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Cascade Campus.”
Cascade has grown by 66 per
cent in credit enrollm ent since
Gatewood took over in 2004. To
help accom m odate his cam pus’
popularity, Gatewood shepherded
the opening and dedication of sev
eral Cascade Campus buildings from
the 2000 bond and has been instru
mental in the visioning and engage
ment of the 2008 bond work cur
rently going on at Cascade.
But maybe what he’ll be most
noted for will be his partnerships
that serve needs of the surrounding
neighborhoods.
Starting in 2008, Gatewood and
the college partnered with Portland
Public Schools to form the Jefferson
High School Middle College for
Advanced Studies program. The
Middle College partnership enables
students from Je fferso n H igh
School to take college credit classes
at the nearby Cascade Campus with
the opportunity to earn up to 45
college credits at PCC by the time
they get their Jefferson diploma.
A number of four-year institu
tions, including the University of
Oregon, Oregon State, Portland
S tate, W illam ette U n iv e rsity ,
Marylhurst University, and Warner
Pacific College offer scholarship
opportunities to Pell Grant-eligible
Middle College students, as does
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Essentially, this means that most
Middle College students have the
opportunity to earn a four-year de
gree at little or no cost.
Gatewood negotiated the creation
of the annual Washington State
University - Vancouver Community
College President’s Award, which
provides two years of tuition-free
study at WSU-V to a deserving Cas
cade Campus graduate. He also cre
ated and endowed, in honor of his
late father, the Haywood Gatewood
Memorial Scholarship to assist stu
dents pursuing a career in the trades.
In 2006, in response to the crime
and livability issues that troubled
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the neighborhood around Cascade
Campus, Gatewood reached out to
residents, businesses, and organi
zations ih the area to form the Albina-
Killingsworth Safe Neighborhood
Commission.
The commission worked to imple
ment common-sense solutions to
the problems facing the community
and, with strong support from the
Portland Police Bureau, managed to
achieve a 27-percent reduction in
violent crime compared to the area’s
five-year average.
The commission’s work was re
cently honored with a Commenda
tion Medal from the Portland Police
Bureau as well as a Crime Preven
tion Project Award from the City of
Portland’s Office of Neighborhood
Involvement.
In 2007, Gatewood led the effort
to rename the Cascade Campus Skill
Center for former State Sen. Marga
ret Carter, a longtime African-Ameri
can leader in north and northeast
Portland.
The Skill Center has helped hun
dreds of people from disadvantaged
or underrepresented backgrounds
to gain the skills they need to find
living-wage jobs. Two years later,
he led the charge to rechristen the
campus building where the Skill
Center is housed as the Senator
Margaret Carter Technology Edu
cation Building.
In addition, Gatewood opened
the Weekend College in 2007, which
offered an assortment of classes
scheduled exclusively on weekends
for people who desired to improve
their job skills, earn a degree and
further their education, but who may
not have time during the week due
to family or job obligations.
Gatewood established Oregon’s
first annual Financial Aid Day, and
under his leadership, PCC signifi
cantly increased its support for the
Cascade Festival of African Films,
one of the largest African film festi
vals in the nation and Cascade Cam
pus’ flagship annual event.
“It is humbling to look back at
how much our campus and commu
nity have changed in such a short
span of time,” Gatewood said.
“Our enrollment has grown be
yond anyone’s expectations, in part
because we have evolved to offer
our students more options, and
serve them better, than we ever have
before,” he added. “We have deep
ened and strengthened our connec
tion to our community, and-through
the Middle College partnership with
Jefferson High School - have cre
ated the means to bring about a
profound change to this neighbor
hood which will be felt for genera
tions. And with the construction of
our new buildings, which seem to
rise higher and higher every day, we
are becoming even more the educa
tional, social, and economic hub of
our community.”
James G. Hill is acommunications
specialist for Portland Community
College.
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(AP) — Grants and scholarships
are taking a leading role in paying
college bills, surpassing the tradi
tional role parents long have played
in helping foot the bills, according
to a report from loan giant Sallie
Mae.
Since the recession, more col
lege-bound students have elim i
nated schools from their searches
based on costs and have relied less
on their parents once they get to
campus, said the report released
Tuesday. Worries such as tuition
increases and job losses seem to
have faded as the economy has
improved, yet parents and students
still make decisions on schools,
majors and work schedules based
on the price tag.
"We have moved into a post
recession reality in how people pay
forcollege," said Sarah Ducich, Sallie
Mae's senior vice president for pub
lic policy.
The average student borrowed
$8,815 in federal loans.
The rate for those loans was the
subject o f debate in the Senate last
week, as lawmakers considered a
compromise that would offer some
students lower rates for the next few
years but would prescribe higher
rates for future classes. The Senate
is expected to vote on that compro
mise this week.
Last year, the average family
turned to grants and scholarships
to cover 30 percent of college costs.
Parents' enthusiasm for college
has not shriveled, though. The sur
vey found 85 percent o f parents saw
college bills as an investment in
their children's future.
One-fifth o f parents added work
hours to pay for college and half of
students increased their work hours,
too. The report found 57 percent of
families said students were living at
home or with relatives, up from 41
percent last year and 44 percent in
2011.
The tuition sticker price at public
four-year colleges is up 27 percent
beyond overall inflation over the
last five years, according to the lat
est figures from a separate study
from the College Board. This past
year it rose nearly 5 percent to an
average of $8,655 nationwide.