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September 17, 2008
PCC Levy
Hints at
Expansion
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Parking lots at
Portland Community
College's Cascade
campus in north
Portland are mostly
empty during
summer, but can
fill up quickly when
school opens for
fall term.
from front
residential and com m ercial uses.
All options for future developm ent are on the
table with the com m unity involvement coming after
the bond levy is decided. Pulliams said.
Echoing those rem arks, hut going further to say
some college developm ent will reach beyond the
current Cascade cam pus boundaries, w as PCC Vice
President Randy M cEwen.
W hile anticipating the future growth and an
expanded greenw ay on cam pus, M cEwen said he
d id n ’t want to com m ent on "w here things are sited
and w hat they’re going to look like.
“ Land use plans are enorm ously expensive and
developing plans now is getting ahead of the
voting,” he said.
Com m unity activist Sylvia Evans, an African
A m erican resident who has lived in the Humboldt
neighborhood since the 1980s and fought two
other college expansions, calls the Nov. 4 levy "a
P hoto by
M ark W ashington /
T he P ortland
O bserver
blank check w ithout a public process.
“This is a blind bond m easure,” Evans said.
“A fter they get the money, they can do w hatever
they want. They have no real plan.”
Evans recalls the three black church properties
in Humboldt lost to the college over the past few
years. She rem em bers how she cried when her
long time African Am erican neighbors lost their
housing to the college.
A L O N Z O K IN G 'S
LINES B A L L E T W ITH THE
S H A O L IN M O N K S
Proposal to serve more students
BALLET
MEETS
MARTIAL
ARTS!
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“EXQUISITE DANCERS...
PROPELLER-LEGGED
JUMPS AND LIGHTNING-
FAST PUNCHES"
- San Francisco Chronicle
WEDNESDAY,
SEPT. 24
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responder and allied health stu­
dents.
Dental program s and energy
technical training would be added
to the PCC Sylvania cam pus in
southw est Portland, along with
more classroom s and space for
student services, an expanded
ch i Id-care facil ity for students and
upgraded autom otive, m achine
m anufacturing and photography
facilities.
At the PCC Rock Creek cam ­
pus in northw est Portland, space
would be added for nursing and
health care program s, along with
an increase in classroom s, and
renovations in the welding, auto
collision and repair, diesel repair
and building construction tech­
nology facilities. Child-care facil­
ity for students, arts facilities and
students services would also ex­
pand.
The bond measure would also
allow the college to m ake invest­
ments in the Southeast center,
the Willow Creek workforce train­
ing facility to be built on the Max
transit line in W ashington County
and add facilities and career train­
ing opportunities in Newberg and
Sherwood.
A national educational.leader
who broke though barriers as one
of the first in his family to receive a
college education, beginning with
Muskegon Community College in
Michigan. Pulliams is a strong be­
liever in the power o f lifting people
up through education.
At PCC, he said, “W e’re fo­
cusing on those who don’t have
the opportunity. T h at’s our m is­
sion.”
Ballot Measure 26-95 would
assess 32.9 cents per $ I ,(XM) as­
se ssed p ro p erty v alu e. T h at
com es to about $92 a year for a
resid e n ce that p ay s p roperty
taxes on an assessed value of
$280,000.
- and view the art gallery, to name
a few.
"W e have so m uch to offer
“We exist for them and because
o f them, and this open house is a here, and w e’re so proud to be
chance for us to show ju st how making a positive difference in
much we appreciate their sup­ the lives o f the people in our
neighborhood,” G atew ood said.
port.”
Music, gam es, activities and a “ It's our goal to be the educa­
range o f information on the cam ­ tional anchor and the econom ic
pus' academ ic offerings, clubs engine o f this com m unity, and I
truly believe we are
and services will be
doing that.”
available. A ttend­
G a te w o o d
ees also will even
a d d e d th a t he
have a chance to
h o p e s th e o p en
apply on the spot
house will help to
for fall term adm is­
expose
m o re
sion, which begins
people to the o p ­
on M onday, Sept.
portunities avail­
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able to them at Cas­
A student o u t­
cade Cam pus, par-
reach sq u ad will
ticularly with re­
lead tours o f the
gard to w orkforce
ca m p u s th ro u g h ­
developm ent.
out the day, which
“Our students
w illfeatureexhibits
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an d d e m o n s tr a ­
tions from many o f the cam pus’ o f life, and all phases o f life," he
academic programs. Visitors will said. “W e have young people
have the chance inexperience the ju st out o f high school, and some
cam pus’ state-of-the-art m ultim e­ who are still in high school. We
dia lab, see its em ergency ser­ have working people who are look­
vices training facilities - where ing to change careers, and we
P o rtlan d 's next g eneration of have people who are simply inter­
pol ice officers, firefighters, para­ ested in broadening their hori­
medics, em ergency medical tech­ zons. We really are a cam pus o f
nicians, 9- I - 1 operators, and em er­ the com m unity, not ju st aeam pus
gency m anagers learn thcirtradcs in the com m unity.”
Friday tours, barbecue planned
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A free com m unity event is set
for Friday, Sept. 19 from 3 p.m. to
7 p.m. to tour Portland C om m u­
nity C ollege’s north Portland cam ­
pus. have a bite to eat and get a
firsthand look at all that PCCC as-
cade has to offer.
“W e would be nothing w ith­
out the support o f the people in
th is c o m m u n ity ,” said A lgie
G atew o o d , cam pus president.
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Cascade Hosts Campus Open House
white)
ARLENE SCHNITZER CONCERT HALL
TICKETS: $ 2 0 -$ 5 0
“This is what happens when you support higher
education. Houses are dem olished for surface park­
ing. This is not cool," she said. “People buy into the
American Dream of homeownership and it’s busted
and PCC doesn’t care.”
Pulliams said he was very proud o f the college
district making Cascade a com prehensive college
cam pus to better serve students and for creating an
institution that is a service to the com m unity.
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