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Volume 73, Issue 3 February 19, 2019
A w or king st udent New Ci ty College vi ce presi dent of i nstr ucti on sets exa m ple by fur ther i ng her educa ti on, w or ki ng her drea m job B Y J ONNY R I CO Editor-in-Chief
or king a demanding fulltime job while going to school, a defining featur e of community college, is a str uggle that Matilda ?Tillie? Chavez knows ver y well. Chavez accepted the position of vice pr esident of instr uction at San Diego City College days befor e the Spr ing 2019 semester star ted. At the same time, she is wor king on a Ph.D. fr om Old Dominion Univer sity. ?People ask me ?how was your weekend?? and I say I spent 16 hour s doing homewor k, sound familiar ?,? joked Chavez, who is in her thir d semester of a community college leader ship doctor al pr ogr am. As she found her self putting off her dr eam of going back to school, she eventually came to the same r ealization of many community col-
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lege students ? car eer s will only go so far without higher education. ?I ?ve been wanting to go back to school for the past 16 year s, ever since I became a teacher,? Chavez said. ?But I gave so much of my hear t and soul to my students and to my wor k that I kept saying ?next year,??next year.?? When Chavez is not wor king on her studies, she is settling into her new home and new job at City College. The goal to help and ser ve as many people as possible is what br ought her to San Diego. ?I t?s ever ything I expected and then some,? Chavez said. ?(These) ar e the nicest people I have ever met in my life. Ever ywher e I go, people ar e always checking on me. They want me to be successful. I t is a new and wonder ful change for me.? She steps into a r ole that was most r ecently held by inter im Vice
Mat ilda ?Tillie? Chavez knows fir st -hand t he challenge of balancing a full-t ime job while pur suing a degr ee. Chavez is a doct or al st udent at Old Dominion Univer sit y. By Jonny Rico/ City Times
Pr esident of I nstr uction Dr. Minou Spr adley, who is leaving City College to become Southwester n College?s vice pr esident of Academic Affair s. ?City College has had sever al
people in this r ole for the past four and a half year s,? Chavez said. ?I am her e to br ing stability and consistency.? See WORK I NG STUD E NT, page 3
City College website r efr eshed Students, faculty like the new site despite some issues left to fix B Y B RI AN M OH L E R Arts and Entertainment Editor
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an Diego City College has a fr eshly designed website, debuted days befor e the star t of the spr ing semester. But issues with old br oken links r emain. Sear ches thr ough the bar in the topr ight cor ner of the new site and thr ough Google ar e cur r ently pulling up br oken links, which may confuse some students. At the Januar y convocation, City College Pr esident Ricky Shabazz said he anticipated some issues, but the new site is designed to be mor e studentfr iendly and infor mation about pr ogr ams easier to find. "We've alr eady r eceived a lot of positive feedback about the new site," said Roxann Solis, vice pr esident of administr ative ser vices. The new homepage featur es an events calendar and is mor e conscious of diver sity and equity, highlighting City College as a Hispanic Ser ving I nstitution, L GBTQI A safe space, militar y fr iendly, welcoming to Dr eamer s, and nondiscr iminator y under Title I X. At a College Council meeting in De-
cember, Shabazz said the new website was designed to put ever ything a student needs within two clicks and web designer Victor Chen said the new site will be a ?navigation tool for our students.? But at that same meeting, some council member s and student leader s, like Academic Senate Pr esident Jan Jar r ell and for mer Associate Student Gover nment Pr esident Susana MolinaBibian, voiced concer ns. Molina-Bibian said then that she had concer ns the new website could confuse students. After the Febr uar y Academic Senate meeting, Jar r ell said the new website appear ed mor e user- fr iendly but was sur pr ised some things wer en't wor king. "The senate was suppor tive of the r ollout because it impr oved on the (old) site," Jarr ell said. "But we didn't anticipate br oken links and difficulty with navigation." New ASG Pr esident Andr ew L eal said he likes the new website's usability. "The new site is mor e user- fr iendly, but ther e ar e still a lot of missing pieces," L eal said. "I hope in the next couple weeks, we
Cit y College's r edesigned websit e, expect ed t o be mor e st udent -fr iendly wit h key cont ent easier t o access, debut ed at t he st ar t of t he spr ing 2019 semest er . By Jonny Rico/ City Times
can get or ganizations and depar tments to update their own pages." Jar r ell said depar tments have been waiting for the new site and now each depar tment will be tr ained on how to update their pages. Jar r ell wor ks in the English depar tment and said the depar tment?s aim is to offer ?clear er infor mation for students.? ?The webmaster can?t update all the infor mation by himself,? Jar r ell said.
?This is a lear ning pr ocess for ever yone.? Cesar Gumapas, who was r ecently named the public infor mation officer for City College, said the new website makes it easier to find and r ead infor mation. "I t r olled out well,? Gumapas said. ?Ther e ar e a few bugs and we'r e wor king to fix those issues.? Stay tuned to sdcitytimes.com for updates.