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CRI: 'As rewarding as helping to build airplanes'
... This year, CRI is celebrating 30 years as a member-driven, self-supporting organization
at Edmonds College aiming to provide affordable, lifelong learning opportunities to adults.
Edmonds Beacon, Aug. 31, 2023
WWCC hires new VP of Instruction
Dante Leon has been named the new Vice President of Instruction at Walla Walla Community College. “WWCC is a special place,” Mr. Leon said. “I look forward to supporting its students,
faculty and staff.”
NBC Right Now, Aug. 29, 2023
Are you ready for a full, super, blue moon ... that might actually be red?
... since we are in the territory of rare occurrences, Alice Enevoldsen, an astronomy
teacher at South Seattle College and a NASA solar system ambassador, noted that there is a (tiny) chance that conditions
could align to actually give us a blue, blue moon."If you go out and you see the moon
tomo
KUOW, Aug. 29, 2023
Local archaeology class unearths important piece of Japanese American history in north Seattle
... Last year, an archaeology class led by Dr. Alicia Valentino, associate faculty
of Edmonds College, uncovered remnants of what used to be part of Bea Kumasaka’s old family farm, the
Green Lake Gardens Company.
Northwest Asian Weekly, Aug. 25, 2023
Big Bend Community College brings basic education for adults back to Warden
This September, Big Bend Community College (BBCC) is set to reintroduce its Basic Education for Adults (BEdA) classes in the Warden
community.
Source One, Aug. 24, 2023
Metallica’s foundation continues to donate to SCC to support education for in-demand jobs
Rock on, Spokane Community College. For the fifth year in a row, the school received funding from Metallica’s education
foundation to support career and technical education programs.
Spokesman-Review, Aug. 17, 2023
Higher Education and Politics
Washington Watch: Proposed overtime rule change could hit college administrators
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) this week released a proposed increase in the salary
level below which employees may not be considered “exempt” under the Fair Labor Standards
Act (FLSA) ...
Community College Daily, Aug. 31, 2023
Advocacy quick hits: Appropriations deadline looms
Congressional lawmakers have spent the August recess visiting their home states, districts
and (hopefully) community colleges, but they have a daunting task awaiting them when
they return to Washington.
Community College Daily, Aug. 31, 2023
