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The Clackamas Print
JL V Wednesday, April 10,1996
News
SBDC offering small April weekend allows women
chance to ‘create, relax, renew’
business classes
Pamela Sirianni
News Editor
Maker 5.0. Saturdays, April 27
and May 4,9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Stu­
Clackamas Community
College’s Small Business Devel­
opment Center is offering the fol­
lowing courses to assist new and
aspiring entrepreneurs.
These classes will be offered
at the SBDC, 7616 SE Harmony
Road in Milwaukie.
dents learn to create a variety of
materials, including forms, flyers
and newsletter formats through
this course. The required text to
be purchased prior to this class is
“Using Aldus PageMaker 5.0,4th
edition - Mac,” by Kramer, Parker
and Warren. Students must ei­
ther take the pre-requisite class
“Intro to Mac” or have a working
familiarity with the Mac system.
The course fee is $75.
Driving Word-of-Mouth to
the Bank. Monday, April 22,
6:30 to 9:30 p.m. This course is
designed to provide information
on word-of-mouth marketing
tools, image creation and how to
cut the market pie for prime niche
results. The fee is $35.
MS Word 5 Word-process­
ing for Macintosh. Saturday,
April 20, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Stu­
dents will learn to use Microsoft
Word 5.1 in this one-day course,
including how to create, save and
edit documents. A manual is in­
cluded and the recommended text
is available in local bookstores.
The prerequisite class is Introduc­
tion to Macintosh, or a working
familiarity with the Mac system.
The fee is $75.
Improving Your Bottom
Line. April 27,9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Taught by Janet Powell, a 25-year
veteran of the finance industry,
this course can help you unlock
the mysteries of your balance
sheet and income statement, as
well as teach you to let bank fi­
nancing work for you. The course
fee is $20.
Recordkeeping For Home-
Based Businesses. Monday,
April 29 or May 20, 7 to 9 p.m.
This class explains what qualifies
an enterprise as a home-based
business, and discusses the tax
benefits of working out of your
home. The course fee for one of
the evening classes is $20.
Desktop Publishing - Page-
Contractor’s Management
Series. This series assists the
construction contractor in com­
pleting the 16 hours of educa­
tional prerequisites required by
Oregon law for license renewal.
CMS Core Course: Oregon
Laws and Business Practices.
April 12, May 10 and June 14.
This class meets the second Fri­
day of each month. The fee is
$69.
CMS Electives: For each
following date, the first elective
meets from 9 a.m. to noon, and
the second elective meets from
1:30 to 4:30 p.m. The fee is $49
per elective, or $85 per day. A
second person from the same
company is an additional $35-
April 13 - Job Site Safety and
Security. Basic Accounting and
Recordkeeping. April 20 - Envi­
ronmental Protection Issues. In­
dependent Contractor. May 11-
Occupational Safety and Workers’
Compensation. Recordkeeping.
May 18 - Job Site Safety and Se­
curity. Customer Service, Sales
and Marketing. June 15 -
Oregon’s
Lien
Law.
Recordkeeping. June 22 - Occu­
pational Safety and Workers’
Compensation. Estimating.
To register, or for more in­
formation, call 657-6958 ext.
4447.
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LOSE 20 POUNDS
IN TWO WEEKS!
Famous U.S. Women's Alpine Ski Team Diet
During the non-snow off season the U.S. Women's Alpine Ski Team
members used the ‘Ski Team“ diet to lose 20 pounds in two weeks. That's
right - 20 pounds in 14 days! The basis of the diet is chemical food
action and was devised by a famous Colorado physician especially for
the U.S. Ski Team. Normal energy is maiptained (very important!) while
reducing. You keep "full“ - no starvation - because the diet is designed
that way. It's a diet that is easy to follow whether you work, travel or stay
at home. (For men, too!)
This is, honestly, a fantastically successful diet. If it weren't, the U.S.
Women's Alpine Ski Team wouldn't be permitted to use it! Right? So,
give yourself the same break the U.S. Ski Team gets. Lose weight the
scientific, proven way. Even if you've tried all the other diets, you owe it to
yourself to try the U.S. Women’s Alpine Ski Team Diet. That .is, if you
really do want to lose 20 pounds in two weeks. Order today! Tear this out
as a reminder.
Send only $8.95 ($9.60 in Calif.)-add .50 cents RUSH service to:
American Institute, 7343 El Camino Real, Suite 206, Atascadero, CA
93422. Don’t order unless you expect to lose 20 pounds in two weeks!
Because that's what the Ski Team Diet will do.
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Amy Ku’uipo Hanson
Managing Editor
A weekend of workshops,
sponsored by CCC’s Focus on
Women, awaits those seeking
fun, relaxation and recreation at
the seventh annual CCC
Women’s Get-Away Weekend.
This retreat will take place
at the YMCA Camp Collins in
Gresham, along the Sandy
River, April 26-28/
The focus of the weekend
is to “Create, relax, renew.”
