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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.
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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.
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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;
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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.