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Skyline View The Voice of Skyline College, San Bruno, California
Volume XXXV - Issue 1
September 4, 2014
The dog days aren’t over just yet
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District calls for funding
A ballot measure aims to add $388 million to building new infrastructure
by Michelle Kelly
TSV Interim News Editor
Michelle Kelly / The Skyline View
(From left: Daniela Tabora, Chancho Rodriguez, Nathan Custodia and Lyn Azucena)
While school may have just started students are still enjoying the warm weather. These students take a break between classes for a chat. Classes started Aug. 18 and things seem to be in full swing, for a full list of events coming up check the calendar on page 3.
Technology division gets reinvented by Michelle Kelly
TSV Interim News Editor
A new division is creating ways for Skyline students to use technology on campus. The division, Academic Support and Learning Technologies, plans to move the drop-in lab, that was once housed in Building 2, into the library. The newly created division’s dean, Jonathan Paver, is now coordinating the transition of the Center for Advanced Learning and Technology and its differences from the new division. “The CALT is morphing,” Paver said. “All of the work that’s done in Building 2 is done. It’s now a multimedia lab with Mac computers. The 16 computers that were there are being moved to the library.” The currently open labs for classes are being organized by Alana Utsami, the program services coordinator in the science/ math/ technology division. “There’s not enough space
in the existing labs for the demand,” Utsami said. SMT division dean, Raymond Hernandez was previously overseeing the drop in labs and is part of the evolution to its own division. “The need for technology and how students use it has changed,” Hernandez said. “We’re thinking about our library and our learning center and there has been this concept that many colleges have incorporated called the library of the future, the learning commons. A student or faculty and staff would go in there and it becomes a whole resource of technology.” Currently there is the option to check out an iPad while in the library and in the future there may be the possibility of renting Chrome- books and calculators from the bookstore. “We’re constantly looking at ways to add access of technology to the library,” Paver said. “We’re in the beginning stages of where we want to go to make the experience seamless for students.”
A funding proposal for $388 million is being added to the November ballot by the district’s board of trustees. The ballot measure H will allow for many projects to take place on all three campuses within the district. The measure calls for a raise in taxes for local homeowners. The estimated effect would be an additional $8.22 per $100,000 of assessed property. The measure is a general obligation bond and allows for the money to be used for construction only. Measure H would have to acquire a vote of 55 percent or more to be passed. A renovation of building 1 is the major project for Skyline Campus; the former administration space will be turned into the school’s environmental science building. “We are battling a need for additional science classes,”
Barbara Christensen, the district’s director of community/government relations, said. “There are not enough labs for students who want to be taking STEM classes and those are in the science, technology, engineering and math fields. As you can imagine in this area those are the jobs that are available.” A survey conducted by Gobe Research in San Mateo indicated that out of those who were polled 75 percent would vote yes on the $388 million measure. The ballot measure expresses that it will “modernize math and science classrooms and labs, upgrade computer, biotechnology and training facilities, upgrade access for disabled students, ensure classrooms meet earthquake, fire, and safety requirements, and replace infrastructure with energy efficient systems.” The measure will be on the Nov. 4 ballot for voters within the San Mateo County Community College District.
Skyline president appointed to an Obama advisory council
Regina Stanback-Stroud was handpicked for board on higher education by Jeanita Lyman
TSV Interim Copy Editor
Skyline President Regina Stanback-Stroud has recently been appointed to President Obama’s Advisory Council on Financial Capability for Young Americans. Stanback-Stroud was approached by the White House to join the council and believes that their decision was based, at least partially, on her work with the SparkPoint Center and its creative approach to student services. “One of the biggest factors affecting student success is poverty,” Stanback-Stroud said. “I’ve long believed that the difference between some with resources and some without is not just money.” Sparkpoint has been a fixture at Skyline for the past three years, with a mission to provide students and community members with resources and information
to improve their financial lives. Stanback-Stroud looks forward to the opportunity to further connect, collaborate and communicate to improve the financial situations of young adults. “I think it’s amazing that President Stroud was chosen for so many reasons,” Michael Manneh, program services coordinator of language arts and learning resources said. “It represents Skyline and she has incredible leadership abilities.” “For her (Stanback-Stroud), as an African American women, I think she can help inspire women and minorities,” Jamil Kanaaneh, human biology professor, said. The council was established in June 2013, with the intent of advising President Obama on how to improve the financial situations of young people early in adulthood and promoting upward economic
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mobility. It consists of the secretary of the treasury, secretary of education, and 22 members designated by President Obama now set to include Stanback-Stroud. “Financial capability is the capacity, based on knowledge, skills, and access, to manage financial resources prudently and effectively,” President Obama wrote in his executive order calling for the formation of the council last year. “Efforts to improve financial capability, which should be based on evidence of effectiveness, empower individuals to make informed choices, plan and set goals, avoid pitfalls, know where to seek help, and take other actions to better their present and long-term financial well-being.” “It is my extreme honor to serve this president,” Stanback-Stroud said.