A salary review published in the National Education Association’s newsletter, Higher Education Advocate ranks a full-time teacher’s salary at Pierce College to be $69,200 annually. This means that Pierce and the L.A. Community College District (LACCD), rank in the top half of the list that was published in the Advocate’s 2007 review, which compared the salaries of full-timers and part-timers in all the colleges in California.
Missing Students?508 words / 44 lines / 11 inches Amanda Milewski Suggested head:? A silent tribute ?The 120 “Missing Students” that stood in Swisher Park at Pierce could not move or speak, but their message of awareness regarding class cutbacks and fee hikes was seen and heard.
Rock for the ages Even though it’s not December yet, it’s never too early for gifts. What if one of those gifts was a group of the coolest acts in punk neatly wrapped in a day-long package? Over the weekend, five bands and one solo vocalist brought the season to new levels of rock for the Holiday Havoc festival.
When people hear the word Thanksgiving, they instantly think of another word: FOOD! The Thanksgiving holiday is full of traditions, the most prominent being its magnificent feasts. On the fourth Thursday in November across the United States, families and friends join together.
As the media embraces hip-hop as never before, the struggle to break into the rap business is harder than ever for up-and-coming rappers. To make it in rap you have to give a little extra just to be noticed. But there are a few rappers who stand out, not only because of their talent but for their other accomplishments.
Certain books have the ability to take your mind away from the spot in which you are reading. Certain books can take you to a place you’ve only dreamt about. Certain books have the ability to make you want to read more and more, until you’re done and realize that you’ve read the 350-page book in six hours.
“What the hell?” Why is there such a low rate of student and staff involvement at Pierce? People on campus either don’t have the time or don’t want to be involved. Pierce is not a four-year university complete with dorms and an ongoing campus life, but we do have more than 100 disciplines being taught to more than 18,000 students.
Anaheim has Disneyland, Santa Monica has the Pier and Woodland Hills has Pierce College. Yes, we host carnivals and have a huge attendance rate, but the little-known similarity among these three places is a mutual interest in the weather. Few people realize that for more than half a century the Pierce Weather Station has collected much of the official weather data for the Woodland Hills/Canoga Park area.
Have you ever had a dispute with a teacher over a grade? Have you ever needed an advocate to help you resolve an issue with an instructor? What you may not know is that there are people on campus whose job it is to help you in such situations. They are called ombudspersons.
On the Pierce farm, it’s not so much “The Three Billy Goats Gruff” as it is “The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe.” But this time it√≠s the student workers in the goat pens who have so many kids they don√≠t know what to do. Thirty-one goat babies, or “kids,” were born on the farm within the last three weeks.
