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Volume 60, Number 1
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City College prepares for students’ return Focus, page 5
Serving the San Diego City College community since 1945
August 30, 2005
Campus set for extreme makeover Facilities Master Plan calls for expansion, overhaul of facilities By Brian Webb Contributor
Mike Sullivan / Photography Editor Child Development Center worker Tomasa Loeca cares for 6-month-old Mia Fuller (right) and 10-month-old Efrain Cruz on Aug. 11. The center came into being in the 1960s with the help of students who had children.
Born out of necessity
Center a learning experience for City students and their children By Judy Sarup Contributor
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arents, teachers and group caregivers of children attending the San Diego City College Child Development Center are active, committed participants in providing an environment of nurture, understanding and appropriate activity for the children. The spirit of dedication began when students who needed childcare got together in the 1960s. “Before the building was there, students starting congregating and helping each other with childcare on campus in one of these offices in the A-building,” explains Berta Harris, child development professor.
Once college administrators became aware of the clandestine childcare, they saw a “red flag” need for licensing “if people were going to leave groups of children together on campus,” says Harris. A City College child-development lecturer at the time, Sally Nalven (teaching now at Miramar College), was the person to consult. She initiated the process for obtaining the appropriate licensing. By the mid-’60s, the Child Development Center had been constructed. “The purpose of the program as it got started in the permanent building was to provide childcare for students and a place for child development students to learn how to work with children,” Harris says. So,
After a long, hot day in school, Caroline Albano began driving home, pondering when she would transfer to San Diego State University. The 20-year-old criminal justice major, a student at City College’s sister school Miramar College, has already completed 47 units, needing only 13 more to transfer. Tired of waiting, she said, “I won’t get in to SDSU until fall of 2006, since
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they don’t accept spring admissions.” The wait is over. San Diego State University has announced that it will accept applications for spring 2006 from all upper-division transfer students. Between Oct. 1 and Nov. 30, 2004, SDSU received approximately 48,700 undergraduate applications for admission this fall, according to The Daily Aztec, SDSU’s student newspaper. That is a 14.7 percent increase in applications compared with the previous year.
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Library space to house classrooms By Sara Knook Contributor
The enrollment demand will continue to increase during the next decade. “This increase is from the recognition of SDSU as an outstanding California university,” says Ethan Singer, associate vice president for Academic Affairs at SDSU. However, Singer notes the school cannot accommodate all of the applicants. It is an impacted campus with selective admission criteria signifi-
The LRC “Down Under” is the nickname of the project under way to convert the empty space under the Learning Resource Center into much needed classroom space for City College. The LRC was originally designed to have parking, but it was determined after the plans were approved that the state wouldn’t fund the parking and it was unaffordable for the college district. The plans were revised by the school to exclude parking, although revising plans to convert the parking area for other uses would have been an expansive undertaking and would have taken City College out of the line of projects. Projects that require funding from the state take time to approve, and once changes are made the project gets pushed back in line. If this route was taken, the LRC wouldn’t have been built when it was. So the LRC was built as designed excluding the development of the parking garage. Talk arose for the LRC down-under project when
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SDSU to accept transfers for spring 2006 By Carl Antonio Contributor
Administrators at San Diego City College say that the school will be undergoing a grand expansion over the next decade and beyond. City College President Terrence Burgess and Carol Dexheimer, vice president of administrative services, say that the school will be moving forward heavily with its master plan over the next couple of years. Although the Facilities ■ Cafeteria makes up Master Plan has been worked on since the school’s incep- for construction with tion in 1914, only recently creative fare. Page 3 has it become a possibility for ■ Final touches under the school to undergo such an way for Harry West expansion. gym. Page 8 Dexheimer explains, “We were approved for our ambitious Facilities Master Plan by the voters of San Diego in the election of November 2002. They approved a $685 million bond measure for the San Diego Community College District (City, Mesa and Miramar colleges) of which we received a substantial portion.” The Facilities Master Plan, which estimates the student population to eventually rise to 25,000, represents a vision for the school undeterred by monetary concerns. Since the school does have financial bound-
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