EPA seeks applicants for environmental research apprenticeship program
By CC Times,
Published July 28, 2010
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is seeking applications from colleges to participate in its Environmental Research Apprenticeship Program for Pre-Baccalaureate College Students program.
Summer research projects open opportunities for students
By CC Times,
Published July 26, 2010
Student Yvonne Nicole Kullberg is packing her bags to intern this summer in Alaska with the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, banding waterfowl, putting radio collars on small mammals and surveying vegetation.
Six colleges named national academic centers in information assurance
By CC Times,
Published July 13, 2010
Six community colleges are the first two-year higher education institutions to be named National Centers of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance by the National Security Agency and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
AACC awards new service learning grants
By Gail Robinson,
Published July 7, 2010
The American Association of Community Colleges has awarded eight community colleges $3,000 grants to promote service learning and community engagement.
Professor helps with translations for Gulf fishermen
By CC Times,
Published June 9, 2010
An adjunct physics professor at Houston Community College-Southwest (Texas) is offering his translation services to Vietnamese fishermen affected by the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Florida Keys prepare for oil slick
By CC Times,
Published May 21, 2010
As the oil spill in the Gulf stretches to southern Florida, Florida Keys Community College is beefing up training for clean-up programs.
New programs at community colleges
By CC Times,
Published May 7, 2010
New community college programs in Arizona, Maryland, Ohio and Texas.
Developing a renewable energy system—for free
By Matthew Dembicki,
Published March 15, 2010
Community colleges that want to generate their own alternative energy but can’t afford to build such systems may consider what the San Diego Community College District (SDCCD) in California is doing: It has allowed a company to build and maintain a solar energy system for its campuses, buys the power it needs for its campuses at a reduced cost and sells the rest to a utility company.
Stimulus in action
By CC Times,
Published February 25, 2010
Editor’s note: In this new column, CC Times will highlight how community colleges are using federal and state stimulus funds for job training, repairs and other activities.
Some of the 22 graduates who have completed a seven-week job training program on brownfields—the remediation of possibly contaminated properties—through Florida State College at Jacksonville in Florida will walk from their graduation ceremony this week directly into a job.
German company, Mich. college team for wind turbine training
By CC Times,
Published February 9, 2010
A German manufacturer of wind turbines with planned operations in China and North America has partnered with the Wind Turbine Technician Academy at Kalamazoo Valley Community College (KVCC) in Michigan to provide training.
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