The May 2-4, 2011 TA3 conference in San Sebastian in the Basque region of Spain was a great success. The time was productive but the photos you’ll find on the front page show that the time was fun as well. We’ve linked the presentations to their respective session below. Read the rest of this entry »
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May 26th, 2011April 2011 TA3 Connections
April 14th, 2011The latest TA3 Connections provides updates on the May 1-4, 2011 TA3 Symposium in San Sebastian in the Basque Region of Spain and brings you up-to-date on member activities including an interesting outreach program by EUC-Syd with Dung Quat College of Technology (DQC) in Viet Nam. York Technical College in South Carolina, USA is profiled. Along with other innovations, York Tech has created the Hive Business Center (HBC), a work-based learning cooperative that opened in February of 2011. The cooperative offers start-up and small business support with a focus on Internet marketing and web design and development.
Download the issue here.
TA3 Webinar presentations available
February 11th, 2011TA3 members have participated in two exciting webinars during January and February of this year.
On January 14th members heard from Julian Alssid, executive director of the Workforce Strategy Center on opportunities to improve employment outcomes using the Career Pathways program. Click here to download the PowerPoint show.
The February webinar focused on funding opportunities available from the National Science Foundation’s Advanced Technological Education program. Dr. Gerhard Salinger described the program:
The ATE program promotes improvement in the education of science and engineering technicians at the undergraduate and secondary school level and the educators who prepare them, focusing on technicians for high-technology fields that drive the nation’s economy. The program, in its 18th year, focuses on two-year colleges and expects two-year colleges to have a leadership role in all projects.
Dr. Salinger’s presentation is available here. Click here for more information on the NSF program. Download the grant solicitation here.
January 2011 TA3 Connections
February 2nd, 2011The latest TA3 Connections focuses on the upcoming TA3 Annual Symposium scheduled for May 1-4, 2011 in San Sebastian in the Basque Region of Spain. The symposium will focus on creativity and innovation in education. The issue also provides extensive member news, discusses a recent TA3 Webinar with Julian Alssid, executive director of the Workforce Strategy Center, and profiles TA3 member Ivy Tech Community College, Indiana.
You can download a copy of the newsletter here.
TA3 Meeting May 1-4, 2011 in San Sebastian, Basque Region of Spain
January 25th, 2011Stimulating Innovation and Creativity In Education: Sharing Of Practises Across the Atlantic
Plan to join us in lovely San Sebastian in the Basque region of Spain for the May 1-4, 2011 TA3 meeting on innovation and creativity. The event is co-sponsored by TA3 and the Tknika Centre for Innovation in Basque supported by the Basque Department of Education. Events on May 1-2 are open to all and the May 3-4 sessions are for TA3 members and their guests.
Generating new jobs, new industries, and new competitive advantages in existing industries is high on the agenda of governments around the world. They recognize that creativity, innovation, and talent are integral to each and that success will require not only a more highly educated and skilled work force but that thinks differently, that is highly creative. This TA3 conference will focus on developing that creative and innovative labor force. More specifically, it will highlight ways that education and training institutions can nurture creativity among their students and within their institutions to produce a workforce with the talent to innovate, and how that creativity and innovation can be enhanced by collaborative networks and alliances involving colleges, companies, research and technology centres that complement one another and share knowledge and practices.
Please go to the Tknika website to register and to find information on travel and accommodations, the symposium and the Basque region.
September 2010 TA3 Connections
October 12th, 2010The September edition of TA 3 Connections features a profile of a new automobile training program at Macomb Community College a new cooperative program between a college in Finland and a college in New York and a federally sponsored sustainability conference. You can download a copy of the newsletter here.
June TA 3 Connections
June 25th, 2010In the June issue of TA 3 Connections, you can read a review of our April symposium on sustainability, information about US-German cooperation, and a profile of TA3 member Kingsborough Community College. The issue can be downloaded here.
TA 3 Connections
January 22nd, 2010The most recent issue of TA3 connections previews our April conference, takes a look EUC-Syd’s role in the greening of a region in Denmark, and profiles member institution Gateway Community and Technical College in Covington, Kentucky. We also offer the latest news from across our membership and the world of community colleges. Click here to download the newsletter.
Save the Date: TA3 Meeting April 26-27
December 21st, 2009The theme for our next meeting will be “Supporting Sustainable Communities Opportunities and Challenges for Community Colleges” In Asheville, North Carolina on April 26 and 27 join experts and practitioners from the U.S. and Europe to highlight expanded roles for colleges in educating students, businesses, and communities about and for economic opportunities in renewable energy, conservation, ecotourism, and local sustainable agriculture and manufacturing. Registration information and the prospective agenda can be found at www.ta3online.org/2010meeting/.
Latest TA3 Connections
July 17th, 2009The latest edition of our newsletter TA3 Connections is available. In this issue, we wrap up the symposium in Tampere, offer updates on member college activities You can access the issue here