Fentanyl and Narcan presentation

Pierce College held a presentaion on drug use and prevention on Tuesday, March 21. Speakers talked on fentanyl, opioid misuse, drug testing and using Narcan in case of an emergency.

notifying students about their admission offers. The Transfer Center website also has a whole section dedicated on how to appeal if students want to do that if they have been rejected from a school they really wanted to attend.

Other topics brought up were an assessment that changes the way professors handle their Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs) after grades are due every semester. Professors have things called SLOs that they must complete at the end of every course for every one of their students.

The SLOs help the school determine what they need to do to improve in their teaching and learning decisions. Before this assessment was proposed, Pierce professors had up to six weeks after final grades were turned in to complete their SLOs compared to the rest of the schools in the district that only had a week or two. The late deadline was putting Pierce behind in terms of their learning decisions.

The Assessment Timeline is proposing that Pierce changes their six week deadline to a single week after final grades. This change will help Pierce make timely learning decisions that will benefit students’ learning.

Academic Senate members such as Sabrina Prieur agree with the proposed assessment as she believes that having a stricter time requirement on SLOs can help Professors and Staff assess how students are learning, and what the school can do to help change and improve its courses.

“If you’re paying $1,000, I think you should get $1,000 worth of education and if we’re not getting that information out to help you (students) then we’re doing you a disservice,” Prieur said

The discussion surrounding the budget was a lengthy one, with many members of the senate throwing around ideas to best organize and keep track of their spending.

Senate Treasurer Alex Villalta said that the projected budget for Pierce in the upcoming school year is $92 million but that number is far from being set in stone.