April 21, 2015 Issue of The Egalitarian

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Today’s Weather

80/66 Intervals of cluds and sunshine during the day. Rather cloudy at night.

Tuesday, April 21, 2015 • Vol. 41, No. 7 • HCCEgalitarian.com Engineering head touts program see News, Page 3

Blue Bell orders recall of all products see Community, Page 5

Marvel scores again with ‘Daredevil’ see A&E, page 9

Chancellor discusses HCC transformation John Cañamar The Egalitarian

Houston Community College Chancellor Cesar Maldonado addressed a group of over 70 faculty and staff members at the Southeast Campus Monday, detailing the transformation process and the future direction of the college. The presentation was the first stop in Maldonado’s sevencampus tour this week in which the chancellor is discussing the

transformation plans with faculty and staff. Maldonado started the meeting by redefining the transformation process by covering much of the same material that he pinpointed on All Campus Day. “This is not complicated. It is complex…like a well-tuned machine,” stated the chancellor. The process of coming up with the transformation plan see

Chancellor talks, Page 3

Thomas Hopkins/The Egalitarian HCC Chancellor Cesar Maldonado answers questions from faculty and staff at the Southeast Campus Monday on the first stop of his seven-campus tour discussing the transformation plan this week.

Plan calls for ‘Centers of Excellence’; new faculty positions Alyssa Foley

The Egalitarian More programs will be hosted at focused locations starting this fall, HCC Chancellor Cesar Maldonado announced as he unveiled his transformation plan for the college earlier this month. The changes are part of a plan to offer better instruction, more workforce-ready programs, improve the student experience, facilitate cooperation across the college and decrease costs. The new “Centers of Excellence” will be styled after HCC’s Coleman College, which is exclusively devoted to health science education and training. “We are moving from today’s centers of delivery model, to our model based on

“We will eliminate inefficiencies. We will align our priorities across the system ... We will leverage our college size and resources to advance towards a clear vision for the institution and our students.”

Cesar Maldonado HCCS Chancellor tomorrow’s centers of excellence,” stated Maldonado. “The net budget implications from our transformation is zero,” claimed Maldonado. He said that any savings from the restructuring program will be

reinvested in the college. Planned program hubs are: public safety and global energy at Northeast; logistics and corrosion at Eastside; manufacturing at Stafford; digital information and technologies at West Loop; health sciences

at Coleman; consumer arts and sciences, as well as construction at Central; media arts and technologies, as well as engineering at Alief; business technology at Northside; transportation at North Forest; and aviation at the South campus. Other planned centers of excellence include maritime and robotics, but the locations for these is not set. “A lot of what we’re talking about doing, we’ve already been doing. This is nothing new to you guys,” Admitted Chancellor Maldonado. Many of these campuses are already strong in these particular programs. “While classes will be offered in different locations throughout the city, the higher

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