close ties to their com-munities, have assumed a central role inmeeting them.

“It’s a natural role for community col-leges to take a leadership position inresponding to workforce developmentneeds,” Kress said. “These needs changefrequently. We are naturally positioned toget people around the table to addressthem.”

Kress tapped Todd M. Oldham, then

associate vice president of Corporate &Continuing Education at Clark College inVancouver, Wash., to head the new work-force division at MCC. His charge: rebuildMCC’s long dormant bridges to business,industry and economic development sectorsand develop strategies to respond to localeconomic development and training needs— all without constructing just anotheradministrative silo isolated from the tradi-tional academic functions of the college.

“My job is to give focus and addedurgency to the workforce developmentpiece,” Oldham said. “The spirit behind it isto look at the credit and non-credit programsand see how they can work together to cre-ate more educational pathways.”

Many of those pathways, Oldham said,will lead to middle-skill jobs, positionsrequiring more than a high school educa-tion, but not necessarily a four-year degree,in fields like computer technology, healthcare and advanced manufacturing.

Rochester is the hub of a relatively well-educated region; nearly 50 percent of NewYork state residents aged 25 to 34 have atleast a bachelor’s degree, the fifth highestrate in the country. But like other cities,Rochester is experiencing a frustrating skillsgap in middle skills jobs. Too many peopleare looking for jobs even as industries saythey are unable to find sufficient numbers ofqualified workers.

A critical step in closing that gap hasbeen improving relations with areaemployers, a task made more daunting bythe fragmented nature of Rochester’s neweconomy. One of the first steps Kress tookwas to bolster the college’s workforceadvisory boards to identify workforce needsand design curriculum to meet them.

Jim Sydor, who graduated from MCC in1971, is owner of Stefan Sydor Optics, aprecision optics firm his father foundedmore then 40 years ago. He’s worked withthe college to bolster its optical systemstechnology program, believing the college


Massachusetts is rightly renowned for itshistoric system of higher education.Harvard University, the Massachusetts

Institute of Technology and Northeastern Uni-versity are just three of prominent and presti-gious institutions calling the Bay State home.

Less well-known is the state’s workhorsesystem of 15 community colleges. They stretchfrom the Berkshires to Boston and enroll morethan 190,000 students in credit and non-creditcourses, nearly half of all students enrolled inMassachusetts public colleges.

In a state where conversations about high-er education are dominated by private universi-ties, the public two-year colleges are makingsome noise. They’ve taken center stage in anambitious federally-funded workforce develop-ment initiative aimed at assisting unemployedand underemployed workers.

The Massachusetts Community Colleges& Workforce Development TransformationAgenda is the product of a $20 million U.S.Department of Labor grant, now in its secondyear. The grant is part of a $2 billion LaborDepartment effort to get the nation’s displacedworkers back on their feet.

Though aimed at workers eligible for train-ing under the Trade Adjustment Assistanceprogram — that is, those who lost their jobsdue to foreign competition and globalization —it is open to anyone seeking to acquire newskills in a rapidly evolving economy. Its goal isto train 4,000 students over the three-yeargrant period, and build capacity to continueafter the grant expires.

The program offers accelerated training

closely tied to industry needs, said ProjectManager Jennifer Freeman. Targeted indus-tries are health care; advanced manufacturing;information technology; biotechnology and lifesciences; clean energy & sustainability; andfinancial services. It’s estimated that those sec-tors will account for 45 percent of jobs in Mass-achusetts by 2019.

Freeman said the effort is distinguished bystrong collaboration among colleges, industryand economic development systems. Teams offaculty, administrators, industry leaders andstate workforce development officials are work-ing together with three chief goals: developingdegree and certificate programs and careerpaths directly tied to industry needs; developcurriculum for adult basic education and devel-opmental education, contextualized to health-care, advanced manufacturing and informationtechnology; and building bridges between thestate’s federally-funded One-Stop Career Cen-ters and community colleges.

“We are at the table working side-by-sidewith the economic development sector sowhat we offer is in sync with their needs,”

Freeman said.The linchpin of the effort is intense advising

for students who might have been away fromcollege for a decade or more, or never attend-ed college at all. Advisors are called “Collegeand Career Navigators.” They work at thecareer centers identifying potential participants.They guide students through the process ofentering college and leveraging available sup-port and eventually applying for a job.

“It’s a real strong interface between the col-lege and the career centers,” said John Hen-shaw, who manages the project at Mt.Wachusett Community College. “They let theparticipants know about the pathways that areavailable to them. There are a lot of folks whomight have worked for 25 years right out of highschool and never even needed to do a resume.They don’t have job-seeking skills and theyneed help.”

Under the program, participants can earn acertificate in as little as 15 weeks, said CarolKing, project manager at Quinsigamond Com-munity College. Students can choose to enterthe workforce or continue their education,stacking one credential on top of another. Manyof the programs can lead students along apathway that leads to an associate degree.

“What we want is a very tight alignmentbetween the non-credit side of the house andthe credit side,” she said. “It gives studentsmore entry points and more flexibility. If theyearn a non-credit certificate, and decide laterthey want a certificate on the credit side, theycan do that. No matter what they are studying,they know they are headed toward a career.”

Mass. Colleges Take Center Stage in Workforce DevelopmentBY PAUL BRADLEY

Healthcare fields are a focus of workforce development efforts underway at community colleges. Here, a respiratory therapy student at

Quinsigamond Community College (Mass.) examines a patient.

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“We are at the tableworking side-by-sidewith the economic devel-opment sector so whatwe offer is in sync withtheir needs.” — JENNIFER FREEMAN

PROJECT MANAGERMASS. COMMUNITY COLLEGES &

WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENTTRANSFORMATION AGENDA

“My job is to give focusand added urgency to theworkforce developmentpiece.”

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Everyone wants to be innovative,though few people actually achieveinnovation. Frankly, in today’s

world of higher education, few institu-tions are capable of flexibility, much lessinnovation.

The juxtaposition is that our “cus-tomers” — the companies which hire ourstudents — are constantly innovating.

That is particularly true for companiesinvolved in manufacturing, in whichinnovation is essential not only forgrowth, but for survival. At the sametime, the ability to innovate boils down toa company being able to employ a work-force capable of executing and carryingout innovative ideas. A talented work-force makes up a company’s frontlines inthe battle to survive and prosper.

It is no secret that providing a contin-ual pipeline of qualified new workers tocompanies is a challenge. More, mostcompanies look to their local community

residents to fill theseroles, as they should.These workers arelongtime members ofthe communities, theyraise their familiesthere, and, yes, theworkers typically go toschool in that community.

Most of the workers are not graduatesof four-year universities. Instead, theyearn degrees and certificates from localtwo-year colleges. In that light, it’s notunreasonable to suggest that any commu-nity with a vibrant manufacturing sectorshould have an equally vibrant communi-ty college system.

Community colleges can have aunique relationship with industry, one thatgives the colleges insight into the con-stant change and market pressures facingcompanies in a globally competitiveworld.

Even with thatinsight and flexibility,most community col-leges still cannot reactin enough time to pro-vide instant solutionsto workforce develop-ment needs. But inno-

vative methods can help us marry the“right now” solutions companies needand the longer-term educational goals ofthe college.

In Memphis, Tenn., for example,several of our largest industry representa-tives told us they need help. Employeesare retiring. Companies are growing.Technology is changing. These employersare challenged with finding job-readyworkers. These needs have been exacer-bated by several new companies cominginto our region. The growth excites us, ofcourse, but requires solutions. Some ofthe companies are looking outside our

community to fill open jobs. That’s anoption we consider unacceptable.

In response, we at Southwest Ten-nessee Community College designed aprogram that is targeted to job applicantswho are not even being considered by thecompanies due to low scores in basicworkforce skills. This program, calledIndustrial Readiness Training (IRT),focuses on both mechanical skills trainingand soft skills in an intensive, fast-paced49-hour course.

As an essential component, eachcompany acts as our partner in creatingthe curriculum for the IRT cohort. Thecompanies tell us the skills on which weshould focus; they visit the classes andtalk to the students. They see the progressfirsthand.

The impact is obvious. From Januaryto August 2012, the program placed morethan 150 IRT participants in livable-wagejobs. After hiring more than 50 IRT grad-


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Tenn. Industrial Readiness Training Program:

Now Instead of Later

can help sustain one of the bright spots ofthe regional economy.

“Rochester is a big optics town, becauseof Eastman Kodak and Bausch & Lomb,” hesaid. “There are thousands of people fabri-cating and polishing glass. There are about85 companies involved in making clinicalcomponents.”

Said Kress: “It’s a strong cluster, one thatis unique to Rochester. But it needs a strongpipeline of qualified workers.”

By the time Kodak started its downwardeconomic slide, the optical systems technol-ogy program was well-established. In 1963,the college became the first in the nation tocreate a two-year degree program for train-ing technicians to work in the optical indus-try. Together with the Rochester Institute ofTechnology and the University of Rochester,it worked to train an optics workforce.

The MCC program was routinely atcapacity, sending its graduates to work atKodak and elsewhere or on to top four-yearuniversities. But as Kodak withered, so didthe optics program, Sydor said.

“As Kodak started winding down, so didthe program,” Sydor said. “The headlineswere saying that Kodak was laying off 5,000people, and parents saw that and didn’t wantto send their kids. The problem was we stillneeded workers.”

The program has been reinvigoratedunder Kress. A new program coordinatorwith a strong background and researchand development was hired last year.Donations, including a $250,000 gift fromSydor, helped with the purchase of newequipment. Leaders of the optics clusterwere invited to MCC to help write

curriculum. Enrollment is at capacity.“We all got together and looked at the

curriculum,” Sydor said. “We said ‘we don’tneed fiber optics technicians, we need opti-cal fabricators.’ So we changed the curricu-lum to fit the needs of the local community.”

Part of the problem in rebuilding theoptics technology program was convincingpotential students that their training would

not lead to a sales job behind a counterLensCrafters. Optical systems technology isa highly specialized field with applicationsin telecommunications, digital imaging andphotography, fiber optics, robotics visionsystems and even entertainment. Sydor’scompany has fabricated the glass used in25,000 3D movie projectors around thecountry.

Technicians work side-by-side withscientists and engineers in research, devel-opment, design, manufacturing and qualitycontrol. They perform testing and evalua-tion of optical components and systems.

