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P R IN T : News Wednesday, November20,2013 OPPORTUNITY: Looking forward Continued from P a g e 1 — access to information. As the community has grown and changed, Jane Reid serves on CCC’s the needs of the people have grown Board of Education as a representa and changed with that. The survey tive of Estacada. She understands results featured how important a that transportation is a huge con broad spectrum of what CCC offers cern for many students, and that is, from the degrees and certificates making transportation easier on all that assist chosen careers, programs levels would help them tremen that lead to four-year degrees, the dously. classes and workshops that improve “It’s a 30 minute drive at least students’job skills and nurture their from Estacada to here, over lots career advancement, along with of hills,” Reid said. “I know that training that highlights business we’re collectively looking at that, opportunities, career coaching or and that would mean working with retraining, and the credit given for other partners in the community to work-based experience. make something like that happen. “I wasn’t surprised that people That’s sort of a hard one to crack, wanted continuous improvement but I think people are realizing how around our web and portal and important it is,”. areas like that,” Parini said. “But She added: “I’m just so the other was access to more face- impressed by our college commu to-face information , from our high nity. When they see that there’s a school students and our community problem, they don’t wait and go, members. They want to see us more ‘Well, we can’t do that until 2015.’ often out and about in the Com People are so creatively thinking munity, talking to them about what about ways to collaboratively lode we offer.”" and see what’s already existing, For CCC to reach its 50th anni figure out ways to make things versary is a huge milestone in the happen.” community. The fact that CCC’s CCC is a pioneer in this com values have stayedconstant through munity for giving people access to 50 years speaks to the dedication of the things that they need to further those who are devoted to making their education. The biggest part CCC a better place to learn. of . that was the third problem that “When you think about the col Imagine Clackamas highlighted lege and its beginnings in 1966 and what was most valuable to people tiien, it was really refreshing that what our core mission is is still what is important today,” Parini said. 4? 3 CCC Anouncements T hanksgiving B reak C C C WILL BE CLOSED NOV. 28-29 FOR T hanksgiving , n o evening class es WILL BE HELD AFTER 4 P.M. ON WEDNESDAY. NOV. 27 Almost, Maine ii LOCATION: NLIMFYIR OSTERMAN THEATRE i We also wanted to identify where we can improve” Shelly Parini Dean o f College Advance ment Through 50 years of change, the value people have placed on CCC and the trust in the college’s ongo ing ability to educate has been tre mendous. Judith Ervin, the Board of Education’s Chair and represen tative of Zone 3j explains the rea son for Imagine Clackamas in one simple sentence. “It’s about our power of listen ing to our community,” she said. W h e n : N ovember 14 - 24 THUR. - SAT. AT 7:30PMf SUN. AT 2:30PM What’s up with...? THE CLACKAMAS PRINT IS LOOKING FOR STORIES OF THE WEIRD, CURIOUS ECCEN TRICITIES, AND THE OCCASIONAL ODDITY AROUND CAMPUS. H ave you seen anything on campus THAT MAKES YOU WONDER “H m m m ... W hat ' s the deal w ith ..." P lease submit you questions t o : C hiefed @ clackamas . edu Celebrating collaborative college education Donny Beach A ssociate Copy Editor Going to college is a big step toward financial independence. When asked about their plans, most students fell into two cate; gories: community college, then transferring to a university or attending a university directly out of high school. Most community college- bound students agreed they opted for transfer degrees for general education and pre-req uisite classes because of cost. Tuition is lower at commiinity colleges than at four-year uni versities. j There is a third option — co-admittance: Co-admittance, or co-enrollment, allows a stu dent to "take university classes, while at the same time using the community college to take pre requisite coursesat lower rates. Katelynn Karch, student advi sor at Clackamas Community College, is a co-admittance pro ponent. She said it can relieve student stress.. ‘•‘Students can ease them selves into the university envi ronment,” Karch said. • System shock is not the only pain.that co-admittance can alle viate. Joan Jagodnick, director of transfer student services and community college relations at. Portland State University^ said there are also admissions pro cess benefits of co-enrollment. ' “A new student applying for normal admission into PSU has. university [even] if they don’t only three terms to take a class have enough credits to do a full before they are dropped and -transfer,” said Karch,. their , applicafion is canceled, What if the desired bach whereas a co-admitted student elor’s program isn’t offered at has up to 16 terms until they are PSU or they consider a different required to take a class at PSU,” university? " said Jagodnick. Larry Cheyne, CCC director For many co-admitted stu of educational partners, offers dents,this means their financial this bit of advice for students aid caps will be based on the who want to take advantage of federal graduate school maxi co-admittance; mums and not the undergraduate “The Clackamas Community level limitations. College website has three It allows getting pre-requir degree partnership programs sites out of the way with the available with easy to access ability to take classes in their links to the different university chosen fields, which may not admissions websites: Portland be offered at the community State University, Oregon State college; University, and Oregon Institute “Co-admittance will allow of Technology,” Cheyne said. students to take classes CCC PSU and CCC renewed their doesn’t offer or to still attend a co-admittance agreement on Monday at a formal signing cer emony held on the CCC Oregon City campus in the Niemeyer Center. ' PSU President Wim Wiewel and CCC President Joanne Truesdell listened to speeches from grateful graduates who took advantage of the co-admit tance policy. They then signed the documents. The PSU-CCC co-admittance agreement was the first of its kind in Oregon, officials said. Jagodnick recommends that any students who wish to. co admit into PSU should fill out the application now.. “The PSU scholarship dead line is Feb. 1, and you need to be- a PSU student in order to apply/’ Jagodnick said; w tl 1 1 i ¿0 1 - sö HBM Faculty and students look On as PSU President Wim Wiewel and CCC'PresidentJoanne Truesdell show off their handwriting skills as they sign the renewal o f the college co-admittance agreement. Top Photo: PSU: President Wim Wiewel highlights co-admittance benefits. Bottom Photo: Former students speak about how the co-admittance policy between PSU and CCC helped them get their degree quicker.
