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Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Ancient healing marries medicin
By Erik Andersen
sNews Editor
As of right now the worlds between
Western modem medical practice and
the Eastern holistic medical methods
have always been separated by a huge
void. With Western modem medicine
consisting of pills, surgery and methods
of a more technical practice, some may
see holistic practice to be somewhat
taboo. Holistic medicine is a practice
that has been around for thousands of
years dealing with such methods as
acupuncture, herbal treatment and mas
sage therapy.
Clyde Jensen, a teacher at Clackamas
Community College Harmony campus,
is doing something few, if any, have
done before him in the field of medi
cine. Jensen has developed a program
that, as he would say, “bridges the gap”
between the two completely different
fields that share the same goal.
Jensen has his PhD in physiology and
pharmacology. Jensen says that he has
been teaching in the medical field his
whole career, and although he started in
teaching, Jensen, at the age 32 became
the president of a medical school. Jensen
didn’t stop there though.
He would soon become the president
in about half a dozen medical schools
which included MD colleges, osteo
pathic colleges and the naturopathic
college in Portland where he started an
oriental medicine program. According
to Jensen, he is one of the few in the
country, if not the world, with the
experience of being in charge of such
a diverse array of health science doctor
level institutions.
Jensen’s goal for CCC is to cre
ate a program that takes both Western
modem medicine and holistic medicine
and put them in the same room. The
program that Jensen has put together is
called Collaborative Health Care, and
the reason Jensen said he calls it that is
because he believes that it puts the two
fields together that should collaborate
together.
“I began teaching this course enti
tled the ‘health professions continuum’
where we are teaching the students how
to assess the levels of scope and assess
the variations in philosophy in the
health care professions,” said Jensen.
“What I’m interested in doing here
at the community college is training
some of the entry level health care
professions to simply understand the
philosophies in the professions on both
sides of the continuum.”
As mentioned, Jensen’s goal is to
link the two professions on opposite
sides of the medical spectrum. Here at
CCC, this will be on the lower levels
of the profession on account of the
fact that Clackamas is just a two-year
school. Jensen explained that not only
does it have to start somewhere but he
also has aspirations of creating whole
new career paths that never before
existed.
“I believe that there is a need for a
profession that might be called a col
laborative case manager. Again that’s
a speculative title of the profession,
but I think it’s a descriptive one,” said
Jensen.
Jensen continues to explain that a
collaborative case manager would be
the person who a patient would see to
learn what type of treatment would be
best for their situation, whether it be
more Western medicine or something
along the lines of holistic medicine.
The course went in front of the cur
riculum committee early Friday, May
14 and was approved to be put into
the school’s curriculum catalog; Jensen
hopes to teach the class in the fall of
2010.
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Clyde Jensen describes the layout of the new program that he anticipi
teaching in the fall of 2010, called Collaborative Heath Care.
Tuition increase predicted to turn away returning studen
By Brian Baldwin
The Clackamas Print
“What is a student supposed to do if they can’t
afford tuition?” asked student Crystal Springs,
adding, “I think it’s ridiculous because students
already pay a lot to get their education.”
Springs is talking about the $2 increase in
tuition per credit hour that will begin summer term
2010.
According to Chuck Clemans, one of the seven
elected officials of the Board of Education for
CCC, the increase of tuition was needed because
of the drop in state funding. At the 2007-2009
biennium, community colleges received about
$500 million dollars in state funding. However the
2009-2011 appropriations show that it will drop to
$450 million, even with the passing of measures
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“We took a 10 percent reduction in our appro
priations for colleges. Financial forecasters for the
2011 legislative session are suggesting we may get
even less in the next biennium. Looking at where
this college is heading financially, with or without
the tuition increase, we’re heading for some pretty
tough times,” said Clemans.
Initially college president Joanne Truesdell had
hoped for a $3 increase for the 2010-2011 school
year, adding the $2 to tuition and $1 to student
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fees. The Board had called a budget committee to
review the proposal, but after hearing testimony from
several students and reading postcards that students
submitted in March, the Board decided to postpone
their vote until their meeting on April 14.
“We solicited information from students all across
campus. We had 261 student stories and 50 percent
of those were students saying ‘If this $3 increase
happens, I’m priced out. I cannot come back to
Clackamas because I cannot afford to drive anymore,
I can’t afford to buy food anymore, I can’t pay my
bills anymore, and I can’t buy books anymore.’
Students are truly really struggling,” said ASG presi
dent Alyssa Fava.
Clemans brought a motion to the floor that accept
ed the $2 increase of tuition but cut the increase
of fees. The motion passed 6-1, with member Ron
Adams voting against it.
“Part of my rational was going into this year we
raised tuition $10 per credit hour. My worry was if we
waited another year without at least a modest increase,
then again we have to do another really steep increase
sometime next year,” explained Clemans.
Courtney Wilton, vice president of student servic
es, projects that this increase of tuition will generate
a total of $340,000 for the college. If the Board of
Education had accepted the original plan and included
the $1 increase to fees, the college would have gener
ated another $170,000, making the total $510,000.
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