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Clark College, the Glossary

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1933 establishments in Washington (state)
Community colleges in Washington (state)

Academic certificate

An academic certificate or tech certificate is a document that certifies that a person has received specific education or has passed a test or series of tests.

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Al Bauer

Albert Bauer (–) was a professional baseball player.

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Alcoa

Alcoa Corporation (an acronym for "Aluminum Company of America") is a Pittsburgh-based industrial corporation.

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Associate degree

An associate degree or associate's degree is an undergraduate degree awarded after a course of post-secondary study lasting two to three years.

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A bachelor's degree (from Medieval Latin baccalaureus) or baccalaureate (from Modern Latin baccalaureatus) is an undergraduate degree awarded by colleges and universities upon completion of a course of study lasting three to six years (depending on institution and academic discipline).

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Bill Swain

Bill Swain (born February 22, 1941) is a former American football linebacker who played in the National Football League for the Los Angeles Rams, Minnesota Vikings, New York Giants and Detroit Lions between 1963 and 1969.

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Carillon

A carillon is a pitched percussion instrument that is played with a keyboard and consists of at least 23 bells.

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Cincinnati Reds

The Cincinnati Reds are an American professional baseball team based in Cincinnati.

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Columbia River

The Columbia River (Upper Chinook: or; Sahaptin: Nch’i-Wàna or Nchi wana; Sinixt dialect swah'netk'qhu) is the largest river in the Pacific Northwest region of North America.

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A community college is a type of undergraduate higher education institution, generally leading to an associate degree, certificate, or diploma.

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Computer security

Computer security (also cybersecurity, digital security, or information technology (IT) security) is the protection of computer systems and networks from threats that may result in unauthorized information disclosure, theft of (or damage to) hardware, software, or data, as well as from the disruption or misdirection of the services they provide.

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Dallas Cowboys

The Dallas Cowboys are a professional American football team based in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex.

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Denis Hayes

Denis Allen Hayes (born August 29, 1944) is an environmental advocate and an advocate for solar power.

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Earth Day

Earth Day is an annual event on April 22 to demonstrate support for environmental protection.

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Educational technology

Educational technology (commonly abbreviated as edutech, or edtech) is the combined use of computer hardware, software, and educational theory and practice to facilitate learning.

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English as a second or foreign language

English as a second or foreign language refers to the use of English by individuals whose native language is different, commonly among students learning to speak and write English.

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G.I. Bill

The G.I. Bill, formally known as the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, was a law that provided a range of benefits for some of the returning World War II veterans (commonly referred to as G.I.s).

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Galapagos penguin

The Galápagos penguin (Spheniscus mendiculus) is a penguin endemic to the Galápagos Islands and Ecuador.

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Hudson's Bay High School

Hudson's Bay High School is a public high school in the Central Park area of Vancouver, Washington, and is part of Vancouver Public Schools.

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Human services

Human services is an interdisciplinary field of study with the objective of meeting human needs through an applied knowledge base, focusing on prevention as well as remediation of problems, and maintaining a commitment to improving the overall quality of life of service populations.

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Jess Hartley

Christina K. "Jess" Hartley (born December 11, 1967) is an American novelist, writer, game creator, and editor.

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Kaiser Shipyards

The Kaiser Shipyards were seven major shipbuilding yards located on the United States west coast during World War II.

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LEED

Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) is a green building certification program used worldwide.

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Mascot

A mascot is any human, animal, or object thought to bring luck, or anything used to represent a group with a common public identity, such as a school, sports team, society, military unit, or brand name.

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Mid-20th century baby boom

The middle of the 20th century was marked by a significant and persistent increase in fertility rates in many countries of the world, especially in the Western world.

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Mike Gaechter

Michael Theodore Gaechter (January 9, 1940 – August 17, 2015) was an American football safety in the National Football League (NFL) for the Dallas Cowboys.

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The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league that consists of 32 teams, divided equally between the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC).

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Nick Duron

Nicholas Gregory Duron (born January 30, 1996) is an American former professional baseball pitcher.

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Northwest Athletic Conference

The Northwest Athletic Conference (NWAC), formerly the Northwest Athletic Association of Community Colleges (NWAACC), is a sports association for community colleges in the U.S. states of Oregon, Washington and Idaho, along with the Canadian province of British Columbia.

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Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities

The Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities (NWCCU) is an independent, non-profit membership organization recognized by the United States Department of Education since 1952 as an institutional accreditor for colleges and universities.

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Oral hygiene

Oral hygiene is the practice of keeping one's oral cavity clean and free of disease and other problems (e.g. bad breath) by regular brushing of the teeth (dental hygiene) and adopting good hygiene habits.

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Professional development

Professional development, also known as professional education, is learning that leads to or emphasizes education in a specific professional career field or builds practical job applicable skills emphasizing praxis in addition to the transferable skills and theoretical academic knowledge found in traditional liberal arts and pure sciences education.

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Randy Myers

Randall Kirk Myers (born September 19, 1962) is an American former professional baseball pitcher who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Mets, Cincinnati Reds, San Diego Padres, Chicago Cubs, Baltimore Orioles, and Toronto Blue Jays, between and.

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Role-playing game

A role-playing game (sometimes spelled roleplaying game, or abbreviated as RPG) is a game in which players assume the roles of characters in a fictional setting.

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Ron Larson

Roland "Ron" Edwin Larson (born October 31, 1941) is a professor of mathematics at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, Pennsylvania.

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Running Start

Running Start is a dual credit enrollment program in Washington, Hawaii, New Hampshire, Montana and Illinois which allows high school juniors and seniors to attend college courses numbered 100 or above, while completing high school.

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Sam Elliott

Samuel Pack Elliott (born August 9, 1944) is an American actor.

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San Francisco Giants

The San Francisco Giants are an American professional baseball team based in San Francisco.

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Sundial

A sundial is a horological device that tells the time of day (referred to as civil time in modern usage) when direct sunlight shines by the apparent position of the Sun in the sky.

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The Columbian

The Columbian is a daily newspaper serving the Vancouver, Washington, and Clark County, Washington area.

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The Register-Guard

The Register-Guard is a daily newspaper in the northwestern United States, published in Eugene, Oregon.

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TIAA

The Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America-College Retirement Equities Fund (TIAA, formerly TIAA-CREF) is an American financial services organization that is a private provider of financial retirement services in the academic, research, medical, cultural and governmental fields.

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Tim Leavitt

Timothy D. Leavitt (born 1971) is an American politician who served as the mayor of Vancouver, Washington.

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Treva Throneberry

Treva Joyce Throneberry (born May 18, 1969; also known as Brianna Kenzie, Brianna Stewart, Cara Leanna Davis, Cara Lewis, Cara Williams, Emily Kara Williams, Keili T. Throneberry Smitt, Stephanie Lewis, and Stephanie Williams) is an American woman who spent most of her twenties pretending to be a teenager and engaging in other forms of con artistry for which she was eventually convicted and imprisoned.

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Also known as Clark College (Washington), Clark Penguins, Clark Penguins football.

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1933 establishments in Washington (state)

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