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.
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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.