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I Lack of ■ I insurance j students I page for 7 Rhapsody Center insert Sports Fan answers questions page 24 THE ^»RINT Vol. XX No. 25 ■ Clackamas Community College Oregon City, OR 97045 June 3,1987 to students main for success committee by Heleen Veenstra News Editor “We would like to be able to give students a more directed goal, to be better able to help direct the student to achieve that goal,” said Bernie Nolan, counselor and member of the Student Success Committee. The Student Success Commit tee members are: Dave Arter, Nolan, Connie McFarland, Sharon Hartsell, Kim Faddis, Vince Fitzgerald, Alice Mayden, Larry Levi jr., Jan Stennick, Tom Richards, and Kate Adams was a member until she left the college in April. The Student Success Commit tee was formed last year in Oc tober and their draft is now com pleted. “We will look over the responses from our draft,” and those will be presented to the President’s Council. “When it is approved by the President’s Council we will meet with Lyle Reese and Jim Roberts to assign responsibility to get the plan in action,” Nolan explained. The recommendations were The committee came up with drawn from the results of a ques recommendations divided in four tionnaire, from brainstorming categories: Access, Assessment, sessions, of examinations of Advising and Placement, and In literature, and of informal con tervention. versations between committee Access to the college means, members and their colleagues. according to the committee, that ■ The committee also conclud students should be aware that the ed that the following points college is available and has high should be examined and quality programs. Access doesn’t discussed: Curriculum, Assess only mean getting into the col ment testing and practices, lege, but also into its services, “to Basic skills support, Placement get students into the system in a and pre-requisite policies, comfortable way,” Nolan said. Counseling and advising pro Assessment is the evaluation of cedures, Retention and follow success. Advising and Placement up practices, Guided studies, is “to get into classes where you and Faculty and staff develop get what you need to succeed in ment. them.” The committee also con The main goal of the commit cluded that because of the great tee, according to Nolan, is to variation of student goals the better direct students. “We are placement procedures require going to have students placed in great flexibility. a more directed manner.” Intervention includes that “Students actually know less Qackamas Community College about available resources than should offer a variety of interven those of us who have hung tion services, and be prepared to around here for a long time,” refer students to other colleges. Nolan concluded. Junnins the butler, played by Hich Burroughs (middle), pours tea into the cup of Mr. Gilby, played by David Golden (right) as Mr. Know (Robert Ems) looks on in a scene from “Fanny’s First Play." The production will be repeated June 5 and 6 at 8pm and June 7 at 2:30pm. See page 11 for related story. Davis leaves Clackamas to go to Panama by Heleen Veenstra News Editor “I’ll be working at the University of Panama at Panama City,” said Kay Davis, to explain what she’ll be doing from July 1987 until July 1988. Davis will leave Clackamas Community College for one year to go to Panama where she will be teaching ESL (English as a second language), ESL methodology and American literature. She will also do research in language aquisition. Each applicant has four choices where to go. The choices concern which country one wants to go to, and what opportunities for teaching and research each country gives. Davis said her first choice was the Bahamas, where she would have taught Remedial English. Her second choice was Panama, the third was Costa Rica and Mexico was her fourth choice. Davis chose all South American countries “because I speak some Spanish and what I would be doing there (in those particular countries).” Davis explained she was a finalist for the Bahamas, but didn’t get the job, “so I asked them to transfer my file to Panama.” There were four finalists for Panama. “I believe I was the only one from a com munity college, the rest were four year colleges.” “This particular case Molly (Williams) suggested that I write for it,” Davis said explaining why Kay Davis- leaving Clackamas for one year. SN: OL0055 she decided to apply. Her other main reason is to learn to speak Spanish fluently. The selection is a National competition, a peer review that is conducted by a council for inter national exchange of scholars. For the application process, Davis needed to fill out a four- page application, a statement of proposed activity, a curriculum vitae, a list of publications, a course syllabi, foreign language proficiency, and three references plus a teaching report reference. Davis pointed out, “my applica tion was about 20 pages long. It didn’t include references.” Davis said that she and her husband calculated that depen ding on each country one out of three to five people who applied would be selected. Figures from the Fulbright Scholar Program show that approximately 1,000 Americans will go abroad to lec ture or conduct research in the 1987-88 academic year. To be qualified for teaching, one must be an U.S. citizen, and in most instances must have a doctoral degree before applica tion and post doctoral experience in teaching. To be qualified for research one must have a doctoral degree or experience in a certain field. Experience, publication and com position are the main points. In some cases foreign language pro ficiency is necessary. In Panama the program is to teach and research, so “that’s what I’ll be doing,” Davis said. Davis pointed out that what she thinks she will bring back to Clackamas College the year after is a, “heightened awareness of the difficulties of learning a foreign language and more knowledge plus sensitivity to liv ing and working in a different culture.” The Fulbright Program is funded and administered by the U.S. Information Agency under policy guidelines established by the Board of Foreign Scholar ships, a Presidentially appointed body. Financial support for the program comes from U.S. con gressional appropriations and from the governments of 27 other nations. “I really am excited, but I’m also flattered and honored that I got selected,” Davis conclud ed. /ASG io work i/7/s summer by Heleen Veenstra News Editor While most of us will take off the summer, Student Govern ment will be working on some projects, which will be presented to the students during fall term. The first project is trying to get affordable health insurance available to college students. Neale Frothingham, ASG president, said that maybe next year health insurance will be available which will cost about $30 a month, with $250 deduc table and major medical up to two million dollars. “For the last year the college did not make health insurance available to students. We are looking into everything we can to make sure to make health in surance available to students.” Another goal of ASG for this summer and fall is to work on the bookstore. They will audit books and look at possible sav ings on new and used books, continued on p.1O
