The city of Changchun is the radiant jewel of the Songliao Plain, but never does it shine so bright as when under the breath of the frost-maiden Winter. Icewind tears and whips its path across the Changbai Mountains, settling unto the glade of Jingyuetan and its emerald-colored … [Read more...] about Dr. Smith returns from China
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Finding Flacks
Marc Flacks is a Sociology professor at Yuba College. He also is an active volunteer and supporter of local social programs. While taking a Sociology course taught by Professor Flacks, community service and social justice are shown not as some abstract idea or ideal, but as … [Read more...] about Finding Flacks
Good Greif-iti, Grow Up
If any of you have ever needed to ride on Yuba-Sutter Transit, you may have notice the graffiti scrawled on the backs of the bus seats in permanent marker and scratched into the windows. Some of the graffiti is benign, but most of it is lewd, vulgar, or just plain mean. The … [Read more...] about Good Greif-iti, Grow Up
Not going to school, Mom. I have the Internet.
It’d be great if we could learn everything that we ever wanted just from surfing through the Internet. Well, now we have that option. E-learning has been becoming more and more popular in educational institutes in this past decade than it ever has before. And the reasons are … [Read more...] about Not going to school, Mom. I have the Internet.
Yuba College Accreditation A Plus
I suppose you have all heard about the sanctions imposed on Yuba College by the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges (ACCJC). The Appeal Democrat newspaper, circulation in Yuba and Sutter counties, has printed mostly negative press at first glance about these … [Read more...] about Yuba College Accreditation A Plus