News
Library resources gain
from Fred Meyer Trust
by Mary Prath
Staff Writer
Seventeen grants to promote
cooperative development of
library collections in the Pacific
Northwest were announced
January 2, 1987, by Charles S.
Rooks, Executive Director of
the Fred Meyer Charitable
Trust in Portland.
The grant will be divided bet­
ween 17 organizations. The
total of the grant is $1,610,000
which will be used in a three
year period. The monies will be
used to build library resources
in fields such as business,
health, medicine, education,
music and the sciences.
More than 75 libraries in 47
cities and towns in Alaska,
Montana, Idaho, Oregon and
Washington will participate in
the projects, according to
Douglas K. Ferguson, Director
of the Trust’s library and infor­
mation program.
The Library and Information
Resources for the Northwest
(LIRN) program, under which
the grants were made, is a
special program of the Trust. Its
purpose, according to Rooks, is
to strengthen the educational,
economic and civic resources of
the region by increasing the
availability of important infor­
mation.
.The 17 grantees were selected
from 31 applicants who
responded to request for pro­
posals issued by the Trust in the
spring of 1986. The 17 projects
will receive grants on behalf of
78 libraries.
Clackamas will be sharing
$166,400 over three years with
Clark College, Mt. Hood Com­
munity College and Portland
Community College. The
money will be used for
agriculture, business and
economics, education, engineer­
ing and technology, law and
medicine.
CCC adopts
87-88 budget
by Heleen Veenstra
News Editor
The 1987-88 proposed budget
of $15.8 million, which has been
approved by the Clackamas
Community College Budget
Committee, will be adopted at
the June 3 meeting.
The budget is for the two year
serial levy voters, approved in
1986. The college will continue
to operate under the voter ap­
proved tax rate of $1.25 per
$1,000 assessed valuation
through June 30, 1988.
The dollar amount is actually
3.4 percent higher than the
1986-87 budget, due to increas­
ed revenue from tuition, state
reimbursement, and higher pro­
perty value assessment.
Since 1980, the college has
reduced its management team
by approximately 20 percent
(seven positions) reduced its
classified staff by approximate­
ly 20 percent (30 positions), and
consolidated the number of
part-time faculty, which reduc­
ed costs.
Clackamas, like all communi­
ty colleges in Oregon, has three
primary revenue sources: state
reimbursement for FTE (full
time equivalent) students, local
property taxes as deterniined by
the rate-based serial levy, and
student tuition.
The CCC Budget Committee
consists of the seven college
Board members and seven ap-|
pointed community members.
The appointed members are:
Leland Lee, Milwaukie; Lois
Costine, Clackamas; Renee
DeVore, Milwaukie; Larry
Sowa, Oregon City; Rod
Juranek, West Linn; Duane*
Younger, Beavercreek; and
Stephen Lashbrook, Canby.
Student opinions
to be' heard
by Heleen Veenstra
News Editor
Five hundred student opinion
surveys had been mailed out to
randomly picked students at
Clackamas Coummunity Col­
lege last week.
The survey has three sections,
one part is descriptive informa­
tion. It asks for things like age,
full-time or part-time student,
how far they live from the col­
lege, etc.
The second part asks for opi­
nions on College services like
the library and the bookstore.
The third part is on how the
student likes for example, the
quality of instruction, oppor­
tunities for activities and the
classroom facilities.
The purpose according to Lee
Fawcett, assistant dean, of stu­
dent services, is to ‘‘find out if
things are still okay and if there
are problems we need to look
at.”
Originally the plan was to
have every student take the
survey in their class, but faculty
showed some concern on the
time it was going to take. ‘‘It
takes about 20-25 minutes to fill
out the survey and there was
understandable concern to use
the classtime.”
‘‘We use a computer program
that picks a random sample,”
Fawcett explained, “We made
sure the group (500 students) is
similar to the spring term stu­
dent body, “that includes the
age, GPA and how many credit
hours they take.
Fawcett said they have a stu­
dent opinions survey every 12-18
months but that “surveys are not
the only way to identify if the stu­
dent is satisfied or not.”
‘‘The results will probably not
be available until fall because the
survey we’re using will be analyz­
ed and processed in Iowa.”
When the results come back
CCC will keep the surveys and
analyze it too, Fawcett conclud-l
ed.
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knowledge available from your
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Printing Office has just produced
a new catalog. It tells about the
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Government—nearly 1,000 in all.
Books on business, children,
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For a free copy of this new
catalog, write—
New Catalog
Post Office Box 37000
Washington, D.C. 20013
Student
Health Service
Located In Trailer A
Hours: 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Monday - Friday
To arrange an appointment with medical staff, please
. call ext. 250 or 236, or stop by Trailer A during working
hours. No charge to CCC. student^.
Medical Staff Hours:
Dr. Ronald Powell
Thursday, noon - 2 p.rti.
Pat Krumm, A.N.P.
Wednesday, 11 am-1pm
Erna Lewis, A.N.P.
Monday, 10am-Noon
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Mary Fitzgerald, M.A. n n c
Tuesday, 10 a.m. - noon (by appointment only)
Alcohol Treatment Specialist for Clackamas County
Mental Health Dept. Free drug or alcohol counseling
or evaluation. Confidentiality respected.
Visit the Health Resource room and check out our
pamphlets and information on various health subjects.
Another feature is a "self-help care" area with minor
first aid items for CCC students and staff.
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Pogo 4
After a crippling accident, a child learns
to walk. All over again.
Thanks to the 96 local volunteer
agencies of the United Way which provide
for those in need.
But help costs money. Today more
than ever.
With inflation and a severe shortage of
Federal funding, United Way dollars
have become a matter of life or death for
too many of your community agencies.
There’s no limit to what can be achieved
by the human spirit. Don’t put a limit on
your contribution to the United Way.
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