Enhancing the Community College Pathway to Engineering Careers

This 119-page book is provided by the National Academy Press and discusses Community college pathways to engineering careers. "This report describes how some community colleges and four-year educational institutions have facilitated the transfer process for students transferring from two-year engineering-science programs to four-year engineering programs. The report also provides recommendations for improving transfers overall and otherwise enhancing the role of community colleges in educating engineers."The book includes a table of contents and the following sections: Overview, Successful Transfer of Students to Four-Year Institutions; Recruitment and Retention, Curricular Content, Quality, and Standards; Diversity in The Engineering Workforce; Data Collection; Report Summary; and Appendixes. This book is available to purchase or download free.Â

The organized hypocrisy of ethical foreign policy: human rights, democracy and Western arms sales

Over the past two decades, Western political leaders have scripted a more ethical foreign policy, wherein far greater weight is given to protecting the rights and freedoms of extra-territorial citizens. Using the example of arms exports to developing countries, the present paper exposes the organized hypocrisy underlying countries’ self-declared ethical turn. We show that the major Western arms supplying states – France, Germany, the UK and the US – have generally not exercised export controls so as to discriminate against human rights abusing or autocratic countries during the post-Cold War period. Rather, we uncover ongoing territorial egoism, in that arms have been exported to countries which serve supplying states’ domestic economic and security interests