Serving San Jose City College
Vol.44, No. 8
By AnneEiena Foster Changes in leadership sign~ a new direction for San Jose C1ty College as it heads into the 199~s. Dr. Richard Jones, fonner mterim Dean of Instruction for City College, takes over this tenn in the office of the college presidency, and Dr. Martha Kanter assumes the position of Dean of Instruction, while Dr. Richard Goff, chancellor of the San Jose/Evergreen Community College District, has announced his retirement one year early. Dr. Jones was approved by the San Jose/Evergreen Community College District Board of Trustees inJ uly to act as the interim president of the college while the trustees conduct the search for a permanent president. Dr. Jones replaces Dr. Byron R. Skinner, who resigned his post last spring to accept the position of president at Palo Alto College in San Antonio, Texas. "We are very fortunate to be able to have a person of Dr. Jones' ability and experience available to us for this interim position," said Dr. Richard W. Goff.
"This is an unusually critical period of transition for the college," said Dr. Jones. He cited the impending accreditation self-study, changes in leadership, and implementation of AB 1725 sharedgovernance requirements as issues of importance. "When I have a difficult decision to make, I try to approach it three ways," said Dr. Jones. "I have my visceral reaction, my gut feeling about it Then I try to see what is in the best interests of the college from the perspective of an interim presi-
"This is an unusually critical period of transition for the college ... " dent,andlastly,Iaskmyself'Would I think differently about this from the perspective of a permanent president?'" Participating in the implementation of the shared-governance principles of AB 1725 will afford
him the opportunity to exercise one of his greater strengths, "working in a consensus environment," said Dr. Jones. Dr. Jones earned his bachelor's degree in English and Journalism and his master's degree from San Jose State University. His doctorate in higher education is from the University of California in Los Angeles. He began his career in education in 1956 by teaching high school English and journalism, as well as teaching journalism here at City College. He taught at the community college level for many years before moving into administrative roles. Jones was the founding presidentofCerroCosoCommunity College in Ridgecrest from 197175, president of Clark College in Vancouver, Wash., from 1975-81, and chancellor of the San Bernardino Community College District from 1981-88. Dr. Jones acted during the past year as the interim Dean of Instruction at City College, covering that position after the resignation of Dr. Leo Chavez, who has assumed the presidency of West Valley College in Saratoga.
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Dr. Richard Jones Dr. Martha Kanter, Assistant Deputy Chancellor for the California Community Colleges, became the new permanent Dean of Instruction in August She will have responsibility for development and implementation of instructional programs for the college. Dr. Kanter has worked as assistant chancellor since 1987, during which she participated in overall policy development for the 107 California community colleges. She earned her doctorate in higher education from the Univer-
Jaguar football coach optimistic By Patricia Sullivan Although it's a bit early to tell what the season has in store, Howard Gay, San Jose City College Head Football Coach is optimistic. ''The team looks to be a strong and competitive one," he said. Coach Gay has about 20 players returning this season, five starting on defense, and six starting on offense. Approximately 60% of the 70 players on the team this year are new. There are quite a number of potentially good players from those new members according to Coach Gay. The team should have a good offense this season, with strong tight ends, running backs and receivers, Gay said. But, he noted, "the experience and depth of the offensive line remain uncertain." ''The defensive line appears to be very solid and in a very good position," he said. There are three returning starters from last season. Greg Semas, 6'3", 260pounds, who co~es from Mitty High School, Tim Wilson, 6'1", 270 lbs., from Oak Grove and Mike Webber, 6 '3", 255 lbs,fromLeland. All are defensive linemen. All three were starters and potential starters last year.
The starting quarterback this year is Dan Joyner, 6'2", 187 pounds, who comes from Oak Grove High School. The four starting running backs this season are Loren Due, 5'10", 173 pounds, from Miuy; Jason Moeckel,5'11", 201lbs.,fromDel Mar, Leonard Aikens, 5'9", 165 lbs., from Jesse Jones, Texas, and Terrence Hill, 5' 10", 195lbs.,from Oak Grove. The Jaguars' first pre-season scrimmage was against Modesto Junior College on Saturday. No score was kept, but the Jaguars scored three touchdowns, and none were scored by Modesto Junior College. ''The disappointing thing is, all three touchdowns were scored by the defense, the offense didn ' t score," said Gay. On a positive note, the defense did look very strong. The first five games of the season against College of the Sequoias, Fresno City College, Chico State Junior Varsity, Chabot College, and Diablo Valley College, look to be the toughest. Three of those teams beat the Jaguars last year. The first home game of the season is at 7 p.m. Saturday against College of the Sequoias.
