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  Innovation: Community Colleges of the Future »

  Innovations: One College => 1000 Colleges

  Personal Priorities (in $Thousands) => NATIONAL PRIORITIES (in $Millions) "Innovation-through-Inverse-Power-Law" ($100, Rank1) New AAS Degree in Instrumentation and Control Technologies. Adaptable tools, techniques and technologies crucial for Innovations*** (New courses using Excel, LabVIEW, Multisim, Data Acquisition, Motion Control, Machine Vision, Minitab, Lean Six Sigma, and required Internships in diverse industries) ...more »

  Personal Priorities (in $Thousands) => NATIONAL PRIORITIES (in $Millions) "Innovation-through-Inverse-Power-Law"

  ($100, Rank1) New AAS Degree in Instrumentation and Control Technologies. Adaptable tools, techniques and technologies crucial for Innovations*** (New courses using Excel, LabVIEW, Multisim, Data Acquisition, Motion Control, Machine Vision, Minitab, Lean Six Sigma, and required Internships in diverse industries)

  ($62, Rank2) Public-Private partnerships: Economic/Workforce Development agencies, engage area/regional industries in curriculum development in new campus center in Victor, NY high-tech corridor. Hardwired to Ontario County Fiber Optic Ring, another public-private partnership innovation recognized by Harvard University's Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the John F. Kennedy School of Government.

  ($46, Rank3) Out Innovate challenges, and celebrate joy of learning new things -- innovative problem solving, brain-based teaching, hands-on active learning, writing to learn, case studies.

  ($38, Rank4) Make math irresistible using visualization tools (videogame physics engines), then use tools (Excel, LabVIEW, MATLAB etc.) to accelerate math intake for students of every age.

  ($32, Rank5) Innovate on-line physics w/labs, pathway to technology and engineering curricula (Remote Data Acquisition, Control of Instruments, Robots, PID Ctrl etc.) - on-line college directed/innovated by Larry Dugan

  ($29, Rank6) Make math and science relevant to everyone: from poets to politicians (Fractals, Chaos Theory, Self-organization and Complexity for students at Honor's House, directed by Curt Nehring Bliss)

  ($26, Rank7) Walk an extra mile for sincere student who needs attention, and run marathon to challenge the very best students.

  ($23, Rank8) Introduce tools of advanced automation control and game technologies to artists and humanists to broaden their career choices.

  ($21, Rank9) Model Humanistic Synthesis for students of science, engineering, and technology to help them break out of their fortresses.

  ($20, Rank10) Build Learning Organizations, and cheer-on accessible education for everyone, at any age, via web (Khan Academy to MIT Open Course Ware) x 100

  *** Innovations in High-tech, Smart-tech industries - for real-time monitoring/improving/securing health of people, crops, machinery, networks and infrastructure [IBM's "Smart Planet"] "New Liberal Arts Degree for Emerging Technologies" -- FLCC Dean & VP Topping.

  The trend-line for the graph of "importance Budget$" vs. Rank follows Pareto distribution fashioned after actual Rank Vs. Votes distribution in this WHCC Summit forum (for the Positive Votes after Rank 10), as of 2010.09.30 -- a signature of Self-organization in the Voting Pattern here. (samantpg@flcc.edu) Sam Samanta (585) 785 1105

  http://www.flcc.edu/academics/instrumentation/index.cfm

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  Submitted by Sam Samanta 2 years ago

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  Innovations: Personal ($k) => National ($M)

  Personal Priorities (in $Thousands) => NATIONAL PRIORITIES (in $Millions) "Innovation-through-Inverse-Power-Law" ($100, Rank1) New AAS Degree in Instrumentation and Control Technologies. Adaptable tools, techniques and technologies crucial for Innovations*** (New courses using Excel, LabVIEW, Multisim, Data Acquisition, Motion Control, Machine Vision, Minitab, Lean Six Sigma, and required Internships in diverse industries) ...more »

  Personal Priorities (in $Thousands) => NATIONAL PRIORITIES (in $Millions) "Innovation-through-Inverse-Power-Law"

  ($100, Rank1) New AAS Degree in Instrumentation and Control Technologies. Adaptable tools, techniques and technologies crucial for Innovations*** (New courses using Excel, LabVIEW, Multisim, Data Acquisition, Motion Control, Machine Vision, Minitab, Lean Six Sigma, and required Internships in diverse industries)

  ($62, Rank2) Public-Private partnerships: Economic/Workforce Development agencies, engage area/regional industries in curriculum development in new campus center in Victor, NY high-tech corridor. Hardwired to Ontario County Fiber Optic Ring, another public-private partnership innovation recognized by Harvard University's Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the John F. Kennedy School of Government.

