Happy anniversary

This week marks the three-year anniversary of DCT Advisors LLC.

We would like to thank all of you who have participated in, observed, and/or tolerated our journey over the last three years.

Our journey started out nearly perfectly in 2009 before growing more difficult in 2010 and 2011 as we dealt with family illness and more work than we possibly could handle.

Unfortunately, the family illness is behind us and we continue to try to do more work than we possibly can do.  But our efforts on behalf of our clients and our community to make the impossible look easy continue.

Thanks, friends, for your tremendous support over the last three years.

 

Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC), in collaboration with the League of Innovation in the Community College, is offering $250,000 to $750,000 grants to support promising educational technology initiatives. NGLC’s RFP offers funding for the following types of activities:

  • Increasing the use of blended (hybrid) learning models that combine face-to-face instruction with online learning activities;
  • Deepening students’ learning and engagement through interactive applications, such as digital games, interactive video, immersive simulations, and social media;
  • Developing more open courseware for developmental/gatekeeper courses with low completion rates; and
  • Helping institutions use learner analytics to monitor student progress and provide appropriate supports and interventions.

West Virginia’s community colleges, which are already doing some innovative things in several these areas, are likely to submit several pre-proposals, which are due 19 November 2010

Additional information about this grant opportunity is available at the NGLC website.

DCT Advisors would like to congratulate the West Virginia Governor’s Office of Economic Opportunity, which secured a $1 million weatherization assistance program grant from the United States Department of Energy for its Green Collar College initiative.

The grant will allow the Governor’s Office of Economic Opportunity to complement its Training and Energy Services Center in southern West Virginia with two new training sites in north central West Virginia, upgrade and expand curricular offerings, and tie weatherization courses into West Virginia’s larger system of postsecondary education.  This project is being undertaken in partnership with the West Virginia Community and Technical College System and Pierpont Community and Technical College.

DCT Advisors appreciated the opportunity to assist the Governor’s Office of Economic Opportunity and wishes it and its partners well as they implement their Green Collar College initiative.

 

DCT Advisors LLC is pleased to announce the hiring of Cynthia Beth Dotson as Executive Assistant to Dennis Taylor. Dennis and Beth have worked together on three different occasions for three different employers.  This will be their fourth collaboration.

During their first collaboration as paralegals at McQueen and Brown LLC in the early 1990s, Beth and Dennis had reputations for both being productive and laughing a lot.  Expect hard work and much laughter in their latest collaboration, as well.  Consistent with past practice, “Uncle” Dennis also will make Jolt soda and sugary sweets available for Beth’s otherwise non-hyperactive daughters.

Beth starts work for DCT Advisors on 12 April 2010.

 

Congratulations to the West Virginia Community and Technical College System for receiving one of six National Governors Association grants for a Governor’s Forum on Postsecondary Credential Attainment by Adult Workers.  The Community and Technical College System will use the event to launch a new initiative, called ON-RAMP (On Reaching Academic Momentum Points), aimed at increasing the number of adults who graduate from college with a credential, whether it be with a certificate degree, associate’s degree or bachelor’s degree.  Improving retention and graduation rates is likely to be the System’s top priority over the next five years, and this Forum, which will educate participants about best practices and be followed by institutional planning meetings, is a great place to start if West Virginia is to do its part to help President Obama reach the goal of making America the international leader in postsecondary credential attainment again.

DCT Advisors is pleased to have the opportunity to support this initiative.

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CONTACT

DCT Advisors LLC
3288 Winfield Road
Post Office Box 224
Winfield, West Virginia 25213
Phone: 304.541.0332
Fax: 866.783.0511
Email: dct@dctadvisors.com

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