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2 huj 3JI3 Clackamas Print Wednesday. Oct. .12, 2005 New term brings new dean campus All reports are taken from CCC’s campus safety incident logs. Summaries are edited for clarity, not content 10-6-05 . 6:55 p.m. Group of juveniles play ing on mats next to track When approached they fled towards Kingsberry apart ments. 10-5-05 10:03 a.m. Student reported locker break-in at Randall. . 3:48 p.m. Staff reported teens heading to Barlow parking lot to fight. 5:49 p.m. White male adult in 40s waving knife around in OIT parking lot. 7:00 p.m. Report of a lost dog by Clairmont. 7:10 p.m. Owner located dog. 10-4-05 10:30 a.m. Staff reported possible drug use on campus. 11:45 a.m. Student reported locker break-in at Randall. 7:13p.m. Responded to call at Ran dall. Student reported theft of property. 10-2-05 4:05p.m.- Stopped by motorist telling officer where three juve niles were hiding. 4:10 p.m. Found juveniles having made a small barricade on DLP across front track Katii Wilson The Clackamas Print Four new deans are in new jobs at the college this quarter: two who are new to Clackamas and two who have moved from other positions. Bill Briarp moved from being head of the social sciences depart ment to being dean of arts, humanities and social scienc es. He has been at Clackamas for 16 years, eight of those years as a full-time faculty member. “The department already has a high quality faculty and amazing instructors, so I think things are headed in. the right direction,” he said about his new department. He would like to see the fac ulty co-teaching classes—such as a humanities instructor teaching a writing class—and thinks that “cross-over is beneficial for both instructors and students.” z Stephanie Gillette is the new dean for the department of human resources. She found the opening for the position in the newspaper and has degrees and experience in the human resources field. Before coming to Oregon she taught in San Bernardino, California. She also worked as the human resources director for PERS, the Oregon Public Employees Retirement System, before coming to Clackamas. Gillette said she has already seen improvements in the Clackamas human resources department. “Currently, we’re working on revamping HR as far as what is offered to people,” she said. “We’d like to make it more efficient and accessible. We also would like to implement an affir mative action/cultural diversity instructor at the University of Alaska. As the dean of the department of business services, Robuck oversees the bookstore, mail room, and food service depart ment, among others. “It’s a lot of work,” she admit ted. “But it’s also a really good place to be; people are very car- ing to each other here.” “I like to make the fin that I work with as effici possible,” she adds. “Every that we touch we can find i to make it better. I had n in colleges before and was ing for something with pm Clackamas was it for me.” Former registrar Dianel is the new dean of student e ment. Originally a stude CCC, she went on to world school. For the last eight she held th of Registrai has a bacl degree in Tr and Develop and a mi in Seco Education. “Becomi dean was th logical ste me,” said D ‘“I wanted| what I had It as a studei in my admit five career! something; with it. [The Student Enroll division has been very sui fill as far as being accessil students.” The deans have a coi goal. “Our goal is to be satisfactory,” said Drebin. “ very strongly about the role particular college in the commi * College faces accreditation visit next yet ■ Frank Jordan I The Clackamas Print Clackamas Community College is presently count ing down toward a visit by the Northwest Commission on College and University Accreditation Process in October 2006. This commis sion will determine if the col lege is to be accredited for the next 10 years. Accreditation is the process that determines if the college can continue to receive fed eral financial aid'and, just as important to students, whether credits earned at Clackamas can transfer to other colleges and universities. The pro cess is essentially quality con trol. The committee looking at Clackamas will look at nine key areas and how our college evaluates itself. The nine areas are: Mission/ Goals, Educational Programs, Students, . Faculty, Library/ Informational Resources, Governance/Administration, Finance, Physical Resources and Institutional Integrity. The committee, which con sists of college administrators Join us at one of our Preview Days to take a campus tour, talk to current students, explore the Academic and Student Life Fair and learn about admissions, financial aid and scholarships. Wednesday November 9 3:30 p.m. Questions? Call 360-546-9779. from outside of the college/ for Clackamas and its university’s state, will take grams. That is somethin a document prepared by the we can most definitely bi institution being studied and the committee about.” use that document to see if One of the areas that particular college/univer- Clackamas has to hi sity is living up to their own home to the accredit standards. committee is the fact th If the committee determines academic departments i that the particular college is college are fairly autono living up to the standards that that is, each departments they set for themselves, then own budget and writes it curried the committee can reaffirm Clackama a college’s very uniq “ best accreditation that fact, i for up to 10 as college is the years. If the universiti 10-year committee and that determines that be a st a particular col point win that out lege isn’t living committe very up to their own Clackama standards, then had great rare. they can award cess with Dian Conett accreditation course of Dean of Instructional for anywhere over the y Services from one year Stud up to the 10- can weii on this pl year mark by goinl /‘The best outcome is the 10-year accred www.clackamas.edu, ( itation, but that outcome is ing on “Staff Informal very rare. We were .lucky then going to the link and good enough in 1996 to tied “Accreditation,” 1 receive the 10-year accredita will solicit student com! tion,” said Dian Connett, dean on the process and hovj of instructional services. “But believe Clackamas is doi the process is an ongoing one. an academic institution, Just because we received a student and staff input is 10-year accreditation does not to the process, and the c mean that work has stopped.” will be doing more in the One of the biggest challeng ing year- to get insight es in this accreditation process students, staff, and the has been educating the staff munity in this process. and faculty about the process. “We need to show the A lot of the college staff was ' dents, the staff and the not here during the 1996 pro munity as a whole that w( cess. this process as seriously! “We haye, however, had a can and we invite their lot of successes in the last 10 ments,” said Connett. "V years,” said Connett. “Our here to serve the comm new facilities being the most and we need to show th obvious one, but also the great college is very imports work that the college founda the community and the p< tion has done raising money that we serve.” The come out accreditation, but come is ” Preview Days or —I n The new deans, from left: Stephanie Gillette, Bill Briare, Chris Robuck, and Diane Drebin WSU Vancouver Saturday October 22 9:00 a.m. program by early 2006.” The new dean of department of business services is Chris Robuck, formerly a finance officer for a non-profit govern ment business and an accounting Oregon residents: Take 8 credits or less and pay the same in-state tuition rate as Washington residents! Call us for details! WSHINGn § I IB ■__
