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• 2010 AACC Convention Discount for CSCC Members
  
  DEADLINE: March 17th, 2010
  
  The CSCC Annual Conference is in conjunction with the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) convention, which is also in Seattle, WA from April 17-20. Although the regular base fee for the AACC convention is $630, all council members have an opportunity to attend the AACC convention for a discounted base rate of $530. Registrants receive access to all convention programs that are not ticketed and access to the Academic Marketplace exhibit hall. Meals are additional.
  
  In order to take advantage of this discount you must fill out the form linked to above and return it directly to the mailing address listed with your check or credit card information (your credit card number goes on the form). Do NOT send the form and payment to the CSCC office. Your form must be postmarked by March 17th, 2010. After this date, you will not be eligible for the discount
  
  NOTE: You must be a current paid member of CSCC to qualify for this discount. The administrators at AACC receive an updated list of our paid members on a weekly basis and they will reject your application if you are not on the list. Please contact John Marfield at cscc@gseis.ucla.edu if you have any questions about your membership status and on submitting this discount form.
  
  
• CALL FOR BOOK REVIEW PROPOSALS: Community College Review
  
  The Community College Review (CCR) invites reviews of current books on topics relevant to community colleges and their stakeholders. Researchers, faculty, practitioners, and advanced graduate students are welcome to submit proposals for book reviews to CCR. A proposal should consist of a brief statement about the significance of the book in question, basic information about its publisher and publication date, and a brief summary of the review author's background and reasons for interest in the book. Authors of accepted proposals will be invited to write a book review that is no more than 1,000 words in length. Reviews should include 1) a concise overview of the book’s primary themes and perspectives and 2) a critical analysis of the book’s coherence and significance that considers the book’s strengths and weaknesses, scholarly rigor, soundness of argument, fulfillment of stated objectives, and relevance to the field.
  
  Please visit this link for more information. Book review proposals should be directed to CCR’s book review editor, Dr. Alyssa Bryant, at alyssa_bryant@ncsu.edu
  
  
• CSCC NAMES AWARD TO HONOR TOWNSEND
  
  At its April 4, 2009 meeting the Board of Directors of the Council for the Study of Community Colleges (CSCC) voted unanimously to rename its Emerging Scholars Award in honor of Dr. Barbara K. Townsend. An active and long-serving member of CSCC Barbara K. Townsend is Professor of Higher Education in the College of Education at the University of Missouri-Columbia and Director of the College's Center for Community College Research. She served as President of CSCC in 1999-2000 and received the association’s Senior Scholar Award in 2001. In recognition of her many years of service to CSCC she was awarded the association’s 2009 Distinguished Service Award at its recent conference in Phoenix, AZ.
  
  Over the years Dr. Townsend has mentored many new scholars providing them with guidance and opportunities to further their research. “I’m delighted that the CSCC Board is recognizing the amazing contribution that Barbara Townsend has made to the development of news scholars in the field of community college studies,” states Jan Ignash, Deputy Director of Policy, Planning and Research for the Washington State Higher Education Coordinating Board. “I’m one of the many who have benefited from Barbara’s mentorship. Barbara is one of those rare scholars who enjoys wrestling with the tough questions, those questions we keep coming back to because of their complexity and perennial nature. She has a ‘sixth sense’ of what quality research and writing should be and she delights in working collaboratively with and imparting that wisdom to emerging scholars.” Jaime Lester, Assistant Professor of Higher Education at George Mason University, and winner of the 2009 CSCC Emerging Scholar Award adds, “Barbara Townsend’s decades of research on gender and community college serve as the foundation for much of my research. Her dedication to establishing frameworks to judge gender equity and to giving voice to women, as well as her genuine admiration for community colleges, serves as a model. She and her work have been instrumental in my success and the success of many other community college scholars.”
  
  Townsend’s research has focused on the community college as a major vehicle for facilitating attainment of the baccalaureate degree, with a particular focus on the experiences of women and minorities. She is the editor and author of a number of well respected books and monographs about the community college, and has published over 20 chapters and more than 40 research articles. She serves as co-editor of the NASPA-sponsored Journal about Women in Higher Education and is on the editorial board of the Community College Review and the Community College Journal of Research and Practice. Her current research focuses on the community college mission in the 21st century, transfer and articulation, and community college faculty.
  
  Beginning in 2010 the award will be presented as the Barbara K. Townsend Emerging Scholar Award.
  
  
• Congratulations 2009 CSCC Award Winners!
  
  Senior Scholar - Larry Ebbers, Iowa State University
  
  Distinguished Service - Barbara K. Townsend, University of Missouri
  
  Emerging Scholar - Jaime Renee Lester, George Mason University
  
  Dissertation of the Year - Kenneth Meier, University of Arizona
  
  


Updated 03/05/2010