PCC Courier, June 10, 1983

PCC COURIER The КЙЛПРШ ЕПКШШЕП SCOOPS KAMPUS! See Page A, В VOL. 55, NO. 16 PASADENA CITY COLLEGE, PASADENA. CALIFORNIA JUNE 10. 1983 Board Saves 47 Certificated By Stephen Williams Editor-in-Chief The Board of Trustees voted to lay off 28 certificated personnel July 1 to save $1 million and to retain 47 others who were “pink slipped" for lay off. Five additional people who were to be cut with the 28 will have a change in assignment instead, said John S. Mad¬ den. vice president of administrative services. The Board came to its decision based on information concerning the cost of each program, the ability of programs to bring more income to the college, positions of instructors, bumping rights and recommendations from an admin¬ istrative law judge. Eight people were recommended by Milford A. Maron, administrative law judge, to remain employed by the college because each one "is creden- tialed and competenent to teach in subject areas where an employee with less seniority is being retained.” The Board decided to retain four of the eight without contest and three more had their "pink slips" withdrawn even though the Board did not agree with the administrative law judge's decision. "The law judge reduced 72 people, when we whittled it down to having “There’s still too many people being laid off.” said Dr. Frederick E. Holland. Faculty Senate president. “If they were really interested in saving jobs, they'd look more at the budget. 'There's a strong possibility of layoffs in the following year. " —MADDEN only 28 laid off,” said Madden. "There were some differences of opinion with the law judge’s decision ” OUTGOING PRESIDENT — Former Faculty Senate President Dr. Fredrick E. Holland chaired his last Faculty Senate Board meeting last Monday. Holland, after being in office two terms, plans on continuing as a full-time Social Science professor next year — Courier photo by Laurie Schenden Holland Steps Down As President By Mark Blocker Assistant News Editor Dr. Fredrick E. Holland chaired his last Faculty Senate Board meeting last Monday, in a session marked by numerous sub-committee reports and final salutations. Most reports dealt with internal matters, such as the Faculty Break¬ fast date, long-range computer use and parking facilities. The board also heard reports from organizers of en-masse visitiations to local state legislators to garner sup¬ port for Assembly Bill 851. The “vis¬ its” are in lieu of the C-4 conference, which was killed in its final planning stages two weeks ago. The academic policies committee came forth with recommendations that five retired faculty be awarded professor emeritus status. They are Pauline Anderson, allied health; John Cristopher, social sciences; Jerene Hewitt, english; Herbert Shepherd and Frank Ziol, both from engineer¬ ing and technology. Holland Looks Back As of July 1, Holland steps down after two years holding the senate presidency. In an interview later in the week, he assesed his presidency and spoke of his anger for the cabinet (the four vice presidents and super¬ intendent-president Dr. Stuart E. Marsee) he acquired. "The first three semesters were smooth, everything between the fac¬ ulty and administration was con¬ ducted in a cooperative atmosphere. However, this spring has been a complete disaster,” he said. "The cabinet has been operating in an autocratic manner since Dr. Marsee came aboard. It took about 10 days for the change, when they cancelled all meetings with faculty and management staff. They just have not been in communication with the rest of the college at all. Dr. Marsee and I have only com¬ municated twice— by memo,” said Holland. Since the lay-off of faculty and classified staff, some segments of the college have criticized Holland and the union California Teachers As¬ sociation for abandoning laid-off staff. "There’s not much we can do given the present circumstances, not know¬ ing what amount, if any money at all, is coming from Sacramento. We would hope all these jobs can be saved through a perusing of our budget and elimination of unnecessary spending. Asked if he believes the administra¬ tion would “peruse” the budget in good faith, Holland responded : "Keep in mind they (administra¬ tion) aren’t the ultimate authority, the Board of Trustees is. If they tell them do it, they have to. I’m going to ask the Board to pressure them," said Holland. Holland says his relationship with the trustees has improved in the last few weeks. He also estimated that the relationship between the trustees and administrators is rapidly becomming less friendly. Regardless, Holland feels he holds little influence with either group. "All through my two terms in office I’ve repeatedly asked to be let into executive session as a represen¬ tative of the faculty to express their concerns. The way it is now, with just the cabinet and trustees, the trustees only hear a one-sided view of things and then vote,” said Holland. Holland said a trustee which he refused to name approached him re¬ cently and "indicated that he wished to stop the confrontation philosophy of the present administration, and he felt there was a Board majority to agree with him.” He said that during his first term, he had a cooperative relationship with the administration, but it de¬ teriorated rapidly. Some events that contributed to this were the administration’s refusal to abide by the Carvell Study, (a $30,000-financed independent study of the college’s curriculum to determine cost-effectiveness, ) plus the recentin- communicative attitude Holland feels the cabinet has adopted. He mentioned several accomplish¬ ments of the senate during his two terms, one being the speedy delivery of faculty paychecks. Holland also talked about problems president-elect Marion Murphy will be facing when she takes the helm. “Getting information will be her biggest headache. But she's a fighter, though perhaps not as outspoken as I, but that’s something she will find she has to be while in office,” he said. “I’m sick of all the controversy. Frankly, I’m looking forward to re¬ turning to the classroom full-time," said the former Teamsters union ne¬ gotiator. Holland says his Teamsters ex¬ perience greatly enhanced his ability to represent the faculty as its senate president. His career nowadays is that of social science professor. And that is what he returns to full-time next year. XUTIFICATION CEREMONY — 1983 Rose en Suzy Gillispie plants one of the Olympic Roses , part of the yearly College beautification activity. — Courier photo by Barrett Stinaon The goal of the Keep America Beautiful and Clean Committee is to get everyone to focus on both the campus and city beautification. Many things can be cut out of there. I think the