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WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 2016 | VOL XCI ISSUE 6 tccclarion.com f/ccclarion T@ccclarion
‘Darth’ comedy
The Little Theatre presents an out of this world rendition of “Twelfth Night.” PG. 8
Administration debates move to new learning platform The school will vote for a new online learning program that is similar to Blackboard Learn BY ERICK CAMACHO STAFF WRITER
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Citrus College will have an opportunity to try out a new online learning platform other than Blackboard Learn. Vice Chancellor for Communications at the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office Paul Feist said the proposed platform Canvas is in the process of being implemented within the next few months, if not already so, at over 60 colleges around the state. The plan is to have all 113 California Community Colleges streamlined under the same platform. Distance Education Coordinator and Language Arts professor Beverly Van Citters said Citrus will vote on a pilot program for Canvas in 2017. She said the transition to Canvas, should Citrus decide to adopt it, will be a gradual process. Van Citters said Citrus is not immediately switching to Canvas should they decide to adopt it, but instead plans to use it as a pilot to gather feedback from a handful of faculty and students. Distance Education Supervisor Lari Kirby, who has worked with Blackboard Learn since it was brought to Citrus in 2002, said Blackboard Learn may not be entirely dropped. “The plan is to have Blackboard Learn run parallel with Canvas,” said Kirby. “This gives faculty an opportunity to learn the platform.” The pilot period could take six months after
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Foothill Transit is partnering up with Citrus College to connect students with free bus rides in time for the fall 2016 semester PG. 5
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Special Editorial:
Student Journalists: Here to serve our community and to learn
Photo Illustration: Darius Johari
Student journalists at Citrus College have not been allowed to train as professionals in our field. When requesting interviews with college administrators, our reporters are stonewalled with one comment. “(Administrator) is busy in meetings, please forward your questions via email.” We consistently run into administrators, staff and faculty who do not make the time to allow us an interview and instead refer us
to emailing them our questions. We are aware of the roles administrators, staff, faculty and students play on this campus and understand that we must be flexible and work with your schedules and the work that is put in to making education and this school successful. But when you refuse to meet with the student media, you are preventing us from improving and are stonewalling our education.
This creates an environment in which we will never learn. The Auto-Tech department, Nursing and EMT programs all receive hands-on experience to allow their students to perform at a professional level. We must learn from handson experience and deserve that chance as much as any interactive major on campus. The face-to-face interview process allows journalists to have verbal and visual communication
‘killing’ it at the haugh The premiere of the new film “Kill Me Deadly” debuts at the Haugh Performing Arts Center to rave reviews . PG. 12
with our sources. A study by University of California Los Angeles Professor Emeritus of psychology Albert Mehrabian said 93 percent of communication is non-verbal and is based off sight and tone of voice. We are training to watch and listen to add depth and set a scene for our readers. The interview process allows us to improve S E E M ED IA • PAGE 2
What an honor
Phi Theta Kappa takes home a prestigious award from its recent trip to Las Vegas PG. 6