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Figuring it Out 

A look at statistics shaping the higher ed landscape 

SPECIAL REPORT: 

TECHNOLOGY IN COMMUNITY COLLEGES 

Road 

to College 

Enrollment 

Community college 

students have a variety of 

goals. Here is a glimpse 

at reasons cited by 

students for enrollment. 

Students could cite 

more than one reason: 

Transfer to 

Other College 15% 

Complete 

Certificate 17% 

Transfer to 

4-year college 36% 

Obtain 

Job Skills 42% 

Complete 

Associate 

Degree 

Reason Cited 

43% 

Percent 

Not 

Just 

Funand 

Computer game design 

becomes a serious 

academic pursuit 

GamesPage 6 

Personal 

Interest 46% 

SOURCE: NATIONAL CENTER FOR EDUCATION 

STATISTICS 

3 Benefits 

Restored 

The Defense 

Department 

restores a 

popular benefit 

program for 

military spouses. 

4 

Point 

of 

View 

The right content 

management 

system can 

enhance student 

learning and 

retention. 

10 Encouraging 

Early Grads 

A plan to reward 

talented students 

who leave high 

school early is 

under consideration 

in Idaho. 

12 Empowering 

Colleges 

Louisiana’s Gov. 

Bobby Jindal 

wants to allow 

colleges to raise 

tuition in return 

for better results. 

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around the nation 

Index to news around the nation 

2 

15 

4 

1 SAVANNAH, Ga. 

The Pentagon restores a 

popular benefit program for military 

spouses. 

Page 3 

2 PORTLAND, Ore. 

An actor-turned-nursing-student 

wins the CCBA essay contest. 

Page 5 

3 TAMPA, Fla. 

Police officers are becoming a 

prime target of diploma mills. 

Page 9 

4 BOISE, Idaho 

The state is considering a plan 

to give scholarships to students 

who graduate from high school 

early. 

Page 10 

5 FRANKFORT, Ky. 

Legislative leaders are looking 

for ways to spare higher ed from 

more budget cuts. 

Page 11 

newsbriefs 

Mich. College 

Bans Convicted 

Sex Offenders 

11 

BENTON HARBOR, 

Mich. (AP) — A community 

college based in Benton Harbor 

is banning people convicted of 

sex crimes against children 

from attending classes on its 

four campuses. 

The Herald-Palladium 

newspaper in St. Joseph reports 

that Lake Michigan College 

officials made the decision in 

February after a registered sex 

6 

12 

7 

6 BATON ROUGE, La. 

Gov. Bobby Jindal wants 

colleges to be able to increase 

tuition without state approval. 

Page 12 

7 JACKSON, Miss. 

Some state colleges have 

started tuition assistance 

programs to offset rising costs. 

Page 13 

8 SOUTH BEND, Ind. 

In tough economic times, an Ivy 

Tech dental clinic is helping 

families in need. 

Page 14 

9 CHATTANOOGA, 

Tenn. 

Despite a new law aimed at 

smoothing the path for community 

college transfers, the 

process remains difficult. 

Page 15 

10 BRADENTON, Fla. 

Blindness does not dampen the 

dreams of a student who wants 

to be a chef. 

Page 16 

offender tried signing up for 

classes. 

The school says three students 

have been suspended 

under the new policy. They and 

other sex offenders will be 

allowed to take online courses. 

U.S. Department of Education 

officials say they don’t 

know if other colleges or universities 

have similar rules. 

An attorney with Legal Aid 

of Western Michigan says the 

Lake Michigan College policy 

is too broad and could punish 

people who pose no threat to 

children. 

8 

9 

13 

3 

10 

5 

14 

1 

11 POWELL, Wyo. 

The president of a community 

college vows to keep religion out 

of his recruitment efforts. 

Page 17 

12 BLUE SPRINGS, 

Miss. 

Delays in the opening of a Toyota 

assembly plant leave local 

residents with few job prospects. 

Page 18 

13 MONTGOMERY, Ala. 

Lawmakers take steps to save 

the state’s prepaid tuition 

program. 

Page 19 

14 CLEVELAND 

Cuyahoga Community College 

forges a partnership with the 

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 

Page 20 

15 EUGENE, Ore. 

A college gets sticker shock as it 

tries to build an electric carcharging 

station. 

Page 21 

Mo. Colleges 

Report Jump 

In Enrollment 

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) 

— Missouri’s 12 community 

colleges are busier than ever. 

The Missouri Community 

College Association says every 

community college in the state 

had increased enrollment this 

spring. The overall average 

increase was 13.1 percent when 

compared with last spring’s 

enrollment. 

The association says 

100,453 students are attending 

the state’s community colleges 

this spring — 11,638 more than 

in last spring. 

See Briefs, page 20, col. 1 

DOD Resumes 

Education Grants 

To Military Spouses 

BY RUSS BYNUM, ASSOCIATED PRESS MILITARY WRITER 

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — 

Facing a phalanx of angry 

military spouses, the 

Defense Department said it will 

resume payments for college 

courses and job training for spouses 

who had already applied for 

grants when the popular program 

was abruptly halted last month. 

The official in charge of the 

year-old program that pays up to 

$6,000 for career advancement 

also apologized for suspending the 

grants without first notifying thousands 

of military spouses enrolled. 

He said grants were halted Feb. 16 

because an unexpected spike in 

enrollment busted the program’s 

$174 million budget. 

More than 136,000 spouses 

who were already enrolled or had 

applied for grants before the shutdown 

are now able to resume signing 

up for classes, said Tommy T. 

Thomas, deputy undersecretary 

for defense who oversees the 

grants. 

“When we determined that an 

operational pause in the program 

was critically needed, we failed to 

notify our spouses in a timely and 

appropriate manner,” Thomas 

said. “As a result of our failure, we 

know we will have to work hard to 

restore their faith in us.” 

The program — called Military 

Spouse Career Advancement 

Accounts, or MyCAA — started 

in March 2009. Spouses of activeduty 

military service members and 

of reservists called to active duty 

could apply for up to $6,000 to 

pay for college tuition or costs 

associated with professional 

licenses and certificates. 

The grants were intended to 

help spouses find better jobs, since 

frequent moves by military families 

often hamper their careers. 

The response was overwhelming. 

By the time MyCAA was suspended 

last month, 98,000 spouses 

were enrolled and more than 

38,000 more had applications 

pending. The Defense Department 

says it approved six times more 

grant applications in January than 

it had in previous months, and that 

demand for February was also 

well above average. 

If all of the applicants received 

the full $6,000 grant, the estimated 

cost would exceeded $819 million 

— nearly five times the program’s 

budget. 

Maj. April Cunningham, a 

Defense Department spokeswoman, 

said officials were able to 

reprogram funds to meet 

MyCAA’s immediate needs. But 

new grant applications won’t be 

accepted until the department 

decides on a long-term plan for the 

program. 

The program’s sudden suspension 

last month stunned and outraged 

military spouses. Many who 

were already enrolled found out 

from college advisers after they 

were unable to sign up for new 

classes. 

More than 1,200 military 

spouses joined a Facebook group 

to vent their outrage. Others began 

planning a protest rally in Washington 

or Norfolk, Va. Many 

enlisted help from 67 congressmen 

who sent a letter to Defense 

Secretary Robert Gates. 

“The spouses are extremely 

happy — they feel that their voices 

were heard,” said Rebecca Duncan, 

wife of a Navy sailor stationed 

in Corpus Christi, Texas, 

whose pursuit of an applied sciences 

degree was left in limbo by 

the shutdown. “We spouses put the 

pressure on them and we really 

think that’s what spurred them to 

turn around.” 

Duncan, 36, had to put off taking 

a class that started last month, 

but said she would now be able to 

enroll in another course starting in 

late March. Others depending on 

MyCAA to pay for their tuition 

might have to wait longer, she 

said, until their next class term 

starts. 

“The damage is done for 

some,” Duncan said, “but hopefully 

they’ll be able to scramble 

back.” 

The military says more than 

681,000 Americans are married to 

active-duty service members, who 

move an average of every three 

years. A 2007 Defense Department 

survey showed 46 percent of 

spouses of enlisted personnel held 

civilian jobs, while 9 percent were 

unemployed but looking for work. 

“This was a program that was 

designed to recognize the unique 

challenges military spouses face in 

developing and maintaining 

careers,” said Joy Dunlap, a family 

advocate for the Military Officers 

Association of America. “It 

was like, yes, they recognize us! 

They realize what we’re experiencing 

and they want to help us.” 

Thomas said the response was 

unexpected. 

“These applications were 

See Military, page 4, col. 1

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point of view 

Community colleges well know that 

when it comes to student retention, 

they face a demographic with challenges. 

As I wrote in my recent white 

paper, “Student Retention at Community 

Colleges: Engaging a New Generation 

with Technology is Key to America’s 

Future,” a high percentage of students 

enter community college with inadequate 

preparation, limited support systems, 

financial disadvantages, hectic work 

schedules and/or learning disabilities. As a 

result, reports show that only 30 percent 

of students entering community college 

graduate in six years, compared with 58 

percent of students at four-year colleges 

and universities. 

Yet there are ways that community 

colleges can address falling retention rates 

here and now, starting with student 

engagement. Engaging students with 

their professors and their school in a 

dynamic way is key to their persistence 

in completing a degree, according to the 

Community College Survey of Student 

Engagement (CCSSE). 

According to Vincent Tinto, professor 

at Syracuse University and advisory board 

member of CCSSE, “engaging students is 

the most effective way to make them feel 

more emotionally connected to their professors 

and school. And this type of emotional 

connection is key to their persistence 

in completing a degree.” 

One powerful way to improve upon 

student engagement in a knowledge economy 

is to weave teaching and learning best 

practices with course management system 

(CMS) technology. When you think of how 

integral technology is to our lives, it makes 

sense that students are lining up for online 

courses. And, some experts say that “blended 

learning”— which combines the benefits 

of instructor-led training with the 

advantages brought by technologies — will 

shift student engagement in a powerful 

way. 

But the right CMS is a crucial part of 

SPECIAL REPORT: 


The Right CMS Can Engage Students, 

Promote Retention 

the equation. To be truly effective, your 

CMS must be designed with pedagogy in 

mind. Then it can meet your needs with 

features and functionality based on a solid 

understanding of how your students, faculty 

and administrators operate. 

GISELE 

LAROSE 

PRESIDENT 

WEBSTUDY, INC. 

Consider these questions: 

Is your CMS technology welcoming 

and intuitive, such that campus-wide blended 

learning will become the norm 

Does it go beyond information storage 

to enrich the educational experience for 

students of all levels 

Are you receiving the kind of CMS 

service and support that you need 

Does the pricing work within your 

budget realities 

Does your blended learning program 

give students the access, service, individualized 

direction and personalization they 

deserve 

Today, your CMS technology will need 

to go further than earlier versions to offer 

more than just access — it must become 

part of the fabric of learning. With 

intelligent tutoring, if one student needs 

additional support in a certain subject, the 

educator should be able to provide a customized 

learning track via online course 

material that is invisible to the student’s 

peers. By personalizing learning in this 

way, educators can focus class time on 

clearing up misconceptions, applying the 

materials to real life, and working in small 

groups, rather than reviewing textbook 

material. 

Beyond technology’s ability to maximize 

learning — giving students the ability 

to multitask, access support services online 

and chat in real time with professors — 

what else do you need from a CMS One 

of the most common complaints I’ve heard 

with CMS technology is the lack of prompt 

service and support when something goes 

wrong. 

Software as a service is a viable 

alternative for those concerned with lack of 

prompt CMS service. A software as a service 

option allows educators to focus on 

doing what they do best; educating students 

and doing research, rather than running 

complex IT configurations and software 

systems. Software as a service solution, 

when combined with a dedicated support 

team that has live experts to troubleshoot 

issues, can provide on-demand training to 

both instructors and students. 

Lastly, with today’s budget realities, I 

know how challenging it can be to find 

cost-effective CMS choices. A progressive 

adoption and pricing plan can allow 

schools to start training faculty without 

paying for the full site license. It can ease 

technology adoption for colleges trying to 

do more with fewer resources. All-in-one 

pricing is also a must for colleges that 

aren’t looking for surprise service and 

upgrade charges. 

There is evidence that as the right CMS 

technology is embraced by all faculty for 

blended learning, it can enhance student 

performance, provide equal opportunity for 

students of all learning styles, connect all 

students with the institution and potentially 

reduce dropout/withdrawal rates. 

Learning can become more efficient 

and effective when you are able to take 

advantage of how technology can fill the 

gaps, regardless of time and place. In other 

words, welcomed, intuitive technology can 

maximize student engagement and improve 

retention. 

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Military, from page 3, col. 1 

overwhelming the system intended to 

support the program and almost reached 

the budget threshold,” Thomas said in a 

statement. 

While the suspension was in effect, the 

Defense Department had suggested military 

spouses consider alternatives to paying for 

college — such as the new GI Bill, a benefit 

service members can now transfer to 

their spouses and children. 

However, spouses said they don’t like 

that option. First, the GI Bill isn’t an option 

for everybody — military personnel must 

have six years in the service, and recommit 

for four more years, before they’re eligible 

to transfer the benefit to their families. 

Also, the GI Bill pays for 36 months 

of college per family. Many military service 

members need to reserve that benefit 

for themselves, or want to save it for their 

children. 

“My husband has earned that,” said 

Cammy Elquist LoRe, whose husband is an 

Army infantry officer at Fort Carson, Colo. 

“He deserves that and I don’t want to take it 

away from him.” 

Laura Heitink, the wife of a Marine 

Corps recruiter in Carlisle, Penn., said 

MyCAA had been paying since September 

for classes toward her degree in health care 

administration. When she went to sign up 

for her next course, she was told the program 

wouldn’t pay for it. 

Heitink said she used her tax refund 

check to pay $750 for the class, not wanting 

to stop again after putting her college education 

on hold three times previously 

because of military transfers. 

“Military spouses, we want a career, but 

it’s hard when you have to move around,” 

said Heitink, 31. “When we first moved 

here I went on nine job interviews. Doctors 

would say to me, ‘Well, I want to hire you, 

but I don’t know how long you’ll be here.’” 

