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EAU CLAIRE â The U.S. was on the cusp of the Great Recession when Bruce Barker became president of Chippewa Valley Technical College in 2008.
Retraining workers who had lost their old jobs occupied the first few years that heâd led the local two-year college.
âDuring the recession we had waiting lists for most of our programs,â Barker recalled. âWe had all we could handle for a few years.â
Enrollment hit a high-water mark in 2011, then declined for a few years before the college bucked the normal trend of lower student numbers during economic good times.
Marketing through social media, updating its selection of programs and other efforts helped the college grow its student body while peers saw their enrollments fall.
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EAU CLAIRE â Members of a new task force on local communicable disease ordinances were announced Tuesday.
Nineteen people from a variety of backgrounds will constitute the task force, which is charged with reviewing current communicable disease ordinances and recommending potential changes to the Eau Claire City Council and County Board. The County Board approved the task force members during its meeting Tuesday night.
Eight people will also form a non-voting advisory group, which can provide information to the task force. The task force also will likely have a non-voting facilitator, but a person has not been named yet.
The task force is a cooperative effort between Eau Claire County, the city of Eau Claire and the City-County Board of Health. Its first meeting will likely occur in January.