Wednesday, December 21, 2011

New Day Rising

Community college enrollment boom over

Top of the Mountain? (Inside Higher Ed)

     The enrollment boom at community colleges may be over, according to a new analysis that found a nationwide decline of almost 1 percent since the fall of 2010. But two-year colleges remain crowded, as enrollment remains up by about 22 percent since 2007.
     “It’s not that enrollment is down. It has essentially stopped growing,” said Kent Phillippe, a senior research associate for the American Association of Community Colleges. The association prepared the analysis jointly with the National Student Clearinghouse, drawing data from at least 700 public, two-year institutions. So while the figures are not a comprehensive look at the sector, they do provide a reliable snapshot.
     Phillippe, a co-author of the report, said community college enrollments have “stabilized at a high number.”….

Samantha Brown shoots Anthony Bourdain with "Paula"

Deceptively perky
     Edwin Goei’s post yesterday on the OC Weekly’s Stick a Fork In It blog includes a YouTube video: a hilarious scene from Anthony Bourdain’s recent holiday show. It’s a bit of fake film noire featuring Bourdain, playing himself, I guess, and Travel Channel colleague Samantha Brown, playing a “cat lady” living "down the hall."
     Despite my vegetarianism, I am a fan, I guess, both of Brown’s perkiness (which, I'm sure, disguises complexity and darkness) and Bourdain’s edginess (which, I'm convinced, disguises simplicity and a love of Cher), and so, well, I love it:

Roy's obituary in LA Times and Register: "we were lucky to have you while we did"

  This ran in the Sunday December 24, 2023 edition of the Los Angeles Times and the Orange County Register : July 14, 1955 - November 20, 2...