Future of Academic Success Center is TBA

Monica Velasquez mvelasquez.roundupnews@gmail.com ment with an example.

What will become of the Center for Academic Success and the Writing Lab will be determined on Monday when the Academic Senate will vote on one of the proposed budget scenarios.

“[When] you take any of your classes [and] the teacher [is] teaching you, [Pierce is] collecting money from the state to reimburse for that and that there are certain services that the center can perform that we had not necessarily been collecting money [for],” Kozeracki said.

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Mother: Nadia Abrica, a LAMC student whose 4-year-old was pepper sprayed during a protest at SMC, fights to keep LAMC’s Child Development.

Aranza who was pepper-sprayed during the protest at SMC, attended the protest at LAMC as well with the goal of fighting for LAMC’s the Child Development Center.

Abrica brought her child to the protest at SMC since she could not leave her at LAMC’s Child Development Center child care, because its’ hours have been cut tremendously, she said.

For this reason, she could not leave her daughter at the Child Development Center’s child care when she went to the protest.

The incident inwhich her daughter had to be treated after being pepper sprayed by a police officer could have been prevented had the child care been available for more hours a day the way it used to be, she said.

Abrica makes sure daily that her 4-year-old is informed of the situation.

“If you ask [my child] why she went to the protest, she’ll tell you

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‘because budget cuts want to take away my day care,’ “ Abrica said.

Abrica said that she will continue to fight for her daughter’s future.

“We’re 10,000 students here, but everyone is scared to act,” she said. “And it’s time we stand up and fight for our rights.”

Pierce College students fear what will come in the future.

“It’s nice to know that we’re not the only ones suffering from all these cuts,” said dance major Alisha Perez. “But it doesn’t change the fact that they are taking everything.”

The Student Empowerment Movement at LAMC plans to continue to protest and talk with officials until they feel a change.

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An in-depth analyzes was made by a Viability Committee, who presented their findings during Monday’s special Academic Senate meeting in order to prepare for the vote.

The study was done not only because the center will have a permanent centralized location once the new Library Crossroads Building opens, but also the Writing Lab will be two faculty members short in the fall.

With professor Jeanine Brown retiring in the fall, there will not be a faculty member to run the Writing Lab.

The committee is has been looking into the option of collecting apportionment.

Carol Kozeracki, Dean of Research and Planing took part of the Viability Committee that looked at the Center for Academic Success and Writing Lab.

Kozeracki explained apportion-

However, the California Code of Regulations under Title 5 states minimum requirements for apportionment to be collected.

“In order [to] collect apportionment you need to have someone who has the credentials of a faculty member,” Kozeracki said.

A qualified faculty member must be present while services are being provided.

Currently, services such as tutoring are offered in different parts of the campus, which include the Village and the Center for the Sciences. This set up makes it difficult to collect apportionment simultaneously.

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