Russ Bynum, based in Georgia, has 

covered the military since 2001. 


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Game 

On 

Computer Gaming 

Morphs from Just Fun 

Into a Serious 

Academic Pursuit 


By Paul Bradley 

S P E C I A L R E P O R T : 


PHOTOS COURTESY AUSTIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE, CENTRAL PIEDMONT COMMUNITY COLLEGE 

Farhad Javidi, left, director of the Simulation and Game 

Development Center at Central Piedmont Community 

College, talks with a student. 

Computer and video game software development requires integrating a variety of 

computer applications. 

Let’s face it — computer 

gamers get a bad rap. 

They’re derided as longhaired, 

slack-jawed dweebs who 

waste altogether too much time 

and brainpower locked inside dark 

rooms staring at computer screens 

or rubbing their thumbs raw in 

front of “Halo” or “Gears of War.” 

But as the computer and video 

game industry has evolved from 

solo individuals pecking away at 

keyboards to an experience for 

groups and families who can send 

cartoon avatars soaring through 

three-dimensional virtual cities, 

that stereotype is melting away. 

So, too, is the tendency of 

computer science educators to 

dismiss video-game courses as 

unworthy of serious academic 

pursuit. 

The number of schools that 

now offer video- and computergaming 

courses is exploding. 

According to the Entertainment 

Software Association, 254 colleges 

and universities in 37 states 

and the District of Columbia now 

offer courses and degrees in computer 

and video game design, programming 

and art. Between 2008 

and 2009, the number of colleges 

with such programs jumped by 27 

percent. Many of the schools are 

concentrated California, New 

York, Texas and North Carolina. 

“Video games are not only the 

fastest-growing entertainment 

“There is a giant 

difference between 

playing a video 

game and building 

one.” 

— GARRY W. GABER 

ASST. DIRECTOR 

GAME DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE 

AUSTIN COMUNITY COLLEGE 

medium, they are also increasingly 

used in education and business 

for professional training and e- 

learning,” Rich Taylor, ESA’s 

senior vice-president for communications, 

said in a press release 

announcing the findings. “These 

new college programs underscore 

the importance of the video 

games industry, which is wellpoised 

to create additional 

employment and professional 

opportunities in the coming 

years.” 

The ESA has a trove of statistics 

to back up its claim. According 

to the group’s research, more 

Americans are playing video and 

computer games then ever before. 

The group says that 68 percent of 

American households now play 

video games, and 60 percent of 

American households now have a 

video game console. Even in a 

recession, it seems, families are 

willing to shell out $300 for an 

XBox. 

Computer and video games 

are also being used for more serious 

undertakings than designing 

the next “Guitar Hero.” 

A study conducted in 2008 by 

KRC Research found that 70 percent 

of major employers use 

interactive software, including 

games, to train employees. The 

software can be used for virtual 

training in a variety of fields, 

including medicine, mechanics 

and transportation. 

The increased use of computer 

and video games provides a 

rare bright spot in a dark economic 

picture. At a time when many 

students are graduating into a 

withered job market, the industry


Community Colleges Offering Computer Gaming Degrees 

Of the 254 colleges and universities offering video and computer gaming courses, 42 are located at community colleges. 

Here is a list of community colleges as compiled by the Entertainment Software Association. 

Mesa Community College 

Glendale Community College 

Pinnacle College 

Cañada College - Redwood City - CA 

Sierra College 

Palomar College 

Santa Ana College 

The Academy of Entertainment and Technology 

at Santa Monica College 

Pensacola Junior College 

McHenry County College 

Harper College 

Johnson County Community College 

Bristol Community College 

Anne Arundel Community College 

Community College of Baltimore County 

Hagerstown Community College 

Montgomery College 

Central Piedmont Community College 

Fayetteville Technical Community College 

Wake Technical Community College 

Piedmont Community College 

Mesa, AZ 

Glendale, CA 

Los Angeles, CA 

Redwood City, CA 

Rocklin, CA 

San Marcos, CA 

Santa Ana, CA 

Santa Monica, CA 

Pensacola, FL 

Crystal Lake, IL 

Schaumburg, IL 

Overland Park, KS 

Fall River, MA 

Anne Arundel, MD 

Baltimore, MD 

Hagerstown, MD 

Rockville, MD 

Charlotte, NC 

Fayetteville, NC 

Raleigh, NC 

Roxboro, NC 

Concord Community College 

Camden County College 

County College at Morris 

Raritan Valley Community College 

Finger Lakes Community College 

Westchester Com. Coll. 

Peekskill Extension Center, New York 

Mohawk Valley Community College 

Edison Community College 

Oklahoma City Community College 

Austin Community College 

Richland College 

Houston Community College 

San Jacinto College Central 

Tidewater Community College 

Bellevue Community College 

Lake Washington Technical College 

Clover Park Technical College 

Edmonds Community College 

Seattle Central Community College 

Madison Area Technical College 

Milwaukee Area Technical College 

Concord, NH 

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Video and 

Computer Game 

Industry Facts 

America’s entertainment software industry 

creates a wide array of computer and 

video games to meet the demands and 

tastes of audiences. Today’s gamers 

include millions of Americans of all ages 

and backgrounds. More than two-thirds 

of all American households play games. 

This vast audience is fueling the growth 

of this multi-billion dollar industry and 

bringing jobs to communities across the 

nation. Below is a list of the top 10 

entertainment software industry facts: 

U.S. computer and video game 

software sales grew 22.9 percent 

in 2008 to $11.7 billion. 

Sixty-eight percent of American 

households play computer or video 

games. 

The average game player is 35 

years old and has been playing 

games for 12 years. 

The average age of the most 

frequent game purchaser is 

39 years old. 

Forty percent of all game players 

are women. Women over the age 

of 18 represent a significantly 

greater portion of the game-playing 

population (34 percent) than boys 

age 17 or younger (18 percent). 

In 2009, 25 percent of Americans 

over the age of 50 play video 

games, an increase from nine 

percent in 1999. 

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Thirty-seven percent of heads 

of households play games on a 

wireless device, such as a cell 

phone or PDA, up from 

20 percent in 2002. 

Eighty-four percent of all games 

sold in 2008 were rated “E” for 

Everyone, “T” for Teen, or “E10+” 

for Everyone 10+. 

Ninety-two percent of game 

players under the age of 18 report 

that their parents are present when 

they purchase or rent games. 

Sixty-three percent of parents 

believe games are a positive part 

of their children’s lives. 

Source: Entertainment Software 

Association 

is growing; Computer and video 

game software sales reached $22 

billion in 2008. Computer and 

video games companies directly 

or indirectly employ more than 

80,000 people, according to the 

ESA. 

Those kinds of numbers have 

commanded the attention of community 

colleges charged with 

devising academic and workforce 

development programs that can 

lead to robust employment opportunities. 

Dozens of two-year institutions 

are among the colleges 

offering degree or certificate programs 

in video and computer 

gaming. 

Central Piedmont Community 

College in North Carolina — 

“The very same technology is used in 

simulations like forensics and aviation. 

It’s a very broad field.” 

located near that state’s renowned 

Research Triangle — was at the 

forefront of the movement. In 

2005, CPCC became the first college 

of any kind in the nation to 

offer a state-approved degree program 

in simulation and game 

— FARHAD JAVIDI 

DIRECTOR 

SIMULATION AND GAME DEVELOPMENT CENTER 

CENTRAL PIEDMONT COMMUNITY COLLEGE 

development. Computer scientist 

Farhad Javidi has been with the 

program since its inception and 

now directs the college’s Simulation 

and Game Development 

Center. 

“Trying to establish the program 

was difficult,” he said. “It 

took three years. We had no 

model to go on. We had to create 

29 new courses, and we recently 

added 11 more. As soon as the 

courses are offered, they fill up.” 

Like other community colleges, 

CPCC’s simulation and 

game development curriculum is 

aimed at more than game enthusiasts. 

It’s intended to provide a 

broad background in simulation 

and game development with practical 

applications in creative arts, 

visual arts, audio/video technology, 

creative writing, modeling, 

design, programming and 

management. Students receive 

hands-on training in design, 3D 

modeling, software engineering, 

database administration and 

programming for the purpose of 

creating simulations and games. 

Graduates can get jobs as 

designers, artists, animators, 

programmers, database administrators, 

testers, quality assurance 

analysts, engineers and administrators 

in the entertainment 

industry, the health care industry, 

engineering, forensics, education, 

NASA and other government 

agencies. Starting pay for a 

software developer can be as 

much as $55,000 a year; and 

those with five years experience 

can earn up to $90,000. 

“People thought it was funny 

that we were offering a program 

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Austin Community College student Brian Poche puts finishing touches on a game his team is creating. 

Games, 

from page 7, col. 5 

in video game development,” 

Javidi said. “But the very same 

technology is used in simulations 

like forensics and aviation. It’s a 

very broad field.” 

Demanding Academics 

But before prospective students 

drop their gamepads and hit 

the books, they should know that 

the programs are academically 

demanding, with heavy doses of 

math and science. Indeed, some 

of the video and computer game 

programs were started to offset 

declines in traditional computer 

science courses of study and 

include similar curricula. 

Computer types even have to 

master English. Even the most 

brilliant software engineer might 

have trouble communicating in 

plain language. Writing skills 

have become essential to the successful 

game designer. Central 

Piedmont offers an English 

course entitled “Writing for 

Games” which typically is filled 

to capacity. 

Still, the allure of the video 

and computer game programs 

remains strong, especially for students 

who have grown up playing 

games. Playing, however, is a lot 

different than designing the nuts 

TRANSFERABLE SKILLS 

“We don’t have a game industry in this 

area, but the skills we teach are 

completely transferable to many of the 

industries that are here.” 

— JODY STRAUSSER 

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR 

MODELING AND SIMULATION 

TIDEWATER COMMUNITY COLLEGE 

and bolts of the games. 

“There is a giant difference 

between playing a video game 

and building one,” said Garry M. 

Gaber, assistant director of the 

Game Development Institute at 

Austin Community College is 

Texas. “You have to know how to 

use Microsoft Word. You need to 

use Excel. We don’t teach students 

to play, we teach them to 

build.” 

Austin’s GDI opened its doors 

in 2008 with an enrollment of 100 

students after several years during 

which game development was 

offered only as a continuing education 

program. Housed at ACC’s 

Northridge Campus, the institute 

was created in response to 

demand from the local gaming 

industry looking for skilled workers, 

Gaber said. There are now 

280 students enrolled. 

“When we opened, our classes 

filled up in the first two weeks,” 

he said. 

Austin’s GDI is typical of 

community college game development 

programs. It is an interdisciplinary 

program with three 

tracks: game design, game programming 

and game art. Each 

degree track is intended to prepare 

students for entry-level jobs 

or to transfer to a four-year 

school, Gaber said. The institute 

is equipped with five state-of-theart 

game development labs. 

In addition, it houses an 

Applied Game Lab that allows 

students to develop projects as an 

individual or while interacting 

with industry. Students often 

design their own games and can 

start their own companies. 

In a prepared statement, 

Linda Smarzik, dean of ACC’s 

Computer Studies and Advanced 

Technology Division, said: “The 

game development industry in 

Central Texas is projected to 

account for almost $1 billion in 

total economic impact in 2010. 

They are eager for new talent, and 

we’re excited to support growth 

of this important business sector.” 

Austin is home to numerous 

video and computer game companies. 

That’s not the case in the 

Hampton Roads area of Virginia. 

But the region is laden with military 

installations and associated 

contractors, creating a demand 

for workers skilled in simulation 

software development. 

Hands On 

That prompted Tidewater 

Community College to offer an 

associate of applied science 

degree in technical studies: modeling 

and simulation. It is a 

hands-on curriculum which prepares 

the student for entry-level 

employment, said Jody Strausser, 

an assistant professor at Tidewater 

Community College who 

heads the college’s modeling and 

simulation program. 

“We don’t have a game industry 

in this area, but the skills that 

we teach are completely transferable 

to many of the industries that 

are here,” said Strausser, who previously 

worked in the defense 

industry. “Industries are getting 

on board, because it saves them a 

lot of money.” 

Businesses are embracing 

modeling and simulation, he said, 

because it can use computer representations 

to study and understand 

interactions and train with 

systems that are too costly, too 

dangerous or physically impossible 

to build. 

TCC offers not only a twoyear 

associate degree, but also a 

career certificate program for 

those already in the field and 

seeking to burnish their skills. 

The centerpiece of the 

school’s program is its Advanced 

Modeling and Simulation Laboratory, 

which features a 27-foot 

ceiling-recessed video screen, 

allowing students to become visually 

immersed in their modeling 

and simulation projects. Details 

that might be unseen on a computer 

moniter can’t be missed on 

the larger screen, Strausser said. 

It also boosts collaboration. 

Students who have designed 

simulations on their own computers 

can bring the different environments 

together on the larger 

screen. Such teamwork is one of 

the demands of emerging businesses, 

he said. 

The challenge for Strausser 

and others is getting students, parents 

and academics to understand 

that video and computer game 

design is a serious academic 

undertaking. 

“It’s really...a learning 

process,” he said. “We have made 

some serious strides. I think my 

students find out quickly that it is 

a high intensity field. But once 

people get it, they get very excited 

about it. It’s picking up steam.” 

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Even Cops Getting Stuck 

In Web of Diploma Mills 

BY ANTHONY COLAROSSI, ORLANDO SENTINEL 

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — When 

Fruitland Park police Chief 

J.M. Isom considered getting 

his education online, he had 

plenty of company. Many midcareer 

law-enforcement officials 

realize that advancement and better 

pay may come only one way: 

with a college degree. 

That makes police officers 

such as Isom — and other public 

servants working in corrections 

and firefighting — part of a prime 

pool of potential students for socalled 

degree mills, online 

“schools’’ that offer authenticlooking 

degrees for little cost and 

not much schoolwork. 

Many of these degrees, however, 

are worth only the paper they’re 

printed on. 

In the case of cops, they’re 

being asked to practice what they 

so often preach to citizens: buyer 

beware. 

