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Stay connected to Community College Week. Readers of Community College Week's e-newsletter will find animproved format and delivery system for this and future editions. Thosereaders who may have had problems reading archived editions should nolonger encounter formatting problems. This is the first of manyimprovements we will be implementing in both Community College Week andccweek.com. Expect incremental improvements in ccweek.com, culminatingwith a totally new took and improved functionality in the 2010-11Academic Kickoff Special Report on Aug. 24. In the process of covering programs, curricula, and teaching andlearning outcomes, we are adding new elements. We will give voice to thestudent as "end user" beyond the statistic statistic,n a value or number that describes a series of quantitative observations or measures; a value calculated from a sample.statistica numerical value calculated from a number of observations in order to summarize them. or the occasionalprofile and quotes embedded Inserted into. See embedded system. in larger stories. Look for this new focusunder "Student Voice" and "Student Spotlight" andhear the voices and see the profiles of community and technical collegestudents around the nation. During the summer months, Community College Week will be deliveringtwo of our longest "shelf life" special reports. The 2010 Top100 Associate Degree Producers Report on June 14 analyzes graduationtrends by demographics The attributes of people in a particular geographic area. Used for marketing purposes, population, ethnic origins, religion, spoken language, income and age range are examples of demographic data. and disciplines. The July 26 edition contains the2010-11 Association Meeting Planner (you can submit your event up untilJuly 8) to keep with your calendar, or save to your desktop, and viewthroughout the upcoming academic year. At the close of this academic year, the community college world isdizzy from the roller coaster What a bad CD-R disc is often called. See CD-R and underrun. ride that has been the past year. Covering those highs and lows of 2009-10 has been just as dizzyingfur Community College Week. But we will be prepared for the next bigride with a new look and new services at ccweek.com, and a new forecastfor the upcoming academic year. PAM BARRET PUBLISHER COMMUNITY COLLEGE WEEK