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Why? Simple, Rutledge explained days before the vote: Eastern Michigan University is in Rutledge's turf, the 54th District. Washtenaw Community College, while a valued part of the community, is not. If Rutledge doesn’t take care of his constituent, the university, he’d have no one to blame if the university and its affiliates didn’t take care of him. Leigh Greden, EMU’s executive director for government and community relations, and a former Ann Arbor city councilman, said in a statement that EMU “joined all of Michigan's 15 public universities in opposing this legislation because, if passed, it will increase costs and duplication of services at a time when funding for higher education is being cut and the Governor has called for more collaboration and less duplication...EMU has strong partnerships with community colleges around the State. We operate programs on-site at community college campuses and have over 100 articulation agreements which allow students to easily transfer their community college credits to EMU." Curiously, the analysis had little to say about the offering that is most controversial to colleges and universities: Nursing. That community colleges will be able to offer Bachelor of Science in Nursing degrees merits a mention only in the last sentence in the “Apparent Problem” section of the bill analysis: “Legislation has been introduced again this session that would allow, but not require, community colleges to offer baccalaureate degrees in nursing, cement technology...” In a June 8 letter to the House Education Committee, the Presidents Council attempted to call off the legislation with a pledge “to collaborate with our community college colleagues and provide locally any new baccalaureate or degree completion program for which there is a need within that community college district, including a Bachelor of Science degree to community college graduates who are registered nurses and who wish to enroll in a BSN completion program.” According to data provided by an Sinji Yang, a senior analyst with EMU’s office of Institutional Research and Information Management, over the last five years an average of 49 students a year who previously attended WCC transferred into the EMU School of Nursing. Former WCC students accounted for about 30 percent of all transfers into the nursing program over that period.

Area school districts consolidate technology - TheAlpenaNews.com ...

Three area school districts are joining forces to utilize the same technology in their efforts to improve student achievement, parental involvement and teacher support.

Alcona Community Schools, Alpena Public Schools and Hillman Community Schools are collaborating to use the same Pinnacle gradebook and student information system. According to Shawn Thornton, superintendent of Alcona schools, Alcona first approached Hillman and Alpena regarding the collaboration about a year ago.

"Our student information system needed to be upgraded, so we asked Hillman and Alpena if they would be interested in collaborating on a shared system," she said.

Hans Stevens, director of elementary instruction and technology for Alpena schools, said Alpena has utilized Pinnacle's gradebook for about three and a half years and the student information system for a little more than a year. A student information system is how a district accounts for pupils, keeps electronic records, produces reports and includes scheduling software. Within the last few years Pinnacle began offering student information systems as part of its product choices.

"The student information system in this day in age is the back bone of what the school does," he said.

Pinnacle's gradebook allows access not only by teachers, but also students and parents. The parental involvement was one of the strong components that made Pinnacle the first choice for Alpena when it first sought such a system. Prior to that, Alpena had no universal system. The elementary schools used a spreadsheet that was created in house and the secondary levels had a stand-alone grade book. None of the systems talked to each other, Stevens said.

Stevens said Pinnacle's gradebook also supports standard based grading, something Alpena wants to transition into in the next few years.

Alcona has been working on implementation of standard based grading over the past year.

"I in particular was interested in a gradebook that supports our transition to standard based grading in 2011-2012," Thornton said.

The Pinnacle student information system and gradebook is a single vendor and integrated solution that allows information to be entered in one place, which provides more efficiency. Both systems are web accessible, Stevens said.

The collaboration will provide savings to the districts for training, the ability to share resources, and allow cost sharing between them to maintain the system. Hillman, Alcona and Alpena will each have their own database.

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