Board was looking for an easy solution." Trustee Walter T. Shatford said the Board wanted to save as many jobs as possible and they will take a closer look at the budget. Programs which can have larger lecture classes intended by the Board to save money and increase income "will also have higher drop rates." said Holland. "Student retention is at 50 percent in large classes. Some classes start with 150 people and end up with 75.” Not only does the Board have to contend with this year's lay offs, they have to face "a strong possibility of lay offs in the following year." said Mad¬ den. "However, the state has more to say about that than we do." "We must learn not to give away services.” said Madden. The school "must not overenroll to the point re¬ serves are being used to pay for it." Holland said "planning ahead could keep us out of problems. They should have been working on this back in the fall. What we need to do now is write the governor." Five Finalists Named For College President Position Five finalists were named as possi¬ ble candidates for the position of super¬ intendent-president at PCC. Armen Sarafian. a former PCC pres¬ ident for 11 years, was chosen as one of of the candidates. The founding presi¬ dent of PCC. Sarafian left PCC in 1976 to be President of the University of LaVerne. Other finalists named were David Ledbetter, dean of instruction at PCC; Donald Averill. vice-chancellor of educational planning and vocational education at the Coast Community Col¬ lege District in Costa Mesa; Robert Agrella, vice president of educational services at Pima Community College in Tuscon. Arizona and John Casey, chancellor of the Seattle Community College District in Washington. The information was published in a recent Star-News article. John S. Mad¬ den, vice president for administrative services, told the Courier that he has been instructed, along with the rest of the administrators, by Gary B. Adams, president of the Board of Trustees, to neither confirm nor deny that those are the names of the candidates under consideration. The five candidates were chosen by the Presidential Selection Advisory Committee (PSAB). The PSAB re¬ viewed applications and resumes and they then made their recommendations to the Board of Trustees. The committee was made up of representatives from the college and surrounding community. The Faculty Senate was represented by Fredrick E. Holland. Two other faculty members who served on the committee were Norman R. Juster, Chairman of Physi¬ cal Sciences and Jessie Moore of the women's physical education depart¬ ment. For the representatives from the community, each board member was allowed to pick one person, not neces¬ sarily from his district. The search committee was aided by two independant consultants who screened the applicants before the 11- member search commitee made their reccommendations. The minimum criterion for appli¬ cants was an M.A. and four years in an administrative position equivalent to Dean. The announcement of who finally gets the job is expected sometime this month. Dr. Holland said he hopes the president will have an extensive academic background "with a track record of successful dealings with the faculty.” There were 43 applications for the job which was "a little lower than expected.” Madden said. The board conducted interviews of the candidates all day Wednesday in an executive session. Deborah Pierce Lucio Villasenor Gail Fostrey Editors Anticipate A Strong Year Courier, Prism Editors Selected Journalism advisers named journal¬ ism students Deborah Pierce summer and fall Courier editor-in-chief and Lucio Villasenor and Gail Fostrey Prism magazines co-editors. Pierce served as feature editor dur¬ ing this semester. She got her post by way of editorship of her Journalism 2 project, designing and making a news¬ paper. Her group’s paper received the highest grade in class a year ago, prompting her predecessor, present editor-in-chief Stephen Williams, to have her edit page 6. "I anticipate a strong year," said Pierce. "I hope to maintain the long¬ standing quality of the Courier." Villasenor began as a sports writer for the Courier in 1981, rose to sports page editor and finally Courier editor in 1982. He has since served as a writer for Focus (a supplement to the Courier) and Prism. Villasenor won first place in sports writing from the 1981 Journalism Association of Com¬ munity Colleges (JACC) annual state¬ wide convention. "I'm happy about being selected to help edit Prism,” said Villasenor. “I plan to publish a successful magazine and further upgrade its quality.” Focus editor Fostrey began her ef¬ forts in print journalism as Courier copy editor in 1981. “I’m looking forward to an exciting fall semester," said Fostrey. "We an¬ ticipate the full cooperation of the journalism department. I hope to pub¬ lish a magazine everyone can be proud of.” Printing Students Win Six Scholarships Students from PCC’s printing pro¬ gram collected six of eight $100 schol¬ arships awarded by the Los Angeles Litho Club, according to Bill Jacot, printshop coordinator. Our students competed against many schools and institutions in the L.A. area for the awards. The scholarship win¬ ners “are outstanding people and are highly recommended by their instruc¬ tors,” said Jacot. First year students and scholarship winners Terry C. Dearing. basic cam¬ era student; Judith C. Goss, basic camera student; Karen Kilpatrick, photo typesetter; Giselle C, Mackie, basic camera student; Mark Morgan, photo typesetter; and Claudia A. Tamer, basic camara student, will be continuing at PCC next fall. "Usually at least two students place in the competition," said Jacot. "We feel really good about placing six of them this year." The scholarship money is intended to “further the educational experience of the top printing students." The Litho Club stresses individual progress in management, technical, production and mechanical advance¬ ment in the lithographic trade. Mem¬ bers are suppliers, managers, craftsmen and print shop owners, and meet regularly to discuss topics that can help advance lithographic art Very active in the litho club. PCC's printing program has done well in placing students in the industry, said Jacot. Doug Haines, basic camera in¬ structor; Jack Reitan, press instrutor; and Bob Montgomery, photo composi- tionist. taught scholarship winners the trade. The Litho Club created the scholar¬ ships in memory of Gene Zuck. past clubpresident and prominent color sep¬ aration expert in southern California, said Jacot. Competition is open to "students in printing programs who’s instructors are active in the Litho Club." "Many scholarship winners return to join the club after they have acquired trader experience." said Jacot.