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The Newspaper of Golden West College, Huntington Beach, California PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA 5 million more grads from two-year schools? A brand new beginning Major security update for the campus GWC softball team has high hopes. Sports. 11 EMERGENCY PHONE Continued on page 2 Continued on page 2 Volume 49, Number 8 n Golden West College n Feb. 11-24, 2015 n www.westernsun.us An ‘Empire’ of music Television review. A&E. 6 FLICKR/CREATIVE COMMONS Obama sets goal for USA colleges By Justin Pierce Western Sun staff writer In his State of the Union address on Jan. 27, President Barack Obama announced a plan to reform the American education system in hopes of creating more opportunities for workers to face the com- petition posed by foreign job markets. Obama set two U.S. national goals to be achieved by 2020: regaining former status as the country with the highest rate of college gradu- ates in the world, and having community colleges produce 5 million additional graduates. He said that this plan would “lead an across-the-board re- form of America’s training programs to make sure they have one mission: train Ameri- cans with the skills employers need…connecting companies to community colleges that can help design training to fill their specific needs…[con- necting] more ready-to-work Americans with ready-to-be- filled jobs.” The plan has stirred con- troversy, with some citing the percentage of completion of a four-year degree as being lower for students that attend community college than those who attend a four year school. Others favor the strengthening of the education system, view- ing it as a crucial step towards the growth needed in this na- B.A. degrees offered by 15 California JCs Changes could be in place by fall 2015 Continued on page 2 By Tre Nesbit Sun Executive Editor For the first time in the Golden State’s history under- graduates will be able to earn select bachelor’s degrees from community colleges. Legislators passed a bill late last year that will differ from the roughly 50-year-old California Master Plan for Higher Education to allow 15 community colleges through- out the state to offer one four year degree not currently available from Cal State Uni- versities to their students rang- ing from automotive technol- ogy, dental hygiene, and even mortuary sciences. The growing need for skilled workers in these fields pushed State Senator Marty Block to craft the bill, call- ing the move “a major step in keeping California’s higher- education system affordable and accessible while also keeping our state economically competitive in the future.” It’s estimated that California will need 1 million more bachelor- degree holders by the Public Policy Institute of California. With this bill passed Califor- By Tre Nesbit Sun executive editor A major security renova- tion will be sweeping across Golden West College, updat- ing emergency phones, doors and locking mechanisms, as well as lighting poles in efforts to make our aging campus safer. “This school was built in the 60’s and hasn’t been continuously updated in terms of security measures,” says Public Safety Coordinator Jon Arnold. “You’ve got things like doors that open outward, which are harder to barricade in a campus shooter scenario as well as a lot of trees which makes the campus very dark at night time.” Along with replacing the doors so that they open inward, the locks will be replaced with a Door Access Control system. “You’ve got some 400 doors across campus, this system will replace hard keys that can get lost or break with electron- ic sensors that unlock with the tap of a keycard, about the size of a credit card.” Issuing new cards and changing access perimeters on the sensors is cheaper and faster than chang- ing locks and replacing keys. In addition to these benefits the doors can be electronically
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Front page of Western Sun for Feb. 11, 2015
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The Newspaper of Golden West College, Huntington Beach, California
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA
5 million more gradsfrom two-year schools?
A brand new beginning
Major security update for the campus
GWC softball team has high hopes. Sports. 11
EMERGENCY PHONE
Continued on page 2
Continued on page 2
Volume 49, Number 8 n Golden West College n Feb. 11-24, 2015 n www.westernsun.us
An ‘Empire’of music
Television review. A&E. 6
FLICKR/CREATIVE COMMONS
Obama sets goal for USA collegesBy Justin PierceWestern Sun staff writer
In his State of the Union address on Jan. 27, President Barack Obama announced a plan to reform the American education system in hopes of creating more opportunities for workers to face the com-petition posed by foreign job markets. Obama set two U.S.
national goals to be achieved by 2020: regaining former status as the country with the highest rate of college gradu-ates in the world, and having community colleges produce 5 million additional graduates.
He said that this plan would “lead an across-the-board re-form of America’s training programs to make sure they have one mission: train Ameri-cans with the skills employers need…connecting companies to community colleges that can help design training to fill
their specific needs…[con-necting] more ready-to-work Americans with ready-to-be-filled jobs.”
The plan has stirred con-troversy, with some citing the percentage of completion of a four-year degree as being lower for students that attend community college than those who attend a four year school. Others favor the strengthening of the education system, view-ing it as a crucial step towards the growth needed in this na-
B.A. degreesoffered by 15California JCsChanges could be in place by fall 2015
Continued on page 2
By Tre Nesbit Sun Executive Editor
For the first time in the Golden State’s history under-graduates will be able to earn select bachelor’s degrees from community colleges.
Legislators passed a bill late last year that will differ from the roughly 50-year-old California Master Plan for Higher Education to allow 15 community colleges through-out the state to offer one four year degree not currently available from Cal State Uni-versities to their students rang-ing from automotive technol-ogy, dental hygiene, and even mortuary sciences.
The growing need for skilled workers in these fields pushed State Senator Marty Block to craft the bill, call-ing the move “a major step in keeping California’s higher-education system affordable and accessible while also keeping our state economically competitive in the future.” It’s estimated that California will
need 1 million more bachelor-degree holders by the Public Policy Institute of California. With this bill passed Califor-
By Tre NesbitSun executive editor
A major security renova-tion will be sweeping across Golden West College, updat-ing emergency phones, doors and locking mechanisms, as well as lighting poles in efforts to make our aging campus
safer. “This school was built in the 60’s and hasn’t been continuously updated in terms of security measures,” says Public Safety Coordinator Jon Arnold. “You’ve got things like doors that open outward, which are harder to barricade in a campus shooter scenario as well as a lot of trees which
makes the campus very dark at night time.”
Along with replacing the doors so that they open inward, the locks will be replaced with a Door Access Control system. “You’ve got some 400 doors across campus, this system will replace hard keys that can get lost or break with electron-
ic sensors that unlock with the tap of a keycard, about the size of a credit card.” Issuing new cards and changing access perimeters on the sensors is cheaper and faster than chang-ing locks and replacing keys. In addition to these benefits the doors can be electronically
