Struggling groups get help Equity Plan revised to include state funding

Andrew Escobar Roundup Reporter

The show’s theme was not chosen with such ease. Malgapo debated with her friends whether it needed one or not, but ultimately decided for the show to have one “so that the audience would get a feel for it, and connect it all.”

Pierce illustration major Tawny Therrien shouted “glory to mother earth” when she and Malgapo discussed the show’s theme.

“I don’t like randoms,” Malgapo said. “It’s too weird. I like the idea of pulling things together. That’s what I’m all about.”

Malgapo’s manager and The Bunker bartender Geg Nartates, who said he earned a bachelor’s degree in art history from CSUN, said The Bunker’s been trying to help revive the San Fernando Valley art scene that he believes is “on the way back.”

“A lot of artists, especially young artists, don’t have a place to showcase their work,” Nartates said.

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The Pierce College Equity Plan was revamped for 2014 to include state funding and analysis for a wider range of struggling student demographics, said Director of the Center for Academic Success Crystal Kiekel.

The Equity Plan consists of annual data that examines how certain demographics of students perform academically at Pierce.

The plan exists to identify and analyze the demographics that tend to struggle so that the school can establish programs to help them improve.

“The Equity Plan is our obligation to identify the underserved students and improve our work so that we can help the students we are not currently serving,” Kiekel said. “It is both a state-mandated and moral obligation.”

The data used, is collected from three specific groups – males, African Americans/Latinos and students with disabilities.

[See EQUITY, pg. 3]