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Educator to Direct
Extended Learning at PCC
PCC graduate
Mike Kolodziejczak
oversees his own
business as owner
of New Growth
Landscape Tree
Service.
N an Poppe is the new
Lane C om m unity College.
executive dean o f the re
She received a doctorate
c e n tly n a m e d P o rtla n d
from O regon State U niver
C om m unity C ollege E x
sity, a m a ster’s degree from
tended Learning C am pus
Fresno State U niversity and
in southeast Portland.
her bach elo r’s degree from
A resident o f southw est
San D iego State U niversity.
P o rtland, P oppe has 15
“ I am really excited about
years o f com m unity co l
this new jo b and look for
lege experience. She has
w ard to g u id in g the E x
served as dean o f adult and
tended L earn in g C am pus
co n tin u in g e d u c atio n at Nan Poppe
tow ard becom ing a m ore
PCC for the last five years
prom inent player in the eco
w ith previous experience as director nom ic dev elo p m en t o f the reg io n ,”
o f the M ayw ood Park C am pus at Mt. Poppe said. “W e will also focus on
H ood C om m unity C ollege and direc continuing to grow and serve our stu
tor o f training and developm ent at d en ts.”
New Business Owner Credits PCC Education
To Mike Kolodziejczak, Portland Com
munity College’s landscape technology
graduate, working on large-scale environ
mental projects is nothing new.
The New Growth Landscape Tree Ser
vice owner is in the midst o f a four-month
landscape installation jo b at Portland
Community College’s new Southeast Cen
ter on Southeast 82nd Avenue and Divi
sion Street.
Kolodziejczak says he is thrilled to be
working on a project for the college. He
worked his way through school while
employed at large landscape firms such as
Cedar Landscape and Teufel Nursery Inc.
“I owe a lot to PCC,” he said. “The
courses were outstanding, and the in
structors were invaluable. It’s kind o f
ironic, I went out on my own and now I
have a $500,000job for PCC.”
Kolodziejczak earned an associate’s
degree in the early 1990s and is now a
certified landscape technician and a li
censed landscape contractor.
His contract is part o f the college’s
ongoing effort to help spread money to
PCC’s Minority, Women and Emerging
Small Business effort, an outreach pro
gram set up through the 2,000 construc
tion bond.
The program networks with key organi
zations and businesses in the community
to h elp sp rea d c o n tra c t m oney to
underrepresented workers and companies.
With this initiative, PCC allocated $2.7
million in 2002 contract money toward
women, minority or emerging small busi
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