News Links | June 27, 2024
System News | Opinion
SPSCC celebrates 1,176 graduates at the 2024 commencement ceremony
... For its 59th commencement ceremony, [South Puget Sound Community College] will award 978 associate degrees and 360 certificates to the graduating class. Additionally,
the college will award 240 GED® awards and 147 high school diplomas.
JOLT News, June 26, 2024
WVC honors graduating students for academics and achievements
Several Wenatchee Valley College students who graduated this spring are being honored with academic awards. Two of
them have been singled out for the WVC President’s Medal because of their special
accomplishments.
News Radio 560 KPQ, June 26, 2024
SPSCC gains accreditation for its College in the High School Program
South Puget Sound Community College (SPSCC) reports that the National Alliance of Concurrent Enrollment Partnerships (NACEP)
has granted accreditation for its College in the High School (CiHS) program.
JOLT News, June 26, 2024
Grays Harbor College to receive $2.2 million to assist rural students
... Grays Harbor College is set to receive $2.2 million to “Provide a suite of direct holistic student support
services and individual support tailored to meet the needs of each individual rural
student.
KXRO News Radio, June 25, 2024
Attendance rebounding at Wenatchee Valley College
Attendance at Wenatchee Valley College is rebounding to pre-pandemic levels. Like with many things, enrollment numbers at
the school sagged during the COVID-19 outbreak.
News Radio 560 KPQ, June 24, 2024
Over 450 graduate from GHC; college offering assistance for next students
... According to [Grays Harbor College], 459 students graduated from the ceremony, with GHC awarding 12 Bachelor of Applied
Science degrees, 18 GEDs, 163 high school diplomas, and 266 Associate in Arts degrees.
KXRO News Radio, June 24, 2024
Class of 2024: Graduates celebrated at Centralia College commencement
Centralia College photo gallery.
Centralia Chronicle, June 24, 2024
This Olympic Peninsula beekeeper saves his neighbors from swarms
On a warm summer afternoon, Mark Urnes’ phone rang. It was the Port Angeles Police
Department, relaying a distress call about a swarm of bees in a backyard. Urnes wrote
down the address and rushed over. [Peninsula College]
The Seattle Times, June 22, 2024
Higher Education and Politics
House Republicans propose budget cuts for Education Department
House Republicans want to keep funding flat for the Pell Grant program and the Education
Department’s Office for Civil Rights in fiscal year 2025 while slashing the budget
for the Office of Federal Student Aid.
Inside Higher Ed, June 27, 2024
Promising data on persistence, retention
More than three-quarters (76.5%) of students who started college in fall 2022 returned
for their second year, with community colleges seeing their highest gains in retention
rates over the last decade, according to an annual report on the first-year persistence
and retention rates for first-time college students.
Community College Daily, June 27, 2024
