Pierce College / Pierce College - 13 years ago
(KNX 1070) — Pierce College in Woodland Hills considers itself a community college with a university attitude, still able to offer a wide range of majors even as the demand increases and the budget decreases. KNX 1070’s Ron Kilgore reports.https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/wp-content/uploads/si...
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Recorded on location in Mexico City, Colin Marshall talks to David Lida, author of First Stop in the New World, Las llaves de la ciudad, Travel Advisory: Stories of Mexico, and the blog Mostly Mexico City. A native New Yorker, Lida moved to Mexico City in 1990 — a year considered by many to have bee...
Pierce College / Pierce College - 13 years ago
Achieving the Dream Teams Are Off & Running Read the ATD Update to the Board of Trustees All colleges are in the process of developing a four-year plan, with broad engagement from the campus and external communities and commitment from top leadership, for 1) improving student outcomes based on...
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Colin Marshall talks to Laurie Ochoa and Joe Donnelly, founding editors of the new Los Angeles literary journal Slake. The magazine, which has just released its third issue, combines fiction, poetry, essays, reportage, photography, and several different kinds of visual art into a regular exploration...
Pierce College / Pierce College - 13 years ago
SSI Meeting Agenda, 10/28/2011 Student Success Taskforce (SSTF) – Chancellor’s Office website Responses from ASCCC and potential collective response from SSISC. SSTF ideas and discussions website – State Academic Senate SB1143 Update Student Success Presentation from State Acad...
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Colin Marshall talks to J. Hoberman, senior film critic at The Village Voice and author of books on such cinematic subjects as 8mm and Super 8 pictures, Dennis Hopper, the 1960s, midnight movies, and Yiddish tradition. In his latest title, An Army of Phantoms: American Movies and the Making of the C...
Pierce College / Pierce College - 13 years ago
(credit: oldpasadena.org) In Los Angeles, where anything can be staged, Halloween can mean pumpkins, trick or treating, haunted houses, or fireworks at a theme park! Here are our top picks for family Halloween activities in the Southland this year. For the darker side of Halloween fun, we’v...
Pierce College / Pierce College - 13 years ago
Taking Student Success to the Next Level: Best Practices from the LACCD & Beyond… Keynote Presentation, Bill Heineman & Rick Lizotte, Northern Essex Community College, an Achieving the Dream Leader College Necc atd lacc_presentation_final_b from harrindl STATWAY: A Pierce Colleg...
Pierce College / Pierce College - 13 years ago
by: Joshua Wilner I spent the summer of 1990 working at a camp just outside of Toronto. The first questions the friendly Canadians peppered me with were: did I ever see any actors/actresses, was I in a gang and what was it like to live in a city that only had one season?It is a common misconception...
miscellaneous / miscellaneous - 13 years ago
Colin Marshall talks to Chris Andrews, Katherine Silver, and Rosalie Knecht, English translators of the Argentine novelist César Aira, whom some readers in the Anglosphere are now finding as exciting as Borges. Despite having published over fifty books since 1975, Aira has only recently broken into...
miscellaneous / miscellaneous - 13 years ago
Colin Marshall talks to Peter Toohey, professor of Greek and Roman studies at the University of Calgary and author of Boredom: a Lively History. You don't need to keep your finger on the pulse of the contemporary scene to realize how important a subject boredom has become. We've all felt the emotion...
miscellaneous / miscellaneous - 13 years ago
Colin Marshall talks to musician, writer, and artist Nick Currie, also known as Momus. Having recently relocated from Berlin to Osaka, he returns to the program to discuss his brand new book Solution 214-238: The Book of Japans. The novel follows up his previous book Solution 11-167: The Book of Sco...
miscellaneous / miscellaneous - 13 years ago
In 2011, Reconnecting America developed a three-part series of briefs on the opportunity for New Orleans and Baton Rouge to develop an integrated, regional transportation network that supports strong communities and improves opportunity for the residents and businesses of southern Louisiana. The bri...
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Colin Marshall talks to essayist, novelist, traveler, and "global soul" Pico Iyer. Since Video Night in Kathmandu, his journey through the rapidly changing Asia of the mid-1980s, Iyer has told us all about what it feels like and what it means to exist in and pass through places from Atlanta to Kyoto...
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Colin Marshall talks to Daniel Hernandez, bilingual bicultural binational journalist, blogger at Intersections, and author of Down and Delirious in Mexico City: The Aztec Metropolis in the 21st Century. In 2007, the Mexican-American Hernandez moved to Mexico City to explore its spirit of adventure,...