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Wednesday,Oct.10,2012
CASE grant helps
students succeed
Felicia Skriver
News Editor
Felicia Skriver The Clàckàmas Print
The Department o f Labor
awarded the Oregon Community
College Consortium, led by
Clackamas, an $18 million dollar
grant to strengthen the state’s work
force and put people back to work.
Over the next three years, thè
grant will be divided and distrib
uted to the 17 community colleges
in Oregon. The money provided,
combined with President Barack
Obama’s American Jobs Act, cre
ates additional support for hiring
and re-employment services.
“As our economy struggles
to come back, it is vital that
Oregonians have the education and
training necessary to successfully
compete for the next generation
o f family-wage jobs,” said Oregon
Senator Ron Wyden in a press
release. “This statewide grant and
its public and private sector part
ners will help us to do just that.”
The Credentials, Acceleration,
and Support for Employment or
CASE Grant applies to all who
qualify for the Trade Adjustment
Act. Those who are under or unem
ployed, veterans, or spouses o f vet
erans also qualify for the grant.
The primary goal o f the pro
gram is to bridge the gaps that keep
people from attending college, and
to also accelerate the process that
one would obtain a certificate in
a technical program. For example,
a student here at Clackamas can
achieve an entry level certificate in
a technical program such as weld
ing or computer sciences, then go
straight to work in less than a year.
From there, if the student
decides to advance their knowl
edge they can come back for their
associate’s degree. The CASE
grant also works on getting stu
dents credit for work experience
they already have but -were not
college accredited; making it easier
for students to advance in their
specific field.
“We’re working really hard to
connect with students and help
them with their completion,” said
Kara Leonard a career coach w ork-'
ing with the CASE grant. “We try
to remove barriers, and give stu
dents access to be successful.”
According to a news release
from the Oregon Employment-
Department, there was a drastic
spike in unemployment to 11.6 per
cent in 2009, shortly after Obama
took office.
Since then, the percentage has
lowered significantly due to pro
grams like the Trade Adjustment
Act, giving citizens funds if then-
jobs have been outsourced over
seas.
Oregon still stands at an 8.9
percent unemployment average,
which is a slight increase since
June o f this year. The CASE grant
is put in
to play to help these numbers
drop and help raise the rate o f
Craig Anderson(lefi) from the manufacturing department helps teach high school students the basics in manufactur
ing technology. This department receives the most funds from the CASE grant here on campus.
employment.
With the funds in place,
Clackamas was not only able to
hire on more career coaches to help
students get started, but was also
able to buy the Career Information
System program that helps students
not only pinpoint what field they
w’ant to enter, but also what career
would be best for them.
The career coaches on the top
floor o f the Barlow Building are
trying to partner up with employ
ers so that students will have direct
connections with the job market
they’re looking in to.
More than 50 employers have
already signed letters o f commit
ment enthusiastically endorsing the
hands on approach the program
has.
“It’s definitely a good thing,”
said Mike Bisorca, a Computer
Numeric Control - student at
Clackamas. “It’s saved me a lot
o f money.” Bisorca was already
enrolled at CCC when he found out
he qualified for the grant.
The grant is in place until
November o f 2014, and anybody
who qualifies for the grant may;
contact any o f the career coaches
in Barlow to take the first steps to a
technical field certificate.
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EDITORS
C lackam as
McLoughlin Hall see a new face as
well. Stephanie Schaefer is the new
est addition to the retention counsel
ors in the Arts and Science division
working with students to meet their
New faces roam the campus this educational goals.
year while old ones take their leave.
Dawn Terrill is the newest full
This year Clackamas has hired on time addition to the department of
eight new instructors to sustain the Education and Human Services.
ebb and flow o f faculty.
Terrill is an instructor in early educa
Rick True from the art depart tion and family studies.
ment took his leave from CCC this
She is teaching those who want to
year after 28 years of teaching on be early childhood instructors. Terrill
campus. David Smith-English taught at CCC for a term back in
from the theatre department also 2005 and since then has been look
retired, leaving James Eikrem the ing out for when a position would
new theatre director.
open up.
Eikrem came back to Oregon
Mark House has been on cam
after years o f schooling in New pus for the last decade but returns
York and years o f teaching in this year with an official title. He
Michigan. He was excited to come obtained his associate’s degree of
back and teach at CCC and was Applied Sciences in Collision Repair
delighted to find the theatre depart and refinishing here at CCC.
ment had such an exciting pro
“Well at first I didn’t want to
gram.
teach,” said House. “Dave Bradley
“Haying visited all the places asked me if I wanted to come up
I interviewed, Clackamas had a and assist, and at first I said no but
very beautiful campus,” said Taylor he kept hounding me, and 11 years
Donnelly, a new English instructor later, here I am.”
here at CCC. “I felt the faculty and
Mike Berlingen is also a new
the students here really care, and lace to the automotive department.
that makes it a great place to work.” He runs the high school program on
Donnelly grew up here in campus and teaches classes such as
Portland but went to New York and small engine repair and beginning
majored in English She returned to mechanics.
Oregon City to teach at CCC and
Eric Lee is a new engineering
be close to family.
teacher from New York who works
Andrea Vergun is new to the with all kinds o f engineering, but
ESOL department in the Dye mainly focuses on mechanical engi
Learning Center. She went to San neering.
Francisco State to finish up school
“I was excited to teach at a com
and then went into marketing com munity college level,” said Lee. “I’m
munications where she would looking forward to the challenge
translate English documents in to o f building up the engineering pro
Spanish.
gram.” Lee fully intends on forging
Clackamas was Vergun’s first a bigger department o f engineering.
choice. She said that it had always
CCC welcomes all the new faces
been a great resource.
and awaits the positive changes they
The
counselors
at the will all bring.
Felicia Skriver
News Editor
New instructor, Mark House teaches students Justin Polachek and Zach
Whiteside how to ground o ff extra body filler in his collision repair class.
10/4/2012
•Between 10 am and 2:30 pm
there was a non injury hit and
run in the Orchard parking lot
next to the Family Resource
Center.
• Between 3 and 4 pm, there
was an auto theft at CCC.
• At 2 pm there was a report of
a minor theft near the transit
area.
•A t 4 pm there was a report
of reckless burning at the
comer of Molalla Ave and
Douglas Loop. Clackamas
Fire responded and put the
flames out.
10/3/2012
10/5/2012
•A t 4 pm there was a report
of reckless burning and
another reckless burning was
reported at 5:15 pm when a
trash can burned next to the
tennis courts. Clackamas Fire
responded and doused both.
•A t 8:30 am there was a report
of offensive littering near the
Rainbow storage area.
10/1/2012
10/7/2012
• At 2:45 pm a report of interfer
ing with a police officer outside
of Barlow. The case was
refered to Oregon City Police
Department.
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