| Job training crucial in Granholm's plan | | Posted Wednesday, February 07, 2007 2:52:10 PM by Blog57 Team | | Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm pledged Tuesday to embark on a three-year effort to pay for 100,000 unemployed workers to get two-year college degrees or technical education. The program, which will use federal money for worker retraining, would expand training programs run by local Michigan Works agencies that help 18,000 people a year. Granholm announced the plan, dubbed "No Worker Left Behind," during her annual State of the State address. The speech, before a joint meeting of the state House and Senate, called for a round of new investment in education programs and worker training to help boost a state economy bogged down by job cuts at the Big Three automakers. .... | |
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| | | CUNY Starts Program to Improve Community-College Graduation Rates | | Posted Monday, January 29, 2007 12:52:51 PM by Blog57 Team | | New York City will spend $20-million over the next three years on an ambitious program at the City University of New York to increase graduation rates at its six community colleges. Under the plan, announced in January by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg in his State of the City speech, the university system will identify 1,000 newly admitted, low-income students interested in fields in which there are local employment needs. Groups of students will study and take classes together and will be provided with tutors and mentors. CUNY will also place the students in part-time jobs related to their fields of study. The goal of the plan, known as Accelerated Study in Associated Programs, is for 50 percent of the participants to graduate and find employment within three years of beginning college, and for 75 percent to do so within four years, said Selma Botman, the university's executive vice chancellor for academic affairs.... | |
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| | | Number of 4-year degrees at community colleges limited | | Posted Saturday, January 20, 2007 2:53:41 PM by Blog57 Team | | (AP) -- Leaders of two boards overseeing higher education in Florida have agreed that community colleges can offer four-year degrees but only in the fields of nursing, teaching and applied sciences, education officials announced Thursday. The agreement was signed by leaders of the State Board of Education, which oversees community colleges, and the State University System's board of governors on Jan. 10. Neither board has yet ratified the agreement. ''Florida's university system will always remain as the primary way for students to earn a bachelor's degree,'' Community College Chancellor David Armstrong said in a statement. ``But in the case of professions where our state has the greatest need -- nursing, teaching and applied sciences -- Florida's community college system provides a viable and accessible option.'' The agreement was contingent upon the withdrawal of a legal challenge to community colleges' ability to offer four-year degrees by Floridians for Constitutional Integrity.... | |
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| | | Latinos lag other racial, ethnic groups in getting college degrees | | Posted Tuesday, January 09, 2007 1:03:36 PM by Blog57 Team | | SACRAMENTO ? It's a common refrain Latino kids hear from older relatives who migrated to the United States: "You've got to go college to be successful; don't go working in the fields like we did," said Diana Coughran, 17, a college-bound senior at Rio Americano High School. Generational pressure is one thing. Just as daunting are the admissions tests, applications and financial aid forms for those who are first in the family to go to college. .... | |
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| | | Surveyors will search for adults without college degrees | | Posted Tuesday, January 02, 2007 2:52:15 PM by Blog57 Team | | MONROE -- Starting in January, the New York-based Aslanian Group will begin surveying the 22-parish area of the northern third of Louisiana for adults who don't have higher-education degrees. The goal is to gather suggestions that higher-education institutions in their areas can use to lure them into college classrooms. Targeted adults are those who never tried to get a higher education and those who tried, but never finished. .... | |
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| | | Yuletide carols at Carnegie | | Posted Saturday, December 09, 2006 12:52:43 PM by Blog57 Team | | But while your yuletide carols take shape around a mistuned baby grand in your grandma's parlor, the Wainwrights' hymns will travel from a Steinway to the ears of 2,804 seated guests in the Stern Auditorium of Carnegie Hall as part of their Family & Friends Christmas show Wednesday. "The show is based on 'The McGarrigle Christmas Hour,' a record which came out last year," said Martha of the holiday concert conceived by her mother and aunt, folk singers Kate and Anna McGarrigle. "We performed a show in Montreal and a show at Carnegie Hall last year, but this year my mother couldn't do it, so Rufus and I decided to take it on." Despite the Wainwrights' reputation for bringing over-the-top wit and near-satirical airs to conventional musical arrangements, this show will be a sincere one.... | |
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| | | Well-known author visits Winona State | | Posted Wednesday, November 15, 2006 12:53:39 PM by Blog57 Team | | Popular essayist, journalist and social critic Barbara Ehrenreich came to the Winona State University campus on Thurs. Nov. 9 to discuss her work and research for two of her books, "Nickel and Dimed" and "Bait and Switch." "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America," was required reading for many classes at Winona State this semester. Ehrenreich went to college to study physics and eventually received a Ph.D. in cell biology. However, she decided not to pursue a career in the field. Instead she decided to write about social development, economics, politics and women’s rights. Ehrenreich is now the author of more than fourteen books and is a frequent contributor to magazines such as New York Times, Harpers, The Nation, The New Republic, The Progressive and Time.... | |
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| | | The Dave Brubeck Quartet to Perform at Baldwin-Wallace College Bach Festival 75th Anniversary Celebration | | Posted Wednesday, November 15, 2006 2:53:31 AM by Blog57 Team | | The Baldwin Wallace College Bach Festival, the nation's oldest collegiate Bach Festival, has added a performance by the Dave Brubeck Quartet to its 75th anniversary celebration lineup April 20 - 22, 2007. "We are absolutely thrilled that our nation's most celebrated jazz musician has agreed to be with us for the extraordinary occasion of our 75th anniversary," said Kent Cleland, interim director of the Conservatory. "With Mr. Brubeck's passion for Bach and his classical training at the University of the Pacific Music Conservatory, we believe the addition of the Dave Brubeck Quartet will energize our Conservatory students, garner additional attention and new supporters for the B-W Bach Festival and provide the perfect musical coda to our 75th celebration." The Baldwin-Wallace College Bach Festival was established in 1932 by Albert Riemenschneider, long-time director of the Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory of Music, and his wife, Selma.... | |
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| | | Blowout loss in Michigan-Ohio State game could help other teams | | Posted Tuesday, November 14, 2006 2:54:52 AM by Blog57 Team | | Seven potential national champions still thrive to varying degrees in college football, but the Michigan-Ohio State loser will differ from the other six in one way: It is the only one hoping Saturday's big game is close. Yes, there are more than two teams in national contention, although it will be hard to tell from the weeklong drumbeat in this brightest hour for college football's greatest rivalry. Yet, when you factor the best scenarios for Nos. 3 through 7 to leapfrog into the national championship game, one of the criteria inevitably is an unsightly blowout in the Michigan-Ohio State game. The weeks-old whimsy that Saturday's game in Columbus might be replicated Jan. 8 in the Bowl Championship Series title game has gone way past fairy-dust stage.... | |
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| | | Hair above your lip sends mixed messages / The mustache has enjoyed varying degrees of popularity | | Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 10:54:07 PM by Blog57 Team | | Are mustaches cool? Uncool? Or so painfully uncool they are actually kind of hip? It's possible they are all three at once, depending on who is wearing one and who is taking notice. One thing is for sure: No other style of male grooming sends so many potent -- and often mixed -- signals. In "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan," the comedian Sacha Baron Cohen wears a mustache in the title role of the dimwitted, obnoxious foreign journalist. Similarly, Jason Lee's mustachioed character in the NBC comedy "My Name Is Earl" is meant to be a buffoon. But the mustache is also associated with masculinity and power. It has long enjoyed an un-ironic popularity among blue-collar men. "If you're a fireman, you have a mustache," said Ron Walker, 47, a fire captain in Dixon (Inyo County).... | |
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