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North Iowa Area Community College: Entrepreneur for a Day
December 2012 Count all 810
Kelly Ward and Samuel Scott work diligently as a team, creating their company's new flat screen televisions. Talking about the details as they assemble tiny parts, the two act as if they own the place. Today, they do. These fifth grade students from Charles City, Iowa, have become something for a day that many students don't even have on their spelling tests: an entrepreneur.
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Heartland Community College: The Cornerstone Project, Developing a Meaningful Gen Ed Outcomes Assessment Culture
December 2012 Count all 803
Heartland Community College (Heartland) in Normal, Illinois, has taken a progressive approach to General Education Program assessment. Typically, colleges develop standard program outcomes, generate rubrics for measuring those outcomes, ask faculty to use the rubrics and share results, and then report results that demonstrate student performance.
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Columbia Gorge Community College: Responding to Workforce Needs, CGCC Leads the Way in Rural Oregon
Abigail Brown December 2012 Count all 831
What is the role of higher education in our world today? Some say universities and colleges should prepare students to think and research critically. Others proclaim that institutions need to mold future citizens of the world. But there is one thing people agree on—schools of higher learning are supposed to ready individuals to fill the workforce needs of tomorrow. Columbia Gorge Community College (CGCC), in north-central Oregon, has been ahead of the curve in stabilizing the fragile economy for the last decade.
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Phoenix College: New One-Stop Enrollment Center Goes High Tech, High Touch
November 2012 Count all 944
When the doors opened to the Phoenix College Hannelly One-Stop Enrollment Center on January 3, 2012, a new era of student services at the flagship institution of the Maricopa Community Colleges was launched.
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Central Ohio Technical College: Lifelong Learning Institute
Steven Nyeste November 2012 Count all 833
Many students can reflect back on college as a time of personal and educational growth, but through the Lifelong Learning Institute (LLI) of Central Ohio Technical College (COTC), this opportunity for growth goes beyond the traditional college years.
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Metropolitan Community College-Kansas City: Collaboration With Global IT Giant to Develop Talent
October 2012 Count all 789
Cerner Corporation, a global health information company with headquarters in North Kansas City, has roughly 10,000 employees and licenses health information solutions to more than 9,000 facilities worldwide. Now in its fourth decade, the company has an annual revenue of $1.9 billion—and there is no slow-down in sight. To meet the workforce needs of current and future growth in the constantly transforming industry of digital medical records, Cerner needs a constant pipeline of sharp, skilled prospective employees.
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Cuyamaca College: Cuyamaca Takes the Lead in Water/Wastewater Technology
October 2012 Count all 814
In southern California, no resource is more precious than water. After years of drought and water sources from northern California drying up, saving every possible drop of water has become increasingly important. Cuyamaca College's water/wastewater technology program is addressing this vital issue and providing job training for what is sure to be a growing field as more residents and businesses look for ways to save water while irrigating their landscaping.
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Lone Star College-University Park: LSC Students and Innovation Win National Attention
September 2012 Count all 804
Lone Star College (LSC)-University Park's investment in students and innovation recently paid big dividends as its students and advisor won the 2012 National Education Startup Challenge with their entry known as the Educational Positioning System (EPS).
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Housatonic Community College: HCC Unveils New Program for Advanced Manufacturing Center
August 2012 Count all 793
Housatonic Community College (HCC), in Bridgeport, CT, has unveiled a two-certificate Advanced Manufacturing Program at the college's new regional advanced manufacturing center. The program, which is currently accepting applications for the fall 2012 semester, will prepare students for advanced manufacturing positions that include machine operator, Computer Numeric Control (CNC) operator, CNC programmer, assembler, and quality control inspector, positions that can pay in the $15-20 range.
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Central Wyoming College: Regional Law Enforcement Officers Use Rural Justice Training Center at CWC
Carolyn Aanestad July 2012 Count all 762
Law enforcement officers and first responders from throughout the region are using the training opportunities at the Rural Justice Training Center (RJTC) at Central Wyoming College (CWC).
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Tallahassee Community College: Community Connections Become Part of Developmental Studies Strategy
Carmy Greenwood July 2012 Count all 724
Tallahassee Community College (TCC) has been awarded funding from Campus Compact to pilot a program designed to help community college students stay in school and ultimately graduate. The opportunity has excited faculty and staff of the college, which serves more than 15,000 students in Florida's capital city."This builds directly on what we are already doing to support college completion," said TCC President Jim Murdaugh.
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Forsyth Technical Community College: Auto Correct, New Transportation Center
July 2012 Count all 1104
The state-of-the-art Transportation Technology Center at Forsyth Technical Community College (Forsyth Tech) in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, hit the ground running not a minute too soon.
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Orangeburg Calhoun Technical College: Empowering Student Learning with Supplemental Instruction
Warren Yarbrough June 2012 Count all 717
As is the case at other community colleges around the United States, successful course completion, particularly in select gatekeeper courses and all developmental studies classes, has historically been an issue at Orangeburg Calhoun Technical College (OCtech). However, over the course of the past three academic years, the college has had proven success with course completion in both developmental studies and credit-bearing gatekeeper courses through the use of supplemental instruction. 
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Portage College: Heavy Equipment Operator Simulator Trailer Is First of Its Kind in Western Canada
June 2012 Count all 812
Portage College (Portage) is a comprehensive community institution serving oil sands rich north eastern Alberta. Portage was gifted in 1968 when Cree and Métis peoples undertook a 28-day sit-in demanding learning opportunities. Today, Portage has grown to operate 10 campus locations serving seven First Nations (Indian) Reservations and four Métis Settlements. Portage's learning area includes some 45 distinct ethnic communities representing 85,000 people. Ethnic diversity is a wealth celebrated in the northern communities served by the college.
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Central Piedmont Community College: Health IT Grant
Jerry Landry May 2012 Count all 775
Since September 2010, Central Piedmont Community College (CPCC), located in Charlotte, North Carolina, has cross-trained people with a proven health care or information technology background to provide electronic health record solutions to health care providers through a workforce grant from the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health Information Technology.
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