“These are among the relatively 

few professions today that you 

can enter and succeed in without a 

degree,” said Alan Contreras, 

administrator with the Oregon 

Office of Degree Authorization, 

which has become something of a 

national watchdog, warning 

unsuspecting students and 

employers of bogus degree programs. 

“You can enter (these jobs) 

without a bachelor’s degree. The 

problem is eventually you’re 

boxed in and cannot advance,” 

Contreras said. “That’s the market 

the diploma mills have always 

aimed for.” 

Isom’s failure to confirm the 

legitimacy of Youngsfield University 

has Fruitland Park’s top lawenforcement 

officer caught in a 

public-relations mess. Both of his 

degrees came from an unaccredited 

program. 

He’s not alone. 

From 2000 to 2006, at least 

three Florida officers lost certification, 

got suspended or resigned 

because of bogus degrees, Florida 

Department of Law Enforcement 

spokeswoman Kristen Chernosky 

said. 

Though the number is low, it 

represents only those cases 

brought to FDLE’s attention. 

An additional 3,000 ``false 

statement’’ cases involved lawenforcement 

officers during the 

past three years, FDLE records 

show. Phony degrees would fall 

into that category, but FDLE has 

no simple way to pull from those 

incidents all cases involving suspect 

degrees. 

Contreras said there are probably 

many more police officers and 

public officials — in Florida and 

elsewhere — with credentials on 

their resumes from unaccredited 

institutions. 

The lure of earning college 

degrees in much less than four 

years can be hard to resist for those 

faced with the demands of work 

and family, forced to study in their 

spare time and perhaps not knowing 

the rigors of true college 

coursework. The cheaper and less 

time-intense a college or 

advanced-degree program is, the 

more attractive it becomes to 

someone who stands to gain 

career-wise by holding that piece 

of paper, Contreras and others 

familiar with these operations said. 

Many Florida law-enforcement 

officers take advantage of 

programs that offer stipends or 

tuition reimbursement for their 

degrees and coursework. 

The city of Orlando provides 

stipends and tuition reimbursement 

for police and firefighters 

getting degrees. About 700 

staffers at the Orlando Police 

Department take advantage of 

the stipend program, amounting 

to about $1,079 per employee 

per year, city spokeswoman 

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The lure of earning 

a college degree in 

much less than four 

years can be hard 

to resist for those 

faced with the 

demands of work 

and family. 

Heather Allebaugh said. 

The city checks a special U.S. 

Department of Education database 

to verify the accreditation of 

schools issuing those degrees, she 

said. 

Isom gained $80 a month in 

supplements with his degrees from 

Youngsfield, but he didn’t take his 

online courses for the money. 

Instead, he said, they were meant 

to help make him eligible, possibly, 

for a higher position elsewhere 

in law enforcement. 

Now FDLE is investigating 

whether Isom did anything criminal 

when he presented his degrees 

as authentic and began receiving 

the incentive pay. 

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Tom Butler, a spokesman for 

the state Department of Education, 

recommended being prudent and 

exercising due diligence when 

checking out degree programs. 

Students and employers checking 

out any school should find out 

whether it is accredited and who 

regulates the program. Students 

also should check to see whether 

the program they want to enroll in 

is recognized by their employers. 

“We warn students: Be careful. 

Buyer beware,” said Jane Glickman, 

a spokeswoman for the U.S. 

Department of Education. “Do 

your homework. Be an educated 

consumer.” 

DOE has an extensive database 

with a list of accredited 

schools. Another resource Glickman 

recommended is called 

College Navigator. 

Oregon’s Office of Degree 

Authorization, where Contreras 

works, has a separate online list of 

“unaccredited degree suppliers” 

with remarks about many of those 

operations. The list includes 

Youngsfield University and simply 

calls it “fake.” 

Prospective students and 

employers can take advantage of a 

few clear signs to distinguish what 

is a real degree and what is not. 

Several online sites also may help. 

For one thing, no legitimate 

college or graduate degree these 

days is going to cost you several 

hundred dollars or even a few 

thousand, experts say. 

If the institution has no physical 

address and doesn’t clearly say 

which state or country it is in or 

does not provide a phone number, 

those are usually good clues that it 

is a degree mill. 

Legitimate institutions generally 

let the public know where they 

are and boast about credentials of 

their faculty members. 

Finally, there is accreditation. 

Although some unaccredited 

schools are legitimate, accreditation 

is big clue to help you determine 

whether a school is for real. 

“If it is accredited, it is automatically 

not a mill,” Contreras 

said. “It is easy to identify institutions 

that are bogus.” 

Experts cite institutions such 

as Capella University, University 

of Phoenix, DeVry University, 

Kaplan University and American 

Public University System as 

accredited degree programs with 

substantial distance-learning or 

online offerings. 


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Idaho Plan Would Pay Students 

To Finish High School Early 

BY JESSIE L. BONNER, ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER 

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — 

Every high school has at 

least a handful of them, 

gifted students who blow through 

Faulkner as if it were a comic 

book, teenagers who catch on to 

calculus as if it were checkers. 

These students are often just 

marking time in high school and 

typically become bored and withdrawn 

as they long for a bigger 

academic challenge. 

States are responding to the 

problem by making it easier for 

gifted students to head off to college 

sooner. 

Idaho lawmakers have proposed 

giving scholarships to high 

school students who enroll in college 

early. Eight other states are 

participating in a program that 

would allow high school sophomores 

to pass a series of tests and 

graduate early. A Utah lawmaker 

earlier went so far this year as to 

propose letting students skip the 

senior year. 

“There’s a fair amount of 

wasted time,” said Rep. Steve 

Thayn, a Republican from the 

small Idaho farming town of 

Emmett. “I think there’s a way to 

keep them engaged and to keep 

them learning.” 

Idaho’s plan goes further than 

other programs around the country 

because it would allow students 

to graduate from high 

school up to three years early, and 

then receive taxpayer money to 

enroll at a state university or community 

college. Students would 

receive approximately $1,600 in 

scholarship money for each year 

they graduate early. 

About half the states encourage 

juniors and seniors to take 

community college courses, with 

some of them picking up the tab, 

said Mike Griffith, a policy analyst 

at the Education Commission 

on the States in Denver. But those 

students stay high school while 

taking college credit, not moving 

onto a university campus like the 

Idaho plan. 

Idaho Rep. Branden Durst 

sees the idea as a way to focus on 

higher-achieving students instead 

of the struggling kids who usually 

draw the most attention from education 

officials. 

“We spend a lot of time talking 

about the bottom third and we 

should, but we do that to the detriment 

to our higher-achieving students,” 

said Durst, a Democrat 

from Boise who co-sponsored the 

measure. 

In Utah, a state lawmaker 

pushed a plan earlier this year that 

would have let some students skip 

the 12th grade if they’ve earned 

Lori Shewmaker helps her son, Xan, do his homework at their home in Boise, Idaho. Shewmaker is among parents 

backing a plan by Idaho lawmakers to give advanced students scholarships for graduating from high school early. 

enough high school credits. 

Sen. Chris Buttars decided to 

abandon the effort in late February, 

but he plans to bring 

revamped legislation back in 

2011, calling accelerated graduation 

the future of public education. 

From New Mexico to Pennsylvania, 

eight states nationwide 

are participating in a pilot program 

that would allow high 

school sophomores to graduate 

early, getting a head start on community 

college. The program, 

spearheaded by the National Center 

on Education and the Economy, 

would include 10 to 20 high 

schools in each state and start in 

2011. Connecticut, Kentucky, 

Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode 

Island and Vermont are also participating. 

The federal Department of 

Education in 2001 spearheaded a 

national effort by several groups 

to create a system where students 

could more easily graduate in the 

11th grade. It didn’t get much 

traction as many teenagers were 

reluctant to miss big events such 

INCENTIVE 

Idaho’s plan goes 

further than those of 

other states 

because it would 

allow students to 

graduate up to three 

years early and then 

receive taxpayer 

money to enroll in 

college. 

as senior proms, Griffith said. 

But the idea of early graduation 

has been gaining momentum 

lately, and Idaho could potentially 

take the lead if the legislation is 

approved. 

“No one’s really tried this,” 

Griffith said. “If (students are) 

ready to go to college in the 11th 

grade they should be allowed to 

go to college, states need to start 

thinking about that.” 

Early graduation would not 

only help the smart kids, but also 

open doors for those who are simply 

driven, said Emma 

Roemhildt, an 18-year-old from 

Cordova, Alaska, who started 

earning college credit when she 

was still in high school. 

“High school was too easy 

and it is for many students,” 

Roemhildt said. “There needs to 

be something for the students 

who aren’t geniuses, but are 

above average enough to go 

beyond their peers.” 

Lori Shewmaker is among 

parents in Idaho backing the plan 

to pay kids in scholarships to 

graduate early. She believes her 

son, a sixth-grader who reads at a 

10th-grade level, could be among 

those to benefit. 

“He can be a mess-around or 

he can be an astrophysicist,” said 

Shewmaker. “I feel like he is 

being held back.” 

Some critics of the Idaho plan 

have voiced concerns about the 

social implications of enticing 

kids to graduate early. Are universities 

and colleges ready for an 

influx of 17-year-olds Do they 

want 16-year-olds living in dorms 

with 20 year-olds One lawmaker 

went further, predicting some students 

might not use the time they 

save wisely. 

“Do we really want our kids 

sort of hanging around the canals 

of Amsterdam, as they do in 

Europe, selling drugs or whatever 

at age 16, not going on to college, 

not making anything of themselves” 

said Rep. Steve Hartgen, 

a Republican. 

Some Idaho lawmakers 

believe their plan makes financial 

sense at a time of escalating budget 

woes. 

Idaho taxpayers now pay public 

school districts about $4,593 a 

year for each of their students, 

according to Thayn and Durst. 

The early graduation plan would 

save the state money by taking 

gifted students out of the school 

system and distributing the 

money left over after paying for 

the scholarships to districts and 

the state. 


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Ky. House Speaker Looks To Spare Deeper Higher Education Cuts 

BY BRUCE SCHREINER, ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER 

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — 

Kentucky House leaders 

will try to spare higher education 

from spending cuts as they 

plug away at erasing a shortfall 

looming over the next state budget, 

Speaker Greg Stumbo said 

after meeting with university 

presidents. 

Top House budget writers 

recently proposed a 2 percent cut 

for public universities and colleges 

in the first year of the next 

budget and flat funding in the second 

year. 

The 2 percent cut would produce 

yearly savings of about $20 

million. 

Stumbo reversed course, saying 

he hoped lawmakers could 

preserve that funding for higher 

education, but warning greater 

accountability would be expected 

from the schools. 

“Higher education has gone 

through a series of budget cuts,” 

Stumbo told reporters after the 

hourlong meeting between House 

Democratic leaders and university 

presidents. 

``They have constraints — I 

understand growing demands in 

health care, in retirement. ... We 

understand their problems.” 

Earlier, Stumbo raised the 

possibility of attaching conditions 

to preserving the funding for public 

universities, or perhaps pooling 

the proposed cuts and making 

the schools earn their share 

through improved performance or 

caps on tuition. 

Stumbo backed off such conditions 

later, but said the schools 

would face higher expectations. 

“We told them that we want to 

help them,” he said. “That in 

exchange we expect results.” 

For one thing, lawmakers 

want a more seamless higher education 

system, Stumbo said. 

The House has passed a bill 

aimed at making it easier for community 

college students to transfer 

to four-year public universities. 

The Kentucky Community 

and Technical College System 

would align its general education 

requirements with bachelor’s 

degrees programs at state universities. 

Stumbo said that should 

have been done years ago. 

Western Kentucky University 

President Gary Ransdell said he 

was encouraged by the meeting. 

“I think our legislative leaderships 

are trying hard to help education 

and do what they can,” he 

said. “And we’re going to do what 

we can to deliver on productivity.” 

Asked if he thinks the universities 

will be spared from cuts, 

Ransdell replied, “It’s way too 

early to start predicting what’s 

going to happen.” 

House Democratic leaders 

have suggested budget cuts and 

other steps to try to plug a shortfall 

exceeding $1 billion for the 

next two-year state budget cycle, 

which starts July 1. They also are 

looking at suspending some tax 

exemptions to raise revenue. 

House leaders have been 

looking to replace $780 million in 

new revenue that Beshear 

assumed in his budget from his 

support of expanded gambling in 

Kentucky. Beshear’s proposal to 

allow video slot machines at race 

tracks has gone nowhere in the 

legislative session. 

Senate President David 

Williams, a Burkesville Republican, 

told reporters that balancing 

the next budget will be impossible 

“unless we have shared sacrifice.” 

Williams said he didn’t think 

that a 2 percent cut would affect 

operations “in any meaningful 

sort of way.” He added that “the 

expectations of excellence that 

we have should not be affected by 

the fact that we spend 2 percent 

less money.” 

The Senate will put its imprint 

on the budget once the spending 

plan passes the House. 

Paul Patton, chairman of the 

Kentucky Council on Postsecondary 

Education, said many of 

the issues discussed at the meeting 

didn’t revolve around immediate 

budget matters. Participants 

talked about retention and graduation 

rates, accountability and the 

ease of transferring credits. 

Patton, a former governor, 

said the university presidents laid 

out that their schools are faced 

with rising costs for operations, 

retirement and health care. 

“If they get flat funding, they 

are still going to have to figure 

out how to cover like a 3 or 4 percent 

cost increase that’s going to 

be there,” he told reporters. ``So 

that’s effectively a cut in we got 

level funding.’’ 

Since the 2007-08 fiscal 

budget year, the state’s public 

campuses — including the community 

and technical colleges — 

have been cut more than $78 million, 

or 7 percent, according to figures 

from the Council on Postsecondary 

Education. 


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Jindal Bill Would Empower Colleges To Raise Tuition 

BY MELINDA DESLATTE, ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER 

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) 

— Gov. Bobby Jindal has 

proposed that state lawmakers 

give up their authority 

over college tuition and fee 

increases, letting the schools 

substantially raise what they 

charge their students if colleges 

meet certain performance standards. 

