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Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Budget cuts lead
to open positions
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IMS Degree: Training students to be thinkers and creatol
Continued from IMS DEGREE, Page 1 ¿ r
■ Lydia E. Bashaw
11 News Editor
Experiencing a shortfall in funds,
Clackamas was forced to look toward
departments to cut their spending.
During the next school year, five full-
time faculty positions will be left open
to help eliminate costs.
Vice President of Instructional
Services Baldwin van der Bijl
explained that the five positions left
open in the business, engineering,
English, human services and social
science departments are part of the
budgeting process;
The entry-level salaries for those
positions range from $45,821 to
$50,644, at minimum equaling at least
$229,105.
Some departments, like English,
are losing their faculty position for
several years. Jan Anderson, a full-
time faculty member, retired in fall
2007.
“We are bolding it (the position) .
open until 2010 because of budget rea
sons,” said Trista Cornelius, English
department chair. “Yet; we are not los
ing the position altogether, the salary
will just go to the college.” ,
With file' loss of Anderson, her
class load must go elsewhere, putting
a heavier weight load on other parts of
the department and cutting one class
option for students.
“Almost all of her classes are dis- ‘
tributed elsewhere,” Cornelius said,.
“but there is one that no one really has
die background to teach, and that is
Arthurian Legends. She taught at least
12 classes a year. I know one year she .
took on an extra class when someone
went on medical leave.”
Social Sciences Department Chair
Robert Keeler has only one schpol\
“The most important thing is to train people to
be thinkers,” she said, adding, “The people we are
putting out in the real world are well-rounded.”
, What to do after the two years spent in the
program is a two-fold path. In some areas, students
will be ready to enter a career field immediately,
having a two-year certificate of completion. Others
will be able to use an associate degree to trans
fer to a four-year university, with Portland State
University being the most direct transfer, according
to Mach.
The degree is the brainchild of Mach and
Mingo, who saw a need to connect certain areas
of study, something they accomplished with their
first collaboration, the course Screenwriting and
Production.
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After forming the class, both knew it would
be necessary to expand Clackamas’ mixed media
departments, and they have been working with
other teachers and faculty to do so since.
“This is the future, in a way,” Mach said. ‘Tt’s
exciting and scary at the same time. It’s evolving.”
Dean of Arts, Humanities and Social Science
Bill Briare agrees with Mach.
“People want content,” Briare said.
Designing content is what IMS is all about
- students can team everything from how to build
Web site graphics and set up Internet broadcasts
to how to become projection assistants and edit
film. Job opportunities and internships are also
arranged.
The next goal for the degree - which has
expanded to include many more teachers and staff
than Mingo and Mach - is more centralization.
“I think what we need is a builJ
Mingo said. “Right now, filings aj
around the college.”
Eventually, Mingo and others invj
program hope for it to expand into its J
ment, but before this can happen, it nJ
state approval.
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During lhe approval process, the Id
examine file degree’s validity and job J
for IMS students after graduation.
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None of this, however; worries MaJ
Most of “that stuff usually gets irorJ
said. “With luck, it will get approved J
through.”
The estimated date for the degree k B
will be file 2009-2010 academic year. B
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K^er discussed the -transition fem.
losing one instructor.
“Kristin Christophersen, our full-
time sociologist is completing her doc
torate and, earlier this year, decided
to pursue her career elsewhere,” he
said. “For budgetary reasons, it was
decided to hold the position open ...
sociology is one of the core disci
plines in the social sciences, and we
anticipate forming a search commit
tee and carrying out a hiring process
during the 2008-2009 academic year,
with the goal of having a full-time
sociologist on board at fee beginning
of fire 2009-2010 academic year.”
The engineering department will
also be dealing with a loss, as Ed
Landauer has retired. However, there
is not a timeline set for the rehire,
leaving three full-time instructors in
the entire department.
“We have one position that is still
open,” said Chair Matt Laforce. “We
havenot put it out to hire yet. We want
to change the program more towards
environmental engineering. It does not
exist yet I want to recast that position.
We need someone who can do all the
engineering but focus the department
on the environment.”
With up to two years for Clackamas
to get its budget issues solved, depart
ments will be asked to keep costs low.
“I’m not sure how much more
a department can cut” said student
Louisa Gerard. “They are already
taking our teachers and our choices.
There is not much more a department
cando.”
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