Student council starts anew
Dr. Martha Kanter sity of San Francisco. Her master's degree in education specializing in clinical psychology is from Harvard University. She earned her bachelor's degree in sociology and psychology at Brandeis University. "My goal is to coordinate the instructional and student services programs so that San Jose City College can be responsive to meet the needs of our students and community as we head into the 21st century," said Kanter.
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Enrollment rises 8% By Mark Townsend
Can you help Carmen ? The parents of eight-year-old Carmen Rodriquez are looking for a bone marrow donor. Carmen, who has aplastic anemia, needs a donor as soon as possible. If you or someone you know can help, please contact the Red Cross at 292-6242 and ask for Edia Feld. For more information, call Richard Salazar, City College maintenance department, at 288-3706.
Looking back at summer
OveraJI enrollment at San Jose City College for the fall 1990 semester has increased by 8% in comparison to the statistics for the fall 1989 semester. These statistics were compiled on Aug. 27 after the first week of schooL · Day enrollment at City College for the fall '90 semester is 5,519, an increase of 8% over last fall's enrollment of 5,063. City College night school enrollment increased from 3,994 for the fall of last year to 4,289 this fall, an increase of 7%. More potential students are being made aware of the classes and programs available on campus at City College. The overall rise in enrollment is due to what Bob Brown, district director of admissions and records calls "recruiting aggressiveness," meaning that City College has taken steps to change the decrease in enrollment of the fall '89 semester to an increase for fall '90. Last spring potential students were brought on campus to show them the programs offered at City College. City College has also been advertising in the San Jose Mercury News and on commercial radio. Brown believes that the "significant increase" in enrollment is due to the revamped recruiting system.
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New blood, new vision he new semester brings with it the TCollege usual changes on the San Jose City Campus, among them, those changes in personnel on student government for which we all voted last spring. Perhaps more accurately stated, those changes for which a paltry few of us voted last spring. Low voter tum-out for that Associated Student Body election was just a symptom of the growing malaise spreading through student government at that time. The student population had become disenchanted with its leaders after months of dissention and infighting on the council. Uncooperative factions battling within the council lowered its efficiency, and distracted the council from its primary mission, addressing the needs and concerns of the students. An adversarial relationship between the executive board of the council and members of the San Jose City College Times, the students' primary source for campus news, added to the frustrating constipation of information. However... a new council has indeed
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been elected. This council is fortunate to have the mistakes of its predecessors to learn from. With the exercise of a little good judgment and discretion, those mistakes need not be repeated. The participation of the student body is vital to creating a high-quality educational/ social environment on the City College campus. The more involved is any populace in directing its own fate, the more positive its fate shall be. The challenge to the council now will be to stimulate that crucial involvement. The electees bring with them a new vision for the direction of the ASB, and a new enthusiasm for carrying that vision into reality. President Daniel Gunther has taken the initiative to approach the Times and lay the groundwork for a more positive relationship between the paper and the council, hence the likelihood of a better-informed student body, and thus, a student body more inclined to be concerned with matters by which it is affected. This would be to the best interests of the entire college.
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Recently, the San Jose Meocury News ran a story on the Spring 1990 SAT test results. The article stated that the verbal scores dropped three points, from 430 in 1989 to 427 in 1990. The math scores remained the same at 476. A three point drop may not seem so significant, but if the 1990 test results were compared to the 1969 test results the difference would be shocking. One would find that this year's verbal scores would be down 39 points, and math scores would be down 17 points. What could have changed so much in 20 years that there would be such a momentous drop in SAT scores? First and foremost I want to state that the one thing that is no different in either generation is the prominence of television. High school students watched TV in 1969 as well as in 1990. Whilethereisroom for argument that the time spent watching television could be better spent reading or studying, I do not feel that TV alone is responsible for the drop in SAT scores. I believe that the difference be-
tween the two generations are the standards ofeducation. Having bee a member of the class of 1989, I c tell you that most students at m high school were assigned one two writing assignments every tw months. In an average English class, the~ were maybe three outside novels assigned a year. In all four years o high school, I was only required write three paper in any type ot1 istory class. The only reading I did in history was to read from the text. In the four science classes I took I only wrote two papers. The reading was again limited to the text. Is it really any wonder that the verbal SAT scores are plummeting? I think that the only way to increase the SAT scores is to raise the educational standards. Making the students write at least twice a month and read more frequently will not only improve their SAT scores, but it will improve their vocabulary and increase their general knowledge. The students of 1969 were no smarter than those of 1990. With higher educational standards, future classes will be better prepared to take the SAT and score higher marks. It's really just that simple.
