Plans Underway for Global Health Seminar for Community Colleges, April 9-11, 2015, Northern Virginia Community College (Registration Deadline: 3/18/15)

Global Health Program for Community Colleges, April 2015

Soft Skills and Peacebuilding Awareness: Promoting Business/Educational Partnerships

By: David J. Smith, February 18, 2015 Today, community colleges are focused on a broad range of objectives including liberal arts education, community offerings, and vocational training.   Workforce development is an important emphasis nationwide, and many colleges have been able to forge strong relationships with local businesses that often have national and international reach. NorthWestContinueContinue reading “Soft Skills and Peacebuilding Awareness: Promoting Business/Educational Partnerships”

On the Frontier of Peace and Conflict Studies: Tulsa Community College

By: David J. Smith, February 16, 2015 The American frontier of the 19th century conjures up images of western towns lacking law and order, cattle drives and rodeos, not so peaceful encounters between eastern migrating “whites” and native populations, and pioneering farmers and their families staking out land claims. This imagery is particularly powerful in Oklahoma, which wasContinueContinue reading “On the Frontier of Peace and Conflict Studies: Tulsa Community College”