Features
Program assists women
by Marie Stoppelmoor
Staff Writer
What do you see as the pur
pose of the women’s programs?
Does Clackamas Community
College need women’s pro
grams on campus?
These are a couple of the
questions on a survey form that
was handed out at a staff meet
ing last Wednesday. The meet
ing was called by Caroline
Knutson and Bernie Nolan,
coordinators of the women’s
programs.
What women’s programs,
you ask? Have you ever noticed
the Women’s Resource Center
sign in the hallway off the com
munity center? “Psych, (hat’s
not what it is.” That is the
home, of the Senior Job Pro
gram. The Focus on Women
program activities are now
strewn around campus (exact
locations are with course list
ings). The programs that are
now in effect at the college in
clude: Career Development,
Displaced Homemakers, and
Focus on Women. (Career De
velopment and Displaced
Homemakers, credit courses,
are taken simultaneously since
they are related).
Bernie Nolan, college coun
selor^ describes Displaced
Homemakers as “a quality pro
gram that 30 to 40 women at
tend each term.” The Home
makers program is oriented
towards single or married
women who suddenly find
themselves in the position of
wanting/needing to get back in
to the job market.
Pat Miller, who went through
the course last summer, has on
ly the highest praise for it. “It’s
one of the best things that ever
happened to me,” she said.
Several of the graduates em
phasize the confidence they
have found I in this course,
Miller, for example, has a
dispute with i the Army’s Pen-
sion Fund < over her benefits
(they were denied). Because of
her new confidence, “at least
now I will fight for my
benefits.”
In contrast to the strength of
the Displaced Homemakers’
Program, Bernie Nolan- de
scribes the Focus on Women ac
tivities as “lacking direction
and support
This term’s
schedule for the Focus on
Women program includes three
seminars (earns 1 credit), one
current events breakfast, and a
rafting trip.
At the peak of the women’s
program, seminars were held on
the average of one a week. Due
to the shrinking attendance at
the activities, they are now held
about once a month, Knutson
said.
The surveys that were created
by Caroline Knutson and Bernie
Nolan help them decide if they
should “keep it, modify it, or
bag it (Focus on Women pro
gram),” Nolan said. Of the
surveys, so far the majority are
for modifying the program with
suggestions as to how it should
be done.
Because the surveys were
given only to the staff, the coor
dinators are “very interested to
know of any comments the
students may have.” This
would include any problems
women students are having that
could be helped by this pro
gram.” Survey forms are avail
able in the counseling office,
and students are welcome to fill
them out,” Nolan said.
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