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Wednesday, Oct 19,1994
NEWS
Time shows progress, still a 'long way to go'
Michelle Shipman
Staff Writer
The tenth annual Oregon
Multicultural Education Associa
tion (OMEA) conference was
hosted by Clackamas Community
College on Oct. 14.
The OMEA is a nonprofit
organization formed to educate
students, teachers and administra
tors about multiculturalism. Its
goals are to establish a statewide
network for educators in the area
of multicultural education, to in
crease the understanding of the
importance of multicultural edu
cation in all Oregon communities,
and to promote cooperation and
facilitate communication among
all groups in the community by
providing a forum for the discus
sion of multicultural education.
At the beginning of the con
ference, Dr. Dapo Sobomehin,
president of the OMEA, talked
about how alarmed he was about
the new homicide statistics of
young males, ages 14 to 18.
“We have work to do. We
photo by Josh Kehler
President John Keyser speaks to faculty members at the Multicultural Seminar.
have to take it (education) seri
ously. There is too much anger
out there,” Sobomehin stressed.
He also was concerned about the
low turnout at the conférence.
“In the 10 years of this oiga-
nization, turnout has never been
so low. Now schools do not allo
cate funds for this type of func
tion," said Sobomehin.
CCC President John Keyser
spoke about developing a sense of
community. He hopes the
changes the college makes will
reach all of the 30,000 students
that attend Clackamas. Keyser
talked about going to college dur
ing the 60s, as well as the radical
human rights groups.
“We made a lot of progress
during that time. Fundamentally,
we still have a long way to go,”
Keyser said.
The keynote speaker was Dr.
Patrick Burk, director for the Or
egon Education Improvement Act
Development, of Portland Public
Schools. Burk spoke about rede
signing the school system so all
kids will succeed.
“ We can no longer afford a
system that lets 25 percent of high
school students not graduate,”
Burk said.
During the all-day conference,
mini-workshops were held on
conflict resolution in a
multicultural setting and helping
students understand multi
culturalism. The last group dis
cussion was entitled: “What if you
invite them to a party and they
don’t come?”
As part of the conference, a
mural has been put up in the Com
munity Center. Different nations
for Justice and Peace, put to
gether a 14 foot panel mural
painted by 40 different artist The
artists used traditional symbols,
portraits and scenes to display
their panel-to-panel message.
Social Science Department begins tutoring program
by Christi Snavely
Staff Writer
The Social Science Depart
ment is launching the Master Stu
dent Program, a new concept in
tutoring.
The program was designed as
a supplement for all levels of stu
dents in the social science courses,
and it’s growing in popularity
with both students and instruc
tors.
One of the program’s most
appealing features is that it’s been
designed with the sessions focus
ing on each particular instructor’s
class.
“These are sequence courses
taught by an instructor maybe two
or three times in the same quar
ter," said Eric Lewis, program
director for the Master Student
program. "For example, I’m
teaching three sections of psychol
ogy, 200 level, which gives me
maybe 120 students. So, I have a
tutor to work with all those 120
people who might want to come.”
Each instructor has chosen a
student who had the course in the
past and did exceptionally well.
This allows the tutors to work di
rectly with the students, focusing
on how each instructor teaches.
“The person has taken the
class before and they can say ‘I
know exactly how you need to
study for this instructor’ because
the different instructors all may
teach the same topic, but they
teach it very different. And one
tutor is not going to know the dif-
ference between them, so there is
a specific tutor for each of the in
structors,” Lewis said.
Lewis emphasized that any
one on any grade level is encour
aged to participate.
“It can help students who are
getting a ”B” and want an "A",
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continue to grow, as well as those
who are getting poorer grades and
want to get passing grades,”
Lewis said.
This is the program’s first
year, which means there are still
things to improve.
“Any time there’s a new pro
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that goes along with it, and so
right now we're coming up with
a lot of these organizational prob
lems. We need to try to find times,
try to find people, try to get the
mind set into students that this is
a program on campus for them,”
students and faculty can discuss
the benefits of the sessions, the
program should continue to grow.
“More growth will occur
when students get back their first
exams,” Lewis said. “Start go
ing before you get into trouble, or
fail your first exam.”
The program is beneficial in
many ways. It will help develop
better study habits and note-tak
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Lewis said as demand for the
sessions increases, it may prompt
other departments to instigate tu
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