Four-year schools would 

have to increase admission standards 

and improve graduation 

rates, while community and technical 

colleges would have to 

show improvement in getting 

students into jobs under the plan 

that Jindal is recommending to 

lawmakers. 

Remedial classes would disappear 

at four-year schools, 

along with most associate degree 

programs, in an effort to steer 

students seeking those courses to 

less expensive community colleges. 

Online courses would 

have to be expanded. 

In exchange, schools could 

raise their tuition and fee costs 

— without a vote of the Legislature 

— by up to 10 percent a year 

until they reach the average of 

similar schools in the South. 

LSU would be able to raise its 

tuition until it reaches the average 

of similar flagship schools 

nationally. 

After they reach the averages, 

colleges could hike tuition up to 

five percent a year or up to the 

increase in an index that tracks 

higher education costs across 

states. 

The bill “is about giving our 

schools more flexibility, more 

autonomy in return for better 

performance, especially when it 

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comes to better graduation and 

retention rates so that more of 

our students are graduating with 

the skills they need to get highpaying 

jobs right here in 

Louisiana,” Jindal said. 

The tuition increases allowed 

over several years could be hefty. 

For example, data provided 

by LSU shows the school’s nearly 

$5,300 annual cost for in-state 

students is about $3,000 less than 

the average for public flagship 

universities nationally, the standard 

that would be used to allow 

tuition boosts. 

Currently, campuses need 

approval from two-thirds of state 

lawmakers before they can raise 

tuition and fees, making 

Louisiana the only state in the 

nation that requires such a hefty 

vote. Lawmakers recently did 

give college governing boards 

the ability to raise tuition annually 

up to 5 percent, authority that 

runs out in two years. 

Lawmakers will consider the 

measure in the legislative session 

that begins March 29. Republican 

House Speaker Jim Tucker 

will sponsor the bill, which is 

modeled on a recommendation 

from a state higher education 

restructuring panel. 

Commissioner of Higher 

Education Sally Clausen backed 

the proposal, saying it gives colleges 

more flexibility and 

expects them to earn it. 

“I think it’s probably one of 

the best opportunities for institutions 

to not only reach for their 

aspirational goals, but to be 

released from some strings that 

keep them from reaching those 

goals,” she said. 

Asked whether the tuition 

hikes would keep some students 

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HIGH HURDLE 

Currently, campuses 

need approval from 

two-thirds of state 

lawmakers before 

they can raise 

tuition and fees, the 

only state that 

requires such a 

hefty vote. 

Louisiana Gov. Bobby 

Jindal speaks during a 

news conference at the 

state Capitol where he 

announced his proposal 

to allow universities 

more freedom to 

increase tuition. 

from college, Jindal said 

Louisiana’s colleges charge less 

than schools in other states, and 

he said the state would continue 

to fully fund the free college 

tuition program known as TOPS. 

TOPS, the Taylor Opportunity 

Program for Students, covers 

the full cost of tuition for any 

Louisiana student who meets 

high school course standards, 

graduates with a high enough 

grade point average — typically 

a C — and reaches certain 

benchmarks on the college 

entrance exam. It does not factor 

in a family’s income or the student’s 

ability to pay. 

The program costs $130 million 

this year and will grow even 

larger if colleges are allowed to 

raise their tuition and fees for 

students. 

Under the proposed legislation, 

schools interested in getting 

the tuition authority would enter 

into six-year performance agreements 

with the Board of Regents, 

which governs public higher 

education in Louisiana. 

Regents would evaluate the 

colleges on their yearly performance 

to determine if they are 

making the improvements 

required to keep raising tuition. 

If they meet the benchmarks, the 

colleges also would be given 

fewer restrictions on computer 

purchases and travel regulations. 

After six years, an independent 

panel would review each 

school’s progress and recommend 

whether a new agreement 

should be started with the college. 

The Board of Regents 

would have to vote on whether to 

renew the agreement. 




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Some of Mississippi’s 

public universities have 

started tuition assistance programs 

aimed at keeping students 

in school despite growing 

education costs. 

Among the programs outlined 

in a report released by 

the state College Board is one 

at Mississippi State University 

that pays the base tuition costs 

not covered by a student’s 

financial aid. The Mississippi 

State Promise Program will 

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college transfers. 

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students who need our 

help: We’re going to make up 

the difference,” MSU President 

Mark Keenum said in a news 

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At the Mississippi University 

for Women in Columbus, 

tuition is waived for up to four 

semesters for some transfer students. 

Bucky Wesley, MUW’s vice 

president for students services, 

said the Tuition Guarantee Program 

allows Lowndes County 

residents transferring from East 

Mississippi Community College 

with an associate degree to 

continue their education at the 

Columbus-based university. 

“We believe it could open 

the door for more partnerships 

in the future,” Wesley said. 

Such plans are being implemented 

as the state’s eight universities 

face a tough economy 

and state budget cuts. Last 

month, the state College Board 

voted to raise average tuition 

6.8 percent beginning this 

fall. 

“As you can see from the 

variety of assistance programs 

offered by Mississippi’s public 

universities, affordability 

and accessibility remain top 

priorities,” higher education 

commissioner Hank Bounds 

said in a statement. 

“Tuition, housing fees, textbook 

costs and other living 

expenses quickly add up for our 

students. It is imperative that 

we ease the burden as much as 

possible, especially in tough 

economic times, so we don’t 

price students out of enrolling 

in our institutions and earning 

higher degrees,” he said. 


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recently opened a dental clinic 

on its South Bend campus. 

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Ivy Tech Dental Clinic 

Offers Help To Struggling Families 

BY MARGARET FOSMOE, SOUTH BEND TRIBUNE 

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) 

— Janeen Twohey opens 

her mouth wide as Courtney 

Henry probes a back molar 

with a dental instrument. 

Henry, a dental hygiene student 

at Ivy Tech Community 

College, then applies a disclosing 

gel in the patient’s mouth. In 

a minute or so, the colored gel 

reveals where plaque is found on 

Twohey’s teeth. 

“You are 72 percent plaquefree,” 

Henry announces. “Our 

goal is 85 percent.” 

In tough economic times, 

dental care often is one of the 

necessities that families do without. 

But northern Indiana residents 

are getting help at a dental 

clinic that opened about 18 

months ago inside a south wing 

at Ivy Tech’s South Bend campus. 

The clinic provides low-cost 

dental care to the general public. 

Fees range from $2 to $30 per 

service, with some services provided 

free. The 10-chair clinic 

with state-of-the art equipment 

treats patients of all ages and 

income levels. 

For Twohey, a Mishawaka 

resident, it’s her first time at the 

Ivy Tech clinic. 

Twohey explains that she 

finds the clinic convenient and 

affordable. She hadn’t been to a 

dentist’s office in a year and a 

half. 

“I’m on disability. I lost my 

insurance,” she said. 

Patients receive the services 

from students working toward 

their associate degrees in dental 

hygiene, under the supervision of 

faculty and licensed dentists. 

Because the hygienists are learning 

as they work, appointments 

typically take longer than at a 

dentist’s office — sometimes 

several hours. 

Patients don’t seem to mind. 

And they often find themselves 

learning more about their teeth 

and their overall health, said Barbara 

MacMillan, chair of the college’s 

dental hygiene program. 

As the patient listens, Henry 

gives instructor Tracy D’Angelo 

a verbal description of Twohey’s 

oral health. A nearby computer 

screen provides images of each 

tooth. 

Robert Sriver, a licensed 

longtime dentist, is in the room if 

a consultation is needed. 

Nearby, student Holly 

Schmucker projects on a screen 

X-rays she has taken of a 

patient’s mouth. She carefully 

labels areas in the images as part 

of an anatomy assignment. 

If fillings or more extensive 

dental services are required, the 

clinic makes referrals to professionals 

in the community. 

Ivy Tech in May will graduate 

its first class of dental 

hygiene students with 13 students. 

About 14 others are 

enrolled in the first-year class. 

Indiana University South 

Bend also offers a public dental 

clinic, a service the campus has 

provided for more than 25 years. 

IUSB students studying for associate’s 

and bachelor’s degrees in 

dental hygiene work in the clinic 

under the supervision of faculty 

and professionals. 

During tough economic 

times, many families don’t have 

dental insurance and see their 

dental care slip, said Judith 

Schafer, director of IUSB’s dental 

education program. “There is 

a big need,” she said. 

IUSB plans to create a new 

dental clinic on campus in the former 

Associates Building, which is 

slated to be renovated into an 

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Despite Tenn. Law, Transferring 

College Credits Remains Difficult 

CH ATTANOOGA, 

Tenn. (AP) — A higher 

education overhaul 

that passed overwhelmingly 

last month promised to make it 

easier for students to transfer 

from two-year colleges to 

four-year universities. But 

educators are finding that it’s 

difficult to move students from 

one school to the other without 

losing some credits, according 

to the Chattanooga Times Free 

Press. 

Educators are now in the 

process of finding a way to 

comply with a new law that 

allows students with two-year 

associate degrees to transfer to 

universities as junior. They’re 

focused on hammering out a 

core set of pre-major requirements 

that can transfer easily. 

But many tenured professors 

at universities still have 

the final say about whether a 

credit from a community college 

will be accepted into the 

new school. 

One of those professors is 

Matt Greenwell, head of the art 

department at University of 

Tennessee at Chattanooga. 

Greenwell says that in the 

past he’s resisted pressure to 

admit community college students 

into UTC’s art program 

unless they retake some classes, 

and that won’t change 

despite the new law. 

“Our concern is not about 

quality. It’s about the nature of 

the content and how it feeds 

into our level of coursework,” 

Greenwell told the Chattanooga 

paper. 

The professor insisted that 

he was in no way being elitist 

toward community college students. 

Community college leaders 

say Greenwell’s position is 

fairly common among university 

professors, who still get to 

decide what counts as credit 

and what doesn’t — despite 

years-old transfer agreements 

signed between two-year and 

four-year colleges. 

The practice, some say, 

comes at a price. 

“This has cost the taxpayers 

of the state of Tennessee an 

enormous amount of money,” 

said Chattanooga State Community 

College President Jim 

Catanzaro. “It has delayed and 

impeded graduation, and it 

doesn’t make sense.” 

The Tennessee Higher Education 

Commission found that 

transfer students must take an 

additional 20 hours of credit 

work to graduate from almost 

all universities. 

State lawmakers, in a special 

session last month, tried to 

treat the problem by setting a 

statewide 41-hour general education 

core of pre-major 

requirements. 

Educators, in an effort to 

comply with the new law, have 

come to a consensus on a block 

of general education courses 

that will easily transfer. 

But they’re still trying to 

find agreement on what courses 

should be required for individual 

areas of study. 


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Blindness Doesn’t Dampen 

Dreams of Student Chef 

BY NATALIE NEYSA ALUND, THE (BRADENTON) HERALD 

BRADENTON, Fla. (AP) — 

If she doesn’t know what it 

is, she sniffs it. 

Or feels it. 

Or tastes it. Culinary arts student 

Gabrielle Lozano is blind, so 

she cooks with her other senses. 

This summer, the 20-year-old 

woman is slated to graduate from 

Manatee Technical Institute in 

Bradenton and enter the workforce 

— as a chef. 

“People ask me all the time, 

‘How is it possible that she 

cooks’ — says her mother Pam 

Lozano. “They ask, ‘Does she 

have some sight’ I tell them no. 

She is completely blind, reads 

Braille and uses a cane to get 

around.” 

Her daughter was born with little 

sight and at age 3, lost all of it 

from a brain tumor on her optic 

nerve. 

“Since she’s been about 8 or 9, 

she started helping me with dinner 

and just loved it,” her mother says. 

And Gabrielle Lozano, who 

graduated in 2008 in the top 10 

percent of her high school class 

with a 4.0 GPF, claims she was 

much younger when she got 

hooked. 

“It started when I was little,” 

says Lozano, who lives in Parrish 

with her mom, dad Joe and 

younger brother Marc. “I was 

around my grandmother and greatgrandmother 

when they were 

cooking.” 

When she wasn’t in the kitchen 

with them, she was sitting near a 

television listening to the Food 

Network. 

After that, she started making 

her own recipes. 

Her personal favorite 

“I make a good banana fritter 

with pie dough, bananas and 

chocolate chips,” she said. “I bake 

it and sprinkle powdered sugar on 

it.” 

She also likes making soup 

and apple pie. 

Finding a school that would 

take a blind student who aspired to 

be a cook was a challenge. 

When her mother began 

searching for a culinary arts program, 

no one would return her 

phone calls. “They thought it was 

like a joke, ‘Hi, my daughter is 

blind and wants to learn how to 

cook,’” her mother said. 

Then she called MTI. Chef 

instructor Garry Colpitts agreed to 

meet with her daughter. 

“I was skeptical, but I have an 

open mind — and you know what 

She was very determined and she 

convinced us,’’ Colpitts says. 

“Gabby’s just inspiring.” 

Gabrielle Lozano chops turnip greens at the Vantage Point Cafe, located at the Professional Support Center for the 

Manatee County School Board, in Bradenton, Fla. Lozano is blind and will soon graduate from MTI’s culinary arts 

program this summer. 

When her mother began searching for a culinary arts 

program, no one would return her phone calls. “They 

thought it was like a joke,” her mother said. “‘Hi, my 

daughter is blind and wants to learn how to cook.’” 

This past year, she’s been 

learning from chef instructor Bert 

Spagnola at MTI’s east campus on 

Lakewood Ranch Boulevard. 

Lozano doesn’t need any assistance 

while in the kitchen. 

Especially at school. 

“I do it all on my own,’’ 

Lozano said. “The other students 

tease me here because sometimes I 

know where things are and the 

other kids don’t. They say, ‘I can’t 

find this, I can’t find that’ and the 

others say, ‘Go ask Gabby.” 

When it comes to seasoning, 

she generally uses her sense of 

smell. 

Some non-scented similar-textured 

items are labeled in Braille. 

“Sometimes if I shake a jar, 

like peppercorn, I can tell by the 

size of it what it is,” she said. 

