A pioneering new seminar for Community College Presidents and other senior administrators premiered this month in Fort Lauderdale.
Security was tight at the new Nine Shift seminar for community college administrators. Seriously, this was our first seminar with a state trooper stationed outside the meeting room!
We were privileged and honored to have Joanne Jaeger Tomblin, who is not only the President of Southern West Virginia Community & Technical College, but also the First Lady of West Virginia, being married to Governor Tomblin.
The new seminar, which featured 21 Strategic Planning Action Recommendations for Community Colleges, featured a new 21st century mission for community colleges. The positive reactions and involvement of the participants, attendance, and interaction, was so exciting we are already planning on offering it again February 1-2, 2012. And the hotel, right on the beach, was exquisite. Tell your college president to be there next year! Photo: Dr. Tomblin, left, with Lucious Anderson, Vice President of Baltimore City Community College.
That's cool, you got to see my first lady from West Virginia. Out of curiosity, did you get to bring up the prospects for rail service with anybody there? I got called some nasty things years ago when I suggested more rail service in West Virginia, and the establishment so far still seems in the highway mode.
It would be interesting to hear what kind of reaction you got. My experience wasn't happy at all, but that was 20 years ago. Have things changed since then?
Posted by: D. P. Lubic | February 17, 2011 at 08:39 PM
D.P., thanks for your comment. There is much more acceptance of trains by audiences at my talks now, but action in the current political climate is a long way off.
This is, of course, a "love it or leave it" message to our children. Yesterday I talked with a woman who said her son and all of his friends are thinking of moving out of the USA for two reasons: Green, and trains.
Posted by: William Draves | February 18, 2011 at 11:22 AM