MCC has made strides to clarify eraseconfusion over jobs. It created a summerprogram designed to get high school stu-dents interested in the field. Oldham spear-headed creation of the MCC Career Coach,a free web-based search tool designed toshow students connections between areasof study and related job opportunities. Thejob search tool has up-to-date localemployment data, job descriptions andopenings, estimated earnings, the numberof people in a specific field, the number ofworkers near retirement and what pro-grams MCC’s offers to prepare for one ofthose jobs.

“The tool is mapped to all occupationsthat we provide training for, but we want tobe able to provide accurate and timelyinformation so students and parents can seewhat types of careers are available,”Oldham said.

The future of workforce development atMCC will depend on more than new tech-nological tools. A new imperative in equip-ping students with requisite skills to earn amiddle class wage is an effective commin-gling of the college’s academic and work-force development functions, Kress said. .

“We want to make sure there is a strongoverlap,” Kress said. “A dean of workforcedevelopment meets regularly with academ-ic services. There are a lot of people innon-credit courses who want to move intothe credit side.”

“That whole swirl of credit and non-credit will be standard operating proceduremoving forward. This is not a one-and-done educational system anymore.”


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uates, one local manufacturingcompany was so impressed withthe students’ ability to almostimmediately add value that theexecutive leadership increasedthe starting wage of IRT gradu-ates by $2 an hour.

Most poignant, in my mind,is what the students have toldme after they complete thecourse and begin a new career.One graduate, a 48-year- oldman, said, “I’ve never been ableto get out of poverty all my life;this class has allowed me tochange my attitude, to see that itwas about me, not them, and tofinally make a livable incomefor my family.”

Another graduate told me, “Ijust got my kids back last weekbecause I can now support them.This program has changed mylife, and generations of myfamily to come.”

The IRT program, whilenon-credit bearing, is onlypossible inside of an academicenvironment that is equallyinnovative. The faculty atSouthwest Tennessee Commu-nity College has embraced IRT,and we are working with aca-demic leadership to ensure the

faculty understand the pro-gram, watch its progress andthink about ways to expand

their current degree-granti-ng programs. Also, we areworking to link the facultywith industry, to help the facul-ty gain access to factory floors,to see firsthand their own stu-dents at work.

No one suggests that a 49-hour course will graduate fullyqualified frontline workers, butit’s a good start. Southwest willcontinue to expand its pro-grams, work with local partnerslike the Workforce InvestmentNetwork and engage industryto earn their continued andexpanded trust and involve-ment.

The vision is that the IRTprogram will become ourindustries’ first stop in hiringnew employees. We want themto look to Southwest to help fixon-the-ground workforce chal-lenges now, not later.

Rain Man, starring DustinHoffman and Tom Cruise,won the Academy Awardfor Best Picture. In 2013,the winner was Argo, star-ring Ben Affleck.

The WashingtonRedskins won the SuperBowl 42-10 over theDenver Broncos. The LosAngeles Dodgers wonthe World Series 4-1 overthe Oakland A’s. The Los

Angeles Lakers won theNBA championship 4-3over the Detroit Pistons.The Edmonton Oilerswon the Stanley Cup 4-0over the Boston Bruins.

The average price of anew car was $10,400 in1988. The average priceof a new car last year was$30,700, an all-timerecord.

The average price of anew home was $91,600.Last year, it had increasedto $152,000.

Did You Know? Events that took place in 1988 — the year Community College Week published its first issue:

Colleges Turn to Technology To Foresee Workforce Needs

BY JON MARCUS, THE HECHINGER REPORT

Ahandful of colleges thinkthey’ve found the secret toclosing the gap between

the types of graduates they’re turn-ing out and the types employerssay they need.

Spiders.Not the hairy, creepy kind. The

colleges are using artificial-intelli-gence spiders that crawl throughsearch engines and read thousandsof online “help wanted” ads tocheck up on the job market in realtime — not two years after thefact, which is how long the federalgovernment can take to report onlabor trends.

The technology is helpinginstitutions add and update pro-grams on short notice so theirgraduates can land real-world jobs.And at the same time, schools areusing the new information to elim-inate programs that leave studentsin debt with skills employers don’twant.

So far, the use of such technol-ogy is limited, but it is likely toincrease as colleges and universi-ties face growing pressure to helpdrive economic recovery and justi-fy the cost of higher education bymatching graduates’ skills with

workforce needs.“It’s not just good enough any

more to educate a student,” saidElaine Gaertner, director of a sys-tem of regional centers that usespidering technology to collectreal-time job-market informationfor California’s community col-leges “You have to educate himwith a purpose.”

That’s often hard to do withfederal labor data, which can beyears out of date.“It’s like looking in the rearviewmirror to get a sense of whereyou’re going,” said John Dorrer, aprogram director at the Boston-based advocacy group Jobs for theFuture.

Employers say that’s why, in atime of persistent unemployment,there are nearly 3.7 million jobsnationwide sitting empty, accord-ing to the U.S. Department ofLabor.

The National Association ofManufacturers estimates that600,000 manufacturing jobs aloneremain unfilled because compa-nies can’t find applicants with theright skills. Ninety-three percentof IT employers say they’re havingtrouble attracting qualified

employees, according to the Com-puting Technology Industry Asso-ciation.

Yet the vast majority of col-leges aren’t using the latest tech-nologies, like spidering, to trackworkforce demand.

Even if they do pay attention toindustry needs, colleges and uni-versities are not particularly fast-moving, while the pace of changein the economy has been accelerat-ing.

“In business, if you don’t havethe next product ready by the nextquarter, you’re in trouble,” saidLee Todd Jr., former president ofthe University of Kentucky, whofounded two high-tech companiesbefore that. “In academics, you’vegot seven years to make tenure.”

But market forces could even-tually speed things up.

Just as colleges whose gradu-ates are having trouble getting jobsrisk losing business, those that arenimble and responsive may gain,said Matthew Sigelman, CEO ofBurning Glass Technologies,which provides job-market spider-ing services to colleges.

“Educational institutions havealways thought of themselves, Ithink, as being quite removed fromthe labor market, and that’s chang-ing rapidly,” Sigelman said.“There’s so much awarenessaround workforce readiness andthe skills gap. Schools that canmake sure their graduates do wellare seeing a meteoric rise in theirstanding.”

One of those is NortheasternUniversity, whose so-called “expe-riential learning” approachrequires undergraduates to work inreal-world settings for as many as18 months while in school. Morethan half go on to full-time jobs inthose places, and more than 90percent are employed or in gradu-ate school within nine months ofearning their degrees.

Nationally, only 42 percent ofthe Class of 2010, the most recentfor which the figure is available,had jobs at graduation, accordingto the National Association of Col-leges and Employers. Fewer thantwo-thirds were employed sixmonths later.

Northeastern’s focus onpreparing its students for the work-place has driven a 46 percentincrease in applications to the uni-versity over the last five years.

The school is using spideringtechnology to strategize an expan-sion from its base in Boston toother cities, such as Seattle andCharlotte, N.C., where real-time“help wanted” listings reveal highdemand for workers with certainskills, but not enough supply, andwhere Northeastern has openedsatellite campuses to lure lucra-tive, tuition-paying graduate stu-dents. More are planned.

“We can see how metropolitanregions compare in terms of thehiring that’s going on,” said SeanGallagher, senior strategist andmarket-development officer atNortheastern. “Then we can digdown and see who are the topemployers, so we can meet withthose employers and find out whatthe skills are that they need.”

Like other schools, Northeast-ern previously used state and fed-eral government labor data, “but alot of those are fairly basic fore-casts on a really long time-scale,”Gallagher said. “The inflectionpoint, from my perspective, was

the economic downtown in 2008.After that, you could see that theseforecasts were entirely out ofdate.”

Other higher-education institu-tions still rely on such outdatedinformation, however, Gallaghersaid. “The way they operate—theirorientation, their culture—is justnot to incorporate labor-marketinformation in a routine way.” Buthe said that will change, “especial-ly as more technology like thisbecomes available.”

Based on real-time labor-mar-ket information, the Lone StarCollege System in Texas will closethree programs next fall, in avia-tion management, hospitality man-agement and computer support. Itfound that employers prefer four-year to two-year degrees in thefirst two cases, and were outsourc-ing work in the third. But it isadding programs to train oil andgas drillers and CT-scan techni-cians, for which there is burgeon-ing demand.

Cabrillo College in Californiathought its program in medicalassisting was doing well—untilspidering technology showed therewasn’t much hiring going on in thefield, and a survey of graduatesconfirmed that fewer than 30 per-cent had jobs in it. So the collegeraised the program’s standards to alevel employers told them theyneeded.

“We didn’t pay a great deal ofattention to this data while theeconomy was growing and unem-ployment was low—but when therecession began, it became clearthat we could no longer assumethat program completion wouldresult in employment,” said RockPfotenhauer, dean of career educa-tion and economic development atCabrillo College.

So quickly have employers’demands shifted that ArchanaMani found her master’s degree ininformation systems, which sheearned in 2001, insufficient to gether a job after she took a break toraise her children. So she enrolledat Oakland Community Collegenear Detroit, which had discovered— through spidering technology— an urgent need for program-mers who could build and test newsoftware applications. Within threemonths, it began offering an accel-erated course to train some.

“I can see that demand, nowthat I’m at work,” said Mani, whocompleted the program and got aposition with a quickly expandingbranch of Hewlett-Packard in Pon-tiac, Mich. “They are looking tofill a lot of jobs.”

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Then and Now: So Much HasChanged Since CCWeek’s DebutT wenty-five years ago, in 1988, a gal-

lon of gas cost 91 cents, a dozen eggswould set you back 65 cents and a

first class postage stamp was a quarter. President Ronald Reagan was winding

down a second term marred by the Iran-Contra scandal; Robert C. “Bud” McFar-lane, his former national security advisor,pleaded guilty for his role in the case andwas sentenced to two years’ probation and a$20,000 fine. He was pardoned four yearslater by President George H.W. Bush.

A Libyan terrorist bomb exploded on PanAm jet over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing all259 people on board and 11 on the ground. AU.S. Navy ship shot down an Iranian airlinerover the Persian Gulf, mistaking it for jetfighter, killing all 290 people on board.Benazir Bhutto became the first femaleleader of a Muslim nation when she waselected prime minister of Pakistan.

Community college enrollment wasabout 4.6 million students. In the 1987-88academic year, community colleges con-ferred about 436,000 degrees.