If she still can’t figure what 

something is, she tastes it. 

Her class work — knife skills 

included — is impeccable. 

“Out of all the students very 

few escape getting cut,” Spagnola 

says. “I’ve never seen her cut herself.” 

Her talent, Spagnola adds, 

doesn’t stop at cooking. 

“She’s a pro at needlepoint and 

she’s an incredible artist,” Spagnola 

says. “Once I saw her draw 

Easter bunnies and asked her what 

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she was doing. She said, ‘I’m making 

a coloring book for kids at 

Camp Eagle Nest for kids with disabilities.’ 

If I closed my eyes and 

tried to do a rabbit, you’d see an 

eye here and a nose over there. 

She’s amazing.” 

Her class this spring will take 

part in a vocational program competition 

called SkillsUSA in 

Kansas City. 

One part of the competition 

includes creating a restaurant. 

“She drew up her own blueprints 

for the kitchen. They were 

good,” Spagnola says. 

A part of her work study for 

the culinary arts program is cooking 

breakfast and lunch at the 

school. 

“She is beyond awesome. People 

have seen her in the cafeteria 

and have no idea that she is blind,” 

says MTI Director Mary Cantrell. 

“She is a charming, wonderful 

lady. She never once considers 

herself handicapped.” 

Lozano is on track to graduate 

from MTI’s culinary arts program 

in June. 

She hopes her accomplishments 

help others pursue similar 

dreams. 

“Maybe it will inspire other 

visually impaired kids to do the 

same,” Lozano says. 

After she graduates, Lozano 

wants to work in a small cafe or 

restaurant, and eventually open a 

sandwich and bake shop. 

Her family and friends think 

that will be a piece of cake. 

Notes her mom: `She doesn’t 

let anything stand in her way.” 



Wyo. College President Disavows Religion-Based Recruiting 

POWELL, Wyo. (AP) — The 

president of Northwest College 

in Powell says he’ll 

keep religion out of his recruitment 

efforts after a recent mailing to 

Mormon high school students 

raised ire on campus. 

Paul Prestwich wrote an e-mail 

to students and faculty members on 

saying religion won’t be the focus 

of the school’s formal recruitment 

efforts in the future. 

Prestwich, a member of The 

Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday 

Saints, sent about 1,000 letters 

to LDS teens last month touting the 

benefits that the school and community 

offer students of that faith. 

The letters were written on school 

letterhead and were accompanied 

by a letter on church letterhead 

from Fred Hopkin, president of the 

Mormon church’s Cody Wyoming 

Stake. 

Some students and faculty 

members were angered by the mailing, 

saying it inappropriately 

blurred the separation of church 

and state. 

In his e-mail, Prestwich said 

previous college administrations 

sent out similar mailings to LDS 

students. 

“Although none of our earlier 

mailings to LDS students received 

much attention, this time the effort 

has been the subject of criticism. To 

be blunt, we hit a nerve! I apologize 

for that,” Prestwich wrote. 

He also said benefactors had 

volunteered to reimburse the 

college for the mailing, which a 

college spokeswoman said cost 

about $630. 

Prestwich’s announcement followed 

a meeting of college 

employees during which many 

expressed concern about the 

recruitment letter. 

Rob Koelling, chairman of the 

Humanities Division, said the college’s 

mission can sometimes be 

skewed by pressures to remain economically 

viable and increase 

enrollment. The controversy had 

proved to be big distraction, he said. 

“An underlying concern is the 

possibility of the character of this 

institution changing,” Koelling told 

Prestwich during the meeting. 

Hopkin, president of the Cody 

LDS Stake, said the college 

contacted him in 2002 and this year 

to participate in recruitment mailings. 

As a supporter of Northwest 

College, he was happy to help. 

He said he was surprised by the 

heated debate generated by the letter. 

“I can see the premise for the 

concern, but if you really analyze it, 

I don’t see it as a conflict,” Hopkin 

said. “The college should use available 

resources to reach its ends.” 


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Colleges Hike Room and Board 

While Holding Tuition Steady 

SHERIDAN, Wyo. (AP) — A recent 

study ranks the Northern 

Wyoming Community College 

District ninth nationally in money raised 

by community and technical colleges. 

According to the study by the Council 

for Aid to Education, the Wyoming 

district and its supporting foundations 

reported raising nearly $4.3 million in 

private contributions in fiscal year 

2009. The district’s supporting foundations 

are the Sheridan College Foundation 

and the Gillette College Foundation. 

That placed the district ninth among 

all associate degree-granting colleges 

reporting to the Voluntary Support for 

Education survey. 

The survey looked at 167 colleges 

granting associate degrees. 

CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — Four 

Wyoming community colleges have 

increased room and board rates for 

2010-11. 

Students living on campus at Casper 

College will see about a 20 percent increase. 

The increase at Northwest College is 9 

percent, at Eastern Wyoming College 3.8 

percent, and at Central Wyoming College 10 

percent. 

Laramie County and Western Wyoming 

community colleges, and the Northern 

Wyoming Community College District, 

have not yet set rates. 

The Wyoming Community College 

Commission had considered raising tuition 

but Gov. Dave Freudenthal promised federal 

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long as they didn’t increase tuition or fees 

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Barry Emison, a tool and dye technology 

teacher at Itawamba Community College in 

Tupelo, Miss., says “about 100 percent” of the 

students in the program hoped to get a job at 

Toyota or one of the suppliers that plan to set 

up shop in Mississippi. 

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Toyota Plant Delays Leave Miss. 

Grads with Scant Job Prospects 

BY HOLBROOK MOHR, ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER 

BLUE SPRINGS, Miss. 

(AP) — Terry McShan 

isn’t thinking about car 

sales analyses or excess capacity 

when he drives by the idle Toyota 

plant in northeast Mississippi. 

He’s thinking about his little girl. 

Like most Mississippians, the 

46-year-old father of a 4-year-old 

girl was thrilled when Toyota 

announced plans in 2007 to build 

a plant in Blue Springs, a onestore 

town in the north Mississippi 

hills. McShan soon enrolled in 

a community college’s automotive 

program in hopes of landing 

a job at the plant. 

Those were better times, 

when the car market was strong, 

Mississippi officials gladly 

signed off on a $324 million 

incentive package and Toyota 

said it would be building cars in 

Blue Springs in 2010. Three 

years later, the economy has 

tanked, one of the most trusted 

brands in the business has 

recalled millions of cars and 

McShan will graduate with no 

immediate prospects for a Toyota 

job in Mississippi. 

Toyota says it’s holding off 

production in Blue Springs, not 

because of the recall, but until the 

car market improves and the 

company sells off “excess capacity.” 

It’s anybody’s guess when 

that’ll be. Even when Toyota 

gives the green light, it could be 

18 months to two years before 

the first car rolls off the assembly 

line. 

“When I heard Toyota was 

coming, I thought, ‘This is the 

(college) program that I need.’ 

I’ve been here ever since, waiting 

for Toyota to open,” McShan said 

recently while taking a break 

from classes at Itawamba Community 

College in Tupelo. 

“I’m just trying to give my 

daughter the best education that I 

can,” McShan said. “That job 

right there (at the Toyota plant) 

would help give her the best.” 

Toyota has been hounded 

lately by production problems on 

several models, including the 

Prius, the gas-electric hybrid that 

was to be built in Mississippi. 

Problems with gas pedals, floor 

mats and brakes on various models 

have led to the biggest worldwide 

recall in the company’s history, 

lawsuits, apologies from 

Toyota officials and congressional 

hearings. 

The recall, however, came 

well after the announcement that 

production at Blue Springs was 

being put on hold. Toyota officials 

insist the recalls won’t have 

DELAYS 

Toyota says it’s 

holding off on 

production in 

Blue Springs, not 

because of the 

recall, but until the 

market improves 

and the company 

sells off excess 

capacity. 

any effect on the Blue Springs 

plant. 

“It’s just a question of when 

the market will support the capacity 

that we will have at this plant,” 

David Copenhaver, the Toyota 

vice president in charge of the 

Blue Springs facility, said recently. 

“Everybody, I think, can easily 

understand what the market has 

been like the last year or so,” 

Copenhaver said. “When you 

have a lot of excess capacity you 

have to use what you’ve got.” 

It would take a “fundamental 

shaking of confidence” in the 

Toyota brand for the recalls to 

further delay the opening of the 

Mississippi plant, said Haig Stoddard, 

auto analyst with the consulting 

firm IHS-Global Insight. 

“As it stands right now I’m 

not sure what they are going to 

build there, if they’ll go with the 

Prius or something else, but 

they’re going to need that capacity 

in North America,” Stoddard 

said. “I think that plant has a 

future, irrespective of what they 

build there.” 

Gov. Haley Barbour, a second-term 

Republican who helped 

lure the plant to Mississippi, said 

Toyota “made a common sense 

business decision that they need 

to wait for the automobile market 

to improve.” 

“While we wish they were 

open today, nobody can argue 

with that business decision,” Barbour 

said in a telephone interview. 

“One thing about Toyota is 

they think long term, and we do, 

too.” 

Barbour said he doesn’t 

believe the recall will hurt Toyota 

or the Mississippi plant long term, 

and he said Toyota will be an 

anchor of the economy in northeast 

Mississippi. 

Barbour and members of the 

Mississippi Legislature expressed 

high hopes for Toyota in March 

2007 when officials approved the 

issuance of $293.9 million in 

bonds for the automaker and 

another $30 million for Toyota 

suppliers. 

Toyota has volunteered to 

start making interest payments in 

April on state loans since the 

company missed the mark in 

starting production and employing 

2,000 people. The initial deal 

with the state didn’t require the 

company to pay interest. 

There’s no specific trigger 

point in market conditions that 

will get things rolling again in 

Mississippi, Copenhaver said. 

The building is mostly completed, 

but Toyota still has to install hundreds 

of millions of dollars in 

manufacturing equipment and 

hire and train workers. That won’t 

begin until the economy is better. 

That’s not to say the plant hasn’t 

already pumped millions into 

the area. 

Mike Gentry, who owns Gentry’s 

Grocery & Grill in Blue 

Springs, a town of 144 people, 

said business boomed while hundreds 

of workers were building 

the plant, roads and rail lines. 

Gentry even bought a catering 

truck to take food to the site. 

Gentry’s brother and other area 

See Toyota, page 19, col. 1


Ala. House Passes Bill To Ensure Prepaid Tuition Contracts 

BY BOB JOHNSON, ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER 

MONTGOMERY, Ala. 

(AP) — The Alabama 

House passed three bills 

that supporters say will ensure 

classroom costs are paid for 

44,000 children whose parents 

bought contracts in the state’s prepaid 

college tuition program. 

The bills would commit $236 

million from the state education 

budget to guarantee that tuition is 

provided for students whose parents 

and grandparents invested in 

the Prepaid Affordable College 

Tuition plan, or PACT. One of the 

bills would prevent colleges from 

increasing tuition for PACT participants 

by more than 2.5 percent. 

That cap on tuition was 

opposed by colleges and universities 

and was not included in a version 

of the bill that passed the 

Senate earlier. 

The sponsor of the Senate bill, 

Sen. Ted Little, said it would be 

unconstitutional for the Legislature 

to tell universities how much 

they can charge for tuition. 

House members voted 104-0 

to pass the main bill by Rep. Craig 

Ford after voting 53-40 to reject 

an amendment to remove the 

tuition cap. The House and Senate 

both must pass the same version 

of the bill before it can become 

law. 

Little said he doesn’t believe 

the Senate will agree with the language 

capping tuition, and he 

expects the main bill to end up in 

a House-Senate conference committee 

to work out the differences. 

Parents and grandparents who 

bought PACT contracts filled the 

House balcony during the debate. 

Amy Mallett of Montgomery 

said she bought two PACT contracts 

— one for a child currently 

Alabama Lobbyists Violate 2-Year College Rules 

in college and the other for one 

still in high school. She said she 

was sure her contracts were guaranteed 

when she bought them. 

“It was a shock to me when I 

got the letter saying there was a 

problem,” Mallett said. 

She said she supports capping 

how much the colleges can raise 

tuition. 

“I think they can handle it,” 

Mallett said. 

Rep. Mike Hubbard, whose 

district includes Auburn University, 

said he supports guaranteeing 

the PACT contracts, but opposes 

capping tuition increases. 

“By putting a cap on you are 

putting an enormous burden on 

higher education to solve this 

problem,” Hubbard said. 

One of the bills, by Rep. Greg 

Wren, set up a separate board to 

operate the PACT program. 


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Toyota, from page 18, col. 5 

landowners cashed in by setting 

up places for out-of-town workers 

to live in trailers. Those trailer 

hook ups are mostly empty now, 

and it’s easier to find a seat during 

lunch at Gentry’s. 

Many customers at the small 

store, who sit at folding tables and 

wash down barbecue with sweet 

tea, wonder if the plant will ever 

open. 

One of them is 76-year-old 

Lamar Pannell. 

“I hope it opens. A lot of people 

around here could use the 

work. Mike (Gentry) says it’s 

going to open, but I don’t know.” 

Gentry responds, “I tell it this 

way, they’ve put a lot of money 

into it for it not to open.” 

Toyota says $300 million has 

been invested at the site, and the 

company has pledged $50 million 

to Mississippi schools for educational 

programs. 

About 70 people, including 

management, security and others, 

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) 

— Lobbyists have been 

representing Jefferson State 

and Central Alabama community 

colleges in the state Legislature, 

which is a violation of a systemwide 

ban on the practice, officials 

said. 

The Birmingham News reported 

that records indicate lobbyists 

representing both schools have 

rescinded their state registrations. 

System spokeswoman Martha 

Simmons said presidents of the 

colleges met with Chancellor 

Freida Hill, and that any lobbying 

activity not authorized by the 

chancellor “constitutes insubordination” 

on the part of the colleges. 

The two-year system barred 

lobbying by individual colleges in 

2005 after some lobbyists and college 

officials were implicated in a 

wide-ranging federal investigation. 

Lobbying was limited to the 

system, rather than the individual 

schools, as part of the effort to 

clean up the corruption. 

