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• WELCOME TO WALLA WALLA COMMUNITY COLLEGE

  
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  This 15th installment in my series of articles about great American universities features Walla Walla Community College, an excellent institution in the State of Washington which earned the 2013 Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence. In a previous post I talked about why a student might wish consider a ...
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• NCEE Study Faults High Schools on Student Community College Preparedness

  
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  Community colleges, also known as technical colleges and junior colleges, offer a higher education starting point for many students. The College Board notes that more than 1,200 such schools exist, enrolling at least 6 million students. NCEE Study While community colleges are prized for offering open admissions ...
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• Massively Open Online Medicine: Bad Idea or Just Before Its Time?--David Harlow

  
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  The new darling of the online educational community is Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs). The example which figures most prominently in the popular imagination is the Khan Academy, though its founder says otherwise, noting that MOOCs are merely online transplantations of traditional courses , while Khan Academy ...
  2 weeks ago

• Study Explodes Myth of Cougars & Sugar Daddies

  
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  It’s a popular image fostered by Hollywood: A rich older man or woman supporting an attractive younger spouse. But a new study has found that people who marry someone much younger or much older have lower earnings, lower cognitive abilities, are less educated, and are less attractive, compared to people who marry ...
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• An Open Letter to the California Legislature on SB520

  
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  May 7, 2013 An Open Letter to California State Legislators Dear CA State Legislators, As a parent and a UC professor, I feel compelled to urge you to reject the SB 520 bill being presented to you by Darryl Steinberg. Please fund the Community Colleges and the California State Universities and the ...
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• Dallas, Collin, Tarrant community college boards would have to stream their meetings online under House-approved bill

  
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  … The governing boards of two-year state colleges with enrollments of greater than 20,000 students would have to broadcast their regularly scheduled meetings over the Internet under a bill tentatively approved by the Texas House on Monday. The bill would apply to the boards of trustees of nine community ...
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• eLearning & Community Colleges – A Promising Partnership

  
  Diary of an eLearner: A Grad Student's Journey into Instructional Design — Authority: 112
  The American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) held their 93rd Annual Convention on April 20th-23rd in San Francisco.  One of the keynote addresses was from Sal Khan, founder of  Khan Academy , who challenged all community colleges to abandon the traditional approach to education for one that embraces ...
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• Considering the Generational Divide in Online Learning

  
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  A paper released recently by the Community College Research Center reminds the champions of MOOCs and other online initiatives of one very important detail: Not all students prefer an online education; many higher education students still want in-person discussions and on-the-spot feedback. But that’s not to say ...
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• President Clinton Addresses UCF Graduates

  
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  President Bill Clinton made UCF history today as the second United States president to speak at a commencement ceremony. On Thursday afternoon, President Clinton addressed graduates from the College of Health and Public Affairs and the College of Medicine’s Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences. President Clinton ...
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• Zombie Attacks

  
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  Last week offered more examples of Sacramento Politicians following the latest fashionable thinking on Higher Education. For those of you who missed it, Senator Steinberg has offered yet another version of his SB520.  It tends to soften the language of command and the nature of the targets.  But its essential ...
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• ObamaCare: Wheres The Lefty Outrage? Part V

  
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  The evidence keeps piling up that ObamaCare is going to have some very unpleasant effects for employees and employers.  And the left stays silent.   To wit: - Adjunct professors at Virginia’s community colleges are going to see their weekly hours cut from 45 to 29 or less to come under the ObamaCare ...
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• MOOCs, OER, and Community Colleges

  
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  A new survey of distance-education officials at community colleges found that more two-year institutions are looking into using massive open online courses (MOOCs) and open educational resources (OER). It also showed a majority of the responding two-year institutions remain skeptical of such models . The ...
  4 weeks ago

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