Monthly Highlights
July and August 2003
THE LANE COMMUNITY COLLEGE BOARD OF EDUCATION elected officers for 2003/04 at its July 9 meeting. Mike Rose will chair the board and Paul Holman will serve as vice chair. Both votes were unanimous.
IN MEMORY: BEA OSBURN, age 80, died July 19 of age-related causes. She earned a nursing degree at Lane and taught at Lane in the 70s and 80s. She started the Certified Nursing Assistant program and helped establish state certification for CNAs. RICHARD A. FILLOY, age 54, English instructor, died of cardiac arrest July 27. He taught English composition, literature, and speech communication courses at Lane since 1989, including two sections of Writing 121 summer 2003.
DIESEL TECHNOLOGY student Ryan Sederlin placed third in the post-secondary division of the SkillsUSA-VICA national competition sponsored by the Vocational Industrial Clubs of America. The contest was held in late June in Kansas City, Missouri. A Lane student has won first place at the state level for the last four years, and eighth, 12th, and 3rd, respectively, at the national level, for the last three years.
LANE STUDENTS JO ANNA HIDDLESTON AND JULIE MATHEY each were awarded a $1,000 scholarship from the Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation in late June. Hiddleston is studying for a counseling degree. Mathey is studying engineering.
ACCOUNTING AND BUSINESS MANAGEMENT GRADUATE Carolyn Smith was named chief executive officer of the Register-Guard Federal Credit Union, reported the July 2003 issue of Oregon Outlook, published by the Credit Union Association of Oregon.
THE RITES OF PASSAGE SUMMER ACADEMY was held July 7 through August 8. The academy provided cultural immersion for 80 middle-school and high-school students of color in African American, Asian/Asian American, Native American, and Latino/Latina heritage. ROP was founded in 1996 and has received national acclaim.
THE AVIATION MAINTENANCE PROGRAM will enroll students only once a year, under a cohort structure, to reduce expenses in light of potential enrollment decline. In addition, the program will use a core curriculum common to all advanced technology disciplines and is exempted from using a differential pricing structure. The changes were approved by the Board of Education July 9.
ELDON G. SHAFER SCHAFER INNOVATION AWARDS for 2003/04 were announced by the Lane Community College Foundation on August 5. A Pat-on-the-Back Award for $250 was awarded to Sandra Stice and the Dental Assistant Advisory Committee for developing the Dental Administrative Assistant Program, the first in the nation that focuses on educational training for dental administrative personnel. Students include dental professionals, dentists, and dental assistants. A Schafer Innovation Grant for $5,000 was awarded to Ellen Cantor for the Reading Together project. The project will center on two books focusing on diversity, the novel "Montana 1948" and the text "Privilege, Power, and Difference," in campuswide class discussion, assignments, performing arts productions, art exhibits, lectures, guest speakers, author visits, forums, movies, student presentations, and service projects, throughout 2003-04.
KLCC NEWS was in the spotlight this summer. The newsroom was featured in the July 14 issue of Current, the trade publication for public broadcasting, for successfully training news volunteers. On July 19, KLCC's Northwest Passage won first place for a news/public affairs program in the small newsroom division at the Public Radio News Directors Inc. meeting in Montreal. KLCC has won major awards from PRNDI for the past 14 years. On August 18, a Register-Guard front page story profiled KLCC Morning Edition host Jenny Newtson, who stepped down August 20 to return to school; Critical Mass host Alan Siporin, who announced he will leave after a final broadcast on September 14, due to a debilitating pain disorder; and long-time volunteer reporter Frank Nearing, who plans to stay.
REVENUE TRENDS show a decline in state funding and an increase in tuition and fees since 1990, when ballot measure 5 passed, according to a benchmark issued July 2 by the college’s research office.
STUDENT RACE/ETHNICITY tracking shows that 12.3 percent of credit students report that they are students of color, compared to 9.4 percent of the county population, and 13.4 percent of the state population, according to a benchmark issued July 2 by the college’s research office.
Excerpted from Lane Weekly and news sources by Joan Aschim, Public Information Officer, Lane Community College, (541) 463-5591, July/August 2003.