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CCC: A complicated puzzle CLACKAM AS PRINT BY JARED PREBLE - " Editorial ARTS AND CULTURE EDITOR | space. And where w e ’ re not utilizing it Students, staff and faculty of Clackamas Community College were invited to gather very w e ll.” said Sprehe. “ The goal for us is how to align all student services in one in the new ly renovated Environm ental place so that students don’ t have to go Team ing Center pavilion to discuss the from two different buildings to get basic future of building layout as well as how to needs met. So we want to create a building maximize the college’ s resources. that has all of that in it.” CCC h a s a n et d e fic it o f 32,605 B ill W aters, D ean o f C u rriculu m , assignable square feet. This means that Plan n in g and R esearch, gave furth er the college has a great deal of space to in sig h t o n th e com plicated process of work with and if CCC hopes to maximize their potential they must find a way to fill building allocation and w h at problem s it could create as w ell as the problem s this space, which is w hy a new Student it could solve. Currently, the Industrial Center is in the works. This new Student Center is being designed with the purpose Technical Center that is currently being Constructed w ill eat up m ost if not all of of having all of the necessary components the deficit for teaching lab space. Couple for student aid all in one place, in order to this w ith the Dejardin expansion set to elim inate the excessive running around take place two years from now, w h ich that students fall victim to. is set to provide m odernized lab areas Tara S p re h e , D ean o f A c a d e m ic Foundations and Connections, informed w h ich in turn w ill give the college the opportunity to repurpose Pauling, and attendees-on two options that are being the workload for CCC is lessened vastly. heavily considered for the future of CCC. Option A was provided by a third party Though even w ith this break there is still space to be dealt with and, according to consultant, in order to give the college an . outside perspective; option A proposes W aters, the m ost prom inent difficulty that a good deal of the Community Cente£ lies in locating office space for faculty and staff. should be rem oved, save the cafeteria ‘“ It is a v e ry com p licated, and v ery and First Year Experience. As a result, several of the gutted com ponents w ill difficult puzzle,” said Waters. “ We don’t be installed in Roger Rook and the other have offices, and we know th at we need more offices. We don’t have office space half w ill be installed in the new Student Center set to begin construction in 2019. to move people into and sd'if we repurpose classroom s or other kinds of space that “ We learned a lot about how we utilize come open w ith this construction th at’s m uch m ore exp en sive. So really it ’s a series of dom inoes.” A lo n g w ith th e co n stru c tio n o f a new student resource building, a new tran sit center is in the w orks that w ill double the current parking capacity and provide buses with a more efficient way to maneuver throughout the transit center. “ First, w e ’ re go in g to start on th e tran sit cen ter a couple of w eeks after school’ s done. Then w e ’ ll be starting on this project this summer, and it’ll finish and open for fall 2019 so it’ll take about a y e a r,” said Sue Goff, Dean of Arts and Curriculum at CCC. The transit will connect to Highway 213 as w ell as Oregon City High School, which w ill allow for sm oother transportation to and from the college. The idea behind th is is th at w ith , th e arrival o f easier transportation, CCC w ill see an increase o f stud en ts due to an easier m ode o f transportation The future for CCC looks very bright, and at th e rate th a t th e c o lle g e is progressing students can look forward to a drastically different college within the n ext few years. Space is likely to get tight for a w hile, but it com es w ith the purpose of creating a new and revitalized college that gives students the optim al place to pursue an education. What does this mean? There are two proposed plans on what to do with arranging and moving the departments. Plan A, proposed by a third party, plans to place many services into one building, such as the bookstore, student store, and student clubs. Alternatively, Plan B, proposed by the bond planning committee, places many important resources such as advising, enrollment and counseling into one building. They both plan on putting all of these resources into the new proposed “one-stop,” a two floor building which will be located in front of Streeter Hall. There are plans to have an architect come and gauge how much time the project will take as well as how much it will cost. Editor-in-Chief . Autumn Berend chiefed@dackamas.edu Managing Editor Ian Van Orden chiefed@clackamas.edu Copy Editor Victoria Durling copyed@dackamas.edu News Editor Jeanette Wright . newsed@dackamas.edu Arts & Culture Editor Jared Preble aced@clackamas.?du Sports Editor Jacob Thompson s p 0 rtsed@clackamas.edu Photo Editor Jonathan Villagomez photoed@dackamas.edu Multimedia Editor Summer Barraza webeditor@clackamas.edu Ad & design Editor William Parris admgr@clackamas.edu Contributors Greyson Mbock Mason Crawley Advisor Crystal Kang crystal.kang@clackamas.edu The Clackamas Print aims to report the news in an honest, unbiased and pro fessional manner. Content-Published in The Print is not screened or subject to censorship. The Clackimas Print is free, but please take only-one copy. Any person remov ing our papers in bulk will be prosecuted tothefullextentofthelaw . ON THE COVER: Photos by Jonathan Villagomez and Marea Bartram. Designed by Jared Preble June 6, 2018
