AVIATION CLASSES FLYING AWAY LOW ENROLLMENT MAY SPELL THE END OF COURSES.Byline: Alex Dobuzinskis Staff Writer GLENDALE - Paul Kharmandayan is midway through training to become an aviation mechanic, but the program at Glendale Community College Glendale Community College can refer to one of two colleges in the United States.
Kharmandayan, 19, will complete lessons about plane engines before the FAA-certified aviation program shuts down in February. But for the rest of his training - the lessons on how the other parts of the plane work - he'll have to attend classes far from his La Crescenta home. ``It's really inconvenient in·con·ven·ient adj. Not convenient, especially: a. Not accessible; hard to reach. b. Not suited to one's comfort, purpose, or needs: inconvenient to have no phone in the kitchen. because I live so far away,'' Kharmandayan said at a barbecue held last week to build support for the 60-year-old program. About 75 people attended the event in the aviation hangar at GCC GCC: see Gulf Cooperation Council. (compiler, programming) GCC - The GNU Compiler Collection, which currently contains front ends for C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Java, and Ada, as well as libraries for these languages (libstdc++, libgcj, etc). , with high school students interested in joining rubbing rubbing, v creating friction and heat by drawing the hands across the body at varying speeds, rhythms, and depths. Benefits include muscle elongation, tension release, and increased flexibility. elbows with students currently enrolled in the program, which lasts 2 1/2 years and costs students about $3,000 to complete. A task force created in support of the program will present recommendations to the college Board of Trustees board of trustees Politics The posse of thugs who oversee an institution's administration. See Board of directors. when it meets July 18. When the board voted unanimously in March to end the program, members indicated it could be revived under a different format. ``The issue is that the enrollment was not there,'' board President Anita Quinonez Gabrielian said. ``This is a very intense program, and we're asking the students to make a commitment in the neighborhood of 36 hours per week, and it's a challenging program where the enrollment was not there. ... And it's too bad I think, because the jobs are there. These are great jobs.'' Instructor Dave Bowerman said enrollment declined from 30, which is about how many students the program needs, to as few as three students about two years ago. This summer, 18 students are enrolled. To get more students interested, instructors have been visiting local high schools, talking to Noun 1. talking to - a lengthy rebuke; "a good lecture was my father's idea of discipline"; "the teacher gave him a talking to" lecture, speech rebuke, reprehension, reprimand, reproof, reproval - an act or expression of criticism and censure; "he had to students in auto shop classes and encouraging them to consider a career as aviation mechanics. The decision by many schools to push academics at the expense of vocational training has hurt the GCC aviation mechanics program, Bowerman said. ``(Students) don't realize that there's other alternatives to education,'' he said. High school student Kris Barnoya, 17, of Sun Valley said he is interested in learning about aviation mechanics. But, in the iPod era, a lot of his classmates Classmates can refer to either:
``I think it's pretty interesting the planes and things I've never seen before in my life,'' Barnoya said. Instructors hope more students will take an interest in aviation mechanics and that the aviation industry will support the program. So far, they have raised $5,000 in pledges and donations. Employees from Southwest Airlines This article is about the American airline. For the former Japanese airline, see Japan Transocean Air. For the British airline, see Air Southwest. Southwest Airlines Co. , Warner Bros BROS Brothers BROS Benefits and Retirement Operations Section (King County, Washington) BROS Barnes and Richmond Operatic Society (London, UK) ., Disney and other companies have joined to show support for the program. But former Glendale Mayor Carl Raggio, who is part of the task force, said some companies are waiting to see if the board retains the program before making a donation. ``The industry has already indicated that they would move, I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. to what extent,'' said Raggio, 76, a retired engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory “JPL” redirects here. For other uses, see JPL (disambiguation). Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a NASA research center located in the cities of Pasadena and La Cañada Flintridge, near Los Angeles, California, USA. . ``But they, like everybody else, want to make sure that the board is going to move in the right direction.'' Gabrielian said she is looking forward to hearing what Raggio and his team will propose on July 18, and whether it is possible to salvage part of the program. ``But I can't do it at the cost of other successful programs,'' she said. Alex Dobuzinskis, (818) 546-3304 alex.dobuzinskis(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): photo Photo: John Diciaccio, a technician for Southwest Airlines, left, and Jeff Albrecht, a tactical flight officer for the Glendale Police Department, right, talk with Emmanuel Valadez, a Polytechnic High School student, about becoming an aviation technician, at the barbecue held Saturday at Glendale Community College. Evan Yee/Staff Photographer |
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