Sinclair Community College News

Browse past news stories for Sinclair Community College in Dayton, OH:

  • Becker College names new president (Boston Globe)
    posted on March 12, 2010 at 10:48:23 pm
    Becker College has named an Ohio college executive as its new president. Becker's board of trustees said Friday it has chosen Robert Johnson, senior vice president of Sinclair Community College in Dayton, after a seven-month national search.
  • Columbus State caps off president search (The Columbus Dispatch)
    posted on March 12, 2010 at 11:38:11 am
    Columbus State trustees chose David T. Harrison to be the college's fifth president yesterday. Harrison, 48, who has overseen 11 University of Central Florida campuses in seven counties as vice provost there, was raised in Cincinnati, where his parents still live. And he served as a dean at Sinclair Community College in Dayton.
  • St. Peter’s DI warmup benefits Haiti victims (Dayton Daily News)
    posted on March 10, 2010 at 08:49:00 pm
    Most kids learn early in their school careers how important team work is to success.On Saturday, March 13, eight fifth-grade students from St. Peter School in Huber Heights will put to use what they have learned about teamwork during the past several months as they compete in the Destination ImagiNation challenge at Sinclair Community College in Dayton.
  • Training Displaced Workers But For What Jobs? (NPR)
    posted on March 10, 2010 at 11:14:33 am
    In Dayton, Ohio, Sinclair Community College has been a driving force in helping retrain the unemployed so they can find work after graduation. But high paying manufacturing jobs don't seem to be coming back, and any good job is tough to find.
  • Xenia grad named first team All-OCCAC (Dayton Daily News)
    posted on March 10, 2010 at 05:21:09 am
    DAYTON — The Sinclair Community College women’s basketball team placed three players on All-Ohio Community College Athletic Conference teams.Sophomore Chelcie Gullett (Xenia High School), 12th in scoring and fourth in 3-point and free-throw percentage, made first team; and sophomore Jana Gross (Bellbrook) and freshman Emily Frey (Versailles) received honorable mention.
  • Cordray to address consumers at Dayton forum (Dayton Daily News)
    posted on March 10, 2010 at 12:20:11 am
    Since this is National Consumer Protection Week, March 7-13, Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray is taking the opportunity to travel throughout the state holding free, public forums about consumer fraud, money management, debt control, potential scams and more.The Dayton Community Forum will take place from 6 to 7:30 p.m. today, March 10, at Sinclair Community College in downtown Dayton.
  • DAY FIVE: Defense rests attorneys make final pleas in murder trial (The Ironton Tribune)
    posted on March 9, 2010 at 04:52:34 pm
    PORTSMOUTH — With the testimony of only one witness the defense rested its case Monday morning in the ...
  • Start-Up Company Selected for Peak 10s Technology Assistance Program (dBusinessNews.com)
    posted on March 9, 2010 at 03:25:54 pm
    CINCINNATI – Peak 10 Inc., a managed services company with world-class data centers , is pleased to announce the addition of StudentZen to its Technology Assistance Program (TAP). The program provides essential technology support and expertise to promising regional start-up companies.
  • New training programs let workers update skills (Dayton Daily News)
    posted on March 6, 2010 at 01:20:00 am
    When the recent recession hit hard, J.R. Shelton was laid off from Mancor Industries in Dayton. When someone advised him not to “sit around” during the layoff, the Huber Heights resident got angry.“I wasn’t going to sit around,” Shelton said.
  • The case of the stalling Chrysler (Dayton Daily News)
    posted on March 5, 2010 at 02:21:13 pm
    Wheels: Daniel writes by e-mail: “I own a 1995 Chrysler Sebring V-6 2.5-liter. The problem is I’m often driving and out of nowhere the car will just stop. The gas pedal can be pressed in all the way and nothing happens.The car will sometimes kick right back on without me even having to restart it, but more often than not it just stops and won’t start again for a little while. Sometimes it will ...
  • Woodland Cemetery offering sport legends tour (Dayton Daily News)
    posted on March 5, 2010 at 03:21:17 am
    Woodland Cemetery is planning to bring some of its departed sports figures back to life.More than just remembering names and accomplishments, the folks who run Woodland believe people will enjoy hearing some of the life stories of the sports men and women buried there, as well.
  • Public invited to CGCC candidates forum (The Arizona Republic)
    posted on March 4, 2010 at 06:22:11 pm
    Four candidates vying to become president.
  • Local College Graduation Rates Lower Than State (WHIO-TV 7 Dayton)
    posted on March 3, 2010 at 04:05:10 pm
    New numbers that were released on Tuesday show that graduation rates at several Miami Valley colleges and Universities are well below the state and national averages.
  • WSU, Sinclair graduation rates rank below average (Springfield News-Sun)
    posted on March 3, 2010 at 01:26:07 pm
    Wright State and Sinclair each rank below state and national graduation averages, according to U.S. Department of Education figures. Officials at both schools say the data doesn't include part-time or transfer students, skewing the results.
  • Sinclair basketball star finds the game again (Dayton Daily News)
    posted on March 3, 2010 at 06:32:07 am
    Here’s a basketball tale with some blood and bruises.“I remember it to this day,” Cookie Grigsby was saying a couple of nights ago as she watched her son, British Alexander, score 23 points for Sinclair Community College against Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
  • WSU, Sinclair graduation rates rank below average (Dayton Daily News)
    posted on March 3, 2010 at 05:28:13 am
    Graduation rates at some Dayton area colleges and universities rank below the state and national averages, according to U.S. Department of Education figures released Tuesday, March 2.Only 10 percent of first-time, full-time students at Sinclair Community College complete an associate degree within three years, according to the data.
