PCC Courier, March 13, 1981

MARCH 13, 1981 PASADENA CITY COLLEGE, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA VOL. 51. NO. 6 High Enrollment Puts Dent In Budget Funding For Next Year Is Uncertain Board of Trustees Approves Funding For Workshops Despite Oppositions STUDENT PARENT SAGA — On-campus child care is being studied again at PCC. A telephone survey will be implemented to help determine need. (See page 6 for related Story.) —Courier photo by Marge Wood By Mary Jones Staff Writer Problems in Poland, the Middle East and El Salvador were discussed at a social science forum headlining faculty members Dr. William Goldmann, Rob¬ ert McLean and Dr. Stephen Reichert on the panel. Reichert began the program with an examination of reasons why the United States should not send troops to El Salvador. “Our fundamental mistake By Julien Orow Associate News Editor The Student Senate approved the Associated Student Body spring budget Tuesday with no major changes in the total budget of $6,400, except in the way it was allocated. Budget adjustments are made by the finance committee, composed of ASB ' President Dana Hobart, Student Ac¬ tivities Adviser Jennifer McKinney, and newly appointed Finance Com¬ missioner Richard Freeman. When the budget was made up a four to five percent enrollment increase was assumed. PCC, however, had a seven percent increase in credit classes and a 38.8 percent increase in noncredit classes last fall, said Freitas. This means that PCC is “defi¬ nitely one of those colleges contribut¬ ing to the problem,” he added. Enrollment in credit courses is up, according to both Freitas and Hay¬ ward, because of the country’s eco¬ nomic problems. If additional money cannot be found in the next fiscal year to make up for this enrollment increase, Freitas said that the Chancellor’s office may have to “put a cap on” college growth. This means that colleges with an ADA growth of more than five percent wouldn’t get any additional money to support their increased number of stu¬ dents. The community college funding bill (AB 8) expires in June and as yet no new bill has been proposed. As a result, PCC officials have no idea what funds According to Hobart, the finance committee decided on the budget for this semester by looking at last semester’s budget and how it was used. The budget allocated for the Student Senate was not sufficient last semester, so their budget was doubled to $300 this semester. Last semester the Athletics Com¬ mission used virtually none of their funds, said Hobart, so this semester their funds were lowered. Also, a budget was added for the ASB vice president, Barte Masciarelli, who will be available for the Upcoming year. “We’ve been told that the new bill may only provide a one percent in¬ crease over the last funding measure,” said Dick Hollingshead, director of financial and risk management ser¬ vices at PCC. By W. Majied-Muhammad Editor-in-Chief Despite continuing controversy and six weeks of discussion, the PCC board of trustees approved funding for a series of staff development workshops and training sessions. The workshops are designed to help college staff more successfully fulfill the needs of the felt that his duties would require some sort of funding. The ASB general fund is budgeted $700, which is used if any of the commissions run out of funds. In that case, they can make a requisition to receive extra money from the ASB general fund. The total budget this semester is arranged so that all officers except the ASB president are allocated $150. The ASB president receives $400, because of expenses incurred by corresponding and attending conferences. If this happens then PCC is going to have to “tighten our belts” next year. “We may have to take a closer look at special programs such as the Com¬ munity Skills Center. We might not be able to fund this next year. The prob¬ lem is that we just don’t know yet,” Hollingshead said. changing community college popu¬ lation. The request for funds not to exceed $800, originated from the Office of Administrative Services, and recom¬ mended providing the workshop series for counselors, managers and faculty members. The series is to be presented by Dr. John E. Roueche, professor and In discussing the advantages versus the disadvantages of the United States stationing troops in the Middle East, McLean seemed to feel that the disad¬ vantages outweigh the advantages. “It is naive to think that we could stop Russian involvement in the Middle East,” he said. , In the case of all three trouble spots, panel members agreed that other solu¬ tions beside military action should be found for the problems. Developing a meaningful energy policy to reduce our dependency on Middle East oil would reduce pressures in that area, said McLean. Giving Salvadorians some¬ thing to look forward to besides death would help in that country, Reichert said. And the Reagan deferment of interest payments due from Poland is a step in the right direction for Poland, according to Goldmann. It’s