Twenty-five years later, community col-leges enroll about 13 million students, 8million of them in for-credit courses. Now,as then, the colleges opened educationaldoors to those who otherwise would beturned away.

The year 1988 was also when the firstedition of Community College Week rolledoff the presses. Then, as now, it wasdedicated to being an independent voicecovering a vibrant sector of Americanhigher education.

The first reauthorization of the Carl D.Perkins Career and Technical EducationImprovement Act allocated federal moneyto community colleges to prepare studentsfor the world of work by combining techni-cal training and academic coursework. Itprovided a template for much of the work-force education work that communitycolleges do today.

Much has changed in higher educationsince 1988. Working adults, stay-at-homemoms, and rural and international studentshave unprecedented access to collegeprograms through the Internet. The onlinedelivery format has made higher educationaccessible to a population for whomcampus-based learning is not an option.

The average age of college students hassoared to 36. About 30 percent of collegestudents participate in online education.

As CCWeek marks its 25th anniversary,we present a list of some the other thingsthat have changed over the past two-and-a-half decades:


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World Population 5.1 billion 7 billionU.S. Population 244.5 million 313.8 millionLife expectancy 74.9 years 78.5 years Median Household Income $27,225 $50,054U.S. Hispanic Population 19.4 million 51.9 million

(8.1 % of US Population) (17% of US Population)U.S. Poverty Rate 13% 15.1%Total High School Graduates 2.6 million 3.1 millionPercentage of High School Graduates Enrolling in College 58.9% 68.2%

Percentage of High School Graduates Enrolling in Community College 21.9% 25.9%

Total College Enrollment 13 million 21 millionTwo-Year College Enrollment (For-Credit) 4.6 million 8 millionFour-Year College Enrollment 5.5 million 13 millionNumber of Public Two-Year Degree-Granting Colleges 1,436 1,738Number of Public Two-Year Colleges 984 967Number of Instructional Faculty

at Two-Year Colleges 240,520 407,988Average Full-Time Faculty Salary

at Public Two-Year Colleges $32,209 $62,568

Average Tuition and Fees at Two-Year Colleges $1,590 $3,258Associate Degrees Conferred 435,085 942,327Bachelor’s Degrees Conferred 994,829 1.7 millionMaster’s Degrees Conferred 305,783 730,635Doctorates Conferred 99,139 163,735

SOURCE: DIGEST OF EDUCATION STATISTICS

S AN FRANCISCO (AP)— Student enrollment atCalifornia’s community

colleges has fallen dramaticallyin recent years as campusesslashed teaching staffs andcourse offerings in response tounprecedented cuts in state fund-ing, according to a new report.

The report by the nonprofitPublic Policy Institute of Califor-nia details the impacts of $1.5billion in state budget cutsbetween 2007 and 2012 on Cali-fornia Community Colleges, thenation’s largest system of highereducation.

During that period, enroll-ment within the 112-campus sys-tem dropped from 2.9 million to

2.4 million students, according tothe report, which is based onofficial campus reports and inter-views with more than 100 senioradministrators.

The enrollment declines weresteepest among students return-ing to school after an absenceand first-time college students,researchers said. Enrollment offirst-time students fell 5 percenteven as the number of highschool graduates in Californiarose 9 percent.

“The decline in access offirst-time students is troubling,given California’s longstandingneed to increase college-goingrates for new high school gradu-ates, who are the workforce for

the future,” said PPIC researcherSarah Bohn, the report’s co-author.

On the bright side, continuingstudents completed courses,

earned passing grades and trans-ferred to four-year institutions athigher rates, researchers said.

California’s community col-lege system, which is known forits low fees and open-accesspolicies, is open to nearly alladults, but in recent years cam-puses have been forced to turnaway hundreds of thousands ofstudents who couldn’t get intothe classes they wanted.

Across the system, the num-ber of academic-year courseofferings dropped 21 percent,summer classes fell 60 percentand class sizes swelled,researchers said. All types ofcourses were cut, but the dropwas most significant for non-

credit courses for enrichment orremediation.

The outlook for CaliforniaCommunity Colleges hasimproved since November whenvoters approved Proposition 30, aballot measure that temporarilyraises the statewide sales tax andincome taxes of high earners.

“With the passage of Prop.30, community colleges areslowly starting to restore theaccess that was lost, but it willtake years for the system toregain its original financial foot-ing,”said Paul Feist, the sys-tem’s vice chancellor for com-munication.


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Maricopa Tuition Hike Will Boost Campus Security TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — The

governing board of theMaricopa County Commu-

nity College District has approveda tuition increase that would helppay for more security at its manycampuses.

The increase would raise theper-credit-hour cost from $76 to$81 for the next school year, TheArizona Republic reported.

Police Chief Mikel Longman,who runs the system’s public safe-ty department, is seeking $2 mil-lion to increase his staff by 50 per-cent with 23 new certified, armedofficers.

“It’s a basic assumption thatwhen we’re open for business,we’ll have armed police officers,”he said.

Longman was hired last year toconsolidate the 10 colleges’ publicsafety units. His plan would addone or two officers to each cam-pus. Currently, some smaller satel-lite campuses don’t have any offi-cers while the main campuseshave anywhere from three to sixofficers.

The most recent crime statis-tics for the campuses show therewere no murders, robberies orarsons in 2011. However, therewere numerous burglaries, vehiclethefts, weapons violations and sex-ual assaults as well as nearly 400larcenies, which would includephone and bike thefts.

Longman said he also wants toreduce reliance on part-time secu-rity aides who write parking tick-ets, monitor surveillance camerasand escort people after dark. Hesaid the aides aren’t reliable inshowing up for shifts.

“We give our keys to our king-

dom to minimum wage, minimallytrained employees, and if some-thing bad happens to our property,it hurts our ability to deliver edu-cation,’’ he told the governingboard.

The community colleges inMay will also seek an increase inthe property-tax levy that wouldgenerate an additional $8.1 mil-lion. In addition to bolstering secu-rity, the colleges want to add 32

full-time professors and updatetechnology. The colleges are alsolooking to spend $5 million on twoongoing programs to improve effi-ciency in registration and financialaid and students’ graduation andtransfer rates.

Andrew Kuhn, president of theAssociated Students of MesaCommunity College, said hisgroup has been studying the tuitionproposal.

“The general consensus I’vetaken from most students is thatthey’re not in favor of it,” he said,noting that the last time tuition wasincreased, it was assumed anotherhike wouldn’t happen for a fewyears.

Barry Vaughn, spokesman forthe Maricopa Community Col-leges Faculty Association, saidbeyond the tuition proposal, thefaculty is worried about the spiral-

ing costs of higher education ingeneral.

“It’s going to undermine ourability to prepare the next genera-tion of citizens in this country ifwe cannot get these rapid increas-es under control,” said Vaughn, aprofessor of philosophy and reli-gious studies at Mesa CommunityCollege.



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Did You Know?Events that took place in 1988— the year Community CollegeWeek published its first issue:

In 1988, Vice President George H.W.Bush won 40 states and 426 electoralvotes in defeating MassachusettsGov. Michael S. Dukakis and beingelected the nation’s 41st president.

On Jan 20, 1988, the Rock ‘n RollHall of Fame inducted inducts TheBeach Boys, The Beatles, TheDrifters, Bob Dylan and TheSupremes.

Among the famous people who diedin 1988 were Billy Carter, brother ofPresident Jimmy Carter; singer RoyOrbison; author Louis L’Amour; andFrederick Douglass Patterson,founder of the United Negro College Fund.

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W.Va. Bill Would IncreaseFull-Time Students’ TuitionBY DAVID GUTMAN, ASSOCIATED PRESS

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP)— As West Virginia col-leges and universities try to

account for Gov. Earl RayTomblin’s 7.5 percent budget cuts,a bill in the state Senate would letsix of them change how they cal-culate tuition.

The bill would create a pilotprogram that lets those schoolscharge tuition by the credit hourrather than by the semester. Itwould likely result in significantincreases in tuition for full-timestudents, and decreases for part-timers.

For financial aid purposes, thefederal government classifiessomeone who takes 12 credithours per semester (generally fourcourses) as a full-time student,although 15 credit hours persemester are usually required tograduate on time. In West Virginia,students who take a minimum of12 credit hours are all charged thesame semester rate, even if theyare enrolled for 15 or 18 credits.

This bill would let schoolsrecoup the costs of those extracredits by charging for each credit

hour above 12. The bill was requested by Pier-

pont Community and TechnicalCollege, which has pledged to cutplanned tuition rates if the billpasses. Pierpont President DoreenLarson said the current tuition sys-tem is based on an outdated viewof the college experience.

“This model is based on an oldstyle four-year model where youleave home, go to campus, are afull-time student,” Larson said.“Our students are no longer likethat even in four-year schools.”

At Pierpont, just 40 percent ofstudents take more than 12 credithours per term and would seetuition rise. Across the statewidecommunity college system, thatnumber drops to 30 percent,according to state data. But if otherparticipating colleges did not fol-low Pierpont’s lead and corre-spondingly cut tuition rates toaccompany the change, it wouldmean substantial tuition increasesfor full-time students.

Up to two other community col-leges and three four-year collegescould participate in the program.

The number of studentsimpacted at four-year collegeswould be much greater.

More than 75 percent of thestudents in West Virginia’s four-year colleges and universities takea full course load and would seesubstantial tuition increases underthe pilot project, absent otherchanges. Students taking 15 credithours per semester would see theirtuition rise by an average of$1,422 per year. The change woulddisproportionately affect studentson PROMISE Scholarships, who

must average 15 credit hours persemester to remain eligible.

The change would seem likelyto dissuade students from takingheavier course loads, as thoseadditional credits would no longerbe subsidized. Students wouldthen take longer to complete theirdegrees.

Charging tuition by the credithour could bring in so much addi-tional revenue that Pierpont willcut planned tuition rates by 9 per-cent if the bill passes and still bringin enough money to cover most ofthe 7.5 percent budget cuts. Butthere’s no guarantee that otherschools would follow suit. If,hypothetically, all 11 four-yearcolleges and universities were tocharge by the credit hour, it wouldcover all planned budget cuts andbring in an additional $100 millionin revenue.

Senate Majority Leader JohnUnger complimented Pierpont forlooking for ways to deal with thebudget cuts. He said that he hopedthat public pressure and marketforces would encourage other col-leges to cut tuition if they partici-

pated in the pilot project. West Liberty University Pres-

ident Robin Capehart said hisschool was interested in the pilotproject.

