Monthly Highlights
December 2008
THE GOVERNOR’S BUDGET was released, reducing funding to community colleges while increasing funds to K-12 and OUS, despite significant enrollment increases at two-year colleges. The proposal of $485 million for Oregon's 17 community colleges is $15 million less than the colleges received last biennium. For Lane, this represents a minimum deficit of $2 million. President Mary Spilde and her staff began immediate government, legislative and media relations to advocate for fair and equitable treatment for community colleges in state funding decisions.
THE NATIVE AMERICAN STUDENT ASSOCIATION POWWOW was held on main campus Dec. 6. The event included tours of the Longhouse. A web cam of the longhouse is available at http://www.lanecc.edu/nasa/longhouse/webcam.htm
GREG WILTON of Advanced Technology was honored as December's Classified Employee of the Month. Greg started working part-time at Lane in 1992 as a tool room aide. He started full-time in March 2001 as an instructional specialist in the Welding Program for Advanced Technology.
LANE'S ART-O-MAT spent the winter holiday at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art on the University of Oregon campus. Lane’s art gallery hosts Oregon's only Art-o-mat. Art-o-mats are retired cigarette vending machines that have been converted to vend art. More than 80 machines throughout the country are loaded with original works of art from more than 400 Art-o-mat artists from the U.S. and abroad. Lane’s Art-o-mat includes the exclusive works of Lane students.
SNOW AND ICE closed Lane’s Eugene and Cottage Grove locations the week of Dec. 15, all of Monday, part of Tuesday, part of Wednesday, and all of Friday.
Excerpted from Lane Weekly and news sources by Joan Aschim, Marketing and Public Relations, December 2008.