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Vol. XX No. 25
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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
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for one year.
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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