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MT. SAC DEFEATS OWLs
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YUP,THERE’S AN APP FOR THAT
Citrus College and the office of Campus Safety introduce the ‘Citrus Guardian’ app to students and faculty in the hopes of improving safety measures on campus BY NUBIA VALDEZ STAFF WRITER
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s shootings on college campuses have become more and more common, like the recent shootings at Umpqua Community College, Northern Arizona University and Texas Southern University, improving safety services is vital. A Campus Safety app for Citrus College students and employees was released on Oct. 19. Citrus is the only community college campus in the area that has a safety service like this. Every year a program review is conducted to help the Campus Safety department improve services. One of the recommendations was technology updates and how they could use technology more. This led to the idea of the Citrus Guardian, which is available as a free download on the App Store and Google Play. Benjamin Macias, Campus Safety supervisor, played a big role in the development of this app. “When we conducted our employee survey and our student survey, we noticed some people didn’t know the basic things, like how to AVA I L A B L E O N get a hold of campus safety,” Macias said. “They didn’t know our number. They didn’t know what services we provide, hence the development of the app.” Citrus Guardian has been in development for two years. Rave Mobile Security, a company that began creating campus safety app 10 years ago, powers the app. JUST SCAN WITH Todd Piett, chief product officer
The Citrus Guardian app powered by Rave Mobile Security features a safety timer that will notify Campus Safety if the user has not reached their destination in a certain time. (Evan Solano Clarion)
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catalog changes course
Extraneous degrees are cut down and refocused to support student academic completion BY CAITLIN MERCER STAFF WRITER
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& JESSICA SOSA STAFF WRITER
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Students perusing the Fall 2015 catalog will notice that four previously offered degrees have been eliminated. These degrees were edited to “clarify what students were achieving with their curriculum investment,” said Nicki Shaw, former curriculum chair. The degrees removed included liberal arts in social and behavioral sciences, business and technology, math and science, and a separate biological and physical sciences and mathematics degree. “Students who started on these degrees in previous years will be able to complete them over the next few years,” said David Kary, Ph.D., curriculum co-chair. Kary explained that as long as the students are continuously enrolled at Citrus, they retain “catalog rights” to the degrees that were in the catalog when they first arrived. John Vaughan, curriculum cochair, said that due to the generosity of “catalog rights”, the withdrawal of these degrees will have little impact on students pursuing these degrees. These extraneous degrees were considered broad degrees that did not provide specific focus for those who needed to complete lower division major preparation. “The degrees in question were older degrees with no core curriculum pathway,” Shaw said. The process of paring down the degrees took about 2 years, as part of S E E D EG R EES • PAGE 5
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