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Clackamas Community College
Wednesday, April 19, 1978
KI, No. 23
oposed legislation
ases requirements
for student aid
iproximately 20 percent of the students at this College who
qualify for federal financial aid because they didn't meet the
U requirements for independent status will qualify next year
ling to Financial Aid Specialist Ron Hoodye.
oposed legislation would allow students to live with their parents
maximum of six weeks and still maintain their independent status.
Lly students who lived at home for two consecutive weeks were
tad ineligible.
hurt the person who went to school for nine months and then
me and got a job during the summer," Hoodye said. "It also
w if you went home for a break or just for a visit."
rnye feels that legislators have finally realized that the two week
[for living at home was unrealistic and have amended it for that
¡also agreed that the rules as they were made perjurers out of
students who just didn't notify anyone when they went home for
mas break or to visit for two or three weeks during the summer,
mgressman Les AuCoin(D.-3rd district) has introduced these
dfflents to the bill changing residency requirements that would al-
ngetheway independent status is determined:
Students would have to wait for only one year after their parents
entributed to their support to be declared independent. Currently
must wait two years.
Students may receive financial assistance from their parents up to
Hunt equal to the federal income tax dependent deduction and
|eeligible for independent status.
Itsechanges will make more students eligible for more money at
Allege, according to Hoodye.
(everyone who qualified for minimal assistance last year was to
ly,they would probably qualify for the maximum assistance un-
lenew proposal," Hoodye said.
¡Coin has also introduced a proposal that calls for providing a non-
dable tax credit for one-half of post-secondary educational expen
do a maximum of $750. The credit would be targeted to fami -
ithan adjusted gross income ranging from $9,000 to $40,000.
Coin's legislation would address four different income levels:
For families below the $9,000 per year income level, the bill
is that government grants and loans wi ll be used to meeteduca-
[expenses.
For families with incomes between $9,000 and $15,000, the tax
[provided in the bill begins to rise according to a formula which
sitto be combined with a Basic Educational Opportunity Grant.
For incomes between $15,000 and $30,000,families would be
feforthe full tax credit amount.
[For incomes between $30,000 and $40,000, families would be
bfor a tax credit which drops one percent for every $100 earned
Pie$30,000 level.
Local second grade students celebrate spring
with a visit to the College's Environmental
Learning Center's Ecoloqv Pond. The baby
ducks recently joined the babyneutrias to in
crease the ELC's nursery.
fed approval sought
Guided Studies program opens door to learning
ieopen door policy is the
sophy behind community
|tsoftoday, said Kent Hea-
tollege counselor. Inorder
tee institutions to remain
feation, in effect, the col-
test retain its students.
wiously, students lacking
academic skills would en-
nthe College and find that
[could not compete with
[Scholastically favored stu-
F in terms of progress in
teroom, Heaton said. In
¡they would not return for
plowing semester.
te vanishing student" will
ie extinct if the present
d Studies program is ap-
by the school board this
Heaton said.
ten a student decides to
Ho the College, we will
require him/her to take a place
ment test consisting of math,
reading and English skills," Hea
ton said. Many of these students
have settled upon a definite ma
jor but many of them cannot
apply the basic academic fun
damentals of math, reading, and
English necessary to complete
their major.
"Guided Studies is a program
designed for those students who
lack these necessary academic
skills," Heaton said.
The
College, realizing the
problem after many students
were "disappearing" after one
term of school, acknowledged
the need for something which
could solve this, Heaton said.
After considerable study and re
search into this problem, Heaton
said that he employed Guided
Studies into the College.
"Our objective in Guided
Studies is to put out a compe
tent graduate who can do the
job they were supposedly trained
to be able to do," he said.
Before, there were three main
reasons for students leaving the
College and not returning for
the following semester. "One is
that many of these students had
no definite objective in mind.
Secondly, nobody really cared
about their needs, and thirdly,
they lacked the basic academic
skills," Heaton said. "It was
just one more failure added to
their lives."
Guided Studies will help the
students learn about themselves,
others and help them adapt to
the College's environment as well
as society in general, Heaton
said.
"The major point of the Col
lege is to keep students in the
school and make them both suc
cessful as responsible human be
ings and successful in their oc
cupational interest," he said.
Guided Studies will also revise
classroom study format, Heaton
said.
"Before Guided Studies
was established, the instructor
planned his course of study be
fore the actual class was to be
gin. The class was prepared to
touch on subjects interesting to
both the intellectual student,
the average student and the
academically unfavored student.
The instructor then focused his
course objective toward the aver
age student, thereby touching on
a little of everything.
This
caused boredom for the intellec-
tual student and confusion for
the low skilled student.
Guided Skills should elimi
nate a little of this by consoli
dating the low students in a de
signed course of study, enabling
the instructors as well as the in
tellectual students the chance to
venture deeper into more soph
isticated material, Heaton said.
"This does not mean that the
low skilled students will be treat
ed as refuse, it means that they
will now be able to become bet
ter familiarized with course ma
terial pertaining to their major
before returning to their neces
sary courses of study," he said.
"The students are thinking
people. The concensus of the
students as well as the non-
Guided Studies students is that
the program is needed", Heaton
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