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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.
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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
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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.
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K andratieff’s nam e in th e O ct. 12,. 2011
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