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FOCUSED ON PALOMAR
the telescope Monday, March 14, 2011
Vol. 64, No. 17
Palomar College, San Marcos, Calif.
$7.5m Industrial Technology building to open this fall
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Palomar’s new industrial technologies building, located in Parking Lot 12, will incorporate three separate trade and industry programs into one building when it is completed this August. The completed building will be the future home to one of North
You rock the whole social media thing. Facebook. Twitter. YouTube. Big deal. So do several billion others. And a lot of them are applying to college too. What college applicants need to realize is that social media is a
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We’ve taken up a couple rows of spaces in Lot 12.
Kelley Hudson-Macisaac
Trustees approved a follow-up report to the college’s accreditation commitee at their March 8 meeting. (Brian Tierney/The Telescope)
Palomar to pass accreditation
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DIRECTOR OF FACILITIES
County’s most innovative automotive training programs, which is slated to begin in the spring of 2012. The $7.5 million building is part of Palomar’s Master Plan for 2022, funded by Proposition M a bond measure passed by voters in 2006, according to a North County Times article published last year. The August completion will offer up modern machine technology and unique architecture, not to mention the return of some parking spaces currently occupied by construction equipment. “We’ve taken up a couple rows of spaces out in lot 12,” said Kelley Hudson-Macisaac director of facilities. “The spaces that we have currently blocked off are where the construction trailers are, and that’s for safe access in and out of the construction site. That will all be turned back over to us Aug. 5,” she added. “It’s going to hold all of the transportation programs: auto body, diesel and automotive,” Hudson-Macisaac said. Currently the automotive programs are scattered around campus. The diesel and auto body programs are located in the T building, the automotive program is in the N building. Combining Palomar’s automotive programs will allow the trades and industry department to share resources, reorganize and update as a whole according to HudsonMacisaac. “The whole thing will be a redesigned IT center, is how we are turn to BUILDING, PAGE 10
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Palomar is no longer in danger of losing its accreditation. The college was put on “warning” status in June 2009 for failing to meet requirements passed down by the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges. The commission’s evaluation is much like an exam—if college official’s priorities are well placed, then Palomar is given a good “grade,” affirming that student’s
See the full accreditation follow-up report online at the-telescope.com
degrees and credits are transferable to other schools. The commission’s last outstanding requirement, that the college craft a better money and resource management plan, has now been met, officials said. Governing Board trustees unanimously approved the college’s accreditation follow-up report, which details how the college allocates money and time to important projects, on Tuesday night. “There is a monumental amount of work that went into this, and no matter how many times we say that, we just can’t say it enough,” Trustee Nancy Chadwick said, referencing the follow-up report. “It wasn’t just a statement. It was hard work.”
One final requirement In a June 2009 letter sent to college President Robert Deegan, commissioners made four recommendations to the college: improve the quality of “distance learning,” or online, classes; reevaluate the skill levels students are expected to have after completing a course; restrict Faculty Senate members’ access to trustees; and create a better plan for allocating money and other resources. College officials satisfied three of the four requirements by the March 2010 deadline, but failed to show commissioners a better plan for resource use. turn to POLICIES, PAGE 10
Builders continued work on the Industrial Technology building, located in Parking Lot 12, on March 1. (Kristen Campbell/The Telescope)
Think: How a teacher or aunt might feel if they saw something on one of the sites. Clean it up: Delete coarse language, risky or offensive photos, bad grammar. Review: Your friends’ lists. Avoid: Cute or suggestive email or website addresses “living and breathing” extension of your application and resume, so it has to work for — not against — you. “Students have grown up with the Internet, with this open forum kind of communication and I don’t think they understand that their Facebook page is now their online resume,” says Nora Ganim Barnes, director of the Center for Marketing Research at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. “They could include a lot of the public service that they do. Those things instead of birthday parties on their Facebook pages — I think they could get a lot of mileage out of that.” Halley Shefler would probably agree. “Your website, Facebook is your new resume. It’s the living and breathing resume,” says Shefler, who heads The Arts Edge, an educational consultancy for students in the visual and performing arts with offices in Boston and New York. Students, she says, should “post art portfolios online or links to videos or photo galleries from their turn to network, PAGE 10