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VOL. 30, NO. 6
THE VOICE OF SOLANO COLLEGE
NOV. 13 - DEC. 3, 2011
Falcons soccer finishes season
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Solano Community College’s Candis Hatfield, left, goes head to head with a Los Medanos player at Solano College Nov. 1, 2013. Hatfield scored the fourth goal of the game, bringing the final score to 4-0 to beat Los Medanos. The Falcons soccer team will miss out on the playoffs this year after losing their final game 2-0 against Folsom Lake College Friday Nov. 8.
Meet the ’Interim’ Interim Dean Rachel Sison Features Editor rsison@solanotempest.net
Bruce Kinghorn is a welcomed addition to the Liberal Arts department. Though hired on as a consultant, Kinghorn is currently acting as the interim dean, until the interim dean they hired can take up the reins. Kinghorn has an extensive background that makes him suitable for the job. “I came from America River College and I was there for 42 years and I’ve taught in the classroom for almost 30 years and was a dean for almost 13 years,” Kinghorn said. “I was Dean of humanities, Dean of library and learning resources, then Dean of mathematics for a short time.”
Kinghorn’s most recent position was at Saddleback College as Dean of social and behavioral sciences. Kinghorn was brought in Oct. 1, and has since then been working to complete all the tasks that should have been done months ago, while the School of Liberal Arts operated without a dean, such as figuring out the spring schedule and faculty evaluations. Kinghorn faced several issues with the spring class schedule for next year, such as teachers being scheduled for two classes at the same time. Because the work should have been done over the summer, Kinghorn has been playing a catch-up since he’s been here. “I understand the things you should be doing; I just need to understand how that fits into each system, so over the past 3 weeks that’s what I’ve been doing,” Kinghorn said.
In June, SCC hired John Freeman to be the permanent dean for the liberal arts department, however Freeman, who was from England, was delayed due to immigration reasons, according to English professor and humanities coordinator Michael Wyly. Freeman had to return to England within a day of starting the job, for undisclosed reasons, Wyly said. This left the liberal arts department somewhat leaderless for the first six weeks of the semester. Neil Glines, a speech and communications studies professor, will act as the interim dean next semester, while the college begins the hiring process for a permanent dean, Kinghorn said. “It’s uncomfortable for the faculty when they can’t come in the door and lodge a concern,” Kinghorn said. “When they can’t come in and talk to a dean, someone who’s their conduit over here, they get very frustrated.”
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