“Right now if a student paystuition they can take as manyhours as they want and manytimes that can create a situationwhere students are taking excesshours for which the college has tobasically provide professors,”Capehart said.

But Capehart said that theywould prefer to charge only forstudents who took more than 15credit hours, as that is the numberthat is required to graduate ontime.

A memorandum from theWest Virginia Higher EducationPolicy Commission warns thatstudents taking heavy courseloads may resort to student loansto cover additional costs. This, thememorandum says, “Will con-tribute to the state’s growing stu-dent loan debt and potentiallydefault rates.”


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Did YouKnow?

Events that took place in1988 — The year CCWeek

published its first issue:

Ben Johnson won the 100 metergold medal at the SeoulOlympics and was then disquali-fied for taking the anabolicsteroid, Stanozol.

The first trans-Aatlantic fiberoptic cable went into service,capable of 40,000 simultaneoustelephone calls between theU.S., England and France.

Carbon dating technology estab-lished with 95 percent certaintythat the Shroud of Turin cannotbe the burial cloth of JesusChrist.

NM College Lets Suspended Paper Publish AgainBY RUSSELL CONTRERAS, ASSOCIATED PRESS

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.(AP) — A student-runNew Mexico community

college newspaper that was sus-pended after publishing an issuefocusing on sex has beenallowed to resume publication,school officials said.

Central New Mexico Com-munity College spokesman BradMoore said the CNM Chroniclewas authorized to continue oper-ations and the papers werereturned to newsstands.

The Albuquerque school hadsuspended publication of theCNM Chronicle and suspendedthe student staff following theissue’s release. Administratorssaid the content, which includedarticles on sex toys, abstinence,and students’ favorite sexualpositions, was offensive andinappropriate for the school’smission.

Officials then took issues offdistribution racks on a campusof nearly 30,000 students.

In response, the Universityof New Mexico student newspa-per, The Daily Lobo, announcedit also would cease publishing“in solidarity” with CNMChronicle staff and called theCNM Chronicle’s suspensioncensorship.

After student journalists andmedia advocates crowded a spe-cial meeting of the college’spublications board, officialsbacked down and said the stu-dent staff would be allowed toreturn to the weekly paper,

which is funded by the college.CNM President Katharine

Winograd told students that offi-cials originally pulled the paperfrom the stands because “a highschool student was included inthis issue and we needed tocheck on the legal ramificationsof information on a minor in apublication of the college.”

Winograd also said the col-lege, which does not have a jour-

nalism program, had failed togive students proper resources.

“I believe as a college wehave failed to provide the CNMChronicle with the level of edi-torial resources and educationthat it needs and deserves,”Winograd said in a statement. “Ihope....the college can provideyou a better educational experi-ence through your participationwith the CNM Chronicle.”

CNM Chronicle Editor Jyl-lian Roach said the sex issue wasmeant to be educational.

“We know that some peoplewere going to be uncomfort-able,” Roach said. “But wenever expected CNM to dosomething like this.”

She said the high school stu-dent mentioned by the presidentwas interviewed for a storyabout abstinence and the paper

got permission from parents.“We don’t feel we did any-

thing wrong,” Roach said. “Wefollowed the law and all ethicalstandards to the best of ourability.”

Roach, who is studying soci-ology, said the ordeal has madeher want to pursue journalism asa career even more.



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Tribal College Moves CloserTo Securing FM Radio StationBY FELICIA FONSECA, ASSOCIATED PRESS

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) —An Arizona Indian tribe anda tribal technical college

have moved closer to securingradio stations that others in Indi-an Country have turned to foremergency alerts, health tips, thelatest rodeo news, traditional sto-ries and language lessons.

American Indian tribes hold

less than one percent of theroughly 15,200 radio stationlicenses issued by the FederalCommunications Commission, afigure the commission has beentrying to boost through a rule itapproved in 2010 to give federal-ly recognized tribes priority inthe application process, and helppreserve language and culture.

“Telling one’s own story,broadcasting in one’s own voice,in an exercise of self-determina-tion and self-reliance, is soimportant a goal of so manybroadcasters in tribal communi-ties that its value cannot be over-stated,” the FCC said in its 2012annual report.

Earlier this month, the FCC

set aside the first two FM allot-ments under its Tribal Radio Pri-ority for the Hualapai Tribe innorthwestern Arizona and NavajoTechnical College in northwest-ern New Mexico. The tribe andthe station owned by the NavajoNation are now waiting for theFCC to open a filing window sothey can secure construction per-mits and build their stations.

“Radio will give themtremendous community outlook,”said Fred Hannel, a consultant forthe Hualapai Tribe. “They canrally the whole communityaround a radio station, give thema sense of identity.”

Other tribal entities will havean opportunity to apply for thesame allotments for the commer-cial stations after the FCC’s ordertakes effect April 15. The Huala-pai Tribe says it isn’t expecting tolose out because no other tribe islocated in the area it wants tobroadcast.

Applicants who want to beconsidered under the tribal prior-ity must be a federally recognizedtribe or an entity, like the college,that is majority-owned by a tribeand propose to cover at least 50percent tribal land. Successfulapplications are processed with-out going through an auction.

Navajo Technical College hadfaced competition in applying fora construction permit for a non-commercial educational stationunder a points-base system. Butthe college did not build the sta-tion before the permit expired inAugust 2008, and the FCCdenied a request for an extensionand to downgrade the servicearea. The college said it erro-neously believed that grant fund-ing it secured to set up the radiostation and the construction per-mit would expire at the sametime, and it also couldn’t getelectricity to its original transmit-ter site, according to FCC docu-ments.

At the time, the college said itwas “virtually guaranteed” toprevail under the Tribal RadioPriority for a commercial FM sta-tion. The FCC said it wouldn’tprejudge a future proceeding norapply the tribal priority retroac-tively. The station would reachout to 13,500 people in remote,isolated areas around Crown-point, N.M., and be broadcast inNavajo, the college wrote in FCCdocuments.

The Hualapai Tribe alreadyhas been using the Internet tobroadcast morning blessings,

results of tribal elections, a radiodrama aimed at improving health,traditional Hualapai music andcommunity service announce-ments. The FM radio stationwould allow anyone within a 30-mile radius of the station to tunein, particularly those who can’taccess the Internet.

“Once we get our FM fre-quency on, it’s really going tobuild a lot of interest,” said tribalmember Candida Hunter.

The spread of information onthe reservation otherwise comesthrough fliers posted at govern-ment offices, a tribal newsletteror word of mouth. TerriHutchens, project coordinator,said tribal members could havebenefited last year from anannouncement over the radioabout water contamination,which led to a temporary schoolclosure. She said some peoplereceived fliers but others didn’tfind out until days later when theproblem was fixed.

“That’s something certainlythat could be addressed throughthe emergency alert system,” shesaid.

The radio station won’t reachthe entire 1 million-acre reserva-tion along the southern edge ofthe Grand Canyon on the westerncorridor. Hutchens said the tribehas plans to expand the rangewithin five years. The funding isin place for terrestrial radioequipment, and the tribe will useexisting towers for the transmit-ter.

For now, community mem-bers are encouraging each otherto listen to the Internet broadcastand volunteers are pitching in toprovide content in the Hualapailanguage.

“We’ve actually been havingfun. We’ve been bringing them into train them on how to be a DJ,”Hutchens said.



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In Memphis, Tennessee, several of our largest industry representatives tell us they need help. Employees are retiring, the companies are growing, the technology is changing, and these companies are challenged with finding job-ready employees. These needs have been heightened by several new companies coming into our region. The growth excites us, of course, but requires solutions. Some of the companies are looking outside our community to fill the openings; an option we feel is unacceptable. In response, we at Southwest Tennessee Community College designed an innovative program that is targeted to applicants, who are not even being considered by the companies due to low scores in basic workforce skills. This program, called Industrial Readiness Training (IRT), focuses on both mechanical skills training and soft skills or attitudinal training in an intensive, fast-paced 49-hour course.

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SALEM, Ore. — To improvethis state’s abysmal dropoutrate, Gov. John Kitzhaber

wants to make sure studentshaven’t already fallen behindbefore they even enter a class-room.

Under Kitzhaber’s educationoverhaul, which he launched in2011, every Oregon student willhave to meet academic mile-stones—kindergarten readinessand reading by the third grade, forexample—on the road from pre-school to college. To reinforce thisunified approach, Kitzhaberpushed to abolish Oregon’s K-12schools superintendent, an electedposition, and appointed formerNew York City and Miami schoolschief Rudy Crew as Oregon’schief education officer.

Crew is charged with oversee-ing every stage of education, frompreschool to college, with the goalof boosting Oregon’s 68 percentgraduation rate—fourth worst inthe country—and increasing thenumber of Oregonians with anassociate or bachelor’s degree.

Kitzhaber leads Oregon’s newEducation Investment Board(OEIB), which he conceived tobetter connect decision makers at

all levels of education, makinghim one of only two governors tosit on a statewide education panel(Alabama is the other), accordingto David Kysilko of the NationalAssociation of State Boards ofEducation.

This year Kitzhaber aims to goeven further. Under his budgetproposal, the Department of Edu-cation, which currently overseesK-12 schools, would add pre-school to its responsibilities. Theagency would funnel money tocommunity-based “hubs”— whichcould be organized by local gov-ernment officials, educationproviders or a non-profit organiza-tion — that would then distribute itamong local preschools, nurseriesand child-care providers. And hehas proposed creating a newDepartment of Post-SecondaryEducation to oversee public uni-versities, community colleges andstudent aid.

But the goal goes beyondfewer departments.

“This is not consolidation forconsolidation’s sake,” said BenCannon, Kitzhaber’s educationadviser. “It’s about having muchdeeper levels of coordination andconnection in this work.”

Kitzhaber’s ambitious goal isto boost Oregon’s high schoolgraduation rate to 100 percent by2025. He wants 40 percent of Ore-gon adults to have a bachelor’sdegree, and another 40 percent toobtain an associate degree. It’s 30percent and 18 percent, respective-ly, now.

He concedes it will be tough toreach those standards, but he isconvinced his plan is better poisedto succeed than past effortsbecause it has clear long-termgoals, aligns those goals withschool performance, and taps theresources of the local community.

“You make this a propositionabout the whole community, abouteverybody,” he said. “We have

these huge aspirations and youcan’t just assume that this is allgoing to happen in the schoolbuilding.”

