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HIGHLIGHTS
FROM VICTOR VALLEY COLLEGE BOARD MEETING
January
8, 2002
Dr. Willard Lewallen, Vice
President of Student Services, said that the
Dec. 10, 2001 issue of Community College Week
featured a special report showing the fastest
growing community colleges for the years 1994
to 1999. According to the report, Victor Valley
College is one of the 10 fastest growing community
colleges in the United States for colleges with
an enrollment of 5,000 to 9,999 students or
more. Lewallen pointed out that VVC's
enrollment is now over 10,000 and in that category
it would be the fourth fastest growing community
college in the U.S.
Vice President of Administrative
Services Dr. James Williams reported that by
Jan. 30 the college has to begin submitting
information to the IRS for an audit regarding
a $32,000,000 debt from 1994. The IRS is questioning
if the loan was obtained for projects for which
funds were already guaranteed and then invested
in a money market. Williams said legal fees
involving the audit could be between $50,000
to $100,000. However, Williams is confident
that the audit will show that the college is
not in error.
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In response to previous low enrollment,
which threatened the continuation of the Respiratory
Therapy Program in 2000, Dr. Larry Boutcher of
the R.T. program said that enrollment is up. The
program has 21 students enrolled; 14 are in their
second year. "Thirty-eight applications have been
sent out for next year and I think another bumper
crop will be coming in," said Boutcher.
Last year's graduates received an average
of three job offers per person, according to Boutcher,
and by 2005 the need for respiratory therapists
will increase by 20 percent.
UPCOMING
EVENTS
--The "African Inspiration� The Continuity of
Creativity" exhibit will be held Feb. 1 to Feb.
22 at the Museum of Victor Valley to commemorate
African American History Month. The grand opening
will be held on Sunday, Feb. 3, from 4 p.m. to
6 p.m. Twenty artists from the U.S. and Canada
will be exhibiting paintings, quilts, photography,
sculptures and more. VVC adjunct faculty member
Theresa Shellcroft is curator.
--New extended hours in the
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