Getting it from here to there
Logistics is the process that allows things to move, whether it be sofas to Seattle or iPads to Indonesia. Parts and finished products travel around the globe in a system set by professionals in logistics…
Technology
Alternative energy programs evolve with the market
Like many community colleges across the nation, Laney College in California developed stand-alone programs in renewable energy after Congress enacted the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, which provided funding for those initiatives as…
Engineering Academy expands to all Dallas colleges
Students enrolled in STEM courses – science, technology, engineering and mathematics – at any college in the Dallas County Community College District (DCCCD) can now co-enroll in Texas A&M University’s acclaimed engineering program. Debra Dennisis…
Sound advice on STEM tech ed programs
After their first year in MentorLinks, the 11 faculty-administrator teams participating in the STEM technician education improvement initiative report that following their mentors’ advice has led to positive outcomes. Madeline Pattonis an education writer based…
Training, testing are key to cybersecurity
It’s early evening, and you get an email from your college president saying she is at dinner with a potential donor and misplaced her credit card. You’re asked to pay for the bill electronically by…
Guarding against cybercrime
Cybercrime is a multi-billion dollar global industry and it grows exponentially each year. Tabitha Whissemoreis a contributor to Community College Daily and managing editor of AACC’s Community College Journal.More Posts – Website
Keeping up with industry
Working with industry to determine the skills and breadth of knowledge that advanced technology employers will need technicians to have in three to five years is what two-year college educators leading Advanced Technological Education (ATE)…
A ‘safe place’ to explore STEM careers
Community college students had an unusual opportunity to share their opinions with policymakers recently when members of the National Science Board’s Task Force on the Skilled Technical Workforce held a “listening session.” Madeline Pattonis an…
Heavy on data
It was a meeting on workforce issues, but the use of data threaded through many of the discussions at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s second annual National Workforce Conference on Tuesday. Matthew Dembickiis editor of…
A glimpse at emerging technologies
Enthusiastic sharing of participants’ work-in-progress projects is a distinguishing characteristic of the annual Advanced Technological Education (ATE) Principal Investigators Conference. Madeline Pattonis an education writer based in Ohio.More Posts