News Links | February 11, 2021
System News | Opinion
Shoreline Community College President announces 2022 retirement
Cheryl Roberts, Ed.D. announced her 2022 retirement in an email to staff: After 41
rewarding years in higher education, 25 in community colleges, I am announcing my
decision to retire. It is difficult to personalize an email, but I want to say how
privileged I have felt to serve the students, Board of Trustees, faculty, staff, and
administrators at Shoreline Community College.
Shoreline Area News, Feb. 10, 2021
Clark College to cut $25 fee for admissions application
Clark College is doing away with its $25 admissions application fee for most prospective students
beginning spring 2021 term, the college announced Tuesday. The fee exception does
not apply to international students, who use a separate admissions process to apply
to the college.
The Columbian, Feb. 10, 2021
Then and Now: Spokane Community College
... According to the Community Colleges of Spokane website, [Spokane Community College and Spokane Falls Community College] served more than 26,000 students in the 2019-20 school year. Approximately 16,000
of those were seeking some type of degree or career technical certification while
the rest were getting their GED, learning English, in job-related classes or studying
for personal enrichment.
Spokesman-Review, Feb. 8, 2021
Proposed new vocational building would be 'game changer' for LCC, community
Lower Columbia College is making plans for a new nearly 55,000-square-foot vocational building to replace
three older buildings on campus, but needs more state money before it break ground.
... Capital projects at community and technical colleges are funded from a state priority
list. Colleges submit a proposal to the Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges. The project is then scored, ranked and sent to Olympia. The governor evaluates the
list and decides how many of the projects to fund in his proposed capital budget.
Daily News, Feb. 8, 2021
New CBC student recreation center in the works
A completely new recreation facility is in the works at Columbia Basin College (CBC) in Pasco, sparking some excitement among students and athletes. CBC volleyball player
Ciera Hadden said space is limited in the current facility. "It's just kind of small
and the weight room is very small which is sad because we have a lot of athletes that
love being here and working out here, so we just needed something new," Hadden said.
KEPR, Feb. 7, 2021
Trends | Horizons | Education
Aid application data portend dip in low-income, minority students
Last spring, as college and university officials fretted about how the global pandemic
and associated recession might affect enrollment in the fall, troubling news emerged
in the form of data about declines in the number of current college students who had
resubmitted their Free Application for Federal Student Aid. As of May, renewals were
down by about 5 percent -- higher among minority student
Inside Higher Ed, Feb. 11, 2021
Credential count approaches 1 million
The nonprofit Credential Engine has identified 967,734 unique credentials on offer
in the U.S. as part of an ongoing effort to catalog degrees, certificates, badges,
licenses and apprenticeships. More than half of the nearly one million credentials
are offered by nonacademic institutions, according to data collected by the Center
for Regional Economic Competitiveness and published by Credential Engine in a report
Wednesday.
Inside Higher Ed, Feb. 11, 2021
Politics | Local, State, National
Cardona, Walsh move on to full Senate vote
The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee on Thursday approved
President Joe Biden’s nominees for secretaries of education and labor. The committee
approved Miguel Cardona for U.S. education secretary by a 17-5 vote, and Marty Walsh
for U.S. labor secretary in an 18-4 vote. Both were expected to easily pass the committee
after their confirmation hearings last week. The full Senate is now expected to vote
on both nominees very soon.
Community College Daily, Feb. 11, 2021
House committee moves ahead with additional aid
The Democratic majority on the House education committee early Wednesday approved,
along party lines, a coronavirus relief package that would include another $40 billion
in aid to colleges and universities. The package sets the education and labor pieces
of the $1.9 trillion proposal House Democrats are assembling to send to the Senate.
Inside Higher Ed, Feb. 11, 2021
Another White House community college summit
It’s been more than a decade, but the White House may soon host another community
college summit. First Lady Dr. Jill Biden on Tuesday hinted at another White House
summit on community colleges. The White House held its first community college summit
in 2010 during the Obama administration. It was convened by Biden, who was second
lady.
Community College Daily, Feb. 9, 2021