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SEED Center serves as key resource hub for green education

 

The SEED Center is a free initiative of the American Association of Community Colleges and ecoAmerica, dedicated to sharing innovative strategies and resources with community colleges, to advance sustainability and green workforce development. Check out the SEED Center’s toolkits, webinars and resources, including the “green genome” guide for more effectively fostering sustainability skills and knowledge in students and the community.

 

SEED Center serves as key resource hub for green education

 

The SEED Center is a free initiative of the American Association of Community Colleges and ecoAmerica, dedicated to sharing innovative strategies and resources with community colleges, to advance sustainability and green workforce development. Check out the SEED Center’s toolkits, webinars and resources, including the “green genome” guide for more effectively fostering sustainability skills and knowledge in students and the community.

 

Hype aside, green jobs are for real

 

What is a “green job”? This article probes the answer to that question, while highlighting statistics (such as the 93,000 jobs in the solar industry) to prove that the green workforce is real – and growing. The article also outlines the state of green workforce training, by exploring the work of several colleges aligned with the Sustainable Education and Economic Development (SEED) Center, an organization dedicated to helping develop green job training programs at community colleges.

 

Which student support network is most crucial in helping students stay on track in college?

It costs more to drop out of college than remaining

Lots of discussion has been ongoing about how the financial state is so bad and young individuals shouldn't bother with college, and just get jobs. That all being said, there is actually more evidence to the contrary. Resource for this article: Dropping out of college more pricey than staying

 

Value of education under fire

 

National League of Cities' YEF Institute hiring Principal Associate, Post-Secondary Education

National League of Cities' Institute for Youth, Education, and Families seeks applicants with substantial postsecondary success experience for a newly elevated position helping lead the Communities Learning in Partnership (CLIP) initiative.  For more information, please see http://www.nlc.org/about-nlc/careers-at-nlc/principal-associate-post-secondary-education.

NCTN's 5th Annual National Conference on Effective Transitions in Adult Education

The Effective Transitions Conference, hosted by the national College Transition Network (NCTN), is for adult and postsecondary educators and administrators. Workshop topics include promising practices for career pathways and ESOL/ESL programs, preparing students for college-level reading, writing, and math, building student self-efficacy, and more.

 

 

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Date: 
13 November, 2011 - 00:00 - 15 November, 2011 - 00:00

2011 Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) Annual Conference

The Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) is a scholarly society with about 2,000 members dedicated to higher education as a field of study. 

 

Click here for more information about this conference, which will be held in Charlotte, NC.

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Date: 
16 November, 2011 - 08:00 - 19 November, 2011 - 19:00
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