Chanaelle's

see a more user-friendly website that will provide students an easy-to-navigate hub of Pierce information.

"Our campus would really benefit from having a web designer, making our web page more interactive, being able to help make them more userfriendly,” Astorga said.

According to Schleicher, Pierce has a participatory governance model and a methodical budgeting process that goes through four divisions: the president's office, student services, academic affairs, and administrative services.

“Whenever we go through this budgeting process, it's a ranking process, there are members assigned to it and we vote democratically for what gets assigned,” Schleicher said.

According to Schleicher, they put faculty first because they want to make sure the program is available to students.

“Year after year, Mark [Henderson] had put his items on the list and wasn't able to secure his resources,” Schleicher said.

“So it came down, it wasn't a priority for the college.”

According to Kraus, there are

shorts:

funds waiting to be approved before moving forward.

"We've asked for funding for this positiRTW˝ß on which was approved by our participatory governance process, and it has gone through the budget committee and through the council, and now to the president for review,” Kraus said.“It all has to do with funding availability.

It didn't take so long, it's just a process of finding and identifying funding streams that we can use to pay for the position.”

According to Schleicher, not everyone agreed with the decision to hire a web designer until he began recommending it to faculty.

“So in our demands it was high on our list, but we only get it if everyone else agrees that it's a high-in-demand item,” Schleicher said. “I should say that the operational portion doesn't get supported as effectively as it should until I came in and started advocating it very hard.” Schleicher said the website is a tool that allows the community and the students to engage with what the college has to offer.

“It's a very powerful tool and it helps us internally too, because