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Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Harmony: growing healthcare education needs may help Harm®
Continued from HARMONY, Page 1
According to the Center for
Health Education at CCC, the
average age of a nurse in America
is 53, while the number of people
65 and over will grow by 147 per
cent over the next 40 years.
Clackamas County Healthcare
estimates there wifi be a net
increase of about 30,000 jobs by
2012. Joanne Truesdell, presi
dent of Clackamas Community
College, hopes that this will attract
students to CCC as well as the
Harmony location.
Along with health care classes
offered at Harmony, community
education and drivers training
classes are also offered. Truesdell
described the campus aS the
launching point for community
interaction.
The college had been look
ing at this project for about seven
years prior to the budget cuts that
have cut programs and forced the
school to look for ways to save
money. Truesdell said, “Back in
2004, ‘5, and ‘6, when things were
starting to get stronger is when
the decision was made to pursue
this.”
The Harmony expansion proj
ect was funded through certificates
of participation as well as over $5
million in bond funds from the
state, which would cover costs
through 2013.
To help pay for future costs of
the building, facilities are rented
out to groups who wish to host
meetings or training sessions at the
college.
Truesdell estimated that about
two-thirds of the facilities and
employee costs at the Wilsonville
campus are paid for by private
companies not affiliated with the
college who wish to hold meetings
at the campus.
One hope for the Harmony
campus is for it to be available for
use all hours of the day and night
Truesdell also felt that having the
campus open around the clock
could help generate funds for the
college.
“We need to stop thinking about
ourselves as traditional in the sense
that students who pay tuition, pay
a portion of our cost and the state
pays a portion of our costs. If we
continue to do that students will
exponentially experience tuition
increases,” Truesdell said.
With rising tuition costs at
universities, community colleges
are becoming increasingly more
appealing. The college plans to
keep expanding at the Harmony
campus in hopes that it will bring
in more students.
Harmony campus’ main building has enabled the satellite location to house an increasingly large nuni
students. The facility has rented out space to private groups in order to pay for long tern costs.
Budget: ASG lobbies to conquer dismal budget
Continued from BUDGET, Page 1
Right now the college’s
budget resembles a tight-rope
walker trying to cross the
Grand Canyon on piece of
yam. It’s a skilled balancing
act where even a slight gust
of wind can bring great reper
cussions.
Currently we are receiv
ing reserve funds from the
state while at the same time
getting part of the stimulus
money sanctioned to Oregon
by Obama’s national stimulus
package.
When the next biennium
approaches, however, in 2011
the state may not be gifted
with emergency federal dol
lars and a deep reserve. This
is where funding problems
will sneak back into the lime
light and problems may start
occurring again.
Although more cuts are
not currently being sched
uled, Wilton says that thinking
Clackamas won’t have any to
make may be unrealistic.
“I think its more likely we’ll
have to make cuts,” he said,
referring to the years beyond
what our new budget covers.
The college was already
racked this year by a series of
unexpected cuts that occurred
due to a dramatic drop in state
revenue leaving the school
to reevaluate its budget mid
year.
The first hole was $416,000
and was easily plugged but it
was later announced in early
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March that there was another (ASG) to help in its battle.
$13.2 million dollar gap to
Members of ASG will not
fill and this time it wouldn’t be traveling down to Salem
be without repercussions. In again and testifying person
the end the solutions included ally in front of the legislature.
a raise in tuition, the loss of Instead the new plan of attack
many classes, a cut in the that OCCSA is encouraging
hours and amount of part time is to have a phone and e-mail
instructors working on the driven campaigns.
campus and a layoff of 20 staff
Alyssa Fava, next year’s
and faculty.
ASG president, and Michael
The state’s budget for com Vu, the current president in
munity colleges however is office, are both working to
not set in stone and at the organize the phone campaign
moment there
and the e-mail
are a lot of
driven aspect
efforts being
has
already
made in order
ended.
“We’re pretty
to
increase
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optimistic that
the funding
line
given
through lob
community col
to ASG by
bying.
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leges are going
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tried
May
20-22,
to be getting
contacting
but on such
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short notice
more money,
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we
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just
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College
ASG was not
Association’s
sure how much.”
able to react.
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“We didn’t
Alyssa Fava
Legislative
have enough
Director,
ASG President Elect
manpower to
John Wykoff
organize with
to talk about
in three days,”
his effort in
Fava said.
lobbying but
Although
discovered that he was busy Fava and Vu are organizing
already lobbying in Salem and the student legislative push,
was unavailable for comment.
their adviser Mindy Brown
The
student.
branch seemed to really know what
of OCCA,
the Oregon was going on.
Brown said that OCCSA
Community College Students
Association(OCCSA)
also was trying to get more stu
kicked up its lobbying work dents to participate in order
and encouraged Clackamas’ to get more voices heard from
Associate Student Government the student level. She also
talked about how ASG might
use My Clackamas Portal to
reach a broader audience.
Fava seemed less certain
about the portal, but said
they were working with
Dean Walch, Clackamas’
Web site editor, op the mat
ter. Nothing yet had been
finalized and considering
the e-mail campaign is over,
the likelihood of anything
being put on the portal has
fallen.
The overall feeling that
the e-mail and phone cam
paigns have carried are of
desperation and confusion.
Not due to ASG disorga
nization but the seas the
college is sailing through
are rough and fast; reac
tions must be swift and
well organized to combat
the tides.
Although the May 22
deadline that OCCSA set
has come and gone, Brown
says that students voices
will still matter when heard
by the state’s legislature
even a few weeks out.
“We’re pretty optimis
tic that community colleg
es are going to be getting
more money, we’re just not
sure how much,” Fava said
addressing why the phone
campaign is still important.
A booth will be set up in
the community center Wed.
May 27 from 9 a.m. to 5
p.m. ASG is encouraging
students to come by and
call state senator Richard
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