CAMPUS NEWS
Clackamas Community College
June 1,1988
Page 7
Dickson names CCC a leader in business
by Heleen Veenstra
Staff Writer
Clackamas Community Col
lege is “In relationship to both
our small business program and
our business administrative pro
gram I think we’re definately a
and student individually talk
about business needs and pro
blems 2) Short term one time
classes, seminars or workshops
3) The greenhouse program,
which is for people starting a
business, or who already own a
business 4) The small business
management program, which is
“The need for people to continually be retraining
and upgrading their skills in the work place is
significant, ”
leader,” David Dickson, assis
tant to the president, said.
Clackamas College has, ac
cording to Dickson, a strong
program for small business
owners and people who will
enter the work force. The labor
force training skills for entry
level jobs. “The need for people
to continually be retraining and
upgrading their skills in the
work place is significant.
“Our
Small Business
Development Center is a real
resource for people either going
into business or who have a
small business,” Dickson ex
plained. The Small Business
Development Center curriculum
consists of: 1) One to one
counseling where the teacher
specialized for business owners.
Dickson claims the programs
taught at the Small Business
Development Center and at the
college are different; however,
“The two nicely link together,
they just serve a different au
dience.”
The Small Business Develop
ment Center is specialized in
“helping develop business
skills, help them (small business
owners) develop marketing
strategies. We help them with
their record keeping in a whole
variety of ways.”
Why is the Small Business
Development Center so impor
tant for Clackamas County?
“We are a small business coun
ty. Oregon in general is a small
business state. What we decided
to do about 4/5 years ago at
Clackamas was take some of
our business expertise of the hill
down into the day to day
business world,” Dickson said.
“The only reason why we’re
growing in terms of our number
of jobs is small business. It’s
small business that’s creating
the vast majority of new jobs,
nationally, state wide, and in
Qackamas County.”
Dickson stated that it is im
portant to continually retrain
and upgrade the labor force
since jobs are changing rapidly.
Newly created jobs should, ac
cording to Dickson, also be oc
cupied by people from
Clackamas County. “We would
like as much as possible to in-
Joe Uris, social science instructor, explains his goals as
the new faculty vice president.
(‘We are a small
business county, ”
sure that the good jobs that are
coming to Clackamas County
are filled by people from this
community.”
“I think Clackamas County
is the place to be right now in
terms of economical develop
ment.
A new phone system for CCC
is scheduled for August of this
year. According to Buyer
Louise Slawson the new system
will cost “in the area of
$200,000 with no capital expen
diture out of it.”
Slawson expects that CCC
will be able to pay off the bill in
five years and get a ten year life
expectancy out of the phones.
She continued that the new
system will, over a five year
period, cost less than on the
lease system CCC currently has.
Presently CCC rents its
phone system from AT&T. This
is a problem because it is an
ongoing payment, and CCC will
never own the system.
Slawson said that nothing has
by Heleen Veenstra
Staff Writer
Joe Uris, social science in
structor, has been elected the
new faculty vice president. Uris
was unopposed, however, “it
still feels good to win,” he said.
Uris explained his goals are to
make the role of faculty
stronger in the governing of the
been finalized at this point in college, and to increase the ap
time. The planning has been go preciation of faculty ideas.
ing on for months, but they are “The importance of faculty is
still not sure as to who will im paramount,” Uris said. Other
plement the new communica goals are to gain more academic
freedom with regard to the tex
tions devices.
tbook
policy, and to maintain a
“We’re still evaluating deci
sions at this point,” concluded good full and part-time staff.
Improvement of the library is
Slawson.
another
project Uris would like
The new communications
work on.
devices plan of implementation to Uris
pointed out that he is
will go to the board on June 8.
New phones to appear in August
by Michael L. Walker
Co-News Editor
Joe Uris elected
new vice president
looking forward to working
with the administration.
“I
think the administration has
showed itself to be more sym
pathetic and more concerned
for having a good educational
program,’’
he
said.
How does Uris feel about the
semester conversion?
“I’m against it.. .if we are on
a straight academic system,
semester systems make sense,”
he said.
However, since
Qackamas serves many part-
time students, a semester system
would not be profitable for the
college.
Uris will be the only social
science instructor on the Faculty
Senate. He claims having a
social science instructor on the
senate is a positive factor,
because of the input and dif
ferent ideas one might have.
Meiser returns to CCC
CCC students
rally at capital
by Michelle K. Taylor
Asst. Opinions Editor
A rally was held on the
steps of the state capital last
Thursday by students of
Oregon’s Community Col
leges to protest the semester
conversion.
The rally was held after a
hearing with the State Emer
gency Board and the Oregon
State Board of Higher Educa
tion. In the hearing the Emer
gency board became dis
traught with the Board of
Higher Education because the
board did not have a report on
the semester conversion ready
for the hearing that they were
supposed to have done. The
Emergency board granted an
extension to the Board of
Higher Education.
At the rally about 15 people
were present, eight of those
people were from CCC.
“ It went very well, we had
excellent news coverage,”
Leslie Winston a senator in the
CCC ASG said. The rally was
covered by both KGW and
KPTV news that evening, and
many of the news papers in
Oregon covered the event.
We got the message out to
the Emergency Board and let
them know how we feel, Neale
Frothingham, ASG president
commented.
Instructor Jim Meiser helps student Angel Dale with her math homework.
Meiser recently returned from a two week exchange to Loxley College in
England.