Oregon is part of a small butgrowing number of states trying toimprove academic results by betteraligning different parts of its edu-cation system. In New York, thestate’s education board and topeducation official have overseenall levels of education, from pre-school through college, for morethan a century. That’s the case forK-12 education and higher educa-tion in Pennsylvania as well.

Last year, Rhode Island law-makers merged the state’s K-12and higher education boards tobetter connect education policiesin the hope of driving up college-bound rates. And former Wash-ington Gov. Chris Gregoire calledfor similar changes to those under-taken in Oregon in an editorial shewrote one month before leavingoffice.

“[We] need to create a seam-less, accountable system focusedon students and their success,” theDemocrat wrote. “We must breakdown our educational silos.”

Kitzhaber emphasizes that hisgoal is not to centralize all educa-

tion decision-making in the state.He embraces what he calls a“tight-loose” model to govern thestate’s relationship with educationproviders. All schools and col-leges, for example, enter intoachievement compacts with theOEIB. The board sets a series ofacademic milestones, such asgraduation rates and student aca-demic progress, that schools needto meet but gives schools the free-dom to achieve those goals how-ever they see fit.

“What we think works andwhat actually works may be twodifferent things,” he said.

The transformation of Ore-gon’s education system could belimited by financial constraints.

The state’s spending on K-12education earned it an F in themost recent ranking of state educa-tion systems by Education Weekand has led to growing class sizes,while it’s among the bottom fivestates in higher education fundingper student.

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A L I G N M E N TOregon is part of agrowing number ofstates trying toimprove academicoutcomes byaligning differentparts of theireducation systems.

MORGANTON, N.C. (AP) —Pioneer settler TheodosiaBeasley McMullan Dula is a

mystery to Mary Charlotte McMullanSafford and Leslie Dula McKesson.

Safford and McKesson are both deansat Western Piedmont Community Collegeand have been friends and colleagues for23 years; they both have a passion for his-tory and they share an interest in research-ing their respective family lineages.

During a conversation about whatthey were finding out about their familytrees, they found a branch that intersectedat Theodosia Beasley.

McKesson, 54, knows the womanborn in 1755 as her great-great-great-greatgrandmother Dula.

Safford, 56, knows her as her great-great-great-great grandmother McMullan.

“You’re my cousin,” the two said theysaid in unison when they made the con-nection.

“We were screaming like teenagegirls,” McKesson said.

The two made the discovery rightbefore Christmas, and they still seem tobe in disbelief about it.

“Two little girls growing up in theCivil Rights Era, one in Mississippi andone in North Carolina. My goodness.We’re cousins,” McKesson, dean of busi-ness and public services, said to Safford,dean of humanities and social sciences, inMcKesson’s office at WPCC.

McKesson, who is black, and Safford,who is white, have pieced together thatTheodosia was married to John McMul-lan, a Revolutionary War patriot inOrange County, Va. She had five childrenwith him, including Patrick McMullan.

Theodosia then took off with and latermarried William Dula, also a Revolution-ary War patriot from Orange County, Va.She had six children with him, includingThomas Dula.

Safford and McKesson have tracedtheir family trees on their fathers’ sidesback to Patrick McMullan and ThomasDula being half-brothers.

In Safford’s family, the generationspassed down a story that Theodosia died.

“People didn’t talk about things likethat then,” Safford said, “but she ran off.”

Safford said it was during a visit toVirginia that she started hearing murmursfrom relatives that Theodosia didn’t diebut left John for another man.

John and his new wife, ElizabethStowers, migrated from Virginia to Geor-gia with three of John and Theodosia’sadult children and three of John and Eliz-abeth’s children. The McMullans eventu-ally ended up in Jackson, Miss., whereSafford was born and raised.

William, Theodosia and their childrensettled in the Yadkin Valley of North Car-olina in what today is Caldwell County;McKesson was born and raised in Lenoir.

Caldwell County also is where Theo-dosia is buried, beside William.

“We are going to make a trip to hergravesite,” McKesson told Safford.

McKesson found Theodosia’s burial

spot while working on a book sheis writing on her family history.

At the center of the book areMcKesson’s great-great grand-parents — James Alfred Dula, awhite slave owner, and HarrietHarshaw Dula, a black slave,who also had Native Americanancestors.

Alfred, as McKesson callshim, was William and Theo-dosia’s grandson.

She said Alfred and Harriet’slove story started after Alfred’swife died and has continuedthrough the generations as Alfred left2,000 acres of land to Harriet and the chil-dren they had together. Today, part of thatland remains connected to the Dulas andis known as Dulatown in Caldwell Coun-ty.

McKesson’s father, Harold Dula, hascompiled much of the family’s historyand passed on 22 three-ring binders toMcKesson.

The binders include wills; William’sreads that none of his land is to go to anyMcMullan.

Safford has a copy of John’s will andin it he left his possessions to his second

wife “whom I deem my loving wife.” It is not known if these second mar-

riages were legal as Safford andMcKesson have not found divorcerecords for John and Theodosia.

McKesson has photos of some of herancestors and even a couch that belongedto Harriet; as family legend goes, Alfredslept on it when he visited Harriet in thehouse he had built for her.

McKesson’s research has inspiredSafford to look more into her lineage.

Safford has been emailing family backin Mississippi to update them on what shehas discovered about Theodosia through

McKesson’s research. Safford has learned of a trunk

that belonged to John and won-ders if it holds answers to thelove triangle between him, Theo-dosia and William.

Safford and McKesson alsodream of taking a trip to Ireland,where the McMullans, Dulas andBeasleys originated, to see ifthere are any clues there.

As for their families’ reac-tions to learning they have inter-racial cousins, the women saidit’s been well received on both

sides and both sides are excited aboutfamily they didn’t know they had.

Safford and McKesson encourage oth-ers to delve into their family trees.

“Your family history helps you toknow who you are,” Safford said. “We allhave people in our family who were good,bad and in between. For the most partthey were good people who maybe madebad choices.”

“Our histories equalize us,”McKesson said. “Nobody can hold them-selves above anybody else.”


Deans at NC Community College Find They’re RelatedBY CHERYL M. SHUFFLER, THE NEWS HERALD OF MORGANTON


Mary Charlotte McMullan Safford, left, dean of humanities and social sciences at Western PiedmontCommunity College, and Leslie Dula McKesson, dean of business and public services, pose in

McKessons’ office in Morganton, N.C. The two have been friends and colleagues for more than 20 yearsand a few months ago realized they are fifth cousins.

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Report: Tie State FundingTo College PerformanceBY PAMELA M. PRAH, STATELINE

States should allocate scarcehigher education fundsbased increasingly on how

well colleges perform, includingwhether they bump up the num-ber of degrees in science, technol-ogy, engineering and mathematicsand graduate low-income and at-risk students, a new report fromstate budget officers said.

State spending on higher edu-cation is more erratic than anyother major area of state spendingand the current approach to fund-ing public education needs to dra-matically change, the NationalAssociation of State Budget Offi-cers said in its report.

Despite deep funding cutsthroughout the recession, statefunds still account for more thanhalf of the revenue for public col-leges’ general operating expenses,according to the report, funded by

a grant from the Bill & MelindaGates Foundation.

Generally, higher educationfunding has gone up in good eco-nomic times and down in bad, butNASBO says a more predictable,more targeted approach is needed.The report also calls for limits ontuition and fee increases andgreater cost efficiencies, such asrequiring institutions to set asidesome tuition revenue for infra-structure projects.

But state budget officials andcollege leaders too often “talkpast one another” in discussingstate finances, NASBO said.Leaving aside issues of whatfunding levels should be, thereport said “the two sides shouldbe able to agree about basic factsfor how to account for funds inhigher education, includingaccountability metrics for spend-

ing and performance.”Accountability is the buzz

word in higher education. In hisState of the Union, PresidentBarack Obama urged Congress toinclude affordability in determin-ing which colleges receive certaintypes of federal aid. The adminis-tration also unveiled a new “Col-lege Scorecard” that comparesschools on costs.

Tennessee and Indiana areamong states currently tyingfunding to performance. NewMexico began this fiscal year set-ting aside 5 percent of higher edu-cation appropriations based oncourse and degree completion,with additional funding fordegrees awarded in science, tech-nology, engineering, mathematicsand health care fields, NASBO’sreport said.

Last week, the Center on Bud-

get and Policy Priorities reportedthat every state except NorthDakota and Wyoming is spendingless per student on higher educa-tion than they did before therecession. Over the last fiveyears, 11 states have cut fundingby more than one-third per stu-dent, and two states — Arizonaand New Hampshire — have cutin half their per student spending,according to CBPP, which advo-cates for policies affecting thepoor.

As Moody’s Investors Servicereported earlier this year, publicand political scrutiny of collegesand universities, both not-for-profit and for-profit, have escalat-ed and that “the sector will remainunder the microscope in 2012 andbeyond.”

NASBO says that scrutiny hasalready put the brakes on tuition

hikes. On average, this year’s nettuition per student is projected toincrease 2.7 percent, much lowerthan the annual average increaseover the past five years of 6.7 per-cent.

Meanwhile, state lawmakersthis session are looking into costcontrols at the University of Min-nesota following a Wall StreetJournal investigation late last yearthat found the university addedmore than 1,000 administratorssince 2001, increasing their ranksby 37 increase, more than twiceas fast as teachers and nearlytwice as fast as the studentbody.

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Graduate DegreesFor many students, the path to agraduate degree starts with community college. Here’s a breakdown of doctorate recipients in 2009-10 who attended a community college:

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Education 20%Social Sciences 14%

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4Point ofView The secret toAmerican compet-itiveness lies ingetting moreminorities intoSTEM careers.

9ExpandingOpportunity Georgia lawmakersagree to lowergrade requirementsfor technical collegestudents seekingHOPE grants.

14 Some Up,Some Down Under a newperformance-basedfunding formula,some Ohiocolleges gain while others lose.

17 ElusiveImprovements A South Carolinaeducation reviewpanel says that stateschools are notimproving quicklyenough.

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3StartingEarly Some elementaryschool students inNebraska aregetting an earlynudge toward acollege education.

5 FreeTuition A Montana collegeseeks to stem anenrollment declineby offering freetuition to somestudents.

10 Halting a‘Brain Drain’Ohio is offering asmany as 3,500internships and co-ops to stop anexodus of collegestudents from thestate.

