Image provided by: Clackamas Community College; Oregon City, OR
About The Clackamas print. (Oregon City, Oregon) 1989-2019 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 22, 1997)
Vol. XXX No. 12 CCC, PSU form partnership Newly endovfled funds established Brad Zimmerman Managing Editor A partnership promoting stu dent access to undergraduate edu cation has been formed between Clackamas and Portland State University in the form of a fresh- man/sophomore “inquiry course.” According to Associated Stu dent Government Presidential Aid Josh Buegman currently 35 percent of all Clackamas students transfer to PSU. “I think that this is a good thing. What it does is it allows more investment dollars for the school [Clackamas] ... it allows access to more information for students who are planning on transferring to PSU,” said Buegman. According to a “Memoran dum of Understanding,” the PSU/CCC partnership is de signed to increase the efficiency of joint efforts in support of stu dents and to improve the suc cess of our transfer population by focusing efforts on Associ ate of Arts Oregon Transfer Degree and baccalaureate de gree completion. By spring 1997, joint library privileges for Clackamas inquiry students will be available. The inquiry course for PSU will be labeled as a 299 level course and will enable those who take the class to, depending on which year the class is taken, skip either the freshman or sophomore PSU inquiry class. In addition to the PSU/CCC partnership, Clackamas has iden tified several core values the part nership will be based upon: im proved AAOT and baccalaureate degree completion rates, ease of student movement through both institutions, and ready access to comprehensive support services for student success regardless of stu dent location. The partnership is also based on shared faculty expertise and joint faculty development, suc cessful student learning through sound educational practices; improved efficiency of effort be tween Clackamas and PSU in serving shared students; and promotion of appropriate edu cational choices that best meet the individual student’s aca demic, social, career and finan cial needs. This means it will be a lot easier for students (prospective or currently at Clackamas) to trans fer to PSU. Because students can take the PSU inquiry class at Clackamas, they can pay Clackamas prices. Both PSU and Clackamas have identified several future goals that are important to both institutions and will shape the future develop ment of the PSU/CCC partnership. Those goals are: designing articu lated career path programs; encour aging faculty exchanges and joint appointments at Clackamas and PSU; and, among other things, expanding the pilot program to other metropolitan-area commu nity colleges. The idea was summed up by Associate Dean Jan Godfrey when she said “successful completion is the idea.” The partnership will make it easier for students planning to go to PSU and also make AAOT students’ lives easier because Clackamas has refocused their core values. Besides getting scholarship information, students planning on transferring can meet with over 20 colleges and universities from Oregon and Washington on Monday, Jan. 27 from 10 to 1 p.m. in the Gregory Forum. Laney Fouse Editor-in-Chief and beyond the college’s budget. The funds can be used for the Nine new endowed Funds for purchase of reference books and Excellence were established by journals; curriculum develop the end of 1996, reports Beverly ment; staff development; and Fulmore of the Clackamas Com- even for student support. In addition to munity College the endowed Foundation office, ___________ Funds for Excel bringing the total endowments to ■ lence, seven other ...So we endowments about $1.5 mil were also estab lion. immediately lished. The Alan “An endow have a $10,000 Howk memorial ment is a forever endowment. Endowment will gift,” said Fulmore “When Beverly Fulmore, pi oxide scholar you establish an CCC Foundation office ships lor Tar gated Learning endowment, only Center students a portion of the Tin. Optimized intel est earned ev Technology En erx year is uM.d to dowment will be used for many support that endowment.” ■ Contributions from endow purposes, beginning with Drafting ments come from many places, and Manufacturing. The Esther, including active and retired staff, Marilynne and Amber Keyser En alumni, business organizations dowment will provide scholar and others. The year-end endow ships for women in sciences. Other endowments include ments included funds for Draft ing Technology, English Dept., the Roger Sabo Memorial En Environmental Learning Center, dowment for Engineering and Arlene Jurgens (Nursing), Life Pre-Med students and the Mar and Career Options, Bob Lilly garet Thiele Petti Endowment, (Business Dept.), Math Dept., which is for single parents in the Nordeen Family, (Library) and Life and Career Options pro gram; Scholarships for Engi Theater Arts. “What we’re doing here at neering students will come from Clackamas is to say that an en the Landauer Family Endow dowment has to have a $10,000 ment. Enoch Manufacturing will balance before any of the pro provide scholarships for Manu ceeds can be distributed,” facturing students. Endowments make a differ Fulmore said. “What the Foundation did this ence to both students and instruc year was come up with matching tors. According to Fulmore, one funds. So if that department has graduating student decided to $5000 in contributions, we match give back to the college by com up to $5000. So we immediately mitting to a $1000 a year. “She was so excited about do have a $10,000 endowment.” Funds for Excellence provides ing this because she was helping students and instructors with ad someone who was in the same ditional revenue which is above boat as her.” said Fulmore. tl 99 \ IN THIS ISSUE ITS upgrades system “Poet’s Corner” — the quarterly literary corner of The Clackamas Print. In this edition of the Poet’s Corner, the thoughts and emotions of six poets are revealed. Pages 4 & 5 Brad Zimmerman Managing Editor Sports — Cougar Women’s Basketball defeated Chemeketa Community College 73 to 70. Read about it on... Page 7 Information Technology Ser vices was able to purchase a Compaq Pro Signia 500 over Christmas break. The Compaq has a Pentium 150MHZ chip and two four- gigabyte hard drives for increased performance and reliability. In addition, ITS got the newest ver sion of Novell Netware (version 4.11). This will mean less down time and increased productivity for both students and staff. The new Compaq replaces an aging 486/66MHZ computer which was also using an older version of Novell Netware (ver sion 3.11). Even though the new Compaq cost over $10,000, the new server will quickly pay for itself in in creased productivity for staff and students. An ITS log file shows in a little over seven months the old 486/66 server was nonoperational for approximately 34 hours. According to Computer Opera tions Manager Scott Branscum, the new Compaq is considerably faster. Branscum said, in the past, it would take a minimum of 30 minutes to reboot and reload the old server. With its Pentium 150MHZ processor and fast hard drives, minimum reboot and re load time has dropped to 15 min utes. There were two main problems with the old server: there were not enough connections, which meant not everyone had access to the server at once, and the 486/ 66 was prone to crashing. The limited connection prob lem was fixed with the upgrade of Netware. The new version of Netware that ITS obtained has support for an additional 100 us ers, bringing the limit of connec tions to 350. The problem with crashes has been minimized with the purchase of the Compaq for two reasons. First, the new version of Netware has less bugs. Second, ITS is now distributing the work load between the new and old servers. The Compaq will now take the “Clack” files (“Clack” is the nick name for the server). The 486/66 will be used primarily for backups and as an e-mail server. Accord ing to Branscum this means the new server will not get overworked like the old one, which will ulti mately mean less downtime.
