Vol.44, No. 7
Servi og San Jose City College
Thursday, May 10, 1990
r. Skinner: arrivederci, SJCC r Dr. Byron R. Skinner, president
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·o, Texas. Dr. Skinner announced his reslion during an SJCC Administive Council meeting on Mony, May 7, and it will become ficial upon approval by the San se/Evergreen Community Colge District Board of Governors, cording to Dr. Goff, District hancellor. According to two sources, Dr. kinner has recommended both ommunity Education Dean oberta Firetag, and Richard nes, interim Dean of Instruction, possible interim replacements to ancellor Goff, who will make an dependent. recommendation to district trustees for approval. Dr. Skinner will vacation for a
month after his last day of official duty July 1. He will remain president until July 31, and will assume his duties as president of PAC on August 1, said Goff. Dr. Skinner has been president of City College since 1985 after serving~ president of the University of Maine at Augusta from 1983-85. His career in education began in 1959 as a track coach and eounselor at Tuskegee College in Alabama. Palo Alto College i~ part of the Alamo Community College District (ACCD) in San Antonio. ACCD was established in 1945. It has three schools and a total enrollment of 32,180. Coincidentally, Dr. T. Diciana, former president of PAC, resigned to become president of Chabot College in Hayward. Dr. Skinner received an A.A. degree from Wilson Junior College in Chicago, lllinois. His Ph.D is
usic ·instructor ighting for tenure
Victor Chacon Chacon has missed at least five reeks of class due to appearances fore an administrative law judge an illness he said was caused the tenure situation. His students are up in arms. "This semester has been a te," said Susan Victor, a stut of Chacon's who attended a Y2 meeting with administration &anized- by students concerned at Chacon's class may be
cancelled during the spring semester, 'denying them credit for the class. "Our needs as students are not being met," said Linda Beach, author of a letter presented to the administration at the meeting and signed by seven Chacon students. ''The administration is not taking enough responsibility in finding and preparing a suitable substitute (for Chacon)," the letter said. Students did not attend class April 23 after waiting for a latearnvmg substitute, which prompted Beach to write the letter. "Some subs were notified the same day that they were going to teach, when Chacon had told the class a week earlier that he was going to be in court. There have been four or five days when no on at all showed up to teach the class," Beach said. Music instructor Darrell Johnston, representing the administration, said the abrupt scheduling occured because "the judge (in the Chacon case) changed the dates." The administrative law judge will issue a non-binding decision to Chancellor Goff by May 23, Chacon said. Johnston said there is no chance students will lose their credits "that I can see, if we can get Chacon to work with Pat Isham." Isham is an instructor voted at the May 2 meeting as a substitute-acceptable to the students. "I feel that this class has been put on the back burner by the administration in the hopes that students will stop coming so that the administration can withdraw the class," Beach said.
from the University of California, Berkeley. He has published two books and one entitled "Mary McLeod Bethune and Her Times" should be completed this year. "I have given much of myself to City College ...this is a new and innovative challenge .. .! want to leave while I have nothing but a good feeling about the college .. .I have nothing but a good spot for the people at City College," said Dr. Skinner. Dr. Skinner said he is proud of his accomplishments at SJCC and among them are: The establishment of a core curriculum, creation of a Hall of Excellence, the San Jose Bowl football game, the Luncheon Lyceum, the Division of Developmental Studies, the SJCC Annual Report, the 2+2 Honors Institute, Women's History Week agenda and the President's Awards. According to Dr. Skinner, he is
most proud of "The program for celebration of ethnic diversity," which includes Black History Month, Cinco de Mayo, an the fact that we are the first college in the Bay Area that has an annual Vietnamese Week. According to Dr. Skinner, he has hired 25 new faculty members, 35 percent are minorities of which 20 percent have been Hispanic. "He encouraged us to look for and develop the best in ourselves and our students, particularly with his desire to unite 'new majority' (minority) students together and build a coalition to empower students," said speech instructor Merylee Shelton. In 1987, Dr. Skinner came under fire over the appropriateness of having state legislator . Tom Hayden as a graduation speaker to an audience that included Vietnamese: In 1988, he faced criticism· when San Jose Mercury News ar-
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Dr. Byron Skinner ticles accused the City College athletic department of recruiting violations. A task force that included the state commissioner of community college athletics exonerated both thecollege's administration and athletic department.
See Skinner, page 8
Election figures withheld By Darko Fazarinc The Associated Student Council election for fall semester officers was held April 23-26. The current council preferred not to release the figures for voter turnout, said ASC Adviser Judy Rookstool. Winners include current Director of Finance Daniel Gunther for President, and Black Student Union representative Kevin Dishmon-
for Vice-President. Elections for other A.S.C. officers, such as Director of Finance and Administrative Assistants, will be held early in the fall, '90 semester. The election was chaired by Election Chairperson Angela Morales. Ballots were counted April 27 and stored with Campus Police overnight. Spring '90 A.S.B. Vice President Virgil Dizon has taken over
POLLING FOR VOTES- Speech Club President Marie Mattison, left, and Administrative Assistant Angela Morales conduct the voting in the
Faculty gets 7% pay increase page 4
the duties of president since the resignation of spring '90 president Mildread Barnett. She announced her resignation and at the A.S.C. meeting, May 2. Medical problems have necessitated her to drop out of her spring classes and therefore her resignation was required bys A .S.B. constitution bylaws. Virgil will remain acting president until the swearing in of the new president-elect
election of the ASB officers for the next two semesters. Also shown con tim plating his choices of the candidates is student David Pierce. photo by Susan Matsuhiro
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