2 The Clack amas P rint.
Rise in student enrollment
hits close to home
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any paperw ork th at was given o ut at
th at m eeting regarding the election
violations. Brown is a form er student
o f political science in stru cto r Dean
Darris who filed the elections com
plaint against the college.
“In fact D ean Darris is on the record
stating that he believed the college has
made a m ockery o f the law,” Brown said
regarding the previous bond elections.
T ie accused the college o f “spend
ing like a drunken sailor, spending
$ 2 /0 ,0 0 0 on new furniture.” He then
inform ed the college th at a group o f
concerned citizens led by former C C C
student and C olum bia University grad
uate N athan Page will be subm itting
a formal request w ith the Secretary or
State “to perform a real and meaningful
audit.”
Truesdell responded th at no staff
mem ber in the tim e period o f th e bond
asked any questions or offered their
input about the inform ation and the
process for the M ay bond election.
Truesdell also did n o t respond to the
allegation o f spending $270,000 on
office furniture. She also cleared up on
the O ct. 21 College Council, m eeting
no paper was handed o ut, so no papers
would be brought to the next board o f
education meeting.
Reid the said thank you to Brown for
speaking and finished up the m eeting
quickly after. T he nextboard o f educa
tion m eeting is D ec. 14.
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Enrolment Breakdown by
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By Patty Salazar
News Editor
If you’re at Clackamas Community
College on any weekday morning, you’ve
irobably come across the same prob-
,em as many other students: no park
ing. Although this common problem is
frustrating, has it made you wonder how .
many students attend Clackamas? When
you ask students why they chose CCC the
answer eoulcf range from the college being
so local, to the price of tuition being one of
the lowest in the area. Whatever brings you
to Clackamas it is easy to see that it is One
ofth e most popular community colleges in
Oregon.
In recent years the student in enroll
ment for CCC has gradually gone up. In
die 2006-2007 academic year, the number
of students enrolled at Clackamas w asat
30,677 and it jumped to 38,637 in the
2009-2010 academic year. W ith the college
having three different campuses and online
courses, it might not be obvious how many
students attend CCC.
According to Tara Sprehe, director of
enrollment management and registrar at
CCC, this fall Clackamas was awarded
$32,380,476 in financial aid to 3,259
students. Although*'this fall the full-time
enrollment has gone down five percent,
Clackamas has 10,756 full-time and part-
time students this term.
There is a connection between unem
ployment and enrollment at CCC, accord
ing to Steffen Moller, Dean of Curriculum,
Planning and Research.
“Community college enrollment often
works right along with unemployment. If
Moller went on to explain that many
high school graduates cannot find jobs and
attend CCC for an education. Also those
who become unemployed go back to school
for a new set erf skills to help get a new job.
Reasons why students might choose to
study here vary.
Clarke Robinson, who is a first-year
student, said,- “I wanted to be around my
friends.”
Robinson said he is getting his basic
courses at C CC before. transferring to
Portland Chiropractic to become a chiro
practor.
Andrew Roeser, a Second-year student
said, “I’m a veteran so I thought this was
going to be an easy shot and transfer to a
university later on ”
Lori Reed, who is.in her first-year said,
what attracted her to CCC was more, than
just the school being local but the project
management degree that a loti of other
schools do not offer.
“I did project management before in my
career ana I never really had the credentials
and now I am back to get those and get
a higher paying job with my degree,” said
Reed.
CCC offers many two-year degrees, such
as project management to welding technol
ogy. Whether it is retraining, transfer degrees
or one of the two-year degrees that brings
our enrollment goes up as well,” said Moller.
others are here for the same opportunity.
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As the m eeting went on, college pres
ident Joanne Truesdell brought up that
she, Shelly Parini and Janet Paulson are
seeking further clarification regarding
the fines they were sent for violating
the. election laws during the failed b ona
measure campaign in May. T hey are
looking into, now to correct the record
w ith the election division.
“W hat we really found is th at the
process is very unclear. T he guidelines
are very unclear and w hat it w ould take
as individuals is to spend an [enor
mous] am ount o f tim e in Salem trying
to help the election office to go through
this material and we decided we w ould
not to do that because it really does
take away from our tim e. We are in
the middle o f serving students and also
having tim e w ith our families,” * said
Truesdell.
She w ent on to say th at while speak
ing to the election director, she learned
th at the division is coming up w ith
adm inistrative rules. T he adm inistrative
rules w ould help explain the statute.
“We volunteered to be part o f th at
process o f review to ensure that the
public and com m unity get w hat they
need and that it is clear for personnel
w ho are associated w ith any public
body,” said Truesdell.
D u rin g th e citizen com m ents'
Brown brought up the O ct. 21 College
newsed&clackam as. edu
Top: Clarke Robison chose
Clackamas C om m unity
College to be close to
friends.
M iddle: Lori Reed chose
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most colleges do not offer.
Bottom: Andrew Roeser, a
veteran is a i C C C to later
transfer to a-university. .
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