Energy summit brings industry, education together

I’ve just attended a two-day energy summit hosted at the campus of Francis Tuttle Technology Center, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The event was co-facilitated by the National Coalition of Certification Centers (NC3) and the Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE). Sponsors included Snap-On, Trane, GE and others. The invitation-only event focused on the current [...]

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State report a call to action in the “new normal”

On March 16, 2012, the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association (SHEEO) released it’s annual report regarding “State Higher Education Finances for 2011.” The report reveals some important realities facing our nation’s ability to educate students in our institutions of higher education. I want to call attention to some key conclusions in the report that are [...]

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Higher Education is at a Strategic Inflection Point

In “Only The Paranoid Survive,” Andy Grove, co-founder and chairman of the board of Intel Corporation wrote, “a strategic inflection point is a time in the life of a business when its fundamentals are about to change. That change can mean an opportunity to rise to new heights. But it can just as likely signal [...]

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We’re working to deal with pending budget cuts

Strategic initiatives designed to wean Shoreline Community College away from state dollars are all the more important given the budget news coming from Olympia. Gov. Chris Gregoire, on Monday, Aug. 8, 2011, ordered agencies, including community colleges to prepare for budget-cutting scenarios of 5 percent and 10 percent for the coming year. Across the state, [...]

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