But the limits haven’t always 

been strictly enforced and Simmons 

said registered lobbyists 

Wayne Shaddix and Steve Mahaffey 

were reported to be on the 

floor of the Legislature. 

Both Shaddix, who represented 

Jefferson State, and Mahaffey, 

who represented Central Alabama, 

have filed with the Alabama 

Ethics Commission to rescind 

their registrations as lobbyists for 

the schools, according to state 

records. 

Judy Merritt, president of Jefferson 

State, said Shaddix is a 

full-time employee in the college’s 

office of governmental relations 

who was registered erroneously 

and as a matter of routine. 

His registration was rescinded 

immediately after Hill raised concerns. 

”It was a mistake. We haven’t 

hired a lobbyist,” Merritt said. 

Merritt said that system policy 

bars the hiring of outside lobbyists, 

not the use of full-time 

employees. 

Efforts to reach officials with 

Central Alabama were unsuccessful. 

But a man identified as Steve 

Mahaffey was paid $2,617 by the 

college during the 2009 legislative 

session, according to financial 

disclosure records. 

Mahaffey, who is not listed as 

a college employee on the school’s 

Web site, had been registered as a 

lobbyist for the institution since at 

least 2008, according to Ethics 

Commission records. 


work at the plant now in “production 

preparation activities,” 

Copenhaver said. 

Other international companies 

have expressed interest in 

opening plants in Mississippi 

since Toyota announced it would, 

said Randy Kelley, director of 

Three Rivers Planning and 

Development District, the fiscal 

and administrative agency for the 

PUL alliance, a joint venture of 

three counties around Blue 

Springs that worked to bring the 

plant here. 

Kelley wouldn’t name those 

companies, citing a need for 

secrecy in economic development 

projects. 

In any case, new jobs are 

sorely needed in Mississippi, 

where the statewide unemployment 

rate has topped 10 percent, 

above the national average of 9.7 

percent. 

At Itawamba Community 

College, many students are pondering 

their next move. 

Barry Emison, a tool and dye 

technology teacher at ICC, said 

“about 100 percent” hoped to get 

a job at Toyota or one of the suppliers 

that plan to set up shop in 

Mississippi. 

“Yeah, there’s disappointment, 

but (the students) all are 

still looking forward to that day 

Toyota does come,” Emison said. 

“We still believe they’re gonna 

be here (and) they’re going to be 

a driving force in the local economy.” 

Toyota thinks so, too. 

“We’re still here,” Copenhaver 

said. 

So is McShan, who says he’ll 

do whatever it takes to provide 

for his little girl while waiting and 

hoping for a job at Toyota. 

“I drive by (the plant) all the 

time,” he said. “It gives me a 

glimpse of hope.” 


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Rock On: 

BY THOMAS J. SHEERAN, ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER 

Ohio College Partners with 

Museum’s Archive, Library 

CLEVELAND (AP) — 

There’s always been 

room at the Rock and 

Roll Hall of Fame and Museum 

for the exciting, most popular 

relics, like Michael Jackson’s 

“Thriller” mask and John 

Lennon’s Sgt. Pepper uniform. 

But most of the not-so-flashy 

mementos were tucked away in 

storage. 

Visitors will get a chance to 

see those hidden artifacts beginning 

later this year, when the 

museum opens its library and 

archives in a recently completed 

high-tech building it shares with 

Cuyahoga Community College’s 

creative arts programs. 

The museum has begun moving 

photos, recordings, albums 

and covers, oral histories, scrap 

books and other packed materials 

from its iconic glass pyramid 

overlooking Lake Erie to the 

new, low-key building two miles 

away. 

The items also include such 

gems as Jim Morrison’s first 

poem, video from the 1981-82 

Rolling Stones tour and personal 

letters from the Grateful Dead, 

Whitney Houston, Patti Smith 

and others. Posters of Alan 

Freed, the DJ credited with coining 

the phrase rock ‘n’ roll, and 

aging LP records also will find a 

home in the $12 million building. 

The records will be digitized 

and available for listening. 

The library will be the most 

Architect Robert Madison discusses the new Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum 

Library and archives in Cleveland. The library and archives will share a high-tech 

building with Cuyahoga Community College’s creative arts programs. It will open to 

the public later this year. The library/archives include photos, recordings, albums and 

covers, oral histories, scrap books and contracts. 

comprehensive repository of 

rock history, with materials 

donated by hall of fame 

inductees and wannabes who see 

it as a way to preserve their stories, 

said Deborah Campana, 

librarian of the Oberlin Conservatory 

of Music. 

Beyond its research value to 

scholars, the library should 

appeal to rock fans, Campana 

said. 

“They’ve grown up loving it 

and when they see the artifacts 

associated with it, it takes their 

appreciation to a whole new 

level,” she said. 

Architect Robert Madison 

designed the building that will 

house the library and archives. 

Madison, who collaborated with 

AP PHOTO/TONY DEJAK 

I.M. Pei on the rock hall design, 

said there was never a goal to 

create another rock shrine. 

The library will not focus on 

individual artists in rock history, 

Madison said. Its primary goal is 

to provide a place where visitors 

can “study the history and the 

philosophy of the people who 

lived in that period,” he said. 

The rock hall and community 

college plan collaborations, such 

as training student interns how to 

preserve half-century old recordings. 

Students may have a chance 

to experience the excitement of 

finding a hidden treasure when 

they open a box of donated items 

for the first time, said Andy 

Leach, director of the library and 

archives. 

“It can be daunting, but it can 

also be very thrilling to see some 

of these things for the first time 

that are going to really help people 

and educate people about 

rock ‘n’ roll,” Leach said. 

Tracy Marie, 34, a Cuyahoga 

Community College recording 

arts student and professional 

singer, said she hopes the rock 

hall-college collaboration will 

encourage young artists to aspire 

to have their campus studio work 

enshrined in the archive. 

“Eventually the stuff we’re 

making there is going to be 

archived someday,” she said. 


Briefs, 

from page 3, col. 3 

The Springfield News-Leader 

reports that the largest percentage 

increase was at Crowder College 

in Neosho, where enrollment was 

up 22.3 percent. Close behind was 

Moberly Area Community 

College, with an increase of 22.2 

percent. 

Association president Jim 

Kellerman says more people are 

attending the colleges because of 

difficult economic times. 

JoCo College 

Considers New 

Culinary Building 

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. 

(AP) — Increasing interest in 

food, cooking and hospitality 

careers is prompting Johnson 

County Community College to 

consider building a new center for 

such academic programs. 

The college wants to raise 

$3 million to help pay for a new 

center for expanded culinary and 

hospitality programs. 

The Kansas City Star reports 

that the college doesn’t currently 

have the space to meet demand for 

such courses. 

Business Dean Lindy Robinson 

says a new building would 

allow for both professional level 

courses, and courses and seminars 

for non-professional. 

The college’s board of trustees 

agreed last week that if the college’s 

foundation can raise the 

money within 18 months, the 

board will approve the $10 million 

construction project. 

Ex-Cop Tied to 

Shakedown of Pa. 

College. 

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — 

Authorities say an ex-police 

officer threatened to expose 

alleged criminal activity at a 

Philadelphia-area junior college 

unless the school waived his son’s 

housing bill. 

Prosecutors charged 55-yearold 

Vincent Gaudini of Philadelphia 

with extortion and other 

offenses for allegedly sending 

a threatening e-mail to Harcum 

College in Bryn Mawr. 

The message said Gaudini 

would tell authorities about 

alleged drugs and guns on campus 

unless it dropped a $3,000 dorm 

fee. 

Montgomery County authorities 

say they found no truth in 

Gaudini’s allegations. 

Gaudini left the Philadelphia 

police force in 1985 on a disability. 

A spokesman for Harcum 

declined comment. 

Tuition Plan for 

Wis. Vets Would 

Cost and Help 

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The 

Legislative Fiscal Bureau says a 

plan to restore a cut in benefits 

provided under the Wisconsin G.I. 

Bill could cost $14.6 million over 

six years. 

Its analysis says the plan by 

Rep. Steve Hilgenberg would 

eventually allow an additional 447 

veterans to attend technical colleges 

and universities tuition-free 

every year. Most of the students 

would be working on graduate 

degrees. 

The fiscal bureau cautioned its 

analysis was an estimate, and actual 

cost and enrollment could vary 

significantly. 

Lawmakers last year decided 

to require veterans to exhaust a 

new federal education benefit 

before tapping the Wisconsin G.I. 

Bill. Hilgenberg’s plan would 

grant veterans as much as 64 credit 

hours of additional tuition for free. 

Lawmaker 

Named Head Of 

Ark. College 

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) 

— State Rep. Steve Cole of 

Lockesburg has been approved 

as chancellor of Cossatot Community 

College in De Queen. 

The University of Arkansas 

board of trustees voted 9-0 

Wednesday to approve Cole on 

the recommendation of UA System 

President B. Allen Sugg. 

Cole will replace retiring Chancellor 

Frank Adams. Cole has 

been at Cossatot for 13 years — 

both as a faculty member and an 

administrator. He is currently 

the vice chancellor and dean of 

academics. 

He is serving his first term 

as a member of the state House 

of Representatives. He says he 

will resign from the House 

when he takes over as chancellor 

on July 1. 

Ivy Tech Strikes 

Deal With Online 

University 

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — 

Indiana’s Ivy Tech Community 

College has reached a deal with 

an online university that could 

See Briefs, page 21, col. 1


technology today 

College Gets Sticker Shock on Cost 

Of Electric Car-Charging Station 

BY GREG BOLT, THE REGISTER-GUARD 

Briefs, from page 20, col. 5 

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — 

Lane Community College 

has come face to face with 

one of the biggest hurdles to 

petroleum-free energy: expensive 

infrastructure. 

LCC plans to build what 

appears to be the Lane County 

area’s first major electric carcharging 

station powered by 

solar energy. The idea was innovative 

enough to win the Eugene 

Water & Electric Board’s firstever 

Greenpower grant last year, 

providing $100,000 of what was 

expected to be an $800,000 

project. 

But it turns out that building 

solar-powered car charging stations 

is more expensive than the 

college thought — almost twice 

as expensive, in fact. 

Instead of two charging stations 

producing a total of 75 to 80 

kilowatts of electricity with electric 

hookups for 36 cars, as LCC 

originally wanted, the project has 

been scaled back by half. The 

new plan calls for one station generating 

35 to 40 kilowatts for 18 

charging stations, at a cost now 

estimated at $675,000. 

LCC is paying for its share of 

the funding, $575,000, from the 

$83 million bond measure voters 

approved in 2008 for campus 

improvements. 

LCC expects to begin construction 

in August. The solar 

panels and hookups will be built 

in what is known as Parking Lot 

B, which faces the main entrance 

to campus, and is expected to be 

complete before classes begin in 

September. 

Dennis Carr, LCC’s human 

resources director, said it was initially 

difficult to estimate how 

much the project would cost. 

Partly, that is due to the 

required infrastructure. The solar 

panels will generate more electricity 

than needed, especially in 

the beginning when few electric 

vehicles will be on the market, 

and the college plans to pump 

excess energy back into the electrical 

grid. 

Also, the station will have 

solar panels placed on supports so 

they provide a shaded parking 

area for cars that are recharging. 

All the electrical equipment plus 

building a structure strong 

enough to handle the panels combined 

to drive up costs, Carr said. 

“We’ve had to kind of rightsize 

our ambitions here,” he said. 

The college is looking for 

other funding to build the second 

charging station and complete the 

original vision. That station 

would be on the other side of 

campus, in Parking Lot N. 

LCC President Mary Spilde 

strongly supports the project. 

Even though few electric vehicles 

are on the road, the charging station 

will prove its worth, she said. 

“We’re trying to do something 

that is part of the future,” Spilde 

said. “You don’t want to take a 

bet on everything that is futuristic, 

but we think this is a fairly 

good bet. We believe that electric 

cars are going to be part of our 

future, and we want to be ready 

for that.” 

Some free-market, small-government 

advocates disagree. Todd 

Wynn, of the Cascade Policy 

Institute in Portland, said it’s 

wrong to use taxpayer money on 

such a project, especially considering 

only 400 electric vehicles 

are registered in Oregon. 

“I see this as probably one of 

the most egregious examples of 

government waste that I’ve probably 

seen in this state in a little 

while,” Wynn said. “It amazes me 

that we’re using public funds to 

subsidize and pay for a charging 

station that can only benefit 

approximately 400 electric vehicle 

owners in the state.” 

Wynn said that if there’s 

demand for charging stations, the 

market will provide them, much 

as many retail businesses now 

offer free wireless Internet service. 

Even if electric cars catch on 

in the future, he still doesn’t see 

charging stations as a legitimate 

government expense. 

It’s unclear how many people 

might use the LCC charging station. 

Carr acknowledged it may 

have few or no customers right 

away because plug-in cars have 

not yet hit the market. But he said 

in three to five years it will be a 

different story. 

Many government agencies 

are climbing on board the electric 

vehicle, or EV, bandwagon. The 

city of Eugene, University of Oregon 

and EWEB all have plans to 

set up charging stations for the 

cars, and several dozen already 

have been installed in the Portland 

area, said Art James of the 

state Department of Energy. 

Although few of the cars are 

on the road now, several major 

auto companies, including Nissan, 

Ford, Chevrolet and Daimler, 

plan to introduce all-electric models 

late this year or next. James 

said projects such as LCC’s will 

be key to their success because 

they will help reduce “range anxiety,” 

the fear of running out of 

juice and being stranded. 

“Having public charging is 

critical to the adoption of EVs 

because without that infrastructure 

people won’t make the 

investment in the vehicles,” he 

said. 

“What we’re trying to achieve 

through the public charging is to 

have people feel comfortable and 

have confidence they’ll be able to 

get a charge and return to their 

destination.” 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

make it more affordable for 

students to complete a bachelor’s 

degree. 

Ivy Tech graduates who have 

finished their associate degrees 

are eligible for an application fee 

waiver to Salt Lake City-based 

Western Governors University. 

Ivy Tech grads can also get a 5 

percent discount on WGU’s 

tuition. 

