This content was published: August 5, 2009. Phone numbers, email addresses, and other information may have changed.
Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ in the NEWS: Sonnleitner and college enrollment make impact in media reports
Story by James Hill
Here is a look at some of the news stories about Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ from around the local area and the nation in July. In total, Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ events and people appeared 48 times in the local community or national online media, newspapers or TV/radio.
July 2, highlighted Ä¢¹½´«Ã½â€™s surge in enrollment growth as part of a national story on budgets and growth at two-year school.
July 2, Ä¢¹½´«Ã½â€™s SBDC was mentioned in a story in about funding cuts to the state’s small business centers.
July 4, The Newberg Graphic reported on the delay of buying land for a Newberg campus.
July 6, the and profiled Michael Sonnleitner and his Fulbright trip to southern India, where he will teach for a year.
July 10, the Business Journal ranked Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ No. 1 in the sate for community college enrollment.
July 13, KUIK Radio and Paige Parker of The Oregonian interviewed Dana Haynes on the college’s recent $467,000 child care grant to help low-income families.
July 13, Jeff Triplett’s new position as Sylvania’s dean of students was announced in Community College Week.
July 14, the regional sustainability center, which features Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ as a lead partner, got a shot in the arm in funding, according to the .
July 16, Rick Willebrand of the trades and industry program at Cascade was profiled by the Portland Tribune.
July 16, the featured the delay in construction for a new Newberg center.
July 23, the featured the seven Latino students who are being mentored by Nike employees.
July 24, Fox 12 television ran a story of Ä¢¹½´«Ã½â€™s partnership to train qualified welders at the Swan Island Training Center.
July 23, the Lake Oswego Review spotlighted the college’s grant award from Ed2Go for Foundation scholarships.
July 26, Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ was mentioned in an editorial by for having the forethought to build Willow Creek near mass transit.
July 27, KUIK Radio and Univision spotlighted Ä¢¹½´«Ã½â€™s skyrocketing summer term enrollment.
July 28, the reported on the state’s community college enrollment rise and used Ä¢¹½´«Ã½â€™s own Robert Straker as an example of the types of students heading back to school.
July 28, the highlighted the partnership with the Associated Builders and Contractors that has formed a new apprenticeship program for heating, ventilation and air conditioning technicians at Ä¢¹½´«Ã½.
July 28, featured the budget and enrollment pictures for the state’s community colleges.
July 30, highlighted the increase in summer enrollment at universities and community colleges, including Ä¢¹½´«Ã½.
Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ James Hill
James G. Hill, an award-winning journalist and public relations writer, is the Director of Public Relations at Ä¢¹½´«Ã½. A graduate of Portland State University, James has worked as a section editor for the Newberg Graphic... more »