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James Hill

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James G. Hill, an award-winning journalist and public relations writer, is the Director of Public Relations at Portland Community College. A graduate of Portland State University, James has worked as a section editor for the Newberg Graphic, Woodburn Independent, Clackamas Review, Oregon City News, The Dalles Daily Chronicle and the Associated Press. Born in Hillsboro, James is a native Oregonian through and through, having lived in Portland and Sunriver most of his life. Today, he manages the PCC website content, the college magazine "Communities" and public relations and crisis communications projects.

Articles (4891):

New concepts transform biology learning

The PCC Sylvania Campus Biology department is slowly transforming its lab space and its curriculum to fit the changing needs of its students. Thanks to grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Sylvania Campus is phasing out the current teaching model to one that will engage the student more than ever before. Posted January 18, 2001

'Reading in the Workplace' energizes Tektronix employees

Paul Wild, a manager for Portland Community College's Customized Workforce Training Center, estimates that $60 billion worth of productivity in the United States is lost every year due to a lack of reading skills. PCC and Tektronix are tackling this issue head on. Posted January 12, 2001

Media Advisory: Speaker, Gospel Choir to Highlight PCC's MLK Celebration

PORTLAND - Debbie Whooten, a motivational speaker who has overcome great adversity in her life, will be the featured entertainment for Portland Community College's celebration of the Martin Luther King Holiday. Posted January 10, 2001

PCC to Stage Second Annual Winter Powwow Jan. 20

SYLVANIA CAMPUS - Portland Community College will host the second annual Native American Winter Powwow between noon and midnight on Saturday, Jan. 20 in the HT Building's gymnasium on the Sylvania Campus. Posted January 5, 2001

Exhibit to Show Transparent Side of Photography

SYLVANIA - Portland Community College will host a photographic exhibition titled, "Transparencies,"by PCC visual arts instructor Matthew Kidder in the Northview Gallery on the Sylvania Campus. Posted January 5, 2001

Media Advisory: PCC Physical Education Class Takes Fitness Indoors

SYLVANIA - Fitness programs are always high on the list of New Year's resolutions, but the Oregon winters don't make it easy to stick with an exercise program. Posted January 5, 2001

Life Lessons: Bill Bruno – 'We're all here to learn, even the teacher'

Bill Bruno is a bit of an anomaly when it comes to teaching. The PCC instructor of Computer Information Systems (CIS), has no computers in his Rock Creek classroom and favors textbooks only on a limited basis. Both methods, he says, get in the way of student learning. Posted January 4, 2001

Learn to Find the Right 'Fixer-uppers' through PCC

SYLVANIA CAMPUS - Is there an old home in the neighborhood that isn't realizing its full potential? Then, Portland Community College can help you do something about it in its non-credit class Buying "Fixer Uppers" for Self or Sale. Posted December 15, 2000

PCC to Explore Myth, Hero and Mankind

SYLVANIA CAMPUS - Portland Community College is offering a non-credit class that will use the teaching of Joseph Campbell and Carl Jung in one informative experience. In the class Myth and Hero, the instructor will analyze the evolving idea of what constitutes a hero. Posted December 15, 2000

Nurture Those Blue Grass Skills in PCC Workshop

SYLVANIA CAMPUS - Dust off that guitar and get out that banjo because Portland Community College has a class for those string instrument lovers. PCC is offering a non-credit class Beginning Blue Grass Banjo, which is a hands-on experience in the three-finger style, or blue grass, of playing string banjo. Posted December 15, 2000