Substance that affected a whole lot of birds in a spill in Great Britain a couple years ago, so were suspecting its a similar compound, but we dont know yet. Polyisobutylene, yeah. We dont know that its that yet. It might be something else. We just dont know yet. Reporter but what is clear, california hasnt seen anything quite like it before. As rescuers continue their efforts, theyre now finding more dead birds than survivors. Its an ecologic tragedy, really. Theres 100plus birds that didnt need to die. Reporter again, four birds, dead birds, covered in goo have been found in foster city two yesterday, two today, but again, they are believed to have been contaminated here in the east bay and then they made their way to san mateo county. Im told that there is no evidence of the substance in the water in san mateo county. Again, scientists are hard at work at this hour trying to figure out what that gooey substance is. Im told that they are going to be working until about 6 00 tonight.
Set a few miles from the sea and surrounded by swampy state parks, Indian River Community College was for years a lone outpost of higher education on Floridaâs Treasure Coast. The nearest universityâFlorida Atlanticâwas nearly 60 miles away, a long haul down I-95 for someone seeking more schooling but bound to her community by a home, a job, a family.
âTo drive an hour-and-a-half one way to take a course at a university at night and backâit was just more than most families could handle,â says Edwin Massey, president emeritus of Indian River.
To help more Florida residents earn advanced credentials, the state expanded its university system in the early 1990s. The Treasure Coast region was in the running for a new institutionâbut the other side of the state won out.
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House passes bill for 4-year community college degrees
Arizona’s community colleges may have the best chance ever of finally being able to offer four-year degrees to their students.
With only three dissenting votes, the state House voted Monday to permit community colleges to offer baccalaureate degrees to students. The measure now goes to the Senate.
If ultimately successful, the move would cap years of efforts by advocates to find alternatives to what some consider to be both expensive and inconvenient programs for residents to get four-year degrees at one of the state’s three universities. Similar measures have faltered for at least the last quarter century amid stiff opposition from members of the Arizona Board of Regents who have argued there is no need.