WGU also is earmarking 10 

scholarships valued at up to 

$2,000 for qualified Ivy Tech 

grads. 

Western Governors University 

is a private, nonprofit university 

designed for working adults 

trying to advance their careers by 

completing a bachelor’s or master’s 

degree. It says its online 

approach is both flexible and 

challenging. 

Iowa College 

Foresees Record 

Enrollment 

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — 

Enrollment is expected to be at a 

record levels this spring at Des 

Moines Area Community College. 

Laurie Wolf is executive dean 

of students services and she says 

enrollment at the school’s six campuses 

“is at all-time highs.” 

She attributes the increases to 

older Iowans seeking new careers, 

more traditional age students and 

more veterans. 

School officials say it will be 

the 10th straight year for record 

spring enrollment. 

They say they expect a 17 percent 

increase over the same time 

last year at the six campuses and 

two learning centers. 

Regents Give a 

New Name to 

Maui College 

HONOLULU (AP) — Maui 

Community College has a new 

name. 

It was changed to the 

University of Hawaii Maui College 

by the UH Board of Regents. 

The university says the name 

change was proposed to accurately 

represent the college’s 

programs and services that now 

include 15 associate and two 

four-year baccalaureate degrees. 

The school was the first UH 

community college to grant a 

four-year degree when the 

bachelor of applied science in 

applied business and information 

technology was approved 

in 2005.


technology today 

The Craigslist Phenomenon 

Reveals Much About Society 

BY REID GOLDSBOROUGH 

“The world is too much 

with us; late and 

soon/Getting and spending, 

we lay waste our powers...” 

The poet William Wordsworth’s 

words of 203 years ago 

are still very much relevant today. 

Yet the getting and spending of 

commerce is one of the defining 

characteristics of modern free 

market society. And one of the 

SPECIAL 

more curious aspects of the free 

market today is Craigslist 

(www.craigslist.org), the world’s 

largest classified ad service. 

Like the online auction behemoth 

eBay (www.ebay.com), 

Craigslist as a phenomenon offers 

interesting commentary about the 

larger society. 

Craigslist was founded by, not 

surprisingly, a guy named Craig. 

Craig Newmark initiated the service 

in 1995, using email and 

focusing exclusively on events in 

the San Francisco Bay area, alerting 

friends. Soon others began 

using the service to announce 

jobs, then other categories came 

into existence. The services 

expanded onto the Web a year 

later, and in 2000 it expanded to 

ten cities. 

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colleges across the country. 

Today Craigslist’s coverage 

encompasses more than 700 cities 

or larger geographical areas all 

over the world. Craigslist is the 

11th most popular website in the 

U.S., according to Alexa.com. 

More than 50 million new classified 

ads each month are placed on 

Craigslist’s sites, which are 

defined by geographical area. Ads 

range from announcements of 

community events to personals, 

from job and housing listings to 

for-sale announcements and service 

offerings in a multiplicity of 

categories. Many discussion 

forums exist as well. 

Craigslist and eBay are polar 

opposites. eBay is infamous for 

leveraging its virtual monopoly 

status, continuously increasing its 

fees and earning ever increasing 

profits, generating criticism 

among its users ranging from 

grumbling to outrage. Craigslist 

has remained true to the early 

Internet ethic, promoting the 

common good, and it has generated 

enormous goodwill among its 

users. Reading and responding to 

ads on Craigslist is free, and posting 

ads is free as well, with the 

exception of most job postings 

and broker apartment listings in 

selected cities along with ads for 

adult and therapeutic services. 

When Craigslist is written 

about in the media, mention is frequently 

made that Craigslist could 

be earning far more money than it 

does and that founder Newmark 

could be fabulously wealthy. 

According to all appearances, 

Newmark is an idealist rather than 

capitalist, a technologist who takes 

pride in his work and who’s a 

vocal advocate for keeping the 

Internet free. He spends a lot of his 

time working at Craigslist in customer 

service. He has indicated 

that he wants only enough money 

to pay the bills and live comfortably. 

Craigslist doesn’t even use 

banner ads. 

Craigslist is a for-profit entity, 

having incorporated that way in 

1999. Ironically, eBay bought a 

25 percent share of Craigslist in 

2004. Craigslist contended eBay 

bought this stock surreptitiously 

from an early Craigslist employee. 

eBay contended it discussed it 

with Craigslist’s board. 

eBay promised no meddling 

at the time, but it filed a stockholder 

lawsuit against Craigslist 

four years later. eBay claimed that 

Craigslist had “unfairly diluted 

eBay’s economic interest,” without 

specifying precisely how, but 

it appears that Craigslist doesn’t 

try to maximize profit the way 

eBay thinks it should. 

Only in America would you 

be sued for being a do-gooder. 

Still, Craigslist hasn’t been without 

controversy. 

In 2002 Craigslist put a 

disclaimer on its “men seeking 

men” section but not on its “men 

seeking women,” “women seeking 

men,” or “women seeking 

women” sections. In 2009, after 

criticism that its erotic services 

ads were being used for prostitution 

and a lawsuit by a local Illinois 

sheriff’s department, it 

replaced its “erotic services” section 

with an “adult services” section 

and began manually reviewing 

each posting. 

In 2008, a woman in Michigan 

was charged with using 

Craigslist in hiring a contract 

killer to murder a romantic rival 

in California. In 2009, ABC radio 

news reporter George Weber was 

allegedly murdered by a man in 

Brooklyn after the two met 

through Craigslist. 

In 2008, a Vancouver couple 

attempted to sell a week-old baby 

on the site, with the couple later 

contending it was a joke. In 2009 

members of Pranknet, a virtual 

community, were discovered using 

Craigslist to post fake ads and then 

shouting racist or obscene insults 

at those who phoned. 

Monetary scams are also a 

presence on Craigslist, as they are 

elsewhere on the Internet, with bad 

guys trying to cheat you out of 

your hard-earned money. 

Craigslist provides good guidance 

to avoid becoming victim on its 

page about scams (www.craigslist. 

org/about/scams). PC World magazine, 

in one of its “Consumer 

Advice” columns, also provides 

some valuable tips (www.pcworld. 

com/article/188584). 

Reid Goldsborough is a 

syndicated columnist and 

author of the book Straight 

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Superhighway. 

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around campus 

The percussive sounds of 

6,000 pounds of drums 

filled Illinois’ Elgin Community 

College Visual and Performing 

Arts Center’s Blizzard 

Theatre during a performance by 

the Japanese taiko drumming 

ensemble Shidara. Shidara continues 

the traditions rooted in the 

700-year-old harvest festival in 

the remote Japanese village 

where group members were 

raised. Blending masterful skill, 

blinding energy and breakneck 

speed, Shidara has performed to 

standing ovations in Taipei, Norway, 

Sweden, Martinique and the 

United States. This presentation 

is supported by the Performing 

Arts Fund, a program of Arts 

Midwest funded in part by the 

National Endowment for the 

Arts, with additional contributions 

from Illinois Arts Council, 

the General Mills Foundation and 

the Land O’Lakes Foundation. 

Let’s get one thing straight: 

Marly Treier loves flowers. 

Her favorite is a pink 

daisy. As a little girl, Treier, 23, 

could always count on receiving 

a bouquet of flowers from her 

grandfather on her birthday. 

More recently, she arranged the 

floral arrangements for her 

grandparents’ 50th wedding 

anniversary celebration. Treier 

recently became a Michigan 

Certified Florist, a designation 

awarded by the Michigan Floral 

Association. Only a couple of 

dozen florists in the state hold 

that certification. For Treier, 

completing the certification was 

particularly rewarding, as she 

had to overcome a learning disability 

that makes reading and 

memorizing difficult. Treier took 

advantage of a series of floral 

design classes offered through 

the Workforce & Continuing 

Education program at Macomb 

Community College in Warren, 

Mich., to help her earn her MCF 

certification. Treier has taken 

about 30 classes in the floral program 

at Macomb. To earn the 

certification, Treier had to memorize 

the Latin and common 

names of more than 130 different 

types of flowers and houseplants 

and how to care for them. 

The Japanese drum 

ensemble Shidara. 

Marly Treier recently became a Michigan Certified 

Florist, thanks in part to a number of floral design 

classes she took at Macomb Community College in 

suburban Detroit. 

Larissa Landis enjoys 

spending time with 

children during her 

mission trips to Haiti. 

Larissa Landis returned 

to her classes at Montgomery 

County Community 

College (Penn.) in 

January after arriving home 

safely from a church mission 

trip to Haiti, but her heart 

continues to be with her 

Haitian friends. Landis, with 

26 other volunteers from 

Souderton Mennonite 

Church, went to Haiti on Jan. 

9 for their annual weeklong 

mission trip. During prior 

visits, they helped with two 

water projects. This time the 

volunteers felt the ground 

move under their feet on Jan. 

12 when a major earthquake 

hit 70 miles away in the city 

of Port-au-Prince. Fortunately, 

there was not much 

damage to villages Landis 

visited and only a few minor 

injuries. Landis is working 

on her associate degree in 

Early Childhood Education 

and will graduate in the fall 

of 2010. 

grants&gifts 

The Southern Illinois Healthcare 

Foundation and the Lewis and 

Clark Community College 

Nurse Managed Center have 

been awarded a $75,000 Safety- 

Net Enhancement Initiative grant 

from the Kresge Foundation. The 

grant will be used by both organizations 

to develop a strategy 

aimed at reducing health disparities 

in Calhoun, Jersey, Green, 

Macoupin and northern Madison 

counties. The partnership will 

integrate Southern Illinois 

Healthcare Foundation’s primary 

care services with Lewis and 

Clark’s Nurse Managed Center 

and its academic setting to create 

a unique healthcare delivery 

model. 

From left: Monica Smith, STCC Macon Cove Campus 

bookstore manager; Beth Lucero, Follett Higher Education 

Group regional manager; Larry Burton, Union 

Avenue Campus bookstore manager; Mary McDaniel, 

STCC Foundation board vice president; College 

President Nathan Essex; and Vice President for Institutional 

Advancement Karen Nippert. 

Southwest Tennessee Community 

College has been awarded a 

$250,000 donation from the Follett 

Higher Education Group. The 

contribution will go toward construction 

of the first phase of the 

nursing, natural sciences and 

biotechnology facility scheduled 

to be built on the Union Avenue 

campus. The donation was presented 

to STCC President Nathan 

L. Essex, Vice President for Institutional 

Advancement Karen Nippert 

and STCC Foundation Board 

Vice President Mary McDaniel at 

the foundation’s quarterly board 

meeting. Beth Lucero, regional 

manager for Follett, said the company 

is pleased to build upon it’s 

20-year history of contributing to 

the college. To date, about $10 

million has been raised to support 

the college’s latest expansion 

efforts as part of the largest capital 

campaign in the college’s history. 

The foundation is in the 

process of raising $16.75 million 

through individual, corporate, 

foundation and organizational 

support to build a new 74,000- 

square-foot nursing, natural sciences, 

and biotechnology facility. 

The New Choices Program 

at Pennsylvania’s Delaware 

County Community College 

has received a $3,781 grant from 

the Emergency Aid of Pennsylvania 

Foundation, Inc. The grant 

will be used to strengthen 

employment services to program 

clients who have the greatest 

barriers and needs for employment. 

The New Choices Program 

was created 27 years ago to 

address the critical needs of single 

parents, displaced homemakers 

and single pregnant women 

by providing assistance in education 

and training to assist them in 

becoming economically self-sufficient. 

The program’s client 

population is overwhelming 

female, although males are occasionally 

served. The Emergency 

Aid of Pennsylvania Foundation, 

Inc. seeks to improve the lives of 

women and children, enhance 

the quality of life in families and 

encourage leadership and good 

citizenship among girls. Its mission 

is accomplished through 

grants to non-profit organizations, 

through Founders Awards 

which recognize and support 

outstanding girls during their 

high school years and with fouryear 

scholarships for selected 

recipients.


faculty lounge 

Bill Lewis 

Bill Lewis, director of the theater 

and the drama program at Guilford 

Technical Community College 

in Kentucky for nearly 21 years, 

led a discussion group at the 61st annual 

Southeastern Theatre Conference. 

More than 4,000 people attended the 

conference, which was held at the Lexington 

Convention Center in Lexington, 

Ky. Lewis was one of several presenters 

on a variety of topics. His discussion 

group was aimed at college theatre 

staffs with three or fewer employees. 

Being the head of a three-person staff 

helps Lewis understand the challenges 

these small staffs encounter. Lewis, who 

earned his doctorate in theater at Southern 

Illinois University at Carbondale, 

has been attending the conference for 17 

years. He received his undergraduate 

degree at Glenville State College and a 

master’s degree in drama from West 

Virginia University. 

Kate Karpinski, a student at the new Michigan State University College of Osteopathic 

Medicine at Macomb Community College’s University Center in Clinton Township, 

Mich., leads college and university officials on a tour of one of the classrooms after a 

Feb. 22 ribbon-cutting. Listening to Karpinski are, from left to right: Lou Anna K. 

Simon, MSU president; Nancy Falcone, chair of Macomb’s board of trustees; and 

James Jacobs, Macomb’s president. 

Students had already started classes 

when the ribbon was cut Feb. 22 on 

Michigan State University College of 

Osteopathic Medicine at Macomb Community 

College’s University Center, but that 

didn’t make it any less auspicious of an 

occasion. Beyond the collaboration 

between college and university, the site represents 

broad-based, active community 

support from elected officials from all levels 

of government, osteopathic physicians, 

the county’s hospitals and healthcare facilities, 

labor organizations and the county’s 

educational and business communities. 

