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1Nov

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Pima Faculty Senate disseminated

By AMARIS ENCINAS Before the Faculty Senate was the “Faculty Senate,” it was also known as “The Faculty Council” or “The Council” for short. The Senate has been around for a little more than 41 years and continues to be an important aspect of the college process. The Faculty Senate meets from 1 to 3 p.m. the first Friday of every month during the academic school year at the Downtown Campus in the Amethyst Room. All of the Faculty Senate meetings are divided into three parts: the Report Session, Business Session and the Open Forum. Participation is limiting in the Reporting Session and the Business Sessions to elected members and invited guests. The Open Forum is open to any Senator or faculty members to bring to the Senate informational items, issues of college concern and questions...

1Nov

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Pima welcomes robotics with open ARMs

By ANGEL CANEZ Pima intends to take some big steps into the future by working on the first Center of Excellence at the Downtown Campus. Earlier this month, Pima was awarded the (Pathways for Success) Title III Grant l from the Department of Education. There are plans to open centers, centered on IT, health care, art, culinary and hospitality, and public safety and security according to Ana Grief but she did not give a specific timeline as to when. PCC recently bought and cleared what used to be part of the Fortuna Inn for 1.35 million dollars adjacent to the Downtown Campus. That marks the thred hotel that pima has bought for the expansion of the Center of excalines, the other two being the Tucson inn and the southend area of the Fortuna inn. Ana Grief, PCC business development prog...

1Nov

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Propping up Arizona

By PARKER BROCK The propositions that will be on the ballot will be proposing new laws, and amendments to the state constitution will have lasting effects on the state’s economy and revenue generation. The general election, which will take place Nov. 6, will have five propositions. Here’s a guide most of the propositions to make an informed decision on which proposition to vote for. Proposition 305 This would initiate state Senate Bill 1431, which passed in 2017 and would increase the amount of recipients eligible to receive an empowerment scholarship account. This voucher system would affect predominantly low-income students from kindergarten through Grade 12. The account would allow for spending toward “tuition, textbooks, educational therapies, tutoring, or other qualified...

1Nov

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Kudos to Pima cops

By CHRISTOPHER ALBERS The Pima Community College Police Department was honored by Mothers Against Drunk Driving for being the top fundraising law enforcement agency for the 5K run/walk event on Sept. 22. This is PCCPD’s first year participating. A big shout out goes to Officer Eugene Edgerson who organized this event and also was honored by MADD as the top fundraising individual. I am hopeful that next year we can raise even more money and bring more personnel to the event. Thank you to all who took the time to participate, most of all to Edgerson for taking the initiative to make this happen. Great job!

Pima Briefs: Monaco named the acting athletic director

1Nov

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Pima Briefs: Monaco named the acting athletic director

Photos and story By JOE GIDDENS Pima Football Head Coach Jim Monaco was named the acting athletic director of Pima Community College on Oct. 29. Edgar Soto, who held the athletic director position for 11 years, is moving on to become president of the Desert Vista Campus. Monaco started at Pima in 2011, and will be the school's final football coach as the program ends this season. After Pima Community College Chancellor Lee Lambert announced the appointment during a press conference, he said that more sports programs probably are going to be terminated at Pima. No specific sports programs were named, however, and a timeline was not given by the college’s administration.

1Nov

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ScholarshipsA-Z

By JOE GIDDENS Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients are a diverse group of young people. “People think that DACA recipients ares solely Mexican or Latinx identity are from Hispanic back grounds, which is mostly true here in Arizona, but actually nationwide that’s far from true,” said Mira Patel of ScholarshipsA-Z. Patel herself is an embodiment of that. She was born and raised in London by her Indian parents and moved to Northern Arizona at a young age. DACA recipients come from all different backgrounds, nations and languages. However, 80 percent of DACA recipients were born in Mexico, according to U.S.Citizenship and Immigration Services. “A great thing about ScholarshipsA-Z is we also combat that, that narrative of who an emergent is or who undocumented immigrant is,” P...

23Oct

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There’s gold in them there skies

By HANK ROBICHAUD New student apartments in Tucson: A statement that will thrill some and dismay others. In recent years, an influx of student apartments have been built around Downtown Tucson, including on the University of Arizona campus. The UA, however, is not expecting an increase in enrollment, because it capped the acceptance to the university. The university is attempting to have off-campus housing but still have the college environment that are essentially off-campus apartment-style dorms. This could be taking away from some of the Fourth Avenue culture that Tucson is known for. Some of the skyscraper apartment buildings that have gone up over recent years have taken away from the view of the mountains that have been able to see over the top of the stores on Fourth Aven...

18Oct

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Network outages and outrage

By NORA THOMPSON Just about everyone was experiencing problems with the computer network recently at Pima Community College West Campus. According to an email that was sent out Oct. 11, the network is back up. Raj Murthy, the Assistant Vice Chancellor to Information Technology at Pima, “A part of a core router started malfunctioning and subsequently failed.” Chris Bonhorst, the director of technical services explains the problem as “The issues impacting the wired network at West Campus have been resolved by modifying some configurations and moving important network routes from one piece of hardware to another. A replacement for the primary router at West Campus was ordered prior to these issues and will be put into service as a part of a larger redesign and hardware refresh strategy...

18Oct

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Debi Chess Mabie running for District 5

BY: NORA THOMPSON and JOE GIDDENS Debbi Chess Mabie came to Tucson 8 years ago, in those 8 years she worked at the Loft Cinema, was the director of the Tucson Pima Arts Council and then received a fellowship from the University of Arizona School of Social and Behavior Sciences. She has a list of other achievements that came before her move to Tucson, “30 years of experience in nonprofit and organizational development.” Mabie said, “but now I'm ready for the Pima Community College, Governing Board.” Mabie found her love of education at a young age. “My father taught at Sinclair Community College in Dayton, Ohio. And I would go with him after school. He taught there for years and I would go with him and sit in the back of the classroom and I would do my own stuff. But I was always impr...

18Oct

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Finding yourself in Spanish translation

By AMARIS ENCINAS The Translation and Interpretation Studies program remains a hidden gem at Pima Community College. The program is centered at the Desert Vista Campus with Susan Kuenzler, program adviser with the Division of Communication, and Jeffrey Gabbitas, Ph.D. and lead faculty for the Translation and Interpretation studies program. The program has 90 students. Its lone prerequisite is to score above 601 on the WebCape placement test to assess the student’s language proficiency. Next, there’s an hourlong consultation with Kuenzler and Gabbitas to understand what the program is about and how it can work with the student’s career goals. From there, students will pick classes based on whether they would like to be translators or interpreters. The program’s mission is to have stude...