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CollegeFebruary 1, 2012 Volume CXXII, Edition 1

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Students in the State Center Community College District may

be facing a drastic change to their annual schedule if the Board of Trustees has its way and eliminatesan overwhelming majority of thisyear’s summer school course of-ferings during its Feb. 7 meeting.

Canceling the summer classesat all of its campuses will savethe district $500,000 Chancellor Deborah G. Blue wrote in an emailto staff on Jan. 27.

“We are showing savings fromcanceling summer session coursesthrough the end of the scal year,”the chancellor had explained inanother email. Blue explained

that the district is recommendingthe cancellation of summer schoolin order to avoid salary cuts andlayoffs of staff.

In another email to staff onJan. 20, the chancellor had notedthat her of ce was additionallyrecommending to the board of trustees “to cancel the remaining

summer sessions for 2012.” Sincethen, the chancellor has recon-

sidered.In an email to staff last Friday,

Blue wrote, “After hearing fromthe campuses about the severe

hardships this would create for students, I directed Ed Eng [vicechancellor for nance] to rework the mid-year reduction plan toinclude options for including at

least some scaled-back summer sessions after June 30.” She stated

that while the mid-year reduction plan proposal will include someform of summer session, “it will

be greatly reduced.”

The chancellor’s proposal toentirely eliminate all summer of-ferings before June 30 and reducethe number of courses offeredafter July 1 does not sit well with

Student trustee Christopher Coro-nado or Lacey Barnes, president

of the State Center Federation of Teachers.

Coronado said that the propos-al to eliminate summer school

was like “turning on a dime” rather than planning ahead for futurecutbacks.

“How successful will students be?” Coronado asked. He added

that the move to eliminate a partof summer school shortchangedstudents, giving students roughlyfour weeks to complete classes de -signed for six weeks of instruction.

“The district messed things upand is now putting it on the backsof students,” Coronado said.

Shortening the session wasn’tthe “optimal learning environ-ment for students or teachers,”Barnes said.

“The best we can hope for is a cursory introduction to theinformation that you need to belearning,” she said. “Are we reallytalking about what’s best for thestudents?”

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“The district messed things up and isnow putting it on the backs of thestudents.”

Chris CoronadoStudent Trustee

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An Interim SCCCDAs the State Center Community

College District nds itself in themidst of a daunting budget crisis,several key positions remain va -cant or on interim basis.

Currently at Fresno City Col-lege, crucial positions of theadmission and records manager remains vacant while the post of the president and the vice presidentof instruction are on interim basis.

Additionally, other prominentmembers such as John Cummings,vice president of admissions andrecords, Michael Guerra, VP of administrative services, as well asJames Tucker, dean of library andstudent learning support serviceshave departed, leaving their seatsun lled.

“One can only speculate as towhy so many faculty and admin-istrators have resigned in such ashort amount of time,” said Eng -

lish instructor, Lynn Campbell. “Itis troubling though that so manykey positions are either designatedinterim or left un lled.” Campbellsaid that currently, only the posi-tion of president of Fresno CityCollege is advertised.

Although the current economyadds to the challenge of fillingthe vacant positions, Campbellsays that should not be an excuse.“Fresno City College has a legacyof 100 plus years and has much tooffer. I would like to see an ag -gressive effort at recruiting highquality individuals for these vacant

positions,” she said.

Campbell said that in her 13years as an instructor at FresnoCity College, she has not seen somany un lled positions.

“Even when highly qualifiedindividuals are in interim posi-tions, they are still in interim posi-tions,” said Campbell. “This doesnegatively in uence continuity of

planning, ef ciency, and thus ef -fectiveness across the district. Ev-eryone is affected-- staff, faculty,students.”

Women’s studies and Psychol-ogy instructor Linda De Kruif,former president of the AcademicSenate, has been with the districtsince 1994. She said she cannotrecall seeing these many changesin a short amount of time.

“Every year we have somechanges, but the extent to whichwe have had administrative chang-es, I haven’t seen,” said Campbell.In a time when the district is facingchanges in the budget and class-room availability, De Kruif says

the learning curve is really steepfor those taking up new positions.“The time period to learn is verysmall so that presents challenges,”said De Kruif.

She added that the changes af-fect many different aspect of thecampus, and while some changesmay not be bad, they create a setof challenges. “I don’t necessarilyequate changes in administrativeleave with negative things, soit’s not that they have to adjust tonegative things,” said De Kruif.“It’s just that they have to adjustto changes. And we all have toadjust to changes. All aspects of

the campus do.”Interim President Tony Cantu

remains optimistic despite all thechanges. “The interims are famil-iar with the district. They have asense of how things work,” saidCantu. Among the interim areKelly Fowler who is currently vice

president of instruction and JanellMendoza who is vice presidentof administrative services. “Theyhave a lot of experience whichallows them to do a good job,”Cantu said.

Mendoza began her employ-ment with the State Center Com-munity College District in 1988while Fowler Previously servedas the dean of instruction andtechnology at Willow InternationalCenter. Cantu is also familiar withhis position as he has also held ad-ministrative positions at ReedleyCollege and served as the interim

president at Reedley College from2003-2004.

In the coming months, more

changes are expected as the searchfor a new president continues. Theselection of the president will thenaffect the VP of Instruction. Other interim positions could also bringmore changes as they are lled on

permanent bases.As for the current interims, De

Kruif says some of them are work -ing ne and others can work better than what they currently are. StillDe Kruif said that administration,faculty and students must work to -gether to overcome the challengescaused by the transition period.

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Will SCCCDCut Summer School?

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Barnes also explained that thechancellor’s explanation that notcutting summer school wouldmean layoffs or reduction in staff

pay is not valid. Barnes explainedthat layoffs and salary reductionscan only be implemented throughthe collective bargaining process.

Despite the bleak outlook for students, the college district stillhas an overwhelmingly large bud-get reserve which it could tap intoto ensure that students at its largestcampus can attend summer school.

According to Coronado, at the

beginning of the fall semester, thedistrict was maintaining approxi-mately $40 million in reserve as

part of a “rainy day fund.”Coronado said he didn’t under-

stand why in the midst of deepcuts, the district wouldn’t shellout the $500,000 to cover the costof summer school, given its vastreserves.

And while the district faces belttightening at its Feb. 7 board of trustees meeting, the district is alsofacing another spur-of-the-mo-ment problem: under-enrollment.

One explanation of the cause isthat due to the increased pressureto keep class sizes at the cap set bythe district, Fresno City Collegeand Reedley College are under-enrolled for the spring semester.Another explanation is that the dis-trict was erroneously using an oldformulas to calculate the full-timeequivalent student (FTES) creatinga shortfall, Coronado said. Thisshortfall, according to email com-munication to faulty, would lad toa revenue shortfall for the district.

“If we don’t make the target, wewon’t get the funds from the statewe are budgeting for,”

one of the deans had written tofaculty.

As of Tuesday afternoon, FresnoCity College’s enrollment, as de-termined by “head count change”was down 6.6% this semester, andthe school’s unduplicated headcount, or the number of studentscounted once each scal year, wasdown to 19,600 students comparedto 20,998 in the spring of 2011.

To boost enrollment, facultywere urged to add more studentsand disregard the earlier rules to

turn students away. Additionally,FCC will add a number of 12-week courses to start on Feb. 21,with each unit being $10 less thancomparable summer courses.

Coronado said that the newly

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suggested 12-week session isn’ta remedy to the summer schoolelimination proposal.

“We’re calling on students tovoice their concerns to the board,”he said. “It’s incumbent upon them

to speak out against this and savesummer school.”Continued from page 1

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