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New software could transform campus life
Endeavour flies over campus
$10.5 million expenditure OK’d BENJAMIN SIMPSON Staff Writer
Photos by Billy Han/ Contributing Photographer
The space shuttle Endeavour flies over the R Building on Friday as it circles the Jet Propulsion Laboratory on its way to Los Angeles International Airport. After a brief stop at LAX, the shuttle will continue its journey toward its final resting place at the California Science Center through the streets of Los Angeles on flatbed truck. Right, members of the campus community watch the flyover on the top floor of the R Building.
A new $10.5 million software system, approved by the Board of Trustees, could completely transform everyone’s electronic interaction with the campus . The new Banner software, by Ellucian, will change most aspects of students, teachers and staff’s interaction with each other and the college. With one central database running numerous components, “there will be so many services, … things that [the students] never even had the ability to do … it will really be a totally different world,” said Dwayne Cable, Vice President of Information Technology. “The new Automated
Information System … will allow students to access all of our administrative services, anytime, anywhere, using any kind of a device.” “Your phone, a PC, whatever. You don’t have to come in here to stand in line, to pay your bill, to get your financial aid, to register to communicate with a counselor.” The Ellucian Banner Software, approved unanimously by the Board on Sept. 15, is planned to have student services up and running by the fall of 2013, and be fully completed by the end of next year, said Cable. The Banner system is broken down into numerous components. In DegreeWorks, students will be able to access their stuContinued on page 6
Academic Senate meeting reveals campus tensions CHRISTINE MICHAELS Staff Writer
Heated discussions over shared governance and communication issues broke out between various groups at the Senate meeting on Monday. Calendar Committee Co-Chair Krista Walter expressed her concern to the Senate over the changes to the 2012–13 academic calendar. “We had just completed a year-long shared governance discussion…our work was dismissed,” Walter
said. “I thought we were supposed to conduct collegial shared governance.” Assistant Superintendent and Senior Vice President of Academic and Student Affairs Robert Bell sympathized with Walter. “Shared governance is on the agenda with the administration. We will try to work as a collective whole,” he said. Faculty Association President Roger Marheine expressed his grave concern over the shared governance issue. “The FA really took shared governance find-
ings to the Board. I thought that worked really well. We thought the process worked. The rug has been pulled out from beneath us,” Marheine said passionately. “All shared governance discussions are irrelevant.” Another issue arose with the three executive committee recommendations created over the summer, which included appointing two hiring committees for the Dean of Faculty and CTE Dean positions. Many were upset the committees were created when nobody was on campus.
Classified Senate Vice President Deborah Johnson explained the Academic Senate had created the committees with out informing the Classified Senate. “You formed some committees here that we found out by rumor,” Johnson said. Senate President Dustin Hanvey apologized. “I would like to publicly apologize. We will be meeting [Wednesday] with the Classified Senate,” Hanvey said. Others did not understand what the Continued on page 6
Emergency center ‘one of a kind’ in Pasadena PHILIP MCCORMICK Staff Writer
The campus Emergency Operations Center, in room 206 in the CC Building, is a room designed with the technology and personnel needs that an incident commander would need, at his disposal in a time of emergency. There are six flat screen TVs around the room and Dell computers at every desk, which also have headsets that connect to landline telephones. Chief of Police Stanton Perez said that in
a time of emergency on campus, everything would run through the EOC under his command. “Activate the EOC!” said Perez, “If I radioed that into dispatch, it would mean that something big was happening here on campus. I would become the Incident Commander and decide, with the help of my command staff, what our moves would be during the situation... Honestly, no one in the city has an operations center like this EOC.” Public Relations Director Juan Gutierrez would act as the public
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information officer (PIO) and would work on rumor control during an incident and update the public on what was going on. “During the wind storms last [year],” said Gutierrez, “we used the opportunity as a drill, and sent out the Facebook and PCC website alerts saying that [classes were] canceled. We would act similarly in other incidents.” Gutierrez used the situation to do what he and his staff would do if a more serious emergency occurred on campus. He said that he would turn his staff into Continued on page 6
Teresa Mendoza / Courier Police Chief Stanton Perez, right, tells cadets about the capabilities of the new Emergency Operation Center in the CC building at PCC on Tuesday.
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