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Dayton high school student Loren Littlejohn graduated this month. Nothing unusual about that, except that she also graduated from Sinclair Community College with an associate degree at the same time.
Read the full story at WDTN.com .[more]
The Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, or UAVs, at Sinclair Community College may feel light when you pick them up, but they carry a lot of weight when it comes to the Miami Valley's future.
Read the full story at WDTN.com .[more]
Sinclair graduate Robert Reedy talks about his move from a career in IT to Health Information Technology.
Read the full interview at Government Health IT .[more]
Sinclair's UAS program was featured on TIME.com in an article about UAS studies in higher education.
Read the full story at TIME.com .[more]
Former GM worker and Sinclair graduate Debbie Bradley was recently featured on WYSO's ReInvention Stories, telling of her transitions from GM plant worker to Sinclair student to Registered Nurse.
Visit WYSO.org to read the article and listen to the full story.
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From www.financialaidtv.com
Financial Aid TV (FATV), a leading supplier of online video solutions for college financial aid offices, announced today a new addition to its online network.
Sinclair Community College (Dayton, OH) is the latest institution to take advantage of Financial Aid TV's customized online video counseling and ...[more]
In 125 years, Sinclair Community College has grown from offering just a few classes for 55 men at the Dayton YMCA to preparing 23,500 students this semester for careers or more higher education.
Sinclair s legacy makes it one of the oldest continuously operating community college in the country. Today, the public college is also ...[more]
In its July 13, 2012 edition, the Dayton Business Journal ranked the Top 12 Workforce Development programs in the Dayton region based on the number of participants served. Sinclair Community College Workforce Development ranked #1 with 10,900 individuals served in fiscal year 2011-2012. That number is nearly 4,600 more individuals serve...[more]
Two major colleges announced a plan to team up to provide Ohio and the Dayton region with a more competitive workforce.
Read the whole story on middletownjournal.com .[more]
Sinclair Community College President Steven Johnson will lead a national effort challenging community colleges to help in Reclaiming the American Dream.
Read the full story on dayton daily news.com .[more]
Sinclair Community College will soon launch a year-long media campaign to address the trend of a skilled worker shortage in U.S. manufacturing that's leaving many jobs unfilled despite the high number of job-seekers.
Read the full story at Dayton Daily News.com .
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The University of Dayton and Sinclair Community College are using a $200,000 federal grant to expose high school and undergraduate students to the field of nanotechnology.
Jobs are returning to the U.S. in nanotechnology manufacturing, often to create computer chips.
Read the full story at daytondailynews.com .[more]
Complaints by some parents to their school-aged children that video games aren't good for you may not necessarily be true.
Apparently, a PlayStation mentality can pay off for students interested in aviation and could lead to a future career in that industry.
The strong hand-eye coordination skills and familiarity with a vi...[more]
Sinclair's nontraditional student population was featured in a Dayton Daily News article on March 26:
Jobs drive boomers to acquire new skills
With high unemployment, low home values and downsized retirement accounts, hundreds of thousands of baby boomers are turning to college to boost their job skills.
The number of stu...[more]
In an effort to promote the safest and most welcoming educational environment possible, Sinclair College is beginning the process of formally reviewing its campus access policy. Administrators will be meeting with faculty, campus police and students in coming weeks and months to collaborate on possible improvements in the current po...[more]
On March 1, Sinclair was featured in an article titled Schools Try to Match the Jobless with 3.4 Million Jobs in The New York Times . The article highlights Sinclair's efforts to work with state and local officials to attract and nurture new industry as well as anticipate the future training needs of area businesses. Quoted are Presi...[more]
Are you a student who dreams of graduating from college? It's time to achieve that dream!
Achieving the Dream , a national non-profit group that helps low-income students earn college degrees, and ISKME's CompletionMatters.org , an online provider of education tools and resources toward students' college completion, have j...[more]
Emergency Blood Recipient Dan Jensen's Long Climb Back to the Pitching Mound Inspires His Former Team during Visit to Dayton CBC
When the Cincinnati Reds called to tell Dan Jensen they were drafting him to play professional baseball he called it a dream come true. That's not a phrase he uses lightly. After all, he grew up in Cent...[more]
President Johnson was recently featured on the Bill Melinda Gates Foundation s blog site Impatient Optimist. Not only is the posting penned by Sinclair's president, but it also features a photo of a Sinclair students and his academic advisor, Mary Jenkins.
Read the blog entry at www.impatientoptimists.org [more]
Sinclair is teaming up with WDTN, Dayton s CW and White Allen Chevrolet for the Wait2Txt Campaign, an initiative that encourages drivers not to text and drive.
The college hosted a kick-off event on August 4. Students were given Wait2Txt thumb-bands to remind them not to text while driving and got a chance to visit booths set up by...[more]
Representatives of Dayton s business, research, academic and intelligence communities plan to team up next week at a Washington, D.C., conference to promote the Dayton region s efforts to build itself as a center of expertise for unmanned aerial vehicles and related systems.
The Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems Internation...[more]
Come and hear from members of the USAF Thunderbirds as they discuss the ups and downs of United States Air Force piloting. Attend this special presentation on Friday, July 22nd from 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. in Building 14, Room 14-132 at Sinclair Community College s Dayton campus. The visit is sponsored by Sinclair s Aviation Technology ...[more]
DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) - 35 Bike Build members will be pedaling into Dayton to help Dayton Habitat for Humanity in its mission to eliminate poverty housing.
Sinclair Community College will host the group at Building 19 at 214 Wilkinson St. for their two-day visit.
Read the full story at wdtn.com [more]
Sinclair Community College is holding the first civilian Unmanned Aerial Vehicle training class in the region beginning July 19 at its main campus and Tech Town in downtown. The college is hoping to prepare the area s workforce for forthcoming jobs as a result of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base s involvement with the evolving technology...[more]
Scott Fowler s Book Debut: LeSourdsville Lake Amusement Park
Little did Scott Fowler know that being sent to the attic to retrieve catering supplies, as part of his duties as a LeSourdsville Lake employee, would result in the beginning of a lifelong passion for amusement parks and their history. Scott s book, LeSourdsville Lake Am...[more]
Sinclair Workforce Development s close training partnership with WinWholesale Inc. will be the subject of an article in the June 2011 edition of Focus, the Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce s quarterly magazine distributed to approximately 6,000 Chamber members and regional businesses. Copies will be mailed to Chamber members June 1 and a...[more]
Sinclair boasts some of the best Web systems, apps, software and information-technology (IT) solutions in higher education. In fact, in 2007, we were named among the top 10 tech-savvy community colleges in the country by the American Association of Community Colleges.
In this issue you will get a better understanding of how the coll...[more]
Sinclair Workforce Development s role in the recently published Strategic Plan for Strengthening Community Relationships is the subject of a story in a supplement to the December 2010 issue of Dayton B2B . The edition is now on newsstands.
During the last year, 17 members of a community task force, including Sinclair s Vice ...[more]
Several Sinclair staff and faculty presented at the 2010 STEMtech presented by the League of Innovation. Ed Beghey, Jr. provided the conference key note. Read his article in The Huffington Post about it [more]
Kevin DeBord has easily found work through the years as a machinist and die maker. At age 40 he was making a solid living and raising two teenagers with his wife, as he followed in the tool-and-die career of his father and uncles.
But last year, laid off from a local machine shop, DeBord found himself struggling to find jobs that ...[more]
Sinclair s Workforce Development has been partnering this year with the City of Dayton Office of Economic Development, CityWide, and Tech Town to produce a quarterly, eight-page economic development supplement to Dayton B2B , a monthly business publication published by the Dayton Daily News. This publication is mailed to 7,000 Dayton B2...[more]
Sometimes learning is better achieved through doing something than simply studying it. Perhaps that s why Sinclair Community College art professors and students spend so much time outside the classroom, creating masterpieces to be displayed, judged and just enjoyed by the surrounding communities.
It s an unspoken culture th...[more]
Sinclair and Miami University signed a dual admission agreement on May 17, reducing schedule barriers and fees. Students who finish their associate degree at Sinclair will be able to complete the Bachelor of Integrated Studies degree at Miami s regional campuses, with no additional application or transfer fees.
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Sinclair Community College Associate Professor Dr. John Parcell has made the spotlight as the 2009 Ohio Professor of the Year. Awarded by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), Parcell was selected as one of the 38 state winners. These state and national h...[more]
Dayton, Ohio -- Donna Hoying has been appointed as Manager, Advanced Engineering and Manufacturing Solutions at Sinclair Community College. The appointment, effective November 2, was announced by Deborah Norris, VP Workforce Development Corporate Services.
Donna Hoying brings to Sinclair deep experience in engineering and Lean ...[more]
On Saturday, August 14, Sinclair Community College was featured on the front page of the Business section in the New York Times. The article focuses on the college as one of the nation's leading community colleges working to help displaced workers prepare for new career opportunities.
Visit The New York Times Web site to read the c...[more]
Saturday, June 20, 2009
A re-energized Sinclair Aviation Club held its first fly in-cruise in at Dayton-Wright Brothers Airport, offering $25 airplane rides, grilled food, and a chance for the public to look at a variety of general-aviation airplanes and classic cars.
Read more at aviationdayton.com [more]
WASHINGTON, DC Joining his congressional teammates suited up in uniforms of their favorite area baseball teams, U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) sported the uniform of Sinclair Community College s Tartan Pride at the 47th Annual Congressional Baseball Game, Thursday night. Read more [more]
Did You Know?
Sinclair is one of only 12 Vanguard Learning Colleges in the U.S. and Canada, named for our "outstanding record of achievement in learning-centered education."
Sinclair's student/faculty ratio of 19 to 1, among the lowest at Ohio's colleges, allows students to receive more individual attention.
Sinclair awards on average $80 million in financial aid and scholarships each year.
Sinclair is the largest regional provider of online education, with more than 180 different online courses.