COLLEGE CANDIDATES QUESTIONED.Byline: ALEX DOBUZINSKIS Staff Writer GLENDALE - Four candidates who want the top spot at Glendale Community College Glendale Community College can refer to one of two colleges in the United States.
The open forum in the school's auditorium gave audience members a chance to pepper candidates with questions about how each of them would run the school. Superintendent/President John Davitt, California's longest-running head of a community college, will retire in June. The administration building at the school already bears Davitt's name in gold lettering, and candidates talked about continuing his legacy. A search committee found candidates for the job and one man and three women ended up as finalists. Three work at California community colleges and one flew in from Texas, where she works at a four-year university. "I liken lik·en tr.v. lik·ened, lik·en·ing, lik·ens To see, mention, or show as similar; compare. [Middle English liknen, from like, similar; see like2 myself to a relay race relay race Race between teams in which each team member successively covers a specified portion of the course. In track events, such as the 4 × 100-m and 4 × 400-m relays, the runner finishing one leg passes a baton to the next runner while both are running within runner, in that the baton has been passed to me," said candidate Audre Levy, president of Los Angeles Southwest College  This article or section is written like an .Please help [ rewrite this article] from a neutral point of view. Mark blatant advertising for , using . . "And I will take that baton and run as far and as fast as I can at this institution." Levy, who holds four master's degrees, talked about staying in touch with students at her campus by talking to them in elevators and sitting in on classes. Sharon Dyer is president of Cerro Coso Community College, which has five instructional sites spread between Bishop, Calif., and Edwards Air Force Base Edwards Air Force Base, U.S. military installation, 301,000 acres (121,805 hectares), S Calif., NE of Lancaster; est. 1933. It is one of the largest air force bases in the United States and has the world's longest runway. . She spoke about vocational programs at her college. "The high schools have had vocational programs and they have been allowed to dwindle dwin·dle v. dwin·dled, dwin·dling, dwin·dles v.intr. To become gradually less until little remains. v.tr. To cause to dwindle. See Synonyms at decrease. ," Dyer said. "We can't have that happen to us. We have to strengthen our vocational programs and give people a chance to make a living." Bonita Bonita (Spanish and Portuguese for "beautiful") is the name of:
Jacobs responded that, coming from Texas, she is not used to dealing with unions, but she respects them. "What unions can do for our campus is to outline exactly what the rules are so everyone can understand what is expected of them," she said. Willard Clark Lewallen is vice president of student services at Victor Valley College Victor Valley College (VVC for short) is a community college located on Bear Valley Road in Victorville, California. The college was created by a vote of the public in 1960 and the first classes were held in 1961 at the near-by campus of Victor Valley High School. , and said he would not treat the students like numbers. "Glendale Community College is not broken," he said. "You're not broken and I'm certainly not going to come in and try to fix (the school). It doesn't need to be fixed." Today, the college Board of Trustees board of trustees Politics The posse of thugs who oversee an institution's administration. See Board of directors. meets in closed session to interview the candidates. The board is expected to chose a candidate next month, and its choice will start running the 15,000-student campus July 1. alex.dobuzinskis(at)dailynews.com (818) 546-3304 CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Glendale Community College president/superintendent candidate Willard Clark Lewallen is questioned by students and others during a forum Wednesday to meet prospective candidates. Joe Binoya/Special to the Daily News |
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