How Teens Communicate--A Look At Our Future Students

The Pew Research Center has just released a new report on teens and cell phones.  The mobile phone has become the favored communication hub for the majority of American teens.  Fully two-thirds of teen texters say they are more likely to use their cell phones to text their friends than talk to them to them by cell phone.  For many teens, using the cell phone for voice communication is the primary mode of conversing with parents.
http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1572/teens-cell-phones-text-messages

Helping Students Complete Their Programs Of Study

At the American Association of Community Colleges conference, six national associations focused on community colleges are planning a joint statement  pledging a "unified effort" to increase completion rates.  Read the article about this movement from Inside HigherEd:
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/04/19/completion

U.S News and World Report's Latest Issue On Higher Education

The May 2010 issue of U. S. News & World Report has articles about student loans, careers for tomorrow and their school rankings. To see their report about online education with links to other sections:  http://www.usnews.com/sections/education/online-education/index.html

Helping Students Become "Career Ready"

As reported in Inside HigherEd, a new paper just released by the Association for Career and Technical Education describes the three essential areas of preparedness needed for today's college graduates.  Academic skills, employability skills and technical skills, which all work together for success in the workplace. 
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/04/14/definition
and
http://www.acteonline.org/uploadedFiles/Publications_and_Online_Media/files/Career_Readiness_Paper.pdf

Students Who Are Iraq/Afghanistan War Veterans, What Do We Need To Know?

The Chronicle of Higher Education discusses the psychological life of our students who are recent combat veterans.  As the article reminds us, "We in the teaching profession, on campuses where the military/civilian gap still yawns far too wide, have an obligation to help our students understand what soldiers go through and what our responsibility as citizens is to those whom we send to war. We owe soldiers not just public respect, but private respect. One way to give that respect is by understanding, empathically, the moral weight of war that they carry."
http://chronicle.com/article/Soldiers-Moral-Wounds/64987/#top

The Business Of Higher Education--New In The Bankier Library

A new three volume reference set entitled, The Business of Higher Education, is available for use in the Bankier Library.  Arranged by topical areas, there are articles relating to: leadership and culture, management and fiscal strategies, and marketing and consumer interests.  The link to the catalog record in the online catalog is: http://library.brookdalecc.edu/record=b1122471~S0

The Comprehensive College Baccalaureate Association

The Comprehensive College Baccalaureate Association, (formerly the Community College Baccalaureate Association) strives to promote better access to the baccalaureate degree on community college campuses, and to serve as a resource for information on various models for accomplishing this purpose.  Their newsletter is available via email delivery.
http://www.accbd.org/

Struggle To Save N.J. Stars Makes National Headlines

The Chronicle of Higher Education has the following story about N.J. Stars:
http://chronicle.com/article/New-Jersey-Community-Colleges/64971/

Important Roles For Community Colleges During The Economic Recovery

"Community Colleges as Economic Saviors" is a recent article from universitybusiness.com describing how community colleges have developed programs to help students, businesses and local communities rebound from tough economic times.
http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/pmg/ub0310/index.php?startid=34#/36

Community Colleges Need To Assert Themselves In Washington

The following story was reported by NPR about how community colleges have fared with the recent legislation enacted by Congress.  They're in a "Catch 22" situation when it comes to federal legislaltion.  "They don't have a voice because they don't have resources, and they don't have resources because they don't have a voice," states Sara Goldrick-Rab, an education professor at the University of Wisconsin.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125225059