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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 2013
Page
8
Odessa College earned national acclaim as one of eight 2013 Leader Colleges in the Achieving the Dream movement. President Greg Williams announced the honor to hundreds of faculty and staff with celebration, coffee, and cake as fall enrollment rose 3.3 percent.
Odessa College and eight other colleges including Austin Community College Harper College and Tyler Junior College receive Leader College status for advancing five principles across equity engagement and systemic improvement. In 2012-13 arts and sciences success rose to 69 percent for first time in college students while overall outcomes improved across subgroups. College leader DC Williams praised staff and urged pride with the line Leader College, baby.
Oliver James McCracken, 35, was jailed after deputies stopped a man on a lawn mower in the roadway at FM 1936 and 42nd Street. He admitted smoking potpourri an hour earlier and was found with Bang Bang incense packaging and a duct taped cardboard tube with burn residue. He faced a volatile chemical abuse charge, released on $2,000 bond.
Four teens were jailed after an alleged attempted break-in at a storage building on West 26th Street in Odessa. Deputies say the would-be victim heard loud mufflers, saw suspects in the alley, and found tool marks on the shed locks. The four, Edgar Polanco-Villa, Rene Padilla, Denzel Stern-Grossett, and Carlos Galindo, face organized criminal activity charges with $50,000 bonds each.
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