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Author: Madeline
Salem High School Alumni Association Newsletter: Winter-Spring 2015
Madeline provides the editorial content, photos, and design for the Salem High School Alumni Association newsletter, which is published twice a year and mailed to 10,000 alumni.
The Winter-Spring 2015 edition features the SHS alumnus who led the effort to correct the Hubble Space Telescope’s primary mirror, showcases 12 alumni artists, and tells what it’s like behind home plate at the World Series from the umpire’s perspective.
Read Full Article ›Leveraging grants for technical help
Community colleges with forward-thinking faculty and administrators and savvy grant writers have long used multiple federal grants to build programs. But these have been college-specific initiatives rather than aspects of a coordinated federal strategy.
Recent collaborative efforts by staffers who direct community college initiatives at the National Science Foundation (NSF) and U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) are meshing programs in novel, intentional ways to maximize the government’s investment.
The newest, and perhaps most unusual, example of this collaboration is the NSF’s funding of five Advanced Technological Education (ATE) centers to provide technical assistance to recipients of DOL’s Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training (TAACCCT) grants.
Read Full Article ›ATE influenced TAACCCT program
V. Celeste Carter traces the connection between the federal government’s two large technician education programs to a conversation she had in 2011.
Carter, co-lead program director of the National Science Foundation’s Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program, said she received a phone call from Kumar Garg, senior advisor at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, when the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) was planning its education initiative to help displaced workers.
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