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Facility O&M Basics

Published January 21, 2013 by Eric Pamintuan

Facility O&M Basics   Register Online Now!  Date: Thursday, 01/31/13 08:00 AM – 11:30 AM Description: Operations and Maintenance cost is typically second to occupants salaries…

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Learning in Networks for Knowledge Sharing

Published January 16, 2013 by Eric Pamintuan

Here are some very practical resources from the California Community Colleges Success Network (3CSN), with brief videos from the “LINKS 6” one-day conference held at Irvine Valley College (see e-mail below). The theme of this conference was “Powerful Classrooms” and you’ll see several examples from faculty with strategies to engage students in the classroom.

“LINKS” stands for “Learning in Networks for Knowledge Sharing” — an investigation into the factors affecting student completion and an exploration of interventions that can be used in classroom & student service areas.

The main website for 3CSN also has many useful resources and ideas on ways to increase student success: http://3csn.org

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Best Practices for Summer Camps

Published January 14, 2013 by Eric Pamintuan

Join this webinar to learn key considerations for planning, implementing and measuring the success of a STEM-based summer camp. The University of Utah runs a three-day engineering summer camp for high school students and a week-long engineering camp for girls. They will share their lessons learned, successes and challenges applicable to any program.

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Engineers dislike H-1B; bosses gloat

Published January 9, 2013 by Eric Pamintuan

American engineers, scientists, and mathematicians can convincingly show that they are not in short supply, as corporations claim. But increasingly, politicians are siding with big business, which wants the government to loosen restrictions on the H-1B visa program, by which low- to mid-level technologists come to the United States each year from foreign countries…

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