There will be time for rec­
reation, music and play, de­
signed to relax and renew the
body, mind and spirit. Massage
therapists will also be on hand
to provide massages for $7.
“We’re looking to target
this weekend to students, staff
and community members,” said
Rene Zingarelli, associate dean
of extended learning services
and member of the coordinat­
ing committee.
Zingarelli, who has at­
tended all of the women’s week­
ends, added that “it’s been ex­
citing, creating an experience
where people can learn and take
risks.”
Several workshops will be
offered. Featured will be the
women
musicians
of
Motherlode, dream interpreter
Gillian Holloway, Ph.D., poet
and instructor Kate Gray, artist
Susanna Lundgren, massage
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Contributed photo
Motherlode members will be teaching music workshops
at this year’s Women’s Weekend. Pictured from front to
back: Janet Peterson, Marie Eaton, Kathleen Fallon and
Nan Collie.
drummer Virginia Lopez and line
dance instructor Leslie Woods.
Those attending, will stay in
dormitory style heated cabins and
nutritious and delicious meals will
be prepared by the Camp Collins’
staff.
If paid before April 15, cost
of the retreat is $135, including
alfworkshops, meals ■and lodging.
After April 15, the fee is $150.
T-shirts commemorating the
event will also be available.
Scholarships are available
for students and part-time and
classified staff members.
For more information on
how to register for this event,
call Bernie Nolan at ext. 2268.
Administrators feel confident about evaluation
ACCREDITATION fom page 1
ning assistance or long-term re­
tention of math skills.
The federal government
implements the accreditation pro­
cess through private, regional ac­
creditation bodies throughout the
country. The committee evaluat­
ing this college is composed of
members from outside Oregon,
selected by the Northwest Asso­
ciation of Schools and Colleges
(NWASC) to which CCC belongs.
According to Connett, these bod­
ies are much stricter than they
used to be.
“In the past, accreditation has
been sort of a rubber-stamp. And
now, over a three-year period,
only three colleges have gotten
accreditation for 10 years,”
Connett said.
For instance, according to
Connett, an accreditation com­
mittee will be revisiting Portland
Community College in one or two
years, even though the college just
recently went through the review.
Lane Community College in Eu­
gene has to write another report
in two years, after having just
completed their review.
The length and scope of fi­
nal accreditation can vary with
the strength of the evaluating
committee’s recommendation to
the regional body that makes the
final decision. The goal of every
college is a full, 10-year accredi­
tation. However, accreditation
can be for shorter periods of time,
or a college can be accredited in
one area but denied accreditation
in another area.
A comprehensively poor
committee recommendation can
land a college on probation where
it’s given a deadline by which it
must correct the deficient area
before re-evaluation. The worst­
case scenario is complete loss of
accreditation, where the college
must legally show cause why ac­
creditation should be granted.
“I feel we are very
well-prepared and have a lot to
be extremely proud of. This pro­
cess has helped the areas in my
division take a closer look inter­
nally - a ‘microscopic view’ if you
will, of what we do and the out-
Everybody gets
nervous. It’s like
the big exam.
~ Chuck Scott
Associate Dean of
Science, Math and
Allied Health
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comes teach us what to keep do­
ing and keep improving on,” com­
mented Rene Zingarelli, associ­
ated dean of extended learning
services.
Connett expressed confi­
dence CCC would receive the
same full, 10-year accreditation it
received last time. She has been
on evaluation committees herself,
and President John Keyser has
been board member of the North­
west Commission for the Accredi­
tation of Colleges since 1992.
The college has drawn on their
experience in preparing for the
evaluation.
“We’ve picked up all the best
pieces from what we’ve seen. I
don’t have a sense that we didn’t
do it right,” Connett said.
The evaluating committee
will have 30 days to write a 50-
page report of recommendations
on each of the standards after it
concludes its work on April 18.
The college might get an indica­
tion of those recommendations
April 19, at noon in CC127 at an
exit interview, when the commit­
tee chair will informally discuss
recommendations and commen­
dations. They won’t discuss for­
mal recommendations, but
Connett intends to do some read­
ing between the lines.
“If there are a lot of recom­
mendations, we’ll get worried,”
said Connett.
“Everybody gets nervous. It’s
like the big exam. We’re all a
little uptight about it, because it’s
very important to the college,”
added Chuck Scott, associate dean
of science, math and allied health.
The committee will be intro­
duced to the public April 17, at
an 8:30 a.m. breakfast meeting in
the Community Center’s Skylight
Room. Then after the exit inter­
view on April 19, there will be a
celebration for faculty and staff,
marking the end of the evaluation
and the two years of preparation.
“To be reaffirmed for 10
years, we would celebrate so
much. It isn’t going to be an easy
thing to pull off,” Connett said.
Asked if she thinks the col­
lege will pull it olf, she said, “Yes.
I can only think that..”