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Volume 6 Issue 3
Teachers learning high-tech by Kevin ·V aughan The Alternative Learning Center of Denver-Auraria Community College is helping its faculty and staff keep up with advances in technology by offering courses in computer literacy. According to Dave Knauber, coordinator of the Alternative Learning Center, DACC purchased 24 microcomputers about a year ago with money from a Title III Federal grant. The main thrust of the program is to offer faculty and staff the opportunity to gain literacy in the computer field - a field which has seen tremendous advances in the past years. Knauber said these advances have made the microcomputer much easier to operate and learn about, which has helped to ~pate some of the phobias that · faculty may have about mastering computers. The faculty is offered three curricula to choose from, including one which gives staff members the chance to develop a problem and then work it out on the computer. Knauber said some faculty and staff members are given release time, in which parttime . replacements are brought in while they learn. continued on page 5
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Michael Johnson resigns by Carson Reed . Following a year of challenges, including student apathy and an administration that was reluctant to take his office seriously, MSC Student Government President Michael Johnson announced that he will resign September 16. Johnson, who was elected president of the Associated Students of Metropolitan State College l~ December, , plans to "take a year off and relax," before pursuing a degree in Law. Johnson graduated from MSC in August with a degree in Criminal Justice.
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"I think we've made tremendous gains in building relationships on campus."
New 2-y ear MSC Student Government President Michael Johnson looks back at his years at Auraria. trac k s need ed . !ll!im!l9mr - - - - - - - - - . - - - - - - - - - ml'Pll. . .
{CPS)- The nation's communit}' and junior colleges will have to create new "high tech" associate degrees soon or face becoming obsolete, a task force on two-year degrees warned in a report issued last . May. The task force also suggested that schools start working with businesses to add credibility to two-year degrees. "One of the biggest problems with the associate degree is tha~, from the point of view of the private sector, the two-year degree is .not an impressive document to continued on page 5
Metropress September 7
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Johnson talked about goals and achievements he felt marked his term of office: "More than anything else, I think we've made tremendous gains in building better relationships on campus," Johnson said. "Previously, the (MSC) Administration had not given Student Government very much respect. We've done a lot to change that attiJ:ude, we've had regular meetings with the President, and tho5e meetings have been produc.. tive. "There's a careful balance there - sometimes we've found it best to assume an adversary relationship with the administration, and other times we've found it best to work in partnership with them. I'm proud that we could do both without worrying about repercussions, .. Johnson said. In additiorr, Johnson said he had made an extra effort to improve ·the relationship between MSC_ student government and the student governments of UCD and DACC. "This is the first year that I know of where all three student governments have had a good working relationship," continued on page 3 '