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Five Finalists Announced in Presidential Search for Colorado Northwestern Community College
Colorado Community College SystemMarch 17, 2021 GMT
Denver, March 17, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) Today, the Colorado Community College System (CCCS) Chancellor Joe Garcia announced five finalists in the running for president of Colorado Northwestern Community College (CNCC). CNCC President Ron Granger will retire at the end of his term in July 2021, concluding a 40-year career in academia.
The search advisory committee, comprised of college and community representatives, conducted a thorough screening and preliminary interviews with applicants in order to identify those best suited to lead CNCC with long-term success.
Intelligent.com Announces Best Colleges In Colorado for 2021
Share Article SEATTLE (PRWEB) March 15, 2021 Intelligent.com, a trusted resource for online degree rankings and higher education planning, has announced the Top 45 Colleges In Colorado for 2021. The comprehensive research guide is based on an assessment of 209 accredited colleges and universities in the nation. Each program is evaluated based on curriculum quality, graduation rate, reputation, and post-graduate employment.
The 2021 rankings are calculated through a unique scoring system which includes student engagement, potential return on investment and leading third party evaluations. Intelligent.com analyzed 209 schools, on a scale of 0 to 100, with only 45 making it to the final list. The methodology also uses an algorithm which collects and analyzes multiple rankings into one score to easily compare each school.
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Feb. 7, 2021
Legislators including Senate President Martin M. Looney (D-New Haven), Senate Majority Leader Bob Duff (D-Norwalk), State Senator Will Haskell (D-Westport), State Senator Cathy Osten (D-Sprague), State Representative Josh Elliott (D-Hamden) and State Representative Gary Turco (D-Newington) advocated for the passage of Senate Bill 146, which seeks to expand gaming options in the state. Among the bill s benefits, they said: revenues from internet lottery gaming would allow for continued, consistent funding of PACT CT, the state s debt-free community college program connecting numerous students with debt-free access to higher education.
Subscribe By passing iLottery in the gaming bill we already have in front of us, we will be able to fully fund the PACT program, said Sen. Osten, Senate Chair of the Appropriations Committee and Vice Chair of the Public Safety and Security Committee. PACT is for all residents in Connecticut to maintain and improve upon their wor
Thirty schools and five colleges and universities have reported small outbreaks this month, with many of them coming in the past week, as students return to classrooms. Â
Across the K-12 institutions, 95 students and 55 staff members have contracted the virus, up from 18 and 14, respectively, a week ago, according to data published by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. All of the outbreaks are relatively small, especially when compared to the state s prisons or long-term care facilities.Â
Of the 30 school outbreaks that have been identified this month, 20 were added to the list of outbreaks in the past week. Roughly half of the January outbreaks are in the Denver metro area, though none in Denver Public Schools itself, which is still phasing students back into classrooms.Â
Last week s Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment update on outbreaks of COVID-19 showed a significant drop in newly identified sites, suggesting that the worst might finally be over for retail establishments, health-care centers and other facilities. But no: The latest weekly CDPHE outbreak number is almost double that from just seven days earlier. Moreover, one of the new entries, the Apple Store at the Cherry Creek Shopping Center, demonstrates how difficult it is for even the most diligent operations to keep the novel coronavirus at bay indefinitely.
In a November post about COVID-19 safety at malls in Level Red zones, we singled out the Cherry Creek Apple Store as the gold standard for pandemic-era safety: masked staff, monitored access complete with temperatures taken at the door, appointment scheduling, extremely limited capacity and more. If an outlet that s instituted such procedures isn t immune from viral spread, then nowhere is entirely safe and right no