Enhancing the classroom experience
By CARISA CHAPPELL
The chalkboard was once a universal symbol for learning. It’s been replaced in colleges by state-of-the-art electronic equipment, computer programs and electronic gizmos once banned from classrooms.

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Research center to study best ways to improve student success
By CC Times
The Community College Research Center (CCRC) has received a three-year, $5 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to carry out research to help identify the most productive investments in community colleges.

Colleges awarded training grants for ‘encore’ careers
By CC Times
Civic Ventures and MetLife Foundation have awarded eight $25,000 grants to community colleges to support programs that retrain adults for jobs as solar panel installers, bilingual community health workers and math and science teachers, among others.

College trustee to serve as adviser to under secretary
By CC Times
Hal Plotkin, vice president of the Foothill-De Anza Community College District Board of Trustees, will resign his board seat next week to immediately accept a position in the Obama administration.