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The old Van De Kamp’s building will open it’s doors and provide seven courses each for East Los Angeles College and Los Angeles City College
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Wednesday, September 25, 2013
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Adelante to reshape program Sergio Berrueta Staff Writer The Adelante First-Year Program at East Los Angeles College has undergone a viability review in order to reshape the program and expand beyond the focus of firstyear students. The Adelante Program is known for being a program giving a number of first-year students a leg up on the college campus in order to transfer to a four-year university. Adelante has worked on methods to reshape the program for fall 2014, including not limiting to recent graduated high school students, but rather newcomers coming in regardless of the age. Another step in reshaping the program is to expand beyond firstyear students and extending to second-year students. Many students under Adelante are full-time, but Adelante may move forward focusing on parttime students that make up most of the enrollment at ELAC. “All changes of the viability review go into effect in the next year,” Program Director of Adelante Jessica Cristo said,
“As with all completed viability reviews” Adelante’s current program has yet to reach the 50 percent enrollment rate. The enrollments are lower than the average rate and decline by 30 percent of students enrolling in the program. The program has faced a decrease in degree and certificate attainment from students that struggle in courses not related to Adelante and the Science Technology Engineering Math (STEM) pathway of classes. The number of students in the program earning a degree or certificate have decreased from 26 percent in 2007 to 12 percent as of 2009. These issues stem from many students coming from the grade school atmosphere rather than the program focusing on a multigenerational group. “Last year, we had the most issues with discipline and the larger population sees that we have had disciplinary issues,” Cristo said. The program is also looking for a full-time faculty and counseling staff that is committed to the program, including a dean position, that can help regain the program’s momentum.
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The Los Angeles Community College District, Van De Kamp Innovation Center, splits 14 classes between East Los Angeles College and Los Angeles City College to determine if more classes will be added in the future. This is the first time ELAC has offered courses at the center. Originally, the center was meant for LACC students and the Glassell Park community.
ELAC’s Vice President of Academic Affairs Richard Moyer, Ph.D., said LACCD InterimChancellor Adriana Barrera, Ph.D., had the idea to offer classes at the center. “ELAC is the most successful college in the LACCD. We are the largest college and we have a financial surplus that we were able to generate. We’ve done well in terms of attracting and retaining students and it was (Barrera’s) belief that ELAC would be in a position to kick off this project,” Moyer said. The center’s use was to provide
an outreach toward the community with technological education. For about 10 years, Van De Kamp was leased by the LACCD to outreach more students in the community and provide LACC more space for classes. Before becoming a center, it was formally the Van De Kamp bakery and needed to be remodeled to house classrooms. “It cost a large amount of money to refurbish that facility and all they left of that front building was the facade and the foundation, and they had the high school in the back,” Moyer said.
The use of the center was to provide technology classes for a community that was outside of district lines. The center is located a good distance away from both ELAC and LACC on 2930 Fletcher Drive in Los Angeles. Students would need to consider transportation before attempting to take a class at the center. Two years ago, classes were taught at the center until a coalition of community organizations and citizens filed a lawsuit claiming misuse of public funds.
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Men’s and Women’s P.E. Departments may combine Jesus Figueroa Staff Writer The Men’s and Women’s Physical Education Departments looks at the viability of combining departments to become one Kinesiology Department, as recommended by the Enrollment Management Committee. In combining the two P.E. Departments, the dance discipline, which is part of the Women’s PE Department, is recommended to separate from the Kinesiology Department and either become their own department or join
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another department. “The committee struggled in trying to find a reason to keep the departments separate because that seemed to be where the faculty wanted to be,” Associate Dean of Research Ryan Cornner, Ph.D., said. The decision to become one department will be decided by a vote by both departments faculty before the beginning of the 201415 school year. The merge of departments will bring up issues that will affect students and faculty. The major change, after the merge, affecting students at ELAC
would be the ability to repeat courses. Under the new discipline, there would be no repeating of courses allowed instead leveling courses to keep students advancing. “Because we move to the Kinesiology discipline will mean all our students get restarted,” Cornner said, “even if they took physical education 1 and 2, they can still take the kinesiology version because it’s seen as a new course by the state,” he said. Students would have a chance to repeat courses they have already completed. The repeatability of a course will be affected immediately.
Transfer Center to hold college fair
The transfer center will hold a college fair next Thursday in the Parking structure 3 walkway and swim stadium from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
“The other thing is the leveling of courses, which the women did a lot of and the men didn’t do any of, will save the students by allowing them to repeat as long as they are moving along the level progression,” Cornner said. The new department would have to set up a course schedule that would keep students moving forward with each course progressing in level, as satisfactory completion of each course is achieved. Instructors might be affected in a negative way as they would have to choose one subject in the department to have seniority.
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“There could be issues if you have somebody who has seniority in both departments because the contract does not allow them to have two seniority classes unless they were grandfathered in a long time ago,” Cornner said, “technically speaking within a department you have to choose the discipline you want to have seniority in,” he said. The newly formed Kinesiology Department will need to vote on a new dean, each department has a dean, at the moment, it would go down to one dean for the new department. The merge would also eliminate
In the first issue this semester of Campus News, Breeno Moreno was reported as setting a school record for a punt return for a touchdown, when Moreno tied for the record. The record was set in 1958 by Roger Williams.
overlapping courses. “Over the past three years, Men’s (PE Department) has offered 46 different courses and the Women’s (PE Department) has offered 106 different courses. Together the departments have offered 123 different courses,” Cornner said.“You’ll notice that 46 and 106 do not add up to 123. That’s because of the overlap,” he said. There are 29 of the courses that overlap representing 23.6 percent, with men having a large amount of overlap courses and women’s having less because of the dance discipline being part of their department.
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