Macomb is the first community college in 

the United States to share one of its campuses 

with a medical 

school. The new medical 

school is also a 

first for Macomb 

County, a community 

of about 830,000 just 

north of Detroit. That 

fact gives hope for the 

revitalization of an 

area hit hard by the 

economic downturn, 

said college President 

James Jacobs. With a 

projected doctor shortage 

threatening to 

compromise the quality 

of health care, MSU 

administration had 

been interested for several 

years in establishing 

a medical school in 

southeastern Michigan, 

the most densely 

populated area of the 

state. The goal was to 

expand upon the excellence 

of its medical 

school in East Lansing, 

which is ranked seventh 

in the nation among all medical 

schools for primary care education. The 

decision to establish two sites — one at the 

Detroit Medical Center and the other at 

Macomb Community College — was made 

on the basis of both need and the college’s 

history of forging and sustaining partnerships 

that benefit the community it serves. 

honors&awards 

The Foundation for Seminole State 

College of Florida received an Award of 

Excellence from the Council for 

Advancement and Support of Education. 

The award, presented in the Educational 

Fundraising Projects category, recognized 

the foundation’s October 2009 Blue & 

Gold Circle employee giving campaign. 

Entitled “Food for Thought,” the campaign 

challenged faculty and staff to 

nourish minds at Seminole State by 

donating to the college’s areas of greatest 

need or to a particular program or scholarship. 

To kick off the month-long initiative 

and encourage participation, the 

foundation gave every college employee 

a reusable Blue & Gold Circle lunch bag. 

Overall, 218 faculty and staff members 

— nearly 30 percent — responded, 

donating $75,565 in the form of payroll 

deductions and one-time gifts. The figure 

marks a 10.1 percent increase over 2008. 

The Blue & Gold Circle is an annual 

donor club created specifically for 

employees who give back to the college. 

Mary Palmer, director of child care 

centers for Southwest Tennessee Community 

College, received the Stand for 

Children and United Way of Tennessee’s 

Children’s Champion, Early 

Learning Pioneer Award. Palmer is the 

first-ever recipient of the award, which 

now will be presented annually. It was 

Mary Palmer (center) receives 

the Early Learning Pioneer Children’s Champion Award. 

created as a way of honoring Palmer’s 

work with children, according to the 

Stand for Children office in Memphis. 

Palmer, a doctoral candidate at the University 

of Memphis, has given more 

than 30 years service to the child care 

centers at Southwest, where she manages 

more than 60 staff members, 

including student workers and volunteer 

grandparents, and has 200 children 

enrolled in the programs on two campuses. 

She is active in the local Association 

for the Education of Young Children 

and Stand for Children, and she 

consistently lends her voice to serve as 

an advocate for children. 

Brian Geislinger, physics instructor at 

Alabama’s Gadsden State Community 

College, has been named the recipient of 

the 2010 Vernier Technology Award. The 

award, which is co-sponsored by the 

National Science Teachers Association, is 

presented to seven individuals nationwide 

who promote cutting-edge techniques for 

data-collection technology using various 

handheld electronics 

in the 

classroom. Geislinger 

is the only 

recipient at the 

college level. 

Geislinger, who 

uses Vernier technology 

in his student 

astronomy 

labs, was nominated 

for developing 

a unique 

approach to study 

light curves of 

Brian Geislinger 

various astronomical 

phenomena. 

He said that the study of light 

curves shows how light from an object, 

such as a star or a planet, changes over 

time. In addition to his award, Geislinger 

will receive a $1,000 cash award 

and $1,000 in Vernier technology products 

and up to $1,000 toward expenses to 

attend the annual NSTA National Convention. 

Geislinger, who has been with 

Gadsden State since 2007, received his 

bachelor of science in applied mathematics 

from Spring Hill College, a master’s 

degree in physics and a doctorate in 

physics from the University of Alabama 

Birmingham. He has been published in 

both SPIE Proceedings and Physical 

Review E journals.


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APPOINTMENTS 

William D. McInnis 

Stephen M. Kozachyn 

Kathy Scott Rummage 

Brian Botts 

Jerrilee K. Mosier 

William D. McInnis has been 

named president of Richmond 

Community College in Hamlet, N. 

C. He joined the college in 2002 as 

vice president for administration 

and has served as executive vice 

president since 2007. McInnis 

holds a doctorate in higher education 

administration from North 

Carolina State University, a master’s 

degree in business administration 

from Campbell University, 

and a bachelor’s degree in business 

management from the University 

of North Carolina at Pembroke. 

Wake Forest University, Rummage 

has a bachelor’s degree in 

communications. 

Edison Collegiate High School- 

Lee Campus, part of Florida’s Edison 

State College, has announced 

that Brian Botts has accepted the 

position of school principal. Botts’ 

career began as a science teacher 

at Lehigh Senior High School in 

Lee County, Fla., and he currently 

is principal of Fort Myers Middle 

Academy. The Edison high 

school’s four-year curriculum will 

provide the opportunity for students 

to complete a high school 

diploma and an associate degree 

simultaneously, with a focus on 

the STEM fields. Bott’s holds a 

master’s degree in educational 

leadership from Florida Gulf 

Coast University and a Ph.D. in 

human resource development from 

Barry University. 

Ivy Tech Community College 

(Ind.) announced that Jerrilee K. 

Mosier is the new chancellor of 

the college’s Northeast Region. 

Mosier will begin her new role 

July 1. She has worked in community 

colleges for more than 20 

years. She most recently served for 

12 years as vice president of workforce 

development at Edmonds 

Community College (Wash). 

Mosier earned a doctorate in higher 

education administration from 

Oklahoma State University, a master’s 

in learning disabilities from 

the University of Tulsa, and a 

bachelor of science degree from 

Oklahoma State University. 

Salem Community College (N.J.) 

has appointed Stephen M. 

Kozachyn as assistant professor in 

business. Kozachyn brings to the 

college more than 25 years of 

experience in business. His recent 

work was primarily in the areas of 

new product development, entrepreneurship 

and global operations 

management. Prior to joining 

SCC, Kozachyn taught courses at 

Rowan University. He has also 

taught at Camden County College 

and Gloucester County College. 

Kozachyn received a bachelor of 

science degree in mechanical engineering 

from Thomas Edison State 

College and a master of science in 

engineering management from the 

New Jersey Institute of Technology. 

He earned a master of business 

administration degree from 

Rowan University. 

Central Piedmont Community 

College (N.C.) announced that 

Kathy Scott Rummage has been 

selected as the new executive 

director of communications of its 

Community Relations and Marketing 

Services Department. She 

will provides strategic oversight of 

the college’s communications initiatives, 

including social media. 

Prior to joining CPCC, Rummage 

provided professional public relations 

services for such clients as 

Charlotte’s Blumenthal Performing 

Arts Center. She also was a 

broadcast journalist, working at 

TV stations in North Carolina and 

Louisiana. A 1997 graduate of 

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Doña Ana Community College, a Hispanic serving institution, is the fourth largest postsecondary 

institution in the state of New Mexico. Las Cruces, nestled in the south central part of the state 

bordering Texas and Chihuahua, Mexico, is New Mexico’s second largest city with moderately 

hot summers and sunny, mild winters. The cultural amenities of a university community and the 

excitement of an ethnically diverse population attract people to the area, making it one of the 

fastest growing communities in the country Doña Ana Community College has the following 

position available: 

Vice President for Academic Affairs 

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Earned Doctorate from an accredited institution. Degree must be in hand by hire date. 

Minimum of five years of progressively responsible instructional administration experience in 

higher education, at least three years of which must be recent experience in a technical or 

community college setting 

Three years’ full-time teaching experience in an accredited community college. 

RESPONSIBILITIES: 

The Vice President for Academic Affairs is the chief instructional officer of the college, reporting 

directly to the President, and overseeing the Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs; Division 

Deans; Workforce Development Officer; and Campus Directors. The VP for Academic Affairs will 

work closely with the Vice President for Business and Finance and Vice President for Student 

Services to promote connections between the multiple functions of the community college. 

Salary is commensurate with education and experience. 

Postmark deadline to apply is March 31, 2010. 

All applicants will receive a complete job description which can be viewed at 

http://dabcc.nmsu.edu/employment/index.asp 

This web site will also provide instructions on how to apply for each position. 

Human Resources 

Doña Ana Community College 

MSC-3DA, Box 30001 

Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001 

Facsimiles or electronically mailed applications will not be accepted or considered. 

Benefits: Group medical, hospital, and dental insurance, group life insurance, state educational 

retirement, worker’s compensation, unemployment compensation, annual and sick leave. 

Employee or spouse class tuition waiver. All offers of employment, oral and written, are contingent 

on the university's verification of credentials, verification of individual’s eligibility for employment 

in the United States and other information required by federal law, state law, and NMSU 

policies/procedures, and may include the completion of a criminal history check. NMSU/DACC is 

an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer. 

The Lone Star College System continues to grow and 

expand! We invite qualified applicants to apply for the 

following open faculty positions: 

Accounting – PN 30657 

Associate Degree Nursing – PN 40698 

Biology – PN 40691 

Computer Gaming – PN 20584 

Developmental English – PN 80636 

Economics – PN 40697 

Economics – PN 30653 

Education – PN 80638 

English – PN 30668 




History – PN 30667 

History – PN 10916 

HVAC and Refrigeration Technology – PN 10909 

Machining Technology – PN 10907 

Machining Technology – PN 80614 

Mathematics – PN 10919 

Music, Instrumental – PN 20585 

Nursing (ADN) – PN 40698 

Respiratory Care – PN 20583 

Sociology – PN 30652 

Speech – PN 80635 

Surgical Technology – PN (To be posted 3/12/10) 

Welding/Non-Destructive Testing – PN 10908 

At LSCS we bring a history of unprecedented growth and a 

reputation for innovative programs, excellence in instruction, 

and dynamic learning communities. LSCS consists of five 

colleges, six outreach centers, and the University Center and 

serves over 62,000 credit students. We are the largest community 

college system in Houston, second largest in Texas. 

We invite you to learn more about us at: www.lonestar.edu. 

Lone Star College System strives for an inclusive workplace 

that involves individuals from different cultures, backgrounds, 

and abilities interacting to share ideas and 

resources. If you are ready to energize students and make a 

difference, go to: https://jobs.lonestar.edu. “Search and 

Apply” for faculty openings by job posting number (PN). 

Please note that each posting number represents a unique 

faculty opening; applicants wishing to apply for more than 

one position must apply for each posting number separately. 

For technical assistance with the on-line application, e-mail: 

employment@lonestar.edu. 

Criminal background check required. EEO


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Mathematics (Delano Center) 

Nursing (First Review: 5/7/10) 

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Lincoln Land Community 

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Beardstown, Litchfield and 

Hillsboro, Illinois. LLCC 

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was over 17,000 full- and 

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STUDENT SERVICES 

This position will provide leadership and supervision over the college’s student services programs. 

The major programs and functions include: admissions and records, registration services, 

counseling/advising, financial aid, intercollegiate athletics, student life, the Learning Lab (including 

support for students with special needs), placement and testing, the career development center, and 

the multicultural awareness center. The successful candidate should be a dynamic leader with 

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constituency groups. Knowledge of due process requirements with regard to student disciplinary 

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successful candidate, who will be a part of the President’s Cabinet, will play a critical leadership role 

in the college’s continuing work with both the Foundations of Excellence program and the AQIP 

process of the Higher Learning Commission. Additionally, he/she must be comfortable and effective 

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successful completion of a criminal background check and drug screen. Send letter of application 

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Lincoln Land Community College 

5250 Shepherd Road 

P.O. Box 19256 

Springfield, IL 62794-9256 

Email: hr@llcc.edu 

Application forms may be downloaded at www.llcc.edu/hr/ 

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Review of resumes will begin April 12, 2010. 

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Anticipated start date of October 1, 2010. 

Lincoln Land Community College is an equal opportunity employer and educator. 

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ACCOUNTING/BUSINESS INSTRUCTOR 

Closing Date: March 26, 2010 

BIOLOGY INSTRUCTOR 

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CRIMINOLOGY INSTRUCTOR 


ENGLISH INSTRUCTOR - DEVELOPMENTAL COMPOSITION 


MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY/MACHINE SHOP INSTRUCTOR 


PHOTOGRAPHY/GRAPHIC COMMUNICATIONS INSTRUCTOR 


PSYCHOLOGY INSTRUCTOR 


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1525 E. Weldon Avenue, Fresno, CA 93704 

(559) 226-0720 

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Located half-way between San Francisco and Sacramento, Solano CCD invites applications for: 

DEAN OF ACADEMIC SUCCESS & LEARNING RESOURCES 

First review: March 31, 2010 

DEAN OF MATH & SCIENCE DIVISION 

First review: March 22, 2010 

Salary: $93,956 - $118,885 + $2,400 Doctorate Stipend Benefits: District-paid 

medical, dental, vision for employee and dependents. District-paid life insurance for 

employee and 10 years of retiree benefits after 10 years of service. 

To receive information: Visit our web site at http://www.solano.edu/human_ 

resources or call 707-864-7128 to receive information by mail. 

Both positions are open until filled. 

Macomb Community College, located in the 

northeast area of metropolitan Detroit, seeks: 

Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences 

Search Extended, Job 000532 

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Hours may vary. Some evenings / weekends required. 

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Executive Director, The University Center – PN 77060 

Vice President, Instruction – PN 30659 

Vice President, Student Success – PN 30660 

At LSCS we bring a history of unprecedented growth and a reputation for innovative 

programs, excellence in instruction, and dynamic learning communities. LSCS consists 

of five colleges, six outreach centers, and the University Center and serves over 

62,000 credit students. We are the largest community college system in Houston, 

second largest in Texas. We invite you to learn more about us at: www.lonestar.edu. 

Lone Star College System strives for an inclusive workplace that involves individuals 

from different cultures, backgrounds, and abilities interacting to share ideas and 

resources. If you are ready to energize students and make a difference, go to: 

https://jobs.lonestar.edu. “Search and Apply” for administrative openings by job 

posting number (PN) or title/keyword. Please note that each posting number represents 

a unique administrative opening; applicants wishing to apply for more than one 

position must apply for each posting number separately. 

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e-mail: employment@lonestar.edu. 

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CHANCELLOR SEARCH 

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Board is seeking a creative, energetic, dedicated and visionary individual who can lead the District well 

into the 21st century. SJECCD serves about 26,000 students of diverse backgrounds each semester. 

Located in Silicon Valley, SJECCD is comprised of San José City College and Evergreen Valley College. 

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