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The preschool graduating class of 2018 invites you to its graduation ceremony on Tuesday, June 12, at 6:30 p.m.
The ceremony and after party will be held in the outdoors of the preschool facility.
On Saturday, June 2, from 4 to 7 p.m. the preschool invites the public to its 30th anniversary Family Fiesta Night also to be held on the preschool grounds.
This event is held in honor of Mary Paarsch for her decades of dedicated leadership and education.
The event will feature a taco bar, drinks, games, face painting and lots of silent auction items provided by generous local businesses.
Tickets are available now thru the preschool for a suggested minimum donation of $8 each. All funds will go to new outdoor equipment for the preschool.
LCC Preschool is located at 175 “C” St. For more information call 707-262-5520 or visit www.lcchub.com.
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Strong Workforce Stars is an annual recognition for career education programs, also known as career technical education, within the California Community Colleges system whose graduates show significant gains in factors important for advancing social mobility – a substantial increase in earnings, attainment of a living wage and a job closely matched with the field of study.
“It is an honor to have Mendocino College Career Education recognized by the Strong Workforce Stars Program,” said Superintendent-President Arturo Reyes. “Our faculty and department chairs have worked diligently to build and support these successful programs that serve the needs of our community industry partners, which provides employment opportunities and increased wages for our students.”
The 2018 Strong Workforce Stars were given to career education programs throughout the state in 12 industry sectors, based on earnings gains, living wage attainment, and employment in field of study.
Those named Strong Workforce Stars met one or more of the following thresholds: 1. An increase in earnings by 50 percent or more, based on a match to the state wage file, for students who earned a certificate or degree and were last enrolled in 2015-16. 2.
Attainment of the regional living wage by 70 percent or more, based on a match to the state wage file, for students who earned a certificate or degree and were last enrolled in 2015-16. 3. 90 percent or more are employed in a job similar to their field of study, according to the Career Technical Education Outcomes Survey, for students who earned a certificate or degree and were last enrolled in 2014-15.
Star Awards (attained threshold outcomes on one of the above metric):
Automotive technology – 61 percent increase in earnings.
Accounting – 100 percent of students are employed in a job similar to their field of study.
Business management – 70 percent of students attained the regional living wage.
Real estate – 89 percent increase in earnings.
Child development/early care and education – 72 percent increase in earnings.
Medical office technology – 56 percent increase in earnings.
Registered Nursing – 94 percent of students attained the regional living wage.
Administration of Justice – 56 percent increase in earnings.
Fire Technology – 90 percent of students attained the regional living wage.
Human Services – 67 percent increase in earnings.
For more information about the Mendocino College career technical education programs, go to www.mendocino.edu.
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The collaborative initiative, called Finish Faster!, gives CSU students the flexibility to complete lower-division general education (GE) requirements during the summer through online coursework offered at a California community college or CSU campus. Similarly, California community college students will benefit from the availability of online courses that will help them toward their goal of transferring or earning an associate’s degree.
“The California Community Colleges has made significant strides in improving student success outcomes over the past several years and we’re in a wonderful position to keep that momentum going,” said Alice Perez, vice chancellor of Academic Affairs. “This collaboration with the CSU gives both systems the opportunity to better serve our state’s students so they can complete their higher education goals even faster.”
“At the CSU, we have long used technology where and how it is most effective to support student success,” said Dr. Gerry Hanley, assistant vice chancellor, Academic Technology Services for the CSU Office of the Chancellor. “As we press forward with our Graduation Initiative 2025 efforts, this collaboration will help remove administrative and financial barriers facing students, allowing us to better meet students’ needs and facilitate degree completion.”
The initiative is launching this month to provide students additional information about the availability of online courses for the upcoming summer 2018 term. Using a variety of measures, students will be able to search for classes based on subject matter, Intersegmental General Education Transfer Curriculum requirements, CSU GE Breadth Area or other requirements. Search results will be sorted by distance from the institution the student currently attends and can be filtered by start date, modality (online or hybrid) and price using a college-course search optimizer.
The CSU has a long history of meeting the needs of students through high-quality online education opportunities. In fall 2017, the CSU offered over 5,200 online course sections and more than 118,000 students enrolled in at least one online course. California community colleges serve more than 860,000 students who take at least one of the more than 68,000 online course sections offered annually.
For more information about how the CSU is working to improve student achievement, please visit the Graduation Initiative 2025 Web site.
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At Chico State, the $73,333 grant will be used to design a sustainable solution to glycerol waste, a by-product of biodiesel manufacturing.
Oroville-based Butte College will use the $75,000 to research the conversion of agricultural waste into a renewable, carbon-negative biochar, maximizing carbon sequestration in the soil to improve water retention and agricultural productivity.
“These students are applying what they have learned in the classroom to create innovative solutions to environmental challenges,” said EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt. “These awards support the next generation of scientists and engineers in their commitment to environmental protection, while helping states, tribes, and local communities find solutions to their environmental issues.”
“We applaud these students for their focus on compelling, complex environmental issues,” said Mike Stoker, Administrator for the EPA’s Pacific Southwest office. “The innovative research funded today will help us better manage waste streams and improve agricultural productivity.”
This effort will be the continuation current efforts already in progress working with several local agricultural operations in our region of California, including Berkeley Olive Grove in Oroville and other local farms and agriculture partners in Butte and Glenn Counties,” said John Dahlgren, Chair of Butte College’s Department of Computer Science, Sustainable Technologies and Engineering.
Nationally, EPA awarded more than $557,000 in funding for 8 student teams through the P3 Grants Program during Phase II. These teams, made up of college students from across the country, are developing sustainable technologies to solve current environmental and public health challenges.
P3 Phase II winners include:
Montclair State University – Montclair, NJ
Clarkson University – Potsdam, NY
Kennesaw State University – Kennesaw, GA
University of Cincinnati – Cincinnati, OH
Texas Woman’s University – Denton, TX
California State University, Chico – Chico, CA
University of California, Riverside – Riverside, CA
Butte College – Oroville, CA
The P3 program is a two-phase research grants program that challenges students to research, develop, and design innovative projects addressing environmental and public health challenges.
Phase I serves as a “proof of concept,” where teams are awarded a $15,000 grant to develop their idea and showcase their research in the spring at EPA's National Sustainable Design Expo. These teams are then eligible to compete for a Phase II grant of up to $75,000 to implement their design in a real-world setting.
Past P3 winners have gone on to start businesses based on ideas and products developed through their P3 project.
For example, a 2007 P3 winning team from University of California Berkeley went on to create SimpleWater, a water treatment company that specializes in household water treatment systems.
Another successful 2007 P3 team from the University of Virginia created the Learning Barge, as a part of the Elizabeth River Project. The Learning Barge is the world’s first floating wetland classroom and America’s Greenest Vessel. It's a "steward ship," teaching children that live nearby about environmental stewardship and how to make the river swimmable and fishable by 2020.
To learn more about the projects of the 2018 P3 Phase II winners, visit: https://www.epa.gov/P3/20172018-p3-grant-recipients.
For more information on the P3 Program, visit: http://www.epa.gov/P3.