CCC: A complicated puzzle
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BY JARED PREBLE - "
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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.
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