And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: via LadyScribe From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Remedial Ed Tops Issues for Community College... Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 11:00:28 EST Remedial Ed Tops Issues for Community College Convention; Jeremy Rifkin, Clarence Page Keynote Outstanding Alums Honored WASHINGTON, March 29 /PRNewswire/ -- The growing need for remedial education among college students will be at the top of a list of thorny issues facing community colleges across the nation when more than 2,500 educators gather in Nashville next month. Other major areas of focus for the 79th Annual Convention of the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) include the need to adapt to costly and changing technologies and the challenge of providing the quantity and quality of skilled graduates needed by today's business and industry. This largest annual meeting of the nation's 1,100 two-year colleges kicks off April 7 at Nashville's Opryland Hotel and runs through April 10. Keynoter for the event will be writer and provocative public speaker Jeremy Rifkin, author of The Biotech Century: Harnessing the Gene and Remaking the World and more than a dozen other books on economic trends and issues related to science, technology and culture. Other major speakers include Clarence Page, Pulitzer Prize winning columnist; Roberts Jones, president, National Alliance of Business; Marlene Johnson, executive director of the Association of International Educators; Ray Bramucci, assistant secretary of Employment and Training Administration, U.S. Department of Labor; Michael Emmi, CEO Systems & Computer Technology Corporation; and others. This year's convention will also showcase outstanding community college students -- past and present. Twenty top students selected for USA Today's 1999 All-USA Academic Team will be announced April 9 during a 7 a.m. breakfast (Delta A). Students are selected from community colleges nationally for academic excellence, student leadership, and community service. The USA Today competition is coordinated by Phi Theta Kappa, the community college international scholastic honorary organization. AACC will also honor seven former community college students as its 1999 Outstanding Alumni. The honorees will be recognized during the convention gala, Friday, April 9 at 7:30 p.m. 1999 Outstanding Alumni and their nominating colleges include: * Rose Marie Battisti, executive director, Asian Children Services, a program to help resettle to the U.S. children of U.S./Asian parentage (Herkimer County Community College, NY) * James Belushi, comedian and movie actor (College of DuPage, IL) * Rita Mae Brown, prolific novelist, Emmy-winning screenwriter, and playwright (Broward Community College, FL) * Bruce FaBrizio, former NFL lineman, now CEO, Simple Green, producer of environmentally safe cleaning products distributed internationally (Mt. San Antonio Community College, CA) * William Haddad, former journalist, now CEO, MIR Inc., a pharmaceutical company in Russia specializing in generic products (St. Petersburg Junior College, FL) * Karen Kay Medville, Native American research scientist and professor of environmental toxicology, Arizona State University (Pikes Peak Community College, CO) * J. Craig Venter, scientist and founder of The Institute for Genomic Research, first company to decode an entire free-living organism, and a new company, Celera Genomics, currently attempting to decode the three- billion-letter human genome (College of San Mateo, CA) The American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) represents more than 1,100 accredited community, junior, and technical colleges and their more than 10 million students nationally. Community colleges currently enroll almost half (44 percent) of all U.S. undergraduates. SOURCE American Association of Community Colleges CO: American Association of Community Colleges ST: District of Columbia, Tennessee 03/29/99 10:59 EST http://www.prnewswire.com &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& Tsonkwadiyonrat (We are ONE Spirit) Unenh onhwa' Awayaton http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
