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ThE |£I.AckAMAS P rint WEdiNEsdAy, J anuar 25, 2002 Clackamas students Hazen, Hepting selected for USA All-Academic Team ELISABETH MEYER Staff Writer Karissa Hazen Cynthia Hepting PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY OF JAL DUNCAN PHOTOGRAPHY Two Clackamas students have been chosen for the 2002 All-USA Academic Team by the college’s selection board. Karissa Hazen and Cynthia Hepting are now wait ing to hear if they survive the na tional selection process. The two women are already eli gible for various honors, including a $1,000 Clackamas scholarship each and automatic membership to Oregon’s All-State Academic team, and a reception by the governor later this spring. Whoever is chosen to be on a national team will go to a conven tion in Washington, D.C. this spring. There, they would further be divided into first, second and third teams. The members of the first team each get a $2,500 scholarship and will be covered in USA Today. Notification won’t come till sometime in February, though, and until then, Hazen says, “We’ll just wait to hear if we got selected.” Hazen, 18, was homeschooled until three years ago, when she entered the college’s homeschool- to-college program. She has been involved in the French Club and is now a member of Phi Theta Kappa and is a student ambassador. She will graduate this spring. Hepting is in the accelerated de gree program, where she has kept a 3.95 GPA. She is involved with her church, is a mentor and a PTK member. She enrolled in college af ter raising a family; she is 43. Applicants must be students at a community college, have com pleted 12 semester hours, be eli gible to graduate the year they are selected, and have a cumulative GPA of 3.25 or higher. Academic advisers identify po tential applicants based on their scholastic excellence and extracur ricular activity. All eligible students are in formed of the opportunity by their academic advisors. Twelve Clackamas students participating in Intel work-study program in 2001-02 MAGGIE JIRASEK . Editor-in-Chief Clackamas recruits students for work-study positions at Intel twice a year and gives microelectronics students the. opportunity to complement their education. “What a great opportunity for our students, to achieve a work study position at Intel in these lean est of times,” said Scott Glitz, chair man of the manufacturing depart ment. “The experience they will re ceive is invaluable. We are pleased to participate in Intel’s work-study program.” This year, twelve microelectronic students have been awarded long term work-study positions at Intel, which can lead to a job as a techni cian in the semiconductor indus try in microelectronics, manufactur ing, engineering, or equipment and maintenance. All Clackamas students enrolled in the Microelectronics System Technology program with at least 15 credit hours completed in their degree; a cumulative GPA of 2.5 or greater; the unrestricted right to work in the United States; and the ability to work a minimum of 20 hours a week, are eligible for the work-study program. Applicants will be interviewed for communication/behavioral skills and basic mechanical/tech- nical skills. If accepted in the pro gram, students will be required to carry a full-time credit load at Clackamas and graduate within three years of becoming an Intel A&I (work-study) employee. A&I employees receive approxi mately $10 per hour in base com pensation, plus overtime, 100% tuition reimbursement and a com petitive benefits package including profit-sharing and medical/dental insurance. Students interested in the work study program can next apply in the spring term. Formore informa tion, contact Sanda Nedelcu, pro gram director, at ext. 2335. Budget: Cuts in many areas, but college looks to stay competitive Continued from page 1 that state budget committees will make some final recommen dations to Governor John Kitzhaber in the next few days. Once the governor has received those budget recommenda tions, he will call the legisla ture into special session to hammer out a final budget for the next biennium. Johnson believes that the legislature will only meet for a few days in special session, and perhaps for only one day. In the meantime, Johnson and the administration are asking all departments at Clackamas to look where money can be cut. The asso ciate deans in instruction, stu dent services and college ser vices will be asked to find $10,000 in savings across their respective divisions. Some other savings will be found by discontinuing college general fund support of the Oregon Advanced Technology Center in Wilsonville, as that center will become more self-support ing. The Public Safety Train ing Center in Clackamas "The budget will be patch work in design, but we must maintain our focus to pro vide the best ser vices that we can... " Earl R Johnson College President should be self-supporting by the end of the year. That cen ter has been running in the red for several years, and the col lege recently paid off all of its deficits. The Customized Training Department will have its re sponsibilities shifted and its general fund budget reduced by $100,000. The Small Busi ness Development Department will have its budget reduced by $100,000. The Community Edu cation Department will be moved to the Harmony Road Campus to help develop that site as a full-service branch campus. $100,000 in savings from that department will result from the retirement of staff. Attrition savings will hit ap proximately $100,000. The cur rent hiring freeze will continue and the college will consider refilling positions on a case- by-case basis. Campus Ser vices’ budget will be reduced by $40,000 and the Office of College Advancement/Public Information will raise $50,000 in new revenue to be used to help fund tuition waivers beginning in 2003-04. “The budget will be patch work in design,” said President Johnson, “but we must main tain our focus to provide the best services that we can to stay competitive in the market place. To tell you the truth, we are in better shape than some of our competition, but we must cut back while maintain ing our operational integrity.” Get your Foodhandler Card ON-LINE www .foodhandler .or g Contact Chemeketa Community College’s Hospitality Systems Mana gement Program Start anytime. Tuition: $15 503-399-5146 CHEMEKETA COMMUNITY COLLEGE www .chemeketa.edu ChemeKeta Community College is an equal opportunity , affirmative action Institution.