  • Military will have to help reduce nation's budget deficits, general says (Dayton Daily News)
    posted on March 1, 2010 at 10:42:49 pm
    DAYTON — The military will have to do its part when Washington makes decisions on how to reduce the nation’s growing budget deficits, the commander of the Air Force Materiel Command said Monday, March 1.“At some point, we’re going to have to start addressing debt. We’re on an unsustainable path as a country,” Gen. Donald Hoffman told the Dayton Rotary Club during a speech at Sinclair Community ...
  • Centerville seventh-grader has ‘wherewithal’ to win bee (Dayton Daily News)
    posted on February 28, 2010 at 03:45:07 am
    DAYTON — Liz Stickley had the “wherewithal” to outlast 22 other spellers on Saturday, Feb. 27, correctly spelling that word to win the 59th annual Regional Spelling Bee.“I was a little nervous, but I actually felt pretty confident,” said Liz, 13, the daughter of Shane and Amy Stickley of Centerville. “I thought I’d studied pretty well and knew words pretty well.”
  • 6 firms under consideration (Florida Keys Keynoter)
    posted on February 27, 2010 at 01:58:51 pm
    Following are the six firms vying to oversee the search for the next president of Florida Keys Community College:
  • Area students’ plays chosen for festival (Dayton Daily News)
    posted on February 26, 2010 at 10:12:25 pm
    Plays by area high school students will be produced in the “Changed for Good 10-Minute Playwriting Festival” on March 5-7. The project is part of the Victoria Theatre Association’s Broadway University, in association with the Miami Valley and Good Samaritan hospitals’ Broadway Series presentation of the musical “Wicked.”Winning plays are: “The Big, the Bad, and the Ugly,” by Philip Kellogg of ...
  • Columbus State down to two candidates for president (The Columbus Dispatch)
    posted on February 25, 2010 at 10:53:10 am
    Two college leaders from Florida are finalists to replace Columbus State Community College President Valeriana Moeller, who will retire at the end of June.
  • MV Walk of Fame needs nominees (Dayton Daily News)
    posted on February 24, 2010 at 10:13:01 pm
    DAYTON — Nominations for the Miami Valley Walk of Fame are being taken through March 31.Nomination of and individual from the Miami Valley who has made a significant and lasting contribution to the local community, region, nation or the world, must be made by submitting an official form.
  • Four finalists compete for CGCC presidency (The Arizona Republic)
    posted on February 24, 2010 at 06:44:43 pm
    Four finalists remain for presidency of Chandler-Gilbert Community College.
  • Columbus State has 2 finalists for president (The Columbus Dispatch)
    posted on February 24, 2010 at 06:22:40 pm
    Columbus State Community College has selected two Florida school leaders as finalists to replace President Valeriana Moeller, who will retire at the end of June.
  • Nominees sought for Dayton Walk of Fame (Dayton Daily News)
    posted on February 21, 2010 at 10:26:09 pm
    Just across the Great Miami River from downtown Dayton 120 individuals who have made significant contributions to the Miami Valley are remembered on a granite memorial permanently installed in the sidewalk.It is known as the Dayton Walk of Fame .
  • Overlooked evidence leads to ex-Trotwood officer (Dayton Daily News)
    posted on February 21, 2010 at 04:14:19 am
    JEFFERSON TWP., Montgomery County — Tree trimmers were working on Dayton Liberty Road, west of Calumet Lane, when a worker noticed something strange in a trash heap.Amid the broken furniture and other junk, he saw “a blanket that was formed as a body,” he later told Montgomery County sheriff’s detectives.
  • Brunner highlights League’s 90th anniversary luncheon (Dayton Daily News)
    posted on February 21, 2010 at 02:45:17 am
    DAYTON — Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner will be the keynote speaker at a luncheon marking the 90th anniversary of The League of Women Voters of the Greater Dayton Area on Tuesday, Feb 23, at Sinclair Community College’s Ponitz Center.Brunner, a candidate for the U.S. Senate, is Ohio’s first woman to serve as secretary of state and was awarded the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award in ...
  • Asheville-Buncombe Tech's new leader Hank Dunn faces budget squeeze (Asheville Citizen-Times)
    posted on February 21, 2010 at 12:33:12 am
    ASHEVILLE — Over the last three years, Chancellor Hank Dunn saw Ivy Tech Community College's Central Indiana campus squeezed by explosive growth and a recession, forcing students and teachers into trailers for lack of other classroom space.
  • Therapist’s goal: Get patients to walk out door (Dayton Daily News)
    posted on February 18, 2010 at 01:52:01 pm
    A highlight of Bob Edingfield’s workday is any time he sees one of his patients walking out the door.It is not that he does not care about his patients at the Dayton Artificial Limb Clinic. It is just that it is his job, as a physical therapist assistant, to make sure that they can, with a minimum of difficulty, walk out the door.
  • CCCs Mechantronics program finalist for national award (Columbus Telegram)
    posted on February 16, 2010 at 04:19:11 pm
    The Mechantronics Education Program at Central Community College-Columbus has been recognized as one of 10 national finali...