NEWS AND COMMUNITY INFORMATION FROM CLACKAMAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE • FALL 2020

ThinkingThinking gapgap year?year? Think ‘visiting year’ instead. Incoming students from the high school class of 2020 and current college students across the nation are facing a big decision this fall. Attend college or take a year off? A gap year is a year-long that’s typically taken My two cents. I like this new layout very much. I am going to save the example because it is a very good use of the small space (and it has beenbefore blessed entering by college. Frank). Thank you for sharing the info regarding the indicia--crazy that 4pt type is adequate. Given the many unknowns as to whether classes will Greetings again all, be offered in person or online this fall at four-year , some may be Ah that darn post office... To be extra sure we don’t get ourselves into considering taking the year trouble, I went and talked to our man, Frank -- the mailing expert at the off from their education. post office’s main branch because I feared we might be in trouble But is this the best time to regarding the postal code strip (at the bottom of the mailing side). put college on hold? There’s Attached you’ll find the latest version based on a new post card option another way. The visiting year. Students can achieve higher that Frank showed me (and sent me away with a handy reference guide). The education success by relying attached version allows us to keep the CCC info as a vertical (important on an affordable, high-quality because it helps the recipient understand that the front is also meant to educational resource right in be looked at as a vertical) while allowing enough room for the address their backyard: Clackamas label AND code strip. Frank tells me that the indicia can be as small as Community College. CCC has the lowest tuition in the .5 x .5” (with 4pt type), which is hard to believe but true. What I’m Portland metro area, offers showing you will be okay (it’s .75 x .75 with bigger than 4pt type). One robust student support as well as thing I want to confirm is how you plan to address these. I assume you assistance in paying for college. will create a mailing database and print labels from that (probably using Annual tuition at CCC is just one of the label templates in Word). Labels come in a variety of sizes, so $5,079, compared to $11,329 at public universities and $35,195 if you need a 1” high label I might want to nudge things to allow room for for private universities. the code strip. The sample I’m sending you can easily handle a .75” high At a time when label. Kindly confirm (Marlene). is high, travel is restricted and people are being encouraged to I always forget how tricky post cards can be when it comes to the postal “service”. Thanks for bearing with me. Rules down at the P.O. change more See VISITING YEAR / Page 2 often than you think.

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HEAD OF THE CLASS Learn how to take your APRENDE INGLÉS EN CCC industry knowledge and become a teacher with Clackamas Community College ofrece clases para 3 CCC’s Prep program. 4 aprender Inglés. 2 Clackamas Community College News • Fall 2020 Visiting year: Why pay the hefty price tag? n Continued from page 5 stay home, it makes sense to CCC dollars and sense enroll at CCC. Why pay the Attending Clackamas Community College is a wise investment. It will not only IMPORTANT DATES hefty university price tag only save you money in the short term, but you will earn more money in the future. to stay at home taking online FALL TERM 2020 courses, fully missing the four- Savings year university experience? • Tuition: Annual tuition at CCC is just $5,079, compared to $11,329 at Many campuses may remain public universities and $35,195 for private universities. shuttered for the near future • Scholarships: CCC offers +$500,000 in scholarships each year. and distance learning will • Financial aid: Our Financial Aid Resource Lab will help you find the CCC is participating in statewide measures continue to take center . funding you need to pay for college, including grants, scholarships, to slow the spread of COVID-19 in Oregon. Even for campuses that decide and loans. to reopen, it’s possible students This includes extending online learning, Income potential closing campus buildings and shifting will be asked to return home if there’s a spike in COVID-19 services online, and canceling non-essen- Median weekly earnings by education Professional tial events through fall term. The college is cases. Rather than taking attainment for workers ages 25 Doctoral Degree working on a re-opening plan that includes time off, enroll at Clackamas and older, 2017 Degree $1,836 an assessment of classes that may be held Community College for a $1,743 visiting year and stay on track Master's in person, increased safety measures and Degree possible face-to-face student services. for when universities return to $1,401 normal. Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Bachelor's Bureau of Labor Statistics, “ It’s understandable to feel degree Outlook: Measuring To stay informed on how COVID-19 may the Value of Education”, April 2018 $1,730 impact fall and winter terms, visit conflicted. However, taking www.clackamas.edu/coronavirus. a break in education comes at a cost. A late college start Associate STUDENTS / STAFF means one year less of earning degree Fall term potential. According to the $836 Registration opened...... June 1 Lumina Foundation and the Classes begin...... Sept. 28 U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Some Term ends...... Dec. 12 annual earnings for those with college, a bachelor’s degree are more no degree $774 Winter term than $30,000 more a year. Is Registration begins...... Nov. 16 delaying one’s future worth Classes begin...... Jan. 4 that price? High school Term ends...... March 20 The world is on pause, but diploma college doesn’t have to be. $712 HOLIDAYS / CAMPUS CLOSURES What might appear to be a difficult decision may be Veterans Day...... Nov. 11 Less than Thanksgiving holiday...... Nov. 26-27 as simple as looking closer high school Winter break...... Dec. 24-25 to home and enrolling in diploma New Year’s Day...... Jan. 1 Clackamas Community $520 Martin Luther King Jr. holiday...... Jan. 18 College. Presidents Day...... Feb. 15

