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Last month Gov. Jerry Brown of California signed legislation allowing community colleges to confer a 4 year degree.
Not every college, in every subject - - yet. It is just 15 colleges, and only in subjects not offered (and needed) by state universities.
But it's a huge step towards having community colleges - - soon to be renamed "colleges" - - offering four year degrees.
AND YES, WE PREDICTED IT. You have to ask?
This week the field corn is being harvested.
Should boys play with dolls?
The Washington Post thinks so, but the story and writer got ridiculed in the comments section when he wrote "I want my son - - and all boys- - to play with dolls."
We're in the last stages of what Christina Hoff Sommers accurately and diplomatically calls "misguided feminism." What others less diplomatically call feminazis. I characterize our current time both a feminist frenzy and the last stages of third-wave anti-male feminism.
This writer got lambasted so much for his fantasy-world effort to get all boys to play with dolls that the Washington Post retitled his article after a day of comments ridiculing his idea. Notice the URL for the story still has the original title "Why I want My Son and All Boys to Play with Dolls."
Today I am thinking that leadership is sometimes about moving forward, even if others are not following you yet.
Leadership is partially about working with others and moving others along with you.
But there's times when you have to move forward, even if you are alone in that.
You don't ignore, discount or disrespect the others - - but at times you just have to be out in front, sometimes way out in front.
Just a month to go until the big Nine Shift presentation for 2015.
The theme this year is "The Landslide Begins," the Gen Y landslide that is.
Today read two stories that support the theme.
1.CBS and HBO, in response to Gen Y's need for TV and cable options, announced their own streaming services independent of the cable package deal.
2.A story in the Washington Post about Portland winning the battle for young college educated people.
They did by creating the kind of infrastructure and place to live that Gen Y values, including dense communities (growing up, not out) and light rail.
From here on out, it's all Gen Y and all 21st Century.
There's still huge resistance to grading based on learning rather than sitting in a chair (behavior).
But there's new awareness of the issue of boys in school too.
At the University of Wisconsin Platteville this month, where faculty were aghast at grading based on learning. Wonderful to be on campus though and see all the boys. UW Platteville the only campus in the state where there are more men than women.
But there's a new awareness, at least among public school people.
I just lined up FIVE (count em, 5) speaking engagements "For Parents of Boys" around Wisconsin, sponsored by the community education programs in those communities.
Stay tuned. This is the biggest issue in society today.
On my last canoe ride of the year, the last day of September, I got a big surprise: wild cranberries!
