by Ross Dickie | Feb 22, 2019 | President's Blog
February is CTE Month®, honoring the administrators, teachers, counselors and other professionals who help students and adults identify career goals and make the educational and training plans to reach them. Given the anticipated demand for more highly skilled workers...
by Ross Dickie | Jan 11, 2019 | K-12 Education, President's Blog
A recent opinion piece in the New York Times posits a potentially heretical idea: that the premise of our educational system, of promoting college attendance to all students, is misguided. The author’s assertion is that our society spends too much money on students...
by Ross Dickie | Oct 31, 2018 | President's Blog
One of the obvious benefits of a digital world is instant access to news and current events. We are all set adrift on this sea of information, which also serves as the backdrop for those who walk into every school classroom in the morning. A recent article in the New...
by Ask Susie | Sep 27, 2018 | Ask Susie
I was motivated to write this blog because, as I meet people and “do life”, I find it fascinating to engage with individuals and inquire about their career choices. Conversations generally cover topics related to education, career path and satisfaction...
by Ross Dickie | May 7, 2018 | President's Blog
May 7-11 is National Teacher Appreciation Week. Against this backdrop, we have seen several teacher walk-outs across many states since January, each imploring their state legislature to increase education funding in general, and recognize teacher efforts with higher...
by Ask Susie | Apr 13, 2018 | Ask Susie
I loved watching the recent Olympics! Where else can we watch and get a sense of life as a high-level athlete up close? We see profiles that illustrate the amount of time, energy and effort it takes to maintain the human body, physically and mentally, at the highest...
by Ross Dickie | Mar 28, 2018 | President's Blog
When we think of postsecondary institutions, we usually have our own 4-year state institutions in mind. What many don’t understand is that our country’s community colleges serve another 12.7 million students[i] at the same time…nearly 50% of all college-going...
by Ross Dickie | Jan 25, 2018 | Personal development, President's Blog
New Year’s is always a time when we set new goals, clean out old thinking and start new. It’s also a time when some new reading can help to shift thinking to the future. There’s lots to choose from! To help, we have a couple of fascinating books to recommend...
by Ask Susie | Jan 10, 2018 | Ask Susie
I was inspired to reflect on this very timely subject when I saw it displayed on the marquee at the high school close to my home. Given our world’s current events, it could not have come at a better time and prompted me to do some deep reflection. Formal education is...
by Ask Susie | Nov 8, 2017 | Ask Susie
If you have ever gotten into a “zone” when studying or performing a task, you probably felt like the stars had aligned, the ideas and energy were flowing and you were working at a highly productive pace. You might even have lost track of time, because you were so into...