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Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010 mployee inspires all The Clackamas Print 3 School whittles down list of dean candidates By Brian Baldwin Associate News Editor Pamela Hollis Clackamas Print i Smith has emerged as a prominent figure in the Oregon City. She has coordinated y, providing opportunities to enrich the lives of CCC students and community citizens. By Pamela Hollis fhe Clackamas Print schools,” said Julie Paulsen, communications coordinator for Oregon City’s Chamber. nr school wouldn’t be “She really sees that in order it is today without the to be a community you have :ation and hard work of to have your college that i Smith, major gift offi- works with your high school ,t Clackamas Community that works with the city that :ge. works with the businesses. nith works with donors to The Chamber works with all e opportunities for stu- to make Oregon City really >to achieve their dreams, great for businesses and peo of Smith’s objectives ple that live here.” is to coordinate fund- Smith is passionate about rs. She also does this what she does, both at CCC e Oregon City Chamber and the Chamber. ommerce where she was “I get the inside track of ltly elected to sit on the what’s happening in my com i of directors. Members munity, and I get the opportu le board came to Smith nity to shape it,” Smith said. asked if they could put “I not only work here, I also lame on the ballot. She live here, so I have a vested er\ed on the board before interest.” nade quite the impact. Smith has lived in Oregon ■icki really under- City for 28 years and worked Is how the community is for the college for the last than just business and five. i wonder hat is my next move? jted as one.of the best values* and best baccalaureate colleges in ¡West by U.S.N.ews & World Report 2010, Warner Pacific is an urban, ^graduate majors, you can choose from hundreds of career options. The Chamber provides information and education to small businesses. They point them in the right direction. “Vicki really makes people feel welcome,” said Amber Holveck, executive director at the Chamber of Commerce. “She is a whole picture kind of person. If she commits to it, it will be done in qual ity time and quality effort and sincerity. She’s just top notch.” Smith has a favorite quote by Margaret Mead. “Never doubt that a small group of committed individu als can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” This quote really portrays her sense of community and that is just what we have here, a small community; all work ing together with one com mon goal. Last spring, the deans of both the business office and the information tech nology services department announced that they were leaving the college to pursue jobs outside of Clackamas Community College. Since then, the college has attempted to hire candidates for these two positions twice and they are currently nearing the end of the second pro cess now. The first process occurred during spring term but' Courtney Wilton, vice president of college services, felt that the finalists of the first process were not a good fit. However, he feels that this second batch is strong. “We felt like the candi dates that were there weren’t the best fit for the college and so we chose not to fill the positions at the time,” Wilton said. “That’s what interview ing usually comes down to; ‘Is this the best fit for them? Is this the best fit for the col lege?’ It doesn’t mean that they were bad candidates, it just meant that I felt like there are other people out there that would be a better fit.” Candidates are selected by a hiring committee and then they go through a gauntlet of interviews, with their future peers, a public forum and then a meeting with the exec utive staff of the college that includes Joanne Truesdell, Shelly Parini and Wilton. At the very end, it is Wilton’s decision whether or not an offer is made to a particular finalist. The college has searched nationwide and now has six finalists; four for the position of chief information officer for ITS and two finalists for the dean of business services. Although the positions are vacant, the business office is running with the dean posi tion vacant and staff mem bers stepping up and increas ing their workload, and the ITS department is being run by intertim dean Kimberley Carey. Carey feels that one of the biggest problems the new dean of ITS will face is the issue of registration difficul ties with the myClackamas portal. Wilton would not commit to an estimated date when the college would see an offer put down on the table for either of these positions but gave a rough estimate that more would develop a few weeks after the candidates’ public forum on Nov. 17. So far there has been no public announcement of any prog ress or any offers. Ben Carlson Clackamas Print. Kimberley Carey is acting as interim dean of the ITS depart ment while permenent contenders are being interviewed.
