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What expenses to cut, what not to cut, in a recession
LERN Magazine, April/May 2008

There is a key strategy shift for programs in a recession. It is to move from trying to boost income to trying to reduce expenses. Only after six months to a year of “tough times” do you make that shift.  If your organization has experienced the recession and has to do some budget cuts, here’s what to cut, and what not to cut. Read more >

California wildfires can not burn the spirit at MiraCosta College
Augusoft e-news

The following is an engaging example of the strength and courage of a community during last months fires affecting Southern California including Lumens community member, MiraCosta College.  Here is an excerpt from an email received on October 25 from Lynda Lee, Dean of Community Education, MiraCosta College, Oceanside, Calif.

"I can't begin to describe the events of the week, but thankfully things are beginning to improve.  The fires are at least partially contained...
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Community Colleges may be Losing their Edge in Educating Adults
The Chronicle

Too often, conversations and policy debates about higher education ignore a key group of students, the forgotten majority: adult, "non-traditional" learners.

Last year I joined 18 others — educators, policy experts, and business leaders — on Secretary of Education Margaret Spelling's National Commission on the Future of Higher Education. Despite our varied backgrounds, conversations focused on the traditional 18 to 22-year-old..

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How to Market Career and Technical Education: Student Ambassadors
Techniques

Miami Valley Career Technology Center uses a very influential group of people in its marketing efforts.
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Cyndi Pardee, Association of Community and Continuing Education’s Community Education Person of the Year
ACCE

Cyndi Pardee is for many of us throughout the state “das wunderkind” of the Community Education world.  She exemplifies everything that one could wish for in a coworker, supervisor, employee, colleague and, for many of us, friend.
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Scott (Augusoft Client) to Begin Leadership Terms with UCEA
Infocus

To Barbara Scott, UCEA represents more than just a resource that continuing educators can leverage to improve their day-to-day job skills.
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Lifelong Learning - The Weapon of Choice
Augusoft Journal of Lifelong Learning
By Cem Erdem

Growing up in the '80s in a foreign, developing country, America represented hope for many people like me. It represented advancement, technology, better education and health care.
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Orange Coast College Sets Sail on Disney Yacht
The Chronicle
By Erin Strout

Time and tide wait for no man. There’s no need to remind college fund raisers of that – especially those at Orange Coast College’s School of Sailing and Seamanship.
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Building a Collaborative Model of Lifelong Learning
Augusoft Journal of Lifelong Learning
By Rich Rexeisen

There is a growing awareness that the emerging knowledge economy is creating a new set of educational imperatives.
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