important that Soviets know we won’t back down, said Goldmann. How¬ ever, we have troops stationed in an area with no force to back them up, our only alternate is to revert to nuclear weapons, he said. There has to be a better way to get our message across. Students asked panel members if they thought the draft would be re¬ instated. “I believe that if we are to count in the world as a power we must have a universal military service,” said Reichert. Everyone in this country should be willing to devote a specified amount of time to the government. “The Reagan administration will have to make a decision on the draft this year,” said Goldmann. If we send troops to the middle East the probabili¬ ty of a draft will increase, according to McLean. McLean has taught history and eco¬ nomics at PCC for five years. Prior to coming here he did postgraduate work at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Reichert joined PCC’s faculty in 1949 as a professor of political science. He is an alumnus of UCLA. For 21 years, Goldmann has taught history and world politics at PCC. He has also taught classes at CSULA, USC and in Pasadena’s secondary schools. His doctorate in history is from USC and he has a Coe Fellowship in history from Stanford University. director of Community College Educa¬ tion at the University of Texas. The recommendation to fund the workshop series met with initial defeat in the face of objections from Faculty Senate President Dr. Gordon Brown. The workshop series was developed by Dr. Carol Dean, teacher-coordi¬ nator for Instructional Design and In¬ structional Services (Staff Develop¬ ment Officer). Good For Faculty He stated the proposal came from administration without obtaining input from the faculty or regard for “what would be good for the faculty.” Dean, former head of the Pro¬ fessional Development Committee for the Faculty Senate, is on release time from teaching to operate staff develop¬ ment programs, according to Super¬ intendent-President Dr. Richard S. Meyers. The administration “wanted to have a faculty member do this (coordinate staff development programs) to have credibility” with the staff, Meyers By John Vande Wege Feature Editor The Faculty Senate voted unani¬ mously Monday to ask the board of trustees to reinstate the word “reason¬ able” into the college’s proposed inven¬ tory policy. The Senate board believes this will protect faculty members from being held responsible for equipment lost through theft. The Senate asked that the word “reasonable” be included in the policy after several faculty members de¬ scribed personnel horror stories about being blamed for loss of inventory even though all reasonable precautions had been taken to protect the property. The policy, developed by the board of trustees, emphasizes a central check¬ out system that would place “responsi¬ bility for the care and control of equip¬ ment” on department chairmen as well as faculty. The College Council last week also recommended that the word “reason¬ able” be reinstated also. 'Many Senate representatives were dissatisfied with the entire inventory policy but voted for the one word change so that the Senate position would reach the board of trustees by its next meeting. Dr. Gordon Brown, Fac¬ ulty Senate president, urged im¬ mediate action because he “had a hunch the board won’t wait on taking action.” said. “That was the whole purpose of having a faculty member” for the function. In addition, Brown felt that the Roueche workshop would be of “min¬ imal” benefit to the faculty, since each department has a budget for con¬ ferences to keep faculty aware of professional developments. Less Expensive Brown said, he felt and the faculty as a whole feels departmental con¬ ferences and faculty development top¬ ics originating from the departments were less expensive than the proposed Roueche series. He said the faculty keeps informed largely on their own time and at their own expense through reading, attending conferences and through departmental programs. However, Meyers introduced into the record a petition signed by 65 faculty members requesting the board re¬ consider funding the Roueche work¬ shop series. The petitioners believe the workshops will increase their aware- (Continued on Page 6) The inventory system as it stands now, “is abominable and doesn’t bear any semblance to order,” according to Alice Corey, Faculty Senate vice presi¬ dent. There are a number of problems to overcome before an accurate inventory system can be adopted, she said. “There is a problem with a pool of keys unaccounted for,” said Dr. Bonnie James, vice president for business services, referring to people who are no longer at PCC but have not returned their keys. Another problem is the so- called “cannibalizing” of equipment. This occurs when parts are stripped from three or four machines in order to make one operable. One incident told by communications instructor Anthony Georgilas occurred when the television studios were con¬ verted from black and white to