Monthly Highlights
July and August 2002
THE RITES OF PASSAGE SUMMER ACADEMY was held July 7-August 2. This year's four-week intensive summer school included African American, Asian American, Native American, and Latino/Latina curricula. The program is designed to build academic, cultural, career, and social skills for future college success.
DAVE KEEBLER was named chair of the Advanced Technology Division in July. Keebler was dean and vice president at four community colleges over the past 19 years, including assistant to the vice president for instruction at Lane in 1990-91.
ROGER HALL was elected chair of the Lane Community College Board of Education for 2002/03 and Dennis Shine was elected vice chair, at the July 17 meeting.
AN ECONOMIC IMPACT STUDY for Lane was reviewed at the July 17 Board of Education meeting. The study was part of a statewide study of Oregon community colleges. Among other things, the study showed that every $1 of tax money invested in Lane returns a cumulative $19 over the next 30 years. The five-page executive summary is on the web at http://www.lanecc.edu/presoffc/LaneESfinal.pdf .
ARCHIVES moved college records from the off-campus site it had been using to its new home in the Center Building basement in July. Moved were 3,375 boxes of college records weighing a total of 135,000 pounds or 67.5 tons. It took 105.5 pallets to move the records. When the boxes are placed side by side on the shelves, they measure 3,375 linear feet or .65 miles. The move did not include 520 boxes (20,800 pounds/10.4 tons or 520 linear feet of records) which were shredded according to the records retention schedule. In the second phase of the Archives move in August, another 596 boxes and seven filing cabinets containing photographs, sound and video tapes, and paper records, were moved, the equivalent of 400 linear feet or 16,000 pounds of records.
THE KLCC NEWS DEPARTMENT won six awards at the Public Radio News Directors Inc. annual convention in Washington D.C. on July 31. The station won first place for daily programs for Northwest Passage hosted by Tripp Sommer and co-hosted by Amy Terebesi. Five second-place awards were given for newscasts, for Northwest Passage; for interviews for a story by Alan Siporin; for a series on energy deregulation produced by Siporin and reported by Monika Hausmann, Rachael McDonald, Bing Bingham, Nicole Hill, and Naseem Rakha; for a documentary on transportation produced by Alan Siporin and featuring reporters Jenny Newtson, Monika Hausmann, Ester Bentz, Mark Immel, and Bing Bingham; and for a hard feature by Claude Offenbacher.
GEORGE ALVERGUE, Board of Education member since 1999, announced his resignation for personal reasons effective August 1. The board accepted the resignation with reluctance and accolades for Alvergue's dedication and service. The board announced a vacancy and invited applications for appointment by August 15, to be followed by interviews on September 3.
LANE'S BOOTH AT THE LANE COUNTY FAIR August 13-18 once again invited hundreds of people to check out information about their local community college. More than 40 employees and other members of the college community volunteered to staff the booth. Participation was coordinated by Tina Lymath in Student Life and Leadership Development and Karen Dickey in High School/Community Relations.
GOV. JOHN KITZHABER vetoed Senate Bill 1022 in August but the legislature overrode the veto in special session on August 20 The veto would have cost Lane $8 million in the current year. College officials agree that the bill only delays the problem of funding for public education but were relieved to have time to plan for additional cuts next year, rather than making more cuts in the current year.
SUMMER CREDIT FTE ENROLLMENT was up 13.8 percent compared with the same time a year ago, according to fourth-week reports. Total college FTE was down 3.5 percent.
LANE'S BOARD OF EDUCATION stated majority opposition to the possibility of putting of local option levy on the November ballot, at a work session on August 26. Reasons included reluctance to reduce tax funding for K-12, the short time frame involved, and a greater need for a statewide, long-term solution to funding for public education.
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information, contact Joan Aschim, Marketing and Public Relations 541-463-5591,
aschimj@lanecc.edu.