11 Holding HerHead High Gabrielle Ludwig, a transsexual, isbelieved to be thefirst player to com-pete in college hoopsas both a man and awoman.

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4. Florida StateCollege at Jacksonville 5,409

5. Broward College 4,881

3 AnotherCommissionA seven-membercommission hasbeen added to themyriad task forcesand committeesstudying highereducation in Florida.

4 EnlistingThe SpousesFor-profit collegesare recruitingmilitary spouses,taking advantage of a new taxpayer-funded tuitionprogram.

25 LearningBy DoingA team ofVirginia studentstakes part in aprestigiousautomotiveengineeringcontest.

28 Taking AimAt ReadinessLegislators inKansas want toprovide more help to studentswho struggleacademically incollege.

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Federal Grants: 21 percent

Federal Loans: 10 percent

State Aid: 13 percent

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8 AxingSports Budget cutsare forcingsome collegesto eliminatetheir athleticsprograms.

10 JoiningHands Hands AcrossCaliforniaraises scholar-ship money forstrugglingstudents.

12 GreenBottlesStudents at aMichigancollege can buyorganic, quick-compostingwater bottles.

3ReportingAbuse Oregon collegeemployees arenow legallyrequired to reportsuspicions of childabuse.

10Resident orNot? Residency rulesthat vary widelyfrom state tostate are creat-ing confusionfor studentveterans.

14 SeekingMore Clout Arizona commu-nity colleges areforming a councilto represent theirinterests at thestate Capitol.

15FatteningPaychecks Wisconsin technicalcollege professorstook home an averageof $90,000 last yearby taking on extrateaching assignments.

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Distance LearningMore than 6.7 million students tookat least one online course in 2011.The figure was 9.3 percent morethan a year earlier. Here’s a look at the five-year trend in onlineenrollment.

No. of Students OnlineTaking At Least EnrollmentOne Online As % of

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2011 6.7 million 32%

2010 6.1 million 29.2%

2009 5.5 million 27.3%

2008 4.6 million 24.1%

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1988:Community CollegeWeekly, founded bypublisher Daniel Sav-age, publishes its firstedition. The paper has3,000 subscribers.

1989Savage sells thepublication to Cox,Matthews & Associates,which publishes thepaper for the next 15years.

2006:CCWeek is published under new owners,Autumn Publishing Enterprises, Inc.

2013CCWeek observesits 25th aniversarywith a specialcommemorativeedition.

2008CCWeek marks its 20thanniversary and beginsan annual essaycontest with theNational Institute forStaff and OrganizationalDevelopment. Thecontest is named inhonor of Wright andnames its first winner in2009.

2009CCWeek namesits first essaycontest winner.The prize was$3,000 shared bythe studentauthor, the facultymember featuredin the essay andthe college.

2003Award-winningCCWeek EditorScott Wrightpasses away.

Newspaper publishing has undergone profound change since the first edition of Community College Weekwas printed. But our commitment to be an independent voice covering community colleges has remained

constant. Here is a glimpse at some the milestomes we’ve passed in the past 25 years.

1998 CCWeek wins a prestigious nationalaward, the American Association of UniversityProfessors’ Award for Excellence in Coverageof Higher Education. Editor Scott W. Wrighttraveled to New York when then-MayorRudolph W. Giuliani’s loudly complained about the growing cost of remedial education.He came back with a story that gave importantcontext to Giuliani’s plan to end remedialeducation and open enrollment policies in sixCUNY community colleges.

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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP)— Six Republican statelawmakers said that Gov.

Bobby Jindal is trying to pressurethe Board of Regents to fire thestate’s top higher education leader.

Commissioner of HigherEducation Jim Purcell has been atodds with the GOP governor overthe depth of budget cuts to publiccolleges and what that slashingmeans to higher education.

Reps. Brett Geymann,Cameron Henry, Lance Harris, JimMorris, Rogers Pope and JohnSchroder issued a statementdefending Purcell.

The lawmakers, who havecriticized the governor’s budgetingtactics, condemned what they callthe Jindal administration’s attempt“to politically influence” theregents to oust Purcell.

“This episode represents thelatest in a string of exceptionallypoor decisions by the governorand his staff,” Morris, R-Oil City,

said in a statement. “Having astaffer attempt to influence anindependent academic board isjust not acceptable.”

The chairman of the Board ofRegents, Clinton “Bubba” Rasberry,said it’s no secret the Jindal admin-istration is unhappy with Purcell.He said the governor’s office hasmade that clear to its appointees.

‘I’ve gotten messages, yes.I’ve certainly been made to under-stand they’re unhappy with Dr.Purcell,” said Rasberry, a Regentsboard member since 2003 and acurrent Jindal appointee.

Jindal’s appointed all but thestudent representative on the 16-member board.

Asked if the administrationwas trying to get Purcell fired, Jin-dal spokesman Sean Lansing saidin a statement, “We think he’sdone a poor job, but that is up tothe Board of Regents.”

Purcell was hired two yearsago as higher education commis-

sioner, with a $275,000-a-yearcontract that runs through March2014. He previously had beendirector of the Arkansas Depart-ment of Higher Education.

Before and during Purcell’stenure as Louisiana’s higher edu-cation chief, Jindal and lawmakershave cut nearly $650 million instate funding from the public col-leges budget. While some of thathas been offset with tuition hikes,at least $260 million hasn’t been,according to Regents data.

The governor’s office has

objected to Purcell’s characteriza-tion of the cuts and disputes hisfigures.

Geymann, R-Lake Charles,said it’s unacceptable to haveagency leaders removed becausethe governor doesn’t like the infor-mation they’re providing.

“They’ve got to be able tocome forward and be honest withus. They’ve got to. They shouldn’tbe able to feel like they can’t speakhonestly,” Geymann said.

Jindal’s budget proposal forthe fiscal year that begins July 1would further strip state dollarsfrom higher education, but theadministration said the budgetcontains no reduction in fundingfor colleges because tuitionincreases will cover the lost statefunding.

“Our budget protects highereducation and makes no cuts tocampuses,” Lansing said.

Purcell recently disagreed withthat Jindal administration claim

and has raised concerns about thesources of financing — propertysales, legal settlements and otherone-time pools of cash — that thegovernor proposes to use in nextyear’s budget for higher education.

Asked if he was satisfied withPurcell’s performance, Rasberrysaid, “From my perspective, thenumbers and the analysis of thebudget that Dr. Purcell has done Iperceive to be the truth.”

The six Republican lawmakerswho said they believe the gover-nor’s office was trying to oust Pur-cell disagree with Jindal’s use ofpiecemeal financing to pay forongoing state expenses and pro-grams, like the governor’s propos-al for higher education.

Jindal administration leaderssaid they use the patchwork fundingto avoid unnecessary cuts to col-leges and health care services.


TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Anemotional crowd gatheredfor a House committee

hearing on a measure that seeks torepeal in-state tuition for Kansasstudents without legal residency.

The measure under considera-tion in the House Federal and StateAffairs Committee would repealthe nearly 10-year-old statute thatallows students who graduatefrom Kansas high schools andhave lived in Kansas for at leastthree years to pay in-state tuitionat state universities and communi-ty colleges, regardless of their res-idency status, The Topeka Capital-Journal reported.

Kim Voth, a Wichita schoolcounselor, said that before comingto testify before the committee,she spoke with one of her studentswho used the in-state tuition law toget an education degree and hassince become a U.S. citizen and ateacher.

“I asked her what I should saytoday,” Voth said, beginning tocry. “She got very quiet, then said,‘Please tell them that my collegedegree changed my life.’”

Fred Logan, of the KansasBoard of Regents, said more than

500 of the 630 immigrants cur-rently accessing in-state tuitionattend community colleges. Hesaid the 2004 law treats studentswithout legal status fairly.

Republican Secretary of StateKris Kobach, the repeal bill’s chiefproponent, argued that natives offoreign countries who follow thelegal process of getting studentvisas to attend Kansas universitieshave to pay out-of-state tuition.

“I think that is an absurdreverse incentive,” Kobach said.“If you follow the law, we’recharging you three times more.”

The biggest response from thecrowded gallery came when Rep.Ponka-We Victors, D-Wichita,ended a series of questions toKobach.

“I think it’s funny, Mr.Kobach, because when you men-tion illegal immigrant, I think ofall of you,” said Victors, the loneNative American in the Legisla-ture.

People in the gallery thenapplauded, which is rare in suchhearings. The committee did nottake action on the bill.


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The Board ofRegents chairmansaid it’s no secretthat Jindal isunhappy with thehigher educationcommissioner.

La. Lawmakers Claim JindalTrying To Oust College LeaderBY MELINDA DESLATTE, ASSOCIATED PRESS

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COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Afederal judge again blockedefforts by a central Missouri tech-nical college to drug-test its stu-dents, a policy challenged asunconstitutional by the AmericanCivil Liberties Union.

U.S. District Judge NanetteLaughrey in Jefferson City grant-ed a preliminary injunction thattemporarily prevents Linn StateTechnical College from screeningall first-year students and somereturning students for cocaine,methamphetamines, oxycodoneand eight other drugs.

The two-year school also can-not report the test results fromSeptember 2011, when it beganthe program and collected urinesamples from 500 students beforethe American Civil LibertiesUnion of Eastern Missouri filedsuit on behalf of six students. Thelawsuit claims the program vio-

lates students’ Fourth Amend-ment rights against unlawfulsearches and seizures.

Laughrey’s ruling comesafter a federal appeals court deci-sion in January that overturned aprevious restraining order shehad issued, with the appellatecourt calling it too broad. TheACLU quickly filed a narrowerchallenge that seeks to protectcurrent students, said ACLUattorney Tony Rothert. The origi-nal complaint sought to also pro-tect future students at school’scampuses in Linn, Jefferson Cityand Mexico, Mo. Physical thera-py students enrolled in coopera-tive programs between Linn Stateand two community colleges alsowere subject to the policy.

Rothert said Laughrey’s rul-ing suggests the judge will likelyoverturn the entire policy. Whilethe school is arguing the tests are

necessary for student safety, thejudge’s 18-page order points totestimony by a Linn Statemechanical drawing teacher whosaid his students typically donothing more dangerous than sitat a computer or a drafting tablewith sharpened pencils.

The ACLU attorney conced-ed that the school may have legalbacking to drug test students in

such areas as aviation mainte-nance, heavy equipment opera-tions, and industrial electricityprograms, but noted that mostLinn State students aren’tenrolled in those riskier pursuits.