  ($46, Rank3) Out Innovate challenges, and celebrate joy of learning new things -- innovative problem solving, brain-based teaching, hands-on active learning, writing to learn, case studies.

  ($38, Rank4) Make math irresistible using visualization tools (videogame physics engines), then use tools (Excel, LabVIEW, MATLAB etc.) to accelerate math intake for students of every age.

  ($32, Rank5) Innovate on-line physics w/labs, pathway to technology and engineering curricula (Remote Data Acquisition, Control of Instruments, Robots, PID Ctrl etc.) - on-line college directed/innovated by Larry Dugan

  ($29, Rank6) Make math and science relevant to everyone: from poets to politicians (Fractals, Chaos Theory, Self-organization and Complexity for students at Honor's House, directed by Curt Nehring Bliss)

  ($26, Rank7) Walk an extra mile for sincere student who needs attention, and run marathon to challenge the very best students.

  ($23, Rank8) Introduce tools of advanced automation control and game technologies to artists and humanists to broaden their career choices.

  ($21, Rank9) Model Humanistic Synthesis for students of science, engineering, and technology to help them break out of their fortresses.

  ($20, Rank10) Build Learning Organizations, and cheer-on accessible education for everyone, at any age, via web (Khan Academy to MIT Open Course Ware) x 100

  *** Innovations in High-tech, Smart-tech industries - for real-time monitoring/improving/securing health of people, crops, machinery, networks and infrastructure [IBM's "Smart Planet"] "New Liberal Arts Degree for Emerging Technologies" -- FLCC Dean & VP Topping.

  The trend-line for the graph of "importance Budget$" vs. Rank follows Pareto distribution fashioned after actual Rank Vs. Votes distribution in this WHCC Summit forum (for the Positive Votes after Rank 10), as of 2010.09.30 -- a signature of Self-organization in the Voting Pattern here. (samantpg@flcc.edu) Sam Samanta (585) 785 1105

  http://www.flcc.edu/academics/instrumentation/index.cfm

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  Submitted by Sam Samanta 2 years ago

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  Rural Serving Community Colleges

  Look closely at the role rural community colleges play in their respective areas. Many times the local community college is the only institution with the resources to coordinate economic development and quality of life issues in their service area. The issues that confront rural community colleges are different from the issues that challenge the urban college, and the issues of the rural college can have a much greater ...more »

  Look closely at the role rural community colleges play in their respective areas. Many times the local community college is the only institution with the resources to coordinate economic development and quality of life issues in their service area. The issues that confront rural community colleges are different from the issues that challenge the urban college, and the issues of the rural college can have a much greater impact on their service area as a whole. I would hope that the planners of the communithy college summit will recognize the uniqueness of the rural serving college and their importance to the communities they serve.

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  Community colleges can be engines of economic vitality

  Entrepreneurship and small business growth are always hot topics in communities across the U.S., but never more so than in the wake of the recession. Community colleges are in an ideal position to further entrepreneurship based on their accessibility, local ties to their communities and the diversity of their student base in terms of age and work experience. Moving beyond their traditional role of workforce development, ...more »

  Entrepreneurship and small business growth are always hot topics in communities

  across the U.S., but never more so than in the wake of the recession. Community colleges are in an ideal position to further entrepreneurship based on their accessibility, local ties to their communities and the diversity of their student base in terms of age and work experience. Moving beyond their traditional role of workforce development, community colleges can take a leadership role in local economic development by providing educational opportunities that give would-be entrepreneurs and the owners of existing small businesses the knowledge and skills they need to succeed.

  Through the National Association for Community College Entrepreneurship over 300 community colleges across the country are working to establish entrepreneurial programs of all types, including credit, credit-free, business centers, and business incubators that directly produce new jobs. The result is innovative ideas and programs that advance economic growth and prosperity in the communities served by the colleges. But more needs to be done to spread this work further across all of the nation’s 1,200 community colleges. A discussion on the potential of community colleges to be the driver of entrepreneurship in the 21st century would be a great addition to the White House Summit.

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