President Obama launched a 10-year,$12 billion program to invest in community colleges

To the readers of "Sino-American Economics"

I am gratified to learn that Martha Kanter,EdD'89 at USF is the undersecretary of education at the US Department of Education in Washington, D.C.

Dr. Kanter has focused her life work on making higher education accessible to all,writing USF doctoral dissertation on the very topic.

I have shared her interest with the following works since 1970s as I earned my California Community College Teaching Credential in 1961.

The following works are evidence of my academic focus. To wit: -

1."Keys for Economic Understanding" 1971. Listed at www.Borders.com (Used books) and www.loc.gov Library of Congress online catalog.

2."The Future of Community Colleges" Published by the Congressional Record,July 18, 1974.

3."Keys to Economic Understanding" Listed in www.ask.com and www.loc.gov

4."Work and Study Cycle Theory"(1978) Doctoral disseration,listed at Georgetown University Library online catalog.

President Obama will go to a community college today via C-Span Radio as evidence of his focus on the grassroots for education and training of Americans apropos of economic growth in the 21st century.

Francis Shieh aka Xie Shihao, an avid learner of Economics since my arrival in 1947 to pursue my advanced studies at the University of San Francisco and earned my graduate degree at Georgetown University plus Ph.D. at California National Open University for open education, authorized by California Department of Education for studies beyond the walls. The Community College System, as a source of economic development, has been cited by Professor Richard T. Gill of Harvard in his economics textbooks in 1973 and 1975. Such rationale has been developed to online education in the 21st century for easy access of education for the needs of folks with innovation of new concept in education. The expression:" School of Hard Knocks" may be a case of point for life experience as a form of hands-on or in-brains education.

In China,vocational education is very much stressed for the needs of applied economics in the real world.

Friday,January 22, 2010 at 10.12 a.m.