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2 TheO^kam^r PriBC Staff plays musical chairs with jobs By Patty Salazar News Editor W hile new students are still adjusting to life on campus, returning students m ay have.' noticed some fresh races n ot only am ong the students b u t also am ong the administrative assistants. For those w ho are returning to the com puter science program, you m ight be wondering where Tamera Davis m ight b e O verI the sum m er Davis was transferred from her position as the com puter science secretary, to her new position as asystem support specialist. Davis moved from the Streeter building to Roger Rook, H er new job was created w hen m ere was a. need to reorganize how departm ents were set up. N ow Davis is a / “bridge” between fac ulty and the Inform ation Technology (IT) departm ent. She’s had training to under stand all o f the software that faculty on campus use o n a daily basis. W ith new software com ing out all o f the time, Davis s ta y s o n - h e rtp e s to make sure that she understands the basics. W hen a faculty m em ber is-in heed o f help w ith , a com puter problem, Davis is called to try to help before IT is called. Since IT is so busy all o f the time, she is there for faculty to use when they run into problems. “It has been a change, it’s frustrating and its going to be frustrating these first couple o f weeks for faculty as they are com ing back and for students a little bit. I m hoping that that is a m inim um . We are here to serve the students,” said Davis. “Trying to rem ind m anagem ent and College hires new faculty, awards welding contract classified [employees] that you are not going to be at this level in the first three m onths just is n ot going to happen- So in that we all have that frustration,“ she said. She explained that although they are still on campus as employees, it’s hard to fill the shoes o f som ebody that has been at a certain position for years. Elizabeth Lundy, vice president o f instructional services, Joanne Truesdell, Clackamas C om m unity College president and C ourtney W ilton, vice president o f , college services are some o f the people th at' had to decide w ho to put where. According to L undy it was estim ated that their deci sions resulted in nearly 100 employees having to relocate to other buildings over the summer. L undy1 explained that the moves were a “result o f budget reduction.” Some o f th e big moves on cam pus were in the business departm ent. Employees had to move from the M cLoughlin building to Streeter, where the com puter lab is now also die business com puter lab. T he for- . eign language departm ent also moved from the Barlow building to McLoughlin to be closer to. their administrative assistance. ii N urm i discovered his passion for teaching when he would receive interns for the summer at O H SU . H e enjoyed it so m uch and when his wife helped him Flu* first Clackamas Com m unity realize it he finally leapt at the opportu College Board o f Education meeting of nity. T ike Ladeen, Nurm i worked as a part- the fall term on Oct. 12 has brought about many decisions that the college time instructor for C C C last spring. Merrill Watts was also hired by the hopes will benefit their programs in the long run. This includes tne hiring o f three board as a full-time faculty member in new instructors, one part-time and two the Small Business Development Center. others as full-time. Also the board gave All three new staff members will have a permission for the welding department starting annual salary o f roughly $53,986 to purchase their materials from a local based on the full-time salary schedule. Wesley Locke, department chair o f Oregon Q ty supplier T he board officially approved the manufacturing, approached the board hire o f Thomas Landeen as an annually to request permission for the welding contracted part-time instructor for the program to have an exclusive contract automotive departments regional high with Maverick Welding Supplies, Inc. for school program. Landeen taught at C C C purchasing their materials such as bottled last spring and has been Automotive gases, consumables like wire and hard Service Excellence certified for more than goods such as helmets. Welding previ 25 years, with a Certificate in Automotive ously Irad a contract with the company Technology from Phoenix Institute of Airgas, who is cheaper than Maverick but they put their emphasis on the quality o f Technology in 1978. “It’s an honor and a privilege to be customer service. As a result they decided here. It’s something that I’ve wanted to do to switch because o f billing issues in the past. for a long time,” said Landeen. “We found that we were spending a Board member Judith Ervin ques tioned Scott Giltz, dean o f tecnnol- lot o f extra money on correcting billing , health occupation and workforce, situations. Because o f their software or ) presented the hire proposal, what their system they ended up charging it meant by “annually contracted part- us a lot o f extra money. It’s kind o f a time faculty” on the proposal page for nightmare to keep up with,” said Locke. Landeen. Giltz explained what it meant “Airgas was actually less money on paper and that the college has done this kind o f but the service was nothing like we really would like to have seen.” hiring in the past. T he board approved the contract but “It’s a position that actually exists within the part-time bargaining u n it It’s it was clarified m at this was just permis a position whereby a part-time faculty sion to buy from Maverick. N o amount member is on an an n u a lly c o n tracte d sta- was mentioned in the proposal, as the i. 'Trny are paid fro m rh e fiill-time. sal- w eld in g d e p a rtm e n t d o esn ’t know how- e, d they’ i e ’ re evaluated as full-time ary schedule, much it w ill spend. Locke estimated that members, they also have the same it would approximately cost $110,000 for s as full-time faculty members but them to purchase the supplies they would they don’t accrue seniority,” said Giltz. use for tne year. “It depends on how many classes and Giltz also went on to say that after three years the college has to decide whether to how. the year goes. It’s hard to tell how convert the person to a full-time fac m any o f a ,certain welding tip you’ll go ulty member. Landeen’s predecessor, who through and we don’t know exactly how retired, was hired in the same fashion. much o f each item were going to buy,” James Nurmi, who has a doctorate said Locke. in environmental engineering from the Welding also has a course fee attached Oregon Graduate of Institute o f Science to it and the college hopes that some o f and Technology (O g I), was hired as a the costs will he absorbed by that fee. full-time faculty member for the Water “The am ount that we spend is directly and Environmental Technology pro related to how many students we have gram. Nurm i is also a senior researcher and so a small portion o f that estimate is at Oregon Health & Science University coming out or the general fund, mostly (OHSU) for their environmental ana fees,” said Locke. T he rest o f the board meeting went bimolecular systems division. H e had worked at O G I, as a research assistant on as scheduled with no comments from before it was merged into O H SU . citizens. By Brian Baldwin Editor-in-Chief a I t has been a change, it’s frustrating...” Tamera Davis System support speciatst O ne of .the . classified employees that was m oved is Jennifer Schwartzman. Schwartzman was transferred from her administrative assistance position in the theater and journalism departm ent located in the Niemeyer Center to a facilities reser vation position in Gregory Forum. I Although Schwartzman admits that she misses her theater students, she sees her new job on campus as a new opportunity to get out".there w ith the com m unity She is very glad that everybody has been very supportive an d • everybody m aking her ' comfortable at her new job. “I love that they care. T he deans' are very busy and for the dean bf campus services, to stop by at least once o f week and Bill Briare and Steffen Moller all those guys checking in and just- m aking sfrre that I’m okay is , gready appreciated, Schwartzman said. ■ Tp rails End Saloonr -p — CORRECTION D ue to an oversight we mispelled Pete K andratieff’s nam e in th e O ct. 12,. 2011 Issue 1 article “S taff spouse stifled.” I - g 1320 13: M a in St- Oregon Ci^y 503-656-3031 B/,.~ £l«es Therapy m a a ^ ith Thursdays Kae Gord°n Wednesdays J I L - rF T Cody Myers Sunday Oct- 23 N oon » . p ^ F u r id a y v Suggested Donation $10 Ba~M> ice Blues Bar and Grill Best Blues Venue By Cascade Blues Association Staff- 7&e Clackamas Print aims to report die news in an honest, a unbiased and professional man ner. Content published in The Print is not screened or subject to censorship. 19600 Molalla Ave. Oregon City, OR 97045 Editors Editor-in-C hiefi Brian B aldw in. 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