Talk:Bates Technical College

Major Edits 9/29/09
Howdy! I found this page near the bottom of the WP:GOCE backlog, and decided to make some changes to it. I'm not quite finished yet, but I wanted to draw one particular change I made today to attention, in case anyone would like to reinstate the content involved.

I couldn't see that anyone else had edited this article for anything but aesthetic/janitorial purposes in 2009, so I went ahead and removed the list of non-degree programs offered by Bates per. If somebody feels that the content is appropriate for the article, I would appreciate it if it were sourced and its notability established. I don't mean to sound harsh, I'm just honestly under the impression that this one speaks for itself.

 Here's the content I blanked (it was under the first header): Bates Technical College offer the following non-degree programs:
 * Adult Education: courses help adults complete their basic education or strengthen mathematics, reading and language skills. Classes are available in basic studies, English as a Second Language (ESL), family literacy, GED preparation and high school completion.
 * Apprenticeship training: Bates registers over 1,500 apprentices annually and currently operates 16 apprenticeship disciplines that offer classroom and on-the-job training.
 * Articulation Agreements: Bates works with K-12 school districts and other colleges and universities to provide additional educational options for students.
 * Business & Management Training Center: provides on-site customized supervisory and staff professional development and technical skills training to companies, governmental entities, and non-profit organizations.
 * Distance Learning
 * Educator Training Center: provides teacher certification and paraeducator training.
 * Extended Learning: to enhance existing skills and enrich personal interests.
 * General Education: Development - http://www.bates.ctc.edu/academics/
 * High School Completion: allows students 21 and older who have not completed high school to take courses at Bates to satisfy high school completion requirements.
 * Home and Family Life: offers an extended array of job training, extended learning opportunities, parenting and childbirth classes.
 * Job Readiness Training Center: collaborates with many WorkFirst partner agencies and community-based organizations to identify career-education opportunities for those seeking to re-enter the workforce ore retrain for a new industry.
 * KBTC-TV / KCKA:, a public television station in Tacoma, WA, affiliated with the Public Broadcasting Service, owned and operated as a service of Bates Technical College.
 * Post-Secondary Professional-Technical Preparation and Certification: Bates is approved by the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction to offer a business and industry route to career and technical education teaching.
 * Running Start: allows high school juniors and seniors to enroll in career education programs at Bates and earn credit towards a high school diploma and a two-year degree.
 * Technical High School: allows high school students between the ages of 16 and 20 to register in career education programs, earning both college and high school completion credits simultaneously. Technical high school students do not pay tuition.

Removal of Photo Gallery
I've just removed the photo gallery, per WP:NOT. The list of images that had appeared here is available at this link in case somebody would like to incorporate the images in an encyclopedic way (see IMAGE among other resources). I do not at present have access to many resources regarding a technical school in Tacoma, so I won't be doing so. I should also make interested parties aware that I've listed all of these images at Possibly unfree images, as the copyright information provided on the file pages is dubiously phrased and unverifiable using the source URLs provided. -Moralis (talk) 02:51, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

Community Relations section
I've just reworded this section slightly for basic grammar and structure. However, the whole section makes me uneasy- unless anyone objects, I plan to remove it. -Moralis (talk) 02:51, 1 October 2009 (UTC)