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Vol. 81, No. 1
The
Courier
Summer Edition
Thursday
June 22, 1995
Since 1915
"This is
really a
marvelous
idea and
should be
held up as
a model
for
colleges in
the whole
state. "
California Weather
Betty Kisbey,
dean of
vocational
education
SAM HERNANDEZ/ THE COURIER
PCC students shield themselves from rainfall that has been double the norm for this month.
Trustees approve consortium
By PAT ROBISON
COURIER STAFF WRITER
The Board of Trustees voted
unanimously to enter a consortium
with three other local community
colleges for pooling of resources to
better market the economic devel¬
opment programs of each college.
The consortium will hire an em¬
ployee to work full time marketing
the contract education classes at
the four schools.
Contract education classes are
courses that the schools offer to
businesses in their area to train or
re-train workers according to the
specific needs of the companies.
Some of the businesses pay the
school directly for the classes, and
others pay through the Employ¬
ment Training Panel, which is
funded with .0 1 percent of the un¬
employment insurance premiums
businesses carry.
PCC, along with Mt. San Anto¬
nio, Citrus and Rio Hondo col¬
leges, applied to the state for
$100,000 to fund the consortium.
Betty Kisbey, dean of vocational
education at PCC, said the project
will seek to make the resources and
expertise of the schools more at¬
tractive and available to local busi¬
nesses and their employees, ben¬
efiting the companies, their em¬
ployees and the schools.
The person hired by the consor¬
tium would technically become an
employee of PCC but would be
responsible for marketing and ob¬
taining contracts for each school
equally. The chief executive offic¬
ers of the four schools would form
the board of the consortium. At
PCC that would be Dr. Jack Scott,
Please see BOARD, Page 5
Office of Student
Affairs criticized
over AS elections
By JOSE INOSTROZ
COURIER STAFF WRITER
Six weeks after Associated Stu¬
dent elections and with an interim
government in place, the office of
student affairs continues to reel from
accusations of favoritism and con¬
stitutional rule-bend¬
ing following the dis¬
qualification of top
vote-getter Roldan
Herrera, who sought
the AS president posi¬
tion in April’s student
elections.
The disqualifica¬
tion has been appealed
to the Board of Trust¬
ees on two occasions
with a third to decide
whether to declare a
new election for presi¬
dent in September, un¬
less a solution from an
ad hoc committee is
presented by the time
the trustees meet again
June 27.
In an effort to de¬
fuse the ongoing con¬
troversy Ernestine
Moore, dean of student
activities, gave an up¬
date at a June 6 Board
of Trustees meeting
about the discussions
with all parties.
“We had what I thought were
very open and productive discus¬
sions,” Moore reported to the trust¬
ees. “We talked about various kinds
of actions and ways to improve the
process in the future. We also dis¬
cussed the different positions. One
of the things 1 was very concerned
with was that we kept as much as
possible the integrity of the student
govemanceprocess. Wealso sought
a solution which would benefit stu¬
dents, and would come
from students.”
After the trustees
agreed to hold off on a
decision until their next
meeting, Herrera and
two other students threw
the meeting into a tail-
spin by hurling further
accusations at student
affairs advisers and lam¬
basting interim presi¬
dent Kris Le. This
prompted an angry ad¬
monition from Dr. Jack
Scott, PCC president,
who felt the students
were ignoring Moore’s
report.
At issue is the con¬
tention by Herrera that
the election committee
of the Office of Student
Affairs did not follow
procedure when it voted
to uphold three com¬
plaints from two oppo¬
sition members that al¬
leged Herrera had violated election
by-laws. Meanwhile, Herrera’s
ticket, the Coalition For Change,
complaints of similar violations by
opposition members were judged
Please see ELECTION, Page 3
"There is an
attempt to
cover up or
deny any
wrongdoing.
But the fact is,
this is a clear
and definite
violation of the
election
process. ”
Roldan Herrera,
student
being held
Summer school enrollment
Summer enrollment, credit
classes drops to five-year low
By GILBERT RIVERA
and P ATRIA ABELGAS
COURIER STAFF WRITERS
Summer enrollment at PCC has reached
its lowest in five years, with only 7,597
students enrolled in the two sessions. This is
partly due to fewer classes being offered this
year: only a total of 424 sections open in the
first and second sessions, compared to 466
last year and 614 in 1991.
Paul Swaim, assistant director of admis¬
sions and records, attributes the low numbers
to the fact that the college went over the
state’s enrollment cap for last year.
“We were overcapped. We were teaching
students we weren’t getting paid for,” said
Swaim.
The state only pays the college for a
certain number of full-time students enrolled
in credit classes. If PCC goes over this cap,
as it has in the last four years, the state
requires the college to pay the full cost of
education for the extra students. PCC then
digs into its general fund to cover the bal¬
ance.
“We’re trying to drop to the cap so we’ll
be even,” said Swaim.
The option PCC chose was to lessen the
number of sections being offered this sum¬
mer. “The idea is to keep the expenses of
Please see SUMMER, Page 4
1991-1995
* End-of-the-term census. All other figures from first census.
Source: Office of Admissions and Records
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