Being eyed as though we are common criminals and being spoken to like we are about to commit a crime, are two of the many ways some of the Campus Sheriff’s Department personnel tend to treat students. There are those who smile, are approachable and say hello.
Barbara Heller found her secretarial job at Pierce when she was driving by after not long after her husband was transferred to Los Angeles from New York in 1981. She pulled into the campus to find out if there was any chance they needed a secretary. When she couldn’t find the offices on the sprawling campus, she stopped someone and asked for directions.
Mothering and mathematics By Ben Rizzo Career vs. Family. It’s a game played by many different thirty-something women in Southern California with many different outcomes. But as one Pierce College professor shows, you can still have your cake and eat it too.
There are more than 65,000 undocumented students who graduate from high schools across the nation every year. Although many of them have been in the United States most of their lifetime, they do not receive the same benefits of higher education that citizens do.
Ratings Story 62 Toxcina King Usually the only way that students could commend or complain about an instructor was through the formal paper teacher evaluations that get passed out at the end of every semester.
Nick Habib, Ph.D., chair of the philosophy department, introduced a new grading proposal during a Sept. 24 Academic Senate meeting. The new system would implement plus (+) and minus (-) grades on transcripts. Habib is a Pierce College philosophy professor and part-time California State University, Northridge ( CSUN) professor.
“Floors are so filthy you don’t want to set your backpack down.” “The chemistry lab tabletops crunch with chemicals when you put your notebook on them.” “My pet peeve is the greasy, sticky computer keyboards and mice in the Learning Center.” “The outdoor bulletin boards with old curling outdated announcements look really trashy.
Without health insurance and a large income, it has become virtually impossible for students to receive professional psychological help, which is why Pierce College offers personal counseling as well as sessions with a licensed psychologist free of charge.
For the first time in Pierce College history, 8 Ω by 11 inch laminated placards offering guidelines on how to deal with disruptive behavior and/or students in crisis were distributed to all faculty members this semester. There is no specific reason that prompted the decision for the distribution, said Joy McCaslin, vice president of Student Services, however, “people are more aware because of the incidents at Virginia Tech.