FIND YOUR Securing basic needs is FOCUS Need help deciding on a the key to student success specific program of study at CCC? Start with one of Many students pursue college as a path to an care, textbook and transportation support. Funding is these educational focus economically secure future. However, struggles now available to assist students who are experiencing areas (EFA) that best match outside the classroom to meet basic needs like food financial hardship related to the COVID-19 pandemic. your interests: and housing can put students’ dreams on the line. Caring staff are on hand to help students explore the A recent survey of Clackamas Community College financial aid grants, loans, work-study, scholarships and • Business students showed that 59% of them experienced at least other resources they are eligible for. • Creative Arts, one form of insecurity in meeting basic needs while Communication & attending college. This means the majority of CCC stu- • For more information on emergency funding sources Humanities dents struggle with homelessness, hunger, housing and/ available at CCC, visit www.clackamas.edu/emergen- or food insecurity. Without having their essential basic cy-funding. • Health needs met, it becomes really difficult for students to • For information on financial aid and scholarships, visit • Industrial Technology attend, study and complete college to reach their goals. www.clackamas.edu/financial-aid. & Automotive CCC and its community partners are working to • For information on community resources, including • Natural Resources remove these barriers by providing students with re- SNAP benefits, food pantries and nutrition services • Social Sciences, Human sources to help navigate the challenges they face. These offered through K-12 school districts, visit oregonhunger. Services & Criminal Justice resources include emergency grants as well as child- org/covid-19. • Science, Technology, Engineering & CCC student challenges at a glance Mathematics (STEM) • Teaching & Education

Find out more by visiting www.clackamas.edu/ find-your-focus % % % % 19experienced food 38experienced housing 47experienced 59experienced at least insecurity in the prior insecurity in the homelessness in the one form of all three 30 days previous year previous year insecurities

Source: 2019 #RealCollege Survey Report by The Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice at Temple University Clackamas Community College News • Fall 2020 3 Behind the desk at CCC to the head of the class Since 2015, funding for high school career and technical education (CTE) has been on the rise in Oregon. During that time, however, the number of CTE instructors has declined. Fewer CTE teachers mean fewer CTE programs in the skilled trades. Enter the Clackamas Community College CTE Kaylee Tolley is CCC's Licensure Prep certificate first CTE Licensure Prep PRESIDENT’S CORNER program, a one-year, fully program graduate. online program that provides When economic times the necessary skills to are hard, community become an effective teacher. colleges often serve Topics include classroom as safety nets for the management, instructional strategies and foundations to the high school has brought an educator without getting a community. For those career and technical education. me more joy than I ever could bachelor’s or master’s degree in who have lost their , CCC was the first community imagine,” Kaylee said of the education.” we offer short-term college in Oregon approved for experience. “I’m grateful to Kaylee is the first graduate certificates to retrain or such a program and has made be surrounded by people who of the college’s CTE Licensure train up to get back into great strides. lift me up on my journey to Prep program. “I’m excited for the workforce again. For Meet Kaylee Tolley. After becoming to a teacher.” what my future in education graduating with a bachelor’s The principal at Newberg holds and hope to teach those whose university degree in business management High School recommended business and marketing at the dreams are uncertain, in 2014, she worked in CCC’s Licensure Prep program high school level,” she said. The we offer classes that transportation management after Kaylee expressed an skills she learned have prepared easily transfer to four- in the San Francisco Bay area interest in teaching, and she her to go from behind the desk, year institutions. before moving to Oregon and enrolled. “I completed the to teaching in front of the landing a as a sales and entire program online while class. showroom manager. But she also working full time and Learn more about how you can Clackamas quickly discovered her true being very involved at the share your industry expertise by Community College dream was to become a teacher. high school. I loved the online becoming a CTE teacher at www. also offers assistance In 2018, Kaylee began setting, the flexibility and how clackamas.edu/cte-licensure- in paying for college working at Newberg High the faculty made the classes so courses. For more information in a variety of ways, School where she helps engaging,” Kaylee said. “CCC’s about the program, contact including financial students meet their credit Licensure Prep program is an Laurette Scott at laurette@ recovery and essential skills extremely affordable way to clackamas.edu. aid, scholarships, requirements. “Working in get your foot in the door as grants and emergency funding. We can help you pay not only for tuition, but also childcare, textbooks, Community Education updates transportation and even household expenses. CCC Community Education, along with our local partners, have been working diligently At Clackamas to bring online options to the Community College, community. Online offerings we believe every student at this time are available at the Milwaukie Center, Pioneer Center has the right to achieve and Oregon City Community their full potential. We Education. As we continue to welcome all of you, no navigate this new world, we matter who you are or encourage you to connect with your local Community Education where you come from. program for additional course As a member of this availability. community, CCC is here to support you – in the good times MILWAUKIE GLADSTONE TEAM OREGON and the bad. Our CCC Seasoned Adult Gladstone Community School Motorcycle/Scooter staff and faculty are Enrichment Program 503-650-2570 Safety 503-594-0627 www.clackamas.edu/gladstone 800-545-9944 dedicated to the success www.clackamas.edu/enrichment teamoregon.org of our students and Due to COVID-19 precautions, we OREGON CITY to the health of our will not be hosting SAEP fall term. WEST LINN Oregon City Community community. Milwaukie Center Education West Linn Parks and Recreation 503-794-8092 503-785-8520 503-557-4700 www.ncprd.com www.ocsd62.org/ www.westlinnoregon.gov/parksrec communityeducation North Clackamas Parks and WILSONVILLE Oregon City Swimming Pool Recreation Tim Cook, 503-657-8273 503-794-8080, ext. 0 City of Wilsonville Parks and CCC President www.ncprd.com www.orcity.org Recreation Pioneer Community Center 503-783-PLAY www.wilsonvilleparksandrec.com 503-657-8287 www.orcity.org/pioneercenter 4 Clackamas Community College News • Fall 2020 Getting started at CCC If you are a new student with no previous CCC credits, follow these 6 steps to get started. For more information, visit www.clackamas.edu/ gettingstarted.

