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Public Affairs media and Web site report for August 2010
Photos and story by James Hill
Here is a look at some of the news stories about PCC from around the local area and the nation in August. In total, PCC events and people appeared 45 times in the local community or national online media, newspapers or TV/radio.
Aug. 2, KXL Radio interviewed Larry Clausen at Cascade about the enrollment situation for his Allied Health programs.
The August 2010 website statistics.
Aug. 2, OregonLive and Southwest Community Connection highlighted PCC’s 12th straight term of enrollment growth and the Portland Tribune used it as its center package story on the front page of its Web site Aug. 3.
Aug. 9, PCC’s Entry Level High-Tech Training and its effect on getting people to work was highlighted by OregonLive.
Aug. 10, PCC made the favorites list of the Princeton Review, according to the McMinnville News-Register.
Aug. 12, the Lake Oswego Review spotlighted PCC’s surging enrollment and how most of the health professions programs have long waiting lists.
Aug. 17, OregonLive featured the Hillsboro Center move.
Aug. 17, the Hillsboro Center moving to the Intermodal Transit Facility made the front page of the Hillsboro Argus.
Aug. 31, the Daily Journal of Commerce profiled the PCC bond projects across the district.
About James Hill
James G. Hill, an award-winning journalist and public relations writer, is the Director of Public Relations at Portland Community College. A graduate of Portland State University, James has worked as a section editor for the Newberg Graphic... more »