H. S. diploma program adds courses
By Shelley Ball
Of The Print
Due to recent changes in its
curriculum, the Adult High
School Diploma program at
Clackamas Community Col
lege is now offering more high
school credit-earning oppor
tunities.
Course outlines for the pro
gram have also been rewritten
to break down all courses into
half-components, or credits,
making it easier for students to
complete coursework.
Educational Services Sup
port Unit (ESSU) Instructor
Carol Evans explained the ad
dition of credit courses to the
program reflects the new stan
dards that have been made in
the graduation requirements
for all state high schools. This
term is the first that the half-
credit system and the new
courses, titled Written Com
position, U.S. History, Global
Studies, Government, and
Personal Finance and
Economics have been offered
to students.
In regards to the breaking
down of courses into half-
left, works with student Linda
Center.
credits, Evans said this system
allows for a “more reasonable
amount of work to complete
at one time.”
Before this system was
established, Evans said that
classes demanded a lot of
coursework to be finished for
one credit over a 10-11 week
peroid. For example, a student
taking one high school credit
hour of math had to complete
work beginning with whole
numbers and ending with
geometry and algebra.
A math course is now
broken into three one-half
Humfeld in Barlow Learning
Photo by Joel Miller
credit sessions, with each half
credit focusing on certain
areas of math. Students com
pleting all three sessions will
receive 1 1/2 credits for the
course, instead of the previous
one credit.
Evans said the half-credit
system gives students more
credit for their work, as well as
breaking up the work into
easier segments that in the
long run improves their
chances of success in com
pleting it.
In existence since 1977, the
Adult High School Diploma
program is designed to offer
an alternative to those who for
various reasons have not
received a high school
diploma. Graduation re
quirements for the diploma
are based on the state
guidelines of 21 high school
credits. Evans said the pro
gram’s outline is different
from a GED (General Educa
tional Development) cer
tificate’s outline in that it’s
more “credit and competency
based, rather than test-based.
“The neat thing about the
high school program is it’s a
flexible program that not only
allows students to earn credits
through
traditional
coursework, but through their
(work/life) experience and
skills,” she said.
count as credit, and students
can take College courses as
either electives or re
quirements to count toward
their diploma. Credit can also
be obtained by examination,
according to the adult high
school program’s brochure.
Approximately 50 students,
more than half of which are
between the ages of 16 and 20
are involved in the high school
diploma program at this time.
Students earning high
school diplomas through the
program are considered
graduates of the College and
are allowed to participate in
graduation ceremonies. Each
year, approximately 24
students from this program
graduate from the College.
The program is located in
Evans, who acts as an ad the Barlow Learning Center
visor in setting up course on the second floor of Barlow
schedules for students in the Hall, and it is currently
program, explained that tuition-free for taking high
students who can demonstrate school credit courses. There is
learned skills can receive high a cost, however, for any Col
school credit. Official high lege courses taken as electives
school transcripts showing any or requirements for a high
completed courses can also school diploma.
Resort stays, cruise highlight ELC Auction
By Shelley Ball
Of The Print
Buying a four-hour drive in
a limousine or a three-day,
two-night stay at Sunriver or
at the Oregon Coast may not
sound like the usual items one
would bid for at an auction.
However, these and other
items will be up for grabs at
Auction ’85, which will take
place March 16 at the Oregon
City Senior Center. The auc
tion begins at 7 p.m. and the
proceeds will go to support
projects at the Environmental
Learning Center (ELC)
located on the Clackamas
Community College campus.
The auction is an annual
event for the ELC and is being
organized by Nan Hage-
Herrmann, assistant director
of the center.
“We like to think of it as a
party affair,” she said in
regards to the auction, which
has been billed as not just any
ordinary auction. She explain
ed that since the event falls on
the night before St. Patrick’s
Day, this would be used as a
party theme.
Entertainment will be pro
vided by two musical groups,
one of them the group
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Souvenir, and there will be
food and drink in the form of
a Northwest Indian style
salmon bake, hors d’oeuvres’
and wine. Len Zakula will be
the official auctioneer, and
tickets will cost $8 a person if
purchased by the 15th; they
will cost $10 at the door.
Hage-Herrmann said she en
courages everyone to bring
their friends to the auction.“I
look at them (auctions) as not
only a fundraiser, but as a nice
enjoyable evening together.
It’s a real enjoyable time,” she
said. Hage-Herrmann added
that the event allows people
who are not familiar with the
ELC to become acquainted
with the center’s facilities.
Other items to be auctioned
off include dinner for four at
the fireside table of Cheerio’s,
a West Linn restaurant, a one-
day cruise on a 42-foot boat at
Sauvies Island, a horse-and-
carriage ride around historic
Oregon City and a VIP tour of
the Washington Park Zoo.
A 1985 longbed Toyota
truck, a three-day, two-night
stay at the Salishan Lodge on
the coast, stays in a house and
condominium at Sunriver, two
houses at the coast in
Rockaway and Oysterville and
a personal portrait done by
Clackamas Community Col
lege Art Instructor Leland
John will also be offered at the
auction.
Schaefer.
Anyone who may have
items to donate to the auction
should talk with either Hage-
Herrmann at ext. 351 or Mc
Quaid at ext. 288. Tickets for
the auction can also be priced
up at the ELC or else through
McQuaid at the library.
Hage-Herrmann said there
will be a number of odds and
ends present at the auction as
well, such as ceramics, pain
tings, wooden and garden
items, a queen-size quilt and
various certificates for dif
ferent services from local mer
chants.
Approximately $13,000
worth of items have been
donated for the auction, but
Hage-Herrmann said she is ex
pecting more items to be
delivered. She said the ELC
will accept items up until two
days before the auction. Hage-
Herrmann added that items to
be donated must be new,
almost new or antique. “We
look for new items or things
that are antiques,” she said.
Most of the proceeds from the
auction will go to support the
ELC’s Birds of Prey Exhibit
and fish rearing facility.
Organizers of the auction in
volved both College Board of
Directors members and ELC
staff. Posters for the auction
were designed by student Dan
Clackamas Community College