APPLY TO CCC Visit www.clackamas.edu/ apply. Once you receive your 1 welcome email, log in to Navigate to review your to-do list, which will walk you through your next steps. *TIP: Log in to your myClackamas account frequently — it is CCC’s primary means of communicating with students!

APPLY FOR FINANCIAL AID AND SCHOLARSHIPS 2 (if applicable) U.S. citizens and permanent residents: Apply at www.fafsa.gov. Undocumented Oregon residents: Complete the ORSAA at www. oregonstudentaid.gov. The ORSAA is for undocumented Oregon students, including students who have DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) status. Apply for CCC Foundation Scholarships at www.clackamas.edu/scholarships. Aprende Inglés en CCC Clackamas Community Unidos) que quieren mejorar sólo cuestan $30-$60 por SUBMIT PREVIOUS COLLEGE TRANSCRIPTS College ofrece clases para su Inglés para cumplir sus trimestre. También podemos 3 (if applicable) aprender Inglés. Podemos metas educativas, laborales y ofrecerte ayuda financiera y CCC degree/certificate seeking: If ayudarte a leer, escribir y personales. entrenamiento laboral. you are transferring to CCC from a hablar en Inglés, para que regionally-accredited U.S. institution, puedas alcanzar tus metas Aprende: ¡INSCRÍBETE HOY or if you have AP, CLEP, IB or DSST educativas, profesionales y • Lectura, escritura, MISMO! VISITA WWW. scores, submit your official transcripts personales. Incluso podemos comunicación, expresión oral CLACKAMAS.EDU/ESL to Graduation Services. Non-degree/ ayudarte a prepararte para y gramática Ponte en contacto certificate seeking: If a course requi- tomar clases universitarias. • Desarrollo de habilidades: con nosotros para más site waiver is needed, submit unoffi- Aprender Inglés puede ayudarte vocabulario, ortografía, información: cial transcripts to Advising & Career Services. Visit a conseguir un trabajo, uno informática básica • Oficina principal www.clackamas.edu/transferring-to-ccc mejor o ascender a un puesto • Cómo prepararte para la 503-594-6048 for details. con un salario más alto. ciudadanía [email protected] Las clases de Inglés para • Nena (para español) DETERMINE PLACEMENT quienes hablan otras Clackamas Community 503-594-3234 Math and writing placements lenguas son para residentes College ofrece clases [email protected] 4 must be completed prior to (inmigrantes, refugiados, de Inglés desde el nivel • Eda (para ruso) registration. Visit www.clackamas. residentes permanentes y principiante hasta el nivel 503-594-1674 edu/pass for steps to complete your ciudadanos de los Estados avanzado, y cursos que tan [email protected] placement assessment.

COMPLETE NEW STUDENT ORIENTATION 5 Available online via your myClackamas account, your orienta- Learn English at CCC tion will familiarize you with CCC’s resources, degree and certificate Clackamas Community educational, work and personal APPLY TODAY! VISIT programs, student life and more. College offers English goals. WWW.CLACKAMAS.EDU/ Orientation must be completed before language classes. We can ESL registering for classes. help you read, write and Learn: Contact us for more speak English, so you can • Reading, writing, listening, information. REGISTER reach your educational, speaking, grammar • Main Office FOR CLASSES professional and personal • Skill-building: vocabulary, 503-594-0633 6 For help choosing and registering for your classes, visit goals. The college can even spelling, basic computers [email protected] www.clackamas.edu/advising to help you get ready to take • How to prepare for • Nena (for Spanish) an appointment. college classes. Learning citizenship 503-594-3234 English can help you get a job, [email protected] DON’T FORGET! get a better job or advance to a Clackamas Community • Eda (for Russian) Our Virtual Admissions Team is higher-paying position. College offers classes from 503-594-1674 here to help you get started! English for Speakers of beginning English through [email protected] Call 503-594-3284 or email Other Languages classes are advanced, and courses are just [email protected]. for residents (immigrants, $30-$60 a term. CCC can also refugees, permanent residents provide financial help and job and U.S. citizens) who want to training. improve their English skills for