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Clackamas Community College
Oregon City, OR 97045
Vol. XXI, No. 4
October 21, 1987
Raft
Trip
Pages 4-5
College to enter
semester school year
by Caree Hussey
Feature Editor
STAFF RETREAT- Boat two maneuvers their way through a set of rapids last Friday. More
photographs on pages 4 and 5.
Trotta named to new position
by Heleen Veenstra
Editor
“I didn’t think I was going to
get the position. I was really
surprised,” said Tony Trotta,
student at Clackamas Com
munity College, and represen
tative for the 13 colleges in
Oregon.
The position of college
representative was newly created
to form a liaison between the
OCCA (Oregon Community Col
lege Association) and CCOSAC
(Community Colleges of Oregon
Student Association and Com
missions). Trotta is the first
representative.
“I applied because I was in
terested in community colleges
and interested in the programs
student governments were involv
ed in. It’s important to have a
strong student government
because it is the only way we have
a voice.”
Trotta was sworn in at the
CCOSAC meeting in Pendleton.
There he met all the ASG
presidents and sat in on their
meeting to get information to
provide to OCCA at their Nov.
23 meeting. “This position that I
took is based on providing ac
curate information for both
organizations.”
CCOSAC, which is the 13
community colleges, came up
with five goals which Trotta has
to present to the OCCA board.
The five goals are: learn CPR,
have a workshop for presidents
on leadership techniques,
reestablish commissions, unify
elections for each college to have
the new ASG representatives by
May, and to develop a legislative
platform for 1989-90 legislation.
“I like the idea of being active
in the lobbying process, since the
OCCA is a lobbying organiza
tion,” is how Trotta feels about
his new position. About the first
CCOSAC meeting he attended he
expressed, “I thought that it Was
interesting. I think there is a lot
of motivated people on the
board. I was very impressed by
their first meeting.”
Trotta sees this position as a
“one year commitment, but it
should be interesting because I
get to go to workshops, leader
ship workshops. So there are
other benefits with that concern
ed.”
Trotta is a first year student at
Clackamas. He is taking the
waste water program here, and
has a Bachelors in Biology from
the University of Oregon.
“If anybody has any questions
they can come up to me. I’m cer
tainly open for that,” Trotta con
cluded.
Neale Frothingham, ASG
president, expressed, “I think it’s
a great honor that all 13 com
munity colleges selected a
Clackamas student to represent
them to a state organization as
prestigious as OCCA. I’d like to
offer my personal congratula
tions to Tony Trotta.”
‘College Guarantee’ proposed
by E.A. Berg
Staff Writer
TONY TROTT A -
Clackamas
liason
CCOSAC.
“I don’t think it would be a
major catastrophe,” stated
John
Hooley,
assistant
dean/humanities and social
sciences.
The state system of higher
education (meaning four year
schools) has decided to go
from the term to the semester
system. It is called the “early”
semester
system
which
means that students will at
tend 15 weeks of classes
before Christmas. There
would be a long break and
school would start again in
the middle of January. If all
goes well this will start in
1990.
The board at CCC has
voted to plan to go to
semesters, but not necessari
ly to do it. However, many col
leges and universities are
planning on going to the
semester system, so in the in
terest of students and their
transfer problems community
colleges may be forced to do
the same.
Research on the subject
has revealed that fewer
students complete semesters
than quarters and those that
do complete semesters do so
with fewer credits. Students
will pay about the same for a
year of instruction and the
teaching time will be about
the same. Unfortunately,
many one term courses will
have to either be expanded or
eliminated, which will limit
choices for students. Another
possible problem with this
program is the fact that logg
ing, tourism and farmwork are
much busier in September
than in May or June so
students who opt to attend
school rather than work dur-
ing that time will be losing
out on job opportunities and
those industries that depend
on students will also be los
ing out.
“The difference with com
munity college students is
that many have family and job
responsibilities,” commented
Hooley. “Students often have
to drop out for reasons that
have nothing to do with
school; sometimes they can
hang in there for a couple of
more weeks to finish the
term, but hanging in there for
another six weeks to finish
the semester might be dif
ficult, it’s not a huge difference
in completion but it is signifi
cant.”
The College Board reacted
positively to a “College
Guarantee” proposal presented
by College President John Keyser
Ctet. 14.
“The Clackamas Guarantee
for College Transfer and Career
Courses,” says, “Clackamas
Community College will refund
the tuition of any graduate for
any course passed at CCC with at
least a ‘C’ grade if that earned
course credit does not qualify for
transfer to an Oregon public col
lege or university within two
years of graduation from
Qackamas. Such classes must be
listed as transferrable on the
transferrable institution’s official
curriculum guide sheets, dated
July, 1987, or thereafter, on file
in the Counseling Office.
“Any graduate of an
associate’s degree program in
occupational studies judged by
the employer as lacking in
technical job skills normally ex
pected of an entry-level
employee will provide further
skill training of up to 16 tuition-
free hours,” the proposal con
tinues.
Keyser told the board that the
guarantee is a “public relations
device” which has been adopted
by many community colleges
over the last five years. Current
ly, Linn-Benton and Clatsop are
Oregon’s only community col
leges with a similar policy.
“Basically this is a way of
saying to the public that we’re
doing a good job out here and
we’re trying to stand behind our
education,” said Keyser prior to
the meeting. “Students will
know that if they conform to
their part, we’ll conform to
ours.”
Under the proposal, which
will be voted on by the board on
Nov.4, an “employer must cer
tify in writing that the employee
is lacking specific job level
entry skills, and must specify
the area(s) of skill deficiency
within 90 days of the graduate’s
initial employment.”
The college will waive tuition
for courses to re-train the
graduate.
Index
Opinion....... . .......... 2
News........ . ............ 3
Photo Essay. ........4-5
Feature..... ?.. ........... 6
Sports......... ........ 7-8