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Donna Quintana Diane Snyder, vice chancellor for finance and adminstration,

District expects $3 million loss in state funding, vice chancellor warns trustees

Spring 2011 enrollment dropped more than expected.

State appropriations are expected to drop $3 million in revenue because of a significant decrease in contact hours for the spring. Diane Snyder, vice chancellor for finance and administration, told trustees Saturday at a budget retreat in the library at Northeast Lakeview College that she calculated the $3 million loss based on a notification received from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board based on contact hours for spring 2011. Full story

SGA will have input into placement of second college seal

Meetings during summer will be called to plan a regional conference.

A group composed of members of Faculty Senate, Student Government Association, and Staff Council will determine where a second college seal will be placed on campus, the SGA president announced Monday during the association’s last meeting of the semester in the health promotions office in Loftin Student Center. Full story

AIC named in honor of former board chair, husband

Building now reads “Susan R. and Jesse H. Oppenheimer Academic Center.”

New signs on the academic instruction center honor the district’s first woman to serve on the board of trustees and her husband. The academic center transformed into the Susan R. and Jesse H. Oppenheimer Academic Center when a contractor began changing the signage last week, facilities superintendent David Ortega said. Full story

Scoobe Planetarium renovations and the addition of a Challenger Learning Center by Cecilia Medina

Groundbreaking kicks off new Scobee, Challenger Learning Center project

David Mrizek, vice president of college services, has dreamed of having a Challenger Learning Center at San Antonio College since 1994. Wednesday, the college took the first physical step with a groundbreaking ceremony. Full story

Activity fee will remain $1 per credit hour — for now

An increase would require approval of the board of trustees.

The Student Activity Fee will remain at the current $1 per credit hour per student for the fall, Dr. Robert Vela, vice president of student affairs, confirmed Wednesday. Full story

Dr. Victor Sáenz, educational administration by Alma Linda Manzanares

Professor examines factors in education that prevent success of Latino males

The emerging “boy crisis” has prevented the success of Latino males in higher education, an education professor told faculty here. Dr. Victor Sáenz, education administration professor at the University of Texas at Austin, was invited because of his work focusing on improving the success rates for Latinos in higher education, in particular Latino males. Full story

SPJ names Ranger a finalist in two-year college newspaper national competition

The Ranger has been named one of the top three non-daily community college newspapers in the nation by the Society of Professional Journalists in the annual Mark of Excellence Awards competition for 2011. Full story

SGA incumbents win special election

Officers, commissioner will serve in 2012-13.

Anthropology sophomore Mike Martinez was elected vice president, and criminal justice sophomore Laura Belalcazar won a second term as treasurer in a special election last week for the Student Government Association. Martinez, a former SGA commissioner, defeated digital design sophomore Natalie Johnson 65-59 when the election ended Friday. Full story

College Council disagrees about faculty office hours

Employees rate their working environment level 3.69 out of 5.

Dr. Paul Wilson, social sciences and humanities chair, argued at Tuesday’s College Council Meeting that Procedure I.1: Teaching in Different Modalities would allow faculty to maintain only five hours a week in their office. Full story

New plans for the college seal

The college seal will move to Fletcher.

President Robert Zeigler said May 4 that faculty and staff will be able to make recommendations for a site to display one of the college seals. The two college seals on the college monument west of Gonzales and McCreless halls on San Pedro Avenue were removed a few weeks ago by facilities superintendent David Ortega. Full story

SGA president wins uncontested election with 112 votes to repeat

Psychology sophomore Jacob Wong, who ran unopposed, was elected for a second term as president of the Student Government Association with 112 votes. Full story

District 5 contender receives contributions at meet and greet

Ramiro Nava’s campaign for District 5 trustee raised $1,116 at a meet-and-greet event Tuesday at the Hilton Hill Country Hotel and Spa at 9800 Westover Hill Blvd. Nava, principal at Neil Armstrong Elementary and former Edgewood ISD trustee, is challenging incumbent District 5 trustee Roberto Zárate. Full story

A student is escorted to a patrol car by campus police by Faith Duarte

Student brings knife to campus

Incident in student center was considered a safety issue.

A student was escorted off campus today for carrying a knife after campus police detained her and referred her case to the vice president of student affairs as a disciplinary action rather than a criminal charge. Full story

Speech professor remembered as caring, intellectually gifted

300 attend campus memorial service.

Speech Professor John Skinner was remembered as an intellectually gifted and committed professor during a memorial service Monday attended by about 300 students, faculty, staff and family members in the auditorium of McAllister Fine Arts Center. Skinner died April 17 after suffering a heart attack in his office in McAllister. Full story

Media communications Chair Marianne Odom introduces the Ranger staff for 2012 by Edmund Lo

Ranger awards honors most valuable sources

Dr. Jessica Howard squealed with joy when her name was announced at today’s end of the semester Source Awards presented by the staff of The Ranger. “This is my first one,” the vice president of academic affairs said as she stepped forward to collect her Patience is a Virtue award in the newsroom of The Ranger in Loftin. Full story

Empowerment center will host 11th annual WE motivational conference on May 17

Scholarships range from $500 to $1,000.

The empowerment center will conduct its 11th annual one-day motivational Women Empowerment conference to provide women with information about starting college and creating or enhancing careers. The free conference is 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. May 17 in the auditorium of McAllister Fine Arts Center at San Pedro Avenue and Courtland Place. Full story