“While Linn Tech might beable to show a need to drug test20 or 30 students who areenrolled in very specific pro-grams, that does not give themthe authority to drug test all oftheir students,” he said.

Kent Brown, an attorney forthe technical college, did notrespond to telephone messagesleft at his Jefferson City office.

The case is set for trial onJuly 1, but Rothert said it couldbe postponed should the schoolappeal the judge’s latest order.

The ACLU has said it wasunaware of any public college oruniversity in the U.S. with a sim-ilar drug testing program. Under

the program, students who testpositive for drugs could remain inschool if they have a clean test 45days later. They also must com-plete an online drug-preventioncourse or would be assigned toother, unspecified ``appropriateactivities,’’ according to theschool’s written policy. Theywould remain on probation forthe remainder of the semester andwould face an unannounced fol-low-up test.

Federal and state courts haveconsistently upheld more limiteddrug testing of public highschools students, such as thosewho play sports, as well asNCAA athletes and students atprivate colleges. But the move byLinn State to enact widespreaddrug tests of the general studentbody appears unprecedented.


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Va. College MullsSelling CampusTo Liberty Univ.

LYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) —Central Virginia Community Col-lege is considering selling its cam-pus so that it can build a new one.

College officials haveapproached Liberty Universityabout buying the 102-acre property.

Central Virginia PresidentJohn Capps tells The News &Advance that the school needs newfacilities and a modern campus.The school was built in 1966.

Liberty Chancellor Jerry Fal-well Jr. says the university is inter-ested in the property under theright circumstances.

Both Falwell and Capps saydiscussions have been hypotheti-cal up to this point. But Falwellsays a sale is a possibility.

The Virginia Community Col-lege System would have toapprove the sale. College systemspokesman Jeffrey Kraus says thesale also might need approvalfrom the General Assembly andthe governor, depending on thedetails.

Colleges in Ala.And Miss. InkTransfer Pact

MERIDIAN, Miss. (AP) —Meridian Community College andthe University of West Alabamahave signed a reverse transferagreement.

MCC President Scott Elliottand UWA President Richard Hol-land signed an agreement allowingstudents to transfer courses fromthe University of West Alabama toMeridian Community College tocomplete an associate in artsdegree.

To be eligible, the student musttransfer to UWA from MCC. Thestudent’s transcript must reflect atleast 54 hours of academic creditcompleted at MCC and the studentmust be in good academic stand-ing at both schools.

Many universities are signingsuch agreements so that studentscan earn two-year degrees even ifthey don’t complete a four-yeardegree. . Smoking Ban onIll. CampusesGets Initial OK

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — ASenate committee has approvedlegislation to ban smoking on allstate-supported colleges and uni-versities.

The measure passed the highereducation committee 7-5. It nowmoves to the full Senate.

The bill would ban smokinganywhere on a public university orcommunity college campus effec-tive July 1, 2014.

Kathy Drea is a spokeswomanfor the American Lung Associa-tion in Illinois. She says the banwould promote a healthy learningenvironment for students, visitorsand employees.

Sen. Terry Link is the billsponsor. The Waukegan Democratsays a ban may prevent peoplefrom starting smoking.

Conn. RegentsGive OK toTuition Increase

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) —Connecticut’s state universities andcolleges are increasing tuition andfees for nearly 100,000 students.

The Board of Regents forHigher Education approved theincrease. Chairman Lewis Robin-

son said it’s “a difficult decision,and we don’t make it lightly.” Theboard governs four state universi-ties, 12 community colleges andCharter Oak State College.

For in state students living on-campus at universities, tuition andfees increase next year by 4.1 per-cent, to $778, or $19,897 a year.

In-state tuition at Charter OakState College was increased by$13 per credit, to $258, and feesincreased $9 per semester to$180.

Community colleges willcharge 5.25 percent more, $188for full-time students, to $3,786 ayear.

Schools must set aside 15 per-cent of tuition for financial aid, somore will be available.

Delgado CitesEnrollment DipIn Closure Plan

COVINGTON, La. (AP) —Delgado Community Collegewill close its Covington campusat the end of the spring 2014semester. School officials sayclasses will slowly be phased outin the months ahead.

Students will be directed togrowing course offerings fromDelgado’s sister institution,Northshore Technical Communi-ty College, and Delgado’s long-standing campus in Slidell.

Delgado’s Northshore Execu-tive Dean Ashley Chitwood saidthe move has been planned sincethe Legislature voted in 2011 toexpand Northshore Technicalinto a community college. Theplan is not connected to Delga-do’s recent budget cuts, she said.

Students learned about thechange in an email from DelgadoChancellor Monty Sullivan, whosaid Delgado’s Slidell Learning

Center will ramp up its offeringsover the next 15 months as theCovington campus is phased out.

“It’s all about trying toincrease what we’re offering tothe north shore, because that’swhere this all came from,” Chit-wood said. “It has been in theworks for a number of years inresponse to the growing needs onthe north shore.”

With more than 18,000 stu-dents at nine locations, Delgadois the New Orleans area’s mostpopulous institution of highereducation. But this semester’senrollment — 18,284 by the endof January — was nearly 8 per-cent below last spring’s figure of19,902.

Neb. StudentsFace Hikes inTuition, Fees

BEATRICE, Neb. (AP)—Southeast Community Collegestudents will pay more for tuitionand room and board starting nextfall.

KWBE radio reports the col-lege’s board approved a 2.79 per-cent increase in tuition. Studentsat the college’s campuses inBeatrice, Lincoln and Milfordwill pay $55.50 per credit hournext year, up from the current$54.

College president Jack Hucksays it wasn’t possible to holdtuition flat because the amount ofstate aid for education being con-sidered in the Legislature won’tcover Southeast’s costs.

The board also approved anincrease in room and board ratesthat will range between 3 percentand 3.5 percent. The size of thatincrease will be determined byoccupancy rates and the avail-ability of meal service.

W.Va. CollegeGets MineEducation Grant

WILLIAMSON, W.Va. (AP)— Southern West Virginia Com-munity and Technical College isgetting a National Science Founda-tion grant to develop educationprograms for students looking towork in the mining industry.

U.S. Rep. Nick Rahall’s officesays the school will receive$892,000 over three years for its“Comprehensive Career Pathwaysand Programs in Coal Mining”project.

The project offers studentsenrolled in four programs academ-ic and technical education andmanagerial skills development tomeet the needs of the miningindustry. The programs are electri-cal engineering technology, miningengineering, mine managementand mine technology.

Miss. Donation To Fund NursingScholarships

SENATOBIA, Miss. (AP) — AWinona couple has given $100,000to Northwest Mississippi Commu-nity College to establish a scholar-ship program for nursing students.

Sybil Canon, NMCC’s associ-ate vice president of developmentand special projects, says the Johnand Stelloise Basinger Endowmentis designated for students in theAssociate Degree Nursing Pro-gram.

The Basingers previously gave$100,000 to establish scholarshipsfor students in the Academic Busi-ness programs. John Basinger is a1957 graduate of Northwest.



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grants&giftsThe Golden LEAF FoundationBoard of Directors hasapproved a $275,000 grant forJohnston Community College(N.C.) to purchase updatedequipment for the college’smachining program. Specifical-ly, JCC plans to buy two com-puter numeric machining(CNC) units, which willenhance the college’s capabili-ties to train machinists. DavidJohnson, JCC president,thanked the Golden LEAFFoundation for investing inenhanced training for technicaltrade workers. Brian Worley,director of applied technologyprograms at JCC, said theequipment is needed to give thecollege the ability to provideadvanced training and increaseprogram completion rates. Cur-rently, six students graduatefrom the machining programeach year. Golden LEAF’s mis-sion is to promote the socialwelfare of North Carolina’s citi-zens and to receive and distrib-ute funds for economic impactassistance to economicallyaffected or tobacco-dependentregions of North Carolina.Grant awards to nonprofits andgovernment entities focus onagriculture, job creation andretention, and workforce pre-paredness.

Give the Dream, a two-dayevent throughout East County,

has netted about $80,000 indonations that will benefitGrossmont and Cuyamaca(Calif.) college students whosedream of a college educationcan be imperiled by a financialemergency. Events were held toraise money for the Dreamkeep-ers program at the two colleges.Dreamkeepers provides emer-gency grants of up to $500 tostudents who face a crisis suchas car problems, medical issues,or an unexpected bill that couldforce them to drop out of

college. The money raisedthrough Give the Dream willprovide funding for scholar-ships in 2013-14 and begin anendowment of the program.Grossmont and Cuyamaca col-leges are two of 43 colleges inAmerica that participate inDreamkeepers. The programwas created by ScholarshipAmerica, a Minneapolis-basedorganization that has helpedmore than 2 million studentsachieve their dream of a collegeeducation. In addition to finan-

cial assistance, students whoreceive a Dreamkeepers grantalso get resources that helpthem build their money-man-agement skills.

The Technical College of theLowcountry (S.C.) FoundationInc. has been awarded a$50,000 Community Invest-ment Grant from the Communi-ty Foundation of the Lowcoun-try to support the purchase of ahigh fidelity simulator forhealth sciences programs. TCL

Area Commission Chair Gen.Arthur E. Brown Jr., Founda-tion Vice Chair Sarah Reed, andNursing Instructor StephanieLawson attended the recentawards ceremony. The high-fidelity simulator can be pro-grammed to simulate cardiacand pulmonary incidents, dis-ease symptoms, and evenpatient responses to pain. “Sim-Man” can mimic many situa-tions that nurses and otherhealth care professionals willencounter in the workplace.

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T he Arkansas State Univer-sity-Mountain HomeStream Team held a public

presentation on the challenges ofrestoring and protecting ground-water quality in the Ozarks. Thepresentation, “Cold, Clear, butnot Pure: Challenges for Restor-ing And Protecting GroundwaterQuality in the Ozarks” focused onthe importance of maintainingclean groundwater in the Ozarks.Tom Aley, president and seniorhydro-geologist with the OzarkUnderground Laboratory in Pro-tem, Mo., was the featured speak-er. Aley holds B.S. and M.S.degrees from the University ofCalifornia at Berkeley and he isnationally certified as a profes-sional hydro-geologist and islicensed as a professional geolo-gist in Arkansas, Missouri, Ken-tucky, and Alabama. ArkansasStream Teams enable concernedcitizens to become involved instream and watershed conserva-tion through the Arkansas Gameand Fish Commission. Effortsrevolve around three primary

aspects of stream conservation:education, advocacy and steward-ship. The ASUMH Stream Teamprovides information to increaseunderstanding and appreciation of

Arkansas stream systems. Volun-teers receive training in water-quality monitoring and streambank maintenance and restorationtechniques.