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CD waste dump By Adam P. Segal
Ryco Disc has further encouraged consumers to leave the The cardboard packaging that box at the check-out counter as a new compact discs are sold in may statement of protest. This is an exsoon be a thing of the past, and cellent way for environmentally rightfully so. minded consumers to let the music Dubbed the "long box" by the industry know that they oppose use music industry, these disposable of the long box. containers are a tremendous waste Many record labels argue that of paper. Because of the heavy the long boxes improve sales as gloss used on their surface, they well as prevent theft However, the can not be recycled. They also add cassette format is even smaller than to the cost of'the CD and most CO's packaged only in jewel people simply discard them. boxes, and cassettes still out-sell A movement to do away with CO's. Further, the United States is the long box has recently been the only country that currently uses spear-headed by Ryco Disc, an in- the long box. All other countries dependent label specializing in CD seem to do just fine without it. reissues. So leave those long boxes at the The label has been offering counter, or seaoch out stores that discounts to retailers who order use the smaller jewel boxes. In the I< CO's without the cardboard box. environmentally aware atmosphere The CO's are sold in smaller, non- oflate, the wasteful long box has no disposable "jewel boxes." place.
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Chacon loses fight to retain music job By Adam P . Segal
Music instructorVictorChacon has losthis fightagainsttheSanJose City College administration's decisionnotto .continuehisemployment An admmistrativelaw judge ruled in late May to uphold Chacon's termination, despite support from both students and teachers. According to Dr. Richard Goff,
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SJCC to receive· 2.5-million grant By Michael Hodgson San Jose City College will rec:eivea$2.5 million federally funded grant designed to strengthen the college's abilities to meet the needs of minority and re-entry students and those in need of specialized remediaJ/developmental courses . The Title III Grant, overseen by the U.S. Department of Education, i§ a five-year period - 1990 du:ough 1995- with first-year funding of$492,000 becoming available on Oct. 1. The Title Ill program provides funding to strengthen institutions of "gher education that have a comparatively high percentage of needy ~nts and a fairly low level of expenditures on a per student basis. City College was one of only 70 colleges selected out of 300 college applicants nationwide and one out of nioe California community colleges. '"This (grant) gives City College both. the momentum and resources Ill develop selected programs and seniCes to address various identified student needs over the next five years. We are grateful for the award and excited by the opportunity it presents,"' said Dr. Richard Jones, tfJe president of City College According to Dr. Gregory S. · Oflanneson, director of the Title III project and Associate Dean, "Monies:fmm the grant are roughly budgeted as follows: $250,000 to strengthening of remedial and developmental courses and the creation of the Adelante program for Hispanic students; $55,000 for a data support system called Management/Student Information System; $1 17,000 for developing fundraising and outreach activities; and $70,000 for Title III administration."' The biggest slice of the grant money goes to developmental programs. "Approximately 6,000 entering students every year require some basic skills remediation," said Dr. Ji n Kangas, District Dean of Acalkmic Standards. By his own adission, that figure may be conserYative.
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lege environment," said Maria Garcia, Coordinator ofRe-Entry and Director/Counselor of Adelante Program. "I see tremendous potential for Adelante even though it will serve only a limited number of students, something that certain people are critical of. The successful development of Adelante will have a spinoff effect that will allow us to begin developing other models which will in some way address the special needs of other diverse groups," stated Dr. Jones. The creation of additional programming for the present Management/Student Information System will provide a valuable resource for teachers, tutors and program managers according to Dr. Kangas. "At present, we can evaluate the student population as a whole, but with the monies from Title ill we will be able to advance the system to allow us to pinpoint particu-lar problems with specific student groups and address our teaching methodology to meet their needs," he explained. Effective outreach and fund raising is another important area to beimprovedunderthegrant.Money will be used to hire a part-time resource manager and a full-time secretary whose job will be to develop a program that will strengthen the college's fiscal capabilities through fund raising. It is hoped that this office will be able to develop a community needs survey, tap into an Alumni Association, create a capital support campaign and a science/technology building campaign, and provide grants for writing support. "Our faculty teaching load is at least twice that of the normal university load. This doesn't leave much time for research or allow for acquiring the necessary expertise for effective grant writing. (fitle Ill) is allowing us to provide funds to support our staff in the preparation of grant writing and other fundraising activities," Dr. Jones explained. An ongoing five-year evaluation process comes with the grant. Each year, the performance of the college will be evaluated to ensure it is following the guidelines of the grant. This evaluation, as well as the college's track record in utilizing the previous years funds, will determine how much--additional funding is received. "Our chances are better than good of getting close to the maximum available funding each subsequent year because our first effort was so successful, we lost less than 1%, and we should be able to make appropriate adjustments so that in ensuing years we receive the $500,000," says Dr. Ohanneson.
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Jones, SJCC President, makes a point during the pr conference. Newspaper and television reporters wen on hand as the $2.5 million grant was announced i1 the college conference room. Photo by Bill Byrne
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