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		<title>As we near the end of the semester&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://bccpresident.wordpress.com/2009/05/01/as-we-near-the-end-of-the-semester/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 16:37:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a couple of brief items to mention, as we near the end of the semester:
1. The 2009-2010 proposed budget for Broome Community College has been submitted to the Broome County Executive and County Legislature for consideration. Very briefly, the proposed budget calls for a spending increase (over 2008-2009) of 3.5% along with a revenue [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bccpresident.wordpress.com&blog=4125747&post=64&subd=bccpresident&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>From BCC&#8217;s Remembrance Ceremony &#8211; American Civic Association Tragedy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:19:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Friday, Binghamton, Broome County, New York State, our Country, and indeed the whole world witnessed a senseless tragedy that unfolded at the American Civic Association building and remains as incomprehensible as it does horrifying.  The killing of thirteen individuals, plus the shooter himself, is an event that defies rational, logical explanation and constitutes an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bccpresident.wordpress.com&blog=4125747&post=61&subd=bccpresident&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Yesterday&#8217;s tragedy</title>
		<link>http://bccpresident.wordpress.com/2009/04/03/yesterdays-tragedy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 12:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Campus Community:
 
All of us throughout our College community and the entire Binghamton area are shocked, distressed, and deeply saddened by the events of yesterday.  Truly, our hearts, thoughts, and prayers go out to the victims, their families and other loved ones, and indeed all who are suffering because of yesterday&#8217;s tragedy. 
 
Nothing that is said can [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bccpresident.wordpress.com&blog=4125747&post=58&subd=bccpresident&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tentative State Budget</title>
		<link>http://bccpresident.wordpress.com/2009/03/31/tentative-state-budget/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:31:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Campus Community:
As many of you have heard, yesterday the Governor and two leaders of the State Senate and Assembly reached agreement on a tentative State budget.  The budget now awaits Legislative approval, although that is expected since the Democrats control both legislative bodies.
I am very pleased to announce that the projected / possible 10% community [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bccpresident.wordpress.com&blog=4125747&post=56&subd=bccpresident&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rental Practices</title>
		<link>http://bccpresident.wordpress.com/2009/03/05/update-about-two-issues/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 17:08:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The College Community may be aware of a pending BCC legal matter concerning rental of campus space. Although the litigation prevents me from offering specifics about that particular situation, I do want the Campus Community to be aware that recently the College’s Executive Council reviewed BCC’s rental practices (to outside, non-College-sponsored organizations) and determined that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bccpresident.wordpress.com&blog=4125747&post=52&subd=bccpresident&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Four-day workweek</title>
		<link>http://bccpresident.wordpress.com/2009/02/26/four-day-workweek/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After reflecting much over the past several weeks about the possibility of an extended four-day summer workweek to commence this June, I have decided that we will not be implementing such an arrangement for Summer, 2009.  Our work days and schedule will remain as they have been in previous summer terms.  
I wanted to take this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bccpresident.wordpress.com&blog=4125747&post=50&subd=bccpresident&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<link>http://bccpresident.wordpress.com/2009/01/22/49/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[View the New York Community Colleges Association of Presidents (NYCCAP) STATEMENT ON PROPOSED BUDGET CUTS 
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		<title>Community College Survey of Student Engagement (CCSSE)</title>
		<link>http://bccpresident.wordpress.com/2009/01/22/community-college-survey-of-student-engagement-ccsse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 15:23:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Research shows that students who read and write more, and who interact in positive ways with their teachers and peers, gain more in terms of essential skills and competencies. Identifying what our students do in and out of the classroom, knowing their goals, and understanding their external responsibilities can help us create an environment that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bccpresident.wordpress.com&blog=4125747&post=46&subd=bccpresident&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>About funding and the Governor’s budget proposal</title>
		<link>http://bccpresident.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/about-funding-and-the-governor%e2%80%99s-budget-proposal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:31:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With all the talk at the State and Local levels about funding and the Governor’s budget proposal for 2009-10, I thought it might be helpful to you if I sent out additional information to clarify a few points in the story that appeared in the Press-Sun newspaper this morning.
I have tried to be consistent in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bccpresident.wordpress.com&blog=4125747&post=40&subd=bccpresident&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>BCC and the Alms House</title>
		<link>http://bccpresident.wordpress.com/2008/12/17/bcc-and-the-alms-house/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:55:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Broome Community College has long been under pressure to determine a use for the idle and deteriorating Alms House located along Front Street.  The College needs to finalize the decision by the end of January, 2009, as it is under a requirement from the NYS Office of Fire Prevention and Control to identify a suitable [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bccpresident.wordpress.com&blog=4125747&post=37&subd=bccpresident&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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