color. He said that equipment is donated to the college in an inoperable condition, so parts are stripped off to use on existing equipment. Thus, equipment that was given a dollar value for tax purposes is counted as lost after it has been “cannibalized.” One other problem mentioned was that at times security on campus is low. Sometimes there are only two officers on campus. One must remain in the security office and the other is left to patrol PCC and the Community Skills Center blocks away, according to Georgilas. By Mary Jones Staff Writer Unexpectedly high enrollment may cause a $58.6 million deficit in the California community college budget, according to a report by the chan¬ cellor’s office. “This is the biggest deficiency we’ve ever had,” said Joe Freitas, adminis¬ trator for fiscal- services. For PCC this means $1,160,000 less funds than are needed, he said. The shortage in funds is caused by administrative officials under¬ estimating the enrollment figures when working on their fiscal budget (July 1980-June 1981). Thus they re¬ ceived less ADA (average daily atten¬ dance) funds than they should have. ADA is a budgeting concept whereby the state pays PCC $1,807 for every 525 hours of classroom instruction. The biggest growth in ADA is in the area of noncredit courses. Chancellor Jerry Hayward said that this growth was caused by refugees coming into California and taking courses in Eng¬ lish. World Troublespots Discussed at Social Science Forum; Faculty Members Address Current Issues in El Salvador is the same mistake we said it would be a “foolish move for have made before and will probably Russia” to invade Poland. Russia, he make again; that is our belief that we said, is already overburdened with can shape events around the world,” problems, particularly in Afghanistan, Reichert said. and they can’t afford to get involved in U.S. aid to El Salvador increases the another area, risk of wider military intervention, he Both McLean and Goldmann agreed said. We entered Vietnam in the same that if Russia did invade Poland the way with aid first, then military ad- United States should maintain a visers and finally down the road we “hands-off” policy and let Russia sent troops. “take the consequences of its own Addressing another topic, Goldmann actions.” — Courier photo by Larry Goren WORLD FLASHPOINTS — International problems social science forum Tuesday. Poland, the Middle East were discussed by Faculty members Dr. William Gold- and El Salvador issues dominated the format, while the mann, Robert McLean and Dr. Stephen Reichert at a draft and foreign policy were addressed. Associated Student Body Budget Ratified Faculty Senate Wants Word Change In Policy Placement Test Required For English 1A Courses By Mike Mendez Contributing Writer All students planning to enroll in English 1A will be required to take a placement test, and those who don’t score high enough must enroll in one of two classes scheduled to replace Eng¬ lish 401, starting this summer session. The old prerequisite, which allowed a student to enroll in English 1A if he had maintained a В average in high school English classes, is being revised because English instructors are seeing a decline in student English skills. High schools have shifted the em¬ phasis of their junior and senior Eng¬ lish courses away from composition, so entering college students are less able to do college level work, according to Margaret Marsh, one of the English instructors implementing the cur¬ riculum changes. “English 1A has become a watered- down version of what it should be. With the test there will be a lot fewer 1A classes and more 100 and 400 classes, the two classes that will replace Eng¬ lish 401,” said Mrs. Marsh. English 400 will emphasize basic English skills starting with dictionary use, then progressing to sentence structure improvement and under¬ standing the parts of speech. English 100 will concentrate on a review of sentence structure and para¬ graph construction. Students will spend the latter part of the course writing short essays, discussing student writ¬ ing and improving vocabulary skills. Both courses will emphasize spelling skills. A grade of C or higher will be required to move from English 100 to English 1A. English 1A will meet three days' a week while the 100 and 400 classes will meet four days a week. “Our intent was to gain more con¬ tact hours with students,” said Alan Lamson, chairman of the English de¬ partment’s curriculum committee. “We felt we needed the extra hour in order to help students who have not had systematic instruction in composi- tioh.” Members of the English depart¬ ment’s curriculum committee are iron¬ ing out course descriptions and eval¬ uating textbooks for the revised courses. English 1A students will have to work harder for their grades since a higher level of proficiency in written communication will be required, said Mrs. Marsh. “We will use harder text¬ books for English 1A and students will be expected to function more independ¬ ently.” /