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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
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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,
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3:30 p.m.
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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
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