News Links | July 13, 2023
System News | Opinion
SFCC graduate pivots focus to medicine after seeing pandemic’s impact on local tribes
Recent Spokane Falls Community College graduate Mary Ann Matheson says the pandemic shifted her career goals from becoming
a teacher to getting her degree in the medical field to bring her services into the
Colville or Coeur d’Alene reservations.
Spokesman-Review, July 12, 2023
Spokane Falls Community College offers summer course for high schoolers to explore field of cybersecurity
Cybersecurity is becoming more important each and every day. Spokane Community College is offering classes for high school students who are interested in cybersecurity.
Spokane Falls Community College offers a summer course for cyber ethical hacking that these students are taking.
KHQ, July 12, 2023
Edmonds College to launch medical assistant program
... “Our local healthcare industry partners have let us know there are significant
staffing shortages of medical assistants within their clinics,” said Edmonds College President Dr. Amit B. Singh. “Our program will help our local healthcare employers
better serve their communities.”
My Edmonds News, July 11, 2023
Snapshots
Amit B. Singh, president of Edmonds College in Washington, with an airplane fuselage donated by Boeing to the college’s Washington
Aerospace Training & Research Center [Photo] ... South Puget Sound Community College’s allied health programs have received the 2023 Health Care Champion Future of Health
Care Award [Photo]
Community College Daily, July 11, 2023
WWCC wine program now accepts part-time students
... “We’re trying to free up the schedule a little bit — make it more versatile and
accessible for students that may be only able to take one course into their lives
this quarter, and just gradually build your skill set that way,” said interim program
director Casey McClellan. [Walla Walla Community College]
Union-Bulletin, July 9, 2023
Five-year workforce projections will rely on tech workers
... Columbia Basin College in Pasco offers a Pathways to Hanford program designed to help put students into
the Hanford job pipeline. The program offers everything from a list of in-demand careers
with promising futures at Hanford, to resume guides ...
Tri-Cities Area Journal of Business, July 2023
Higher Education and Politics
Survey shows Gen Z’s unique perspective on Higher Ed
... In a 2022 poll by Morning Consult, only 41% of adults from Generation Z—those
born between the mid-90s and the late aughts, —said that they tended to trust U.S.
colleges, 14 points lower than the rate of Baby Boomers.
Diverse Education, July 12, 2023
American confidence in Higher Ed hits historic low
A Gallup poll shows only 36 percent of Americans have “a great deal” or “quite a lot”
of confidence in higher education, which is down by about 20 percentage points from
eight years ago.
Inside Higher Ed, July 11, 2023
AI has a language diversity problem. Humans do, too.
AI writing tools sometimes “correct” students’ dialects. But fixing the tech’s shortcomings
may be easier than addressing human language biases.
Inside Higher Ed, July 11, 2023
WA public colleges match private schools on diversity despite affirmative action restriction
Washington’s public universities are just as diverse as the state’s private colleges,
even though they’ve had to work under a statewide ban on affirmative action for the
past 25 years.
Seattle Times, July 11, 2023
Online learning still in high demand at community colleges
... Nikki Edgecombe, senior researcher at the Community College Research Center at
Teachers College of Columbia University, said as far as she knows, there isn’t any
current national data on what share of community college courses remain online. But
she hears anecdotally ...
Inside Higher Ed, July 7, 2023