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Sunny Olsen, lead advising specialisti sits down with Ruslan Potapchuk, Clackamas Community. College student, in the counseling department to discuss his career goals.
Olsen remains in the department after many advisers left CCC during summer term-
Voids appear in counseling department
response to a campus need. It provides leader­
ship experience for students-and in turn these
students provide an amazing am ount o f service
Over the past few years, Clackamas and information to their peers. I was surprised.
Com m unity College has lost some o f its fond­ at how natural the program became” woven
est advisers and counselors. Those who have into the fabric o f student life,” said Walter.
W hen asked about her current job at
left include Paul Creighton, Jessica Walter,
Miguel Cardenas, Ellen Wolfson and Jean Oregon Health & Sciences University,.she said
DeVenney. Still, with so many members of the th at “I’m located in the School o f Medicine,
staff leaving, the college is left with a deep void within their Division o f Management. My
in both the advising and counseling depart­ title is Associate Director o f Student & Faculty
Support ”
ments.
As for Wolfson and DeVenney, Martinez
“Several people retired, others went to bet­
ter jobs and some went on to pursue educa­ said that “We had two retirements, both aca­
tion. T hey are pursuing something different; demic advisers, and those -two individuals had
they were not fired,” said Sunny Olsèn, thè been at Clackamas for 12 plus years: Ellen
Wolfson and Jean DeVeftney. Jeanis currently
lead advising specialist at CCC.
D epartm ent C hair o f Advising and continuing to do som e.part-time instruction
Counseling, Guadalupe Martinez said, “The for Us ... Ellen Wolfson is retired.”
According to Couftselor Casey Sims, “There’s
reason they left the college is for professional
advancement. Walter moved onto O HSU . been a new model that’s béeri rolled out where
Cardenas is now at PCC Rock,Creek and he is. there’s three different.m ajor divisions,at the
in the advising office there. Creighfou entered college now [and] there’s a counselor assigned
the nursing program at University of Portland to each division. So my new office is in Barlow
and he has been-a part o f his band for quite and it used to be in the C om m unity Center
a while. We [also] had a couple o f retirements with the other counselors.* So, certainly there’s
a change [and] in some ways-it’s a big change.
from the faculty ranks.”
Creighton, lead vocalist for the Portland-. I’ve been working in. the same building for;
based band “Intervision,” who also studied eight years until now- but I wouldn’t be a very
music at the campus, worked as an advising good counselor i f - I ' couldn’t take my own
specialist at the campus for many years and advice. I’m reminding myself to stay grateful
now is studying nursing at the University of and embrace the changé.”
W hen asked if there was a plan to hire new
Portland, all the while continuing the pursuit
of his musical career. Creighton is currently members for either the counseling o f advis­
ing department, Administrative Coordinator
performing across the country with his band.
“[I; am] in New Orleans all this week and D eha. Gillenwater stated that, “Wé do have
Colorado all next week on tour. I won’t be new part-time-counselors that have come on
back [in Oregon] until after Halloween,” said board.” .
Creighton.Walter, who was employed as the
Although C C C has lost a handful o f its
lead academic advisor and a part-time psychol­ finest advisers and counselors, members of
ogy teacher, worked at C C C for a little over the department are making strides to, as said
by Sims, “Make sure nobody falls through the
five years.
According to Walter, her fondest memory cracks and that students, are well served. I feel
of working at C C C was co-developing the comfortable saying that student service levels
are high. I feel really positive about the work
Peer Assistant program.
“I think that this program was a creative we get to do here.”
B y Isaac Soper
The Clackamas Print
Corrections
Mark Medgin was incorrectly tagged as Jorge Gil-Juarez on a photo on page 5
of Issue 2. Medgin finished second on the team and third overall. Teresa Lawsons
name was also misspelled in a photo caption on the same page.
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