ASUMH Stream Team members cleaning up the banksof Dodd Creek on the ASUMH campus.

Volunteers from Grossmont and Cuyamaca collegesgather at the Give the Dream event at the Grossmont

Center.

TCL Nursing Instructor Stephanie Lawson (left) andTCL Foundation Vice Chair Sarah Reed accepted a

ceremonial $50,000 check from the Community Foun-dation of Lowcountry.

Mesalands CommunityCollege (N.M.) offersmany opportunities

for its students with one beingthe fact that their students con-duct undergraduate research.Paleontology students GarrettLeMons, 17, Matthew Roper,20, and Stephen Smith, 21,were selected to present theirresearch at the first annualCommunity College Under-graduate Research Initiative inBethesda, Md. This conference,funded by the National ScienceFoundation, was used to collectdata from community college’sfaculty who conduct research,in order to identify the barriersthat makes it difficult to imple-

ment and sustain an undergrad-uate research program. Duringthe conference, the three Mesa-lands students gave presenta-tions on their findings of threebones that represent possibly anew species of poposauroidpseudosuchian. These bonesare from the Upper Triassicperiod, and are approximately200-210 million years old.They were discovered in QuayCounty during a summer pale-ontology field research class atMesalands. Poposauroids werereptile-like animals that walkedon two legs and were abouteight feet long. Bones of theseanimals have only been foundin New Mexico and Texas.

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Three Twin Lakes Area menwill be inducted into theArkansas State University-

Mountain Home Trout NatureCenter Hall of Fame. Inducteesthis year are Steve N. Wilson,Elmo Hurst and Tom Schmuecker.Wilson and graduated fromArkansas Tech with a degree inFish and Wildlife Management.He earned his master of sciencedegree from the University of

Arkansas. Locally, he has servedon the board of directors of theNorth Arkansas Flyfishers, WhiteRiver Chapter of Trout Unlimitedand Friends of the Norfork Nation-al Fish Hatchery. He is chairmanof the Trout Task Force that hasbeen charged with the implemen-tation of a Trout Nature Center onthe ASUMH campus. Hurst wasborn in a small house deep in thewoods close to Lone Rock,

Arkansas, on March 9, 1909. Elmolived his whole life in BaxterCounty, graduating from CotterHigh School and attending Jones-boro State A & M College for twoyears, specializing in agricultureand animal husbandry. He passedaway in 2007 at the age of 98.Schmuecker was born inBlairstown, Iowa in 1933. Heattended high school in Norway,Iowa, then served in the U.S.Army from 1955-57. He graduatedcollege with a bachelor’s in busi-ness administration in 1961. Tomworked for J.C. Penny, HartfordInsurance, and Purebred AngusFarms, all before he purchasedWapsi Fly Co. in 1973. In 1978, hemoved the business to MountainHome where it is still going strongtoday. Schmeucker served as aboard member for the MountainHome Chamber of Commercefrom 1982-89. He is a member ofFederation of Fly Fishers, TroutUnlimited, White River Fly Fish-ers, North Arkansas Fly Fishersand the Trout Task Force atASUMH.

I t’s hard not to be inspired andhopeful about the future ofeducation when you listen to

Rachel Jones talk about Gatewayto College, the national programaimed at giving students a secondchance at obtaining their highschool diploma while also earn-ing college credits. Jones is direc-tor of the Gateway to College pro-gram located on the SpringfieldTechnical Community College(Mass.) campus. The programwill open its doors to its first aca-demic class this fall. Jones is pas-sionate about education, learning,and giving students the skills theyneed in order to succeed in life.For students struggling with theireducation, the Gateway to Col-lege program is the perfect oppor-tunity for them to finish what theystarted and successfully movetowards their college and careergoals, according to Jones. Jonesnot only serves as the program’sdirector, but she’s a mentor and acheerleader for education—andthere’s no mistaking her passionfor her work.

Steve N. Wilson displays a trout.

Rachel Jones, director ofthe Gateway to Collegeprogram at SpringfieldTechnical Community

College, looks forward tothe start of the academicschool year this fall whenthe Gateway to Collegeprogram will open its

doors for the first time on the STCC campus.

Kellogg Community College(Mich.) has been awarded aBreakthrough Campaign Awardby the United Way of the BattleCreek and Kalamazoo Region inrecognition of its work on theorganization’s behalf in 2012.KCC accepted the award during aspecial celebration held at theW.K. Kellogg Airport in BattleCreek to announce the UnitedWay’s 2012 $15.7 millionfundraising total, which exceededthe group’s goal for the year. Theaward is presented to organiza-tions that “broke through chal-lenges to growth and took thecampaign to a new level of suc-cess,” according the United Way.Tammy Douglas, director oflearning technologies at KCC andco-chair of KCC’s United Waycampaign, said KCC received theaward in part for increasing dona-

tions more than 26 percent overthe college’s stated goal during its2012 fundraising campaign. KCCemployees donated $18,362 in2012, nearly $4,000 higher thanthe college’s stated $14,500 goal.KCC employees have participat-ed in the United Way campaignfor more than 25 years. Initiativesheld last semester at the college tohelp raise funds for the campaignincluded a Tailgate Party and aCider and Donut Rally and Cos-tume Contest, both held lastOctober.

MiraCosta College (Calif.)earned top honors from theNational Council for Marketingand Public Relations, the largestorganization in the world that

represents marketing and publicrelations professionals at com-munity and technical colleges.MiraCosta College competedagainst more than 200 collegesthat submitted more than 1,700entries in the Paragon competi-tion, and won the following:gold, web services, (VirtualTour, www.miracosta.edu/virtu-altour); silver, newsletter(“MiraCosta, TransformingLives”); silver, online catalog(catalog.miracosta.edu) Also atthe conference, Cheryl Broom ,the college’s interim director ofpublic and governmental rela-tions, marketing and communi-cations, was recognized as theDistrict 6 Communicator of theYear, and presented a breakout

session about her previous expe-rience as a television newsreporter.

Central Carolina CommunityCollege’s (N.C.) new logo designhas been awarded a Paragon firstplace Gold Award by the Nation-al Council for Marketing andPublic Relations. The ParagonAward recognizes outstandingachievement and excellence incommunications at communityand technical colleges. CCCC’sstylized and colorful four “Cs”logo design excelled in the com-petition with entries from aroundthe nation and Canada. NeilMcGowan, CCCC graphic artist

and multimedia specialist,received the award on behalf ofthe department. The NCMPR isthe only organization composedexclusively of marketing andpublic relations professionals atcommunity and technical col-leges. Headquartered in Greeley,Colo., it has more than 1,550members from more than 650colleges in the United States,Canada and other countries.CCCC first unveiled its new logoof four forward-arcing “Cs” inblue, orange, green, and yellow,during the final 50th Anniversarycelebration event June 28, 2012,at the Dennis A. Wicker CivicCenter.

Kellogg CC’sBreakthrough Award

MiraCosta College employees who worked on the vari-ous award-winning projects include, from left, FranceMagtira, Gilbert Hermosillo, Mia Scavone, Al Taccone,

Linda Fogerson, Cheryl Broom, Gabe Waite, GwenPartlow Not pictured: Kim Carlson, Betsy Lelja,

Cindy Dudley and Heidi WillisFrom left: Marketing Coordinator/Web Developer

Morgan Steele; Graphic Artist and MultimediaSpecialist Neil McGowan; Public Relations DirectorMarcie Dishman, and Media and Marketing Writer

Katherine McDonald.

Annette Parker has been namedpresident of South Central College(Minn.) Parker has served in theKentucky Community and Techni-cal College System since 2007 assystem executive director of theNational Center of Excellence inAdvanced Automotive Manufac-turing and system workforce edu-cation director. Parker holds anassociate degree in industrial draft-ing from Lansing Community Col-lege, a bachelor’s degree in techni-cal education and a master’sdegree in career and technical edu-cation from Ferris State Universityand a doctorate in educationalleadership from Western KentuckyUniversity.

Jo Alice Blondin is the new presi-dent of Clark State CommunityCollege (Ohio) She has served aschancellor of the Arkansas TechUniversity-Ozark Campus for thepast six years. She holds a Ph.D. inEnglish from Arizona State Uni-versity; master of arts in Englishfrom Arizona State University; andbachelor of arts from Purdue Uni-versity majoring in English with aminor in Spanish.

Judy Taylor has been named vicepresident of institutional advance-ment at Georgia Piedmont Techni-cal College and executive directorcollege’s foundation. The founda-tion is the fundraising arm of thecollege and administers the distri-bution of college-sponsored schol-arships. This dual role will help inadvancing the college’s mission inelevating the college in the com-munity by telling the story andimportance of technical education.Taylor previously served as theTechnical College System ofGeorgia’s director of resourcedevelopment and executive direc-tor of the Technical College Foun-dation Association. Taylor holds abachelor’s degree in businessadministration from Berry Col-lege.

Adenuga Atewologun has beennamed president of RiverlandCommunity College (Minn.) Ate-

wologun has served as vice presi-dent, academic affairs and dean offaculty at Prairie State Collegesince 2009. Prior to Prairie State,he served from 2008-09 as anAmerican Council on EducationFellow at Bellevue College. Hehas served on the faculty at Col-lege of DuPage, Parkland College,and the University of Illinois atUrbana-Champaign. Atewologun

holds a bachelor’s degree in agri-cultural engineering from the Uni-versity of Ife (Ile-Ife, Nigeria) anda master’s and a doctorate in agri-cultural engineering from the Uni-versity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Carol Rovello has been nameddirector of human resources atAsheville-Buncombe Technical

Community College (N.C). Rovel-lo has more than 20 years experi-ence as a human resources andorganizational development con-sultant for more than 200 organi-zations across industries. She hadalso served as director of employ-ee and organizational developmentat A-B Tech in the past. In her newposition, she will provide opera-tional oversight for the Human

Resources Department and leadprojects and activities related torecruitment and selection, employ-ee benefits administration, stateand federal compliance, relations,performance management andstaff and faculty training. Rovellois SPHR (senior professional inhuman resources) certified and hasa master’s degree in administrationfrom Rider University.

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