Talk:Prince William Sound College/Archive 1

Archive 1

History

Pretty much the entire history of the community college shakeup has been forgotten, mainly because it occurred ca. 1988 and therefore isn't as easy to Google. PWSCC is actually independent of any main campus, though it does rely upon UAA for support services due to its location.

I missed reading the part about Growden-Harrison. If I'm not mistaken, the Growden in that name was Jim Growden, also the namesake of Growden Memorial Park in Fairbanks. He was a Fairbanks native who died in the landslide of Port Valdez in the wake of the 1964 earthquake.RadioKAOS (talk) 23:05, 17 September 2012 (UTC)

Right about Growden.

Don't know what you mean by "shakeup." PWSCC is the only community college in Alaska. (UAA started out as a community college.) PWSCC's main campus, as the article says, is in Valdez. The campus in Glennallen is a metal building on some kind of support in the middle of a gravel parking lot. It has a further extension in the (Frances Kibble) Kenny Lake Public Library. See pp. 6, 12, and 15 here.) Cordova has a building, too.

PWSCC's relationship with UAA isn't as tight as that of Kenai Peninsula College and Mat-Su College, but it's definitely in the UA system and all PWSCC credits roll over on request to UAA.

I ran out of time to do more work on this poorly written article. Yopienso (talk) 00:24, 18 September 2012 (UTC)

Oh. Do you mean PWSCC is independent of UAA? Right-o.

Still, UAA calls a lot of the shots: President Doug Desorcie was removed from office last year soon after UAA President Pat Gamble visited the Valdez and Glennallen campuses with him. Yopienso (talk) 00:29, 18 September 2012 (UTC)

Hmmm, interesting. Doug's an old buddy from the UAF days. I was wondering what happened to him. Actually, Gamble is the president of the entire UA system; I believe Tom Case heads UAA. As for what I meant? The "community college shakeup" I refer to was one of a number of restructurings of the UA system which began back in the days of William Ransom Wood. It was highly controversial in the case of UAA/ACC; both Pat Abney and Con Bunde (ACC faculty members) began their political careers as a result of being outspoken about the effective elimination of ACC. As I remember it, any community college could continue to operate as such so long as the community contributed a percentage of the operating budget for the campus (either one-third or one-fourth, I forget exactly). The only municipalities which could realistically do so were the City of Valdez and the North Slope Borough, due to their tax base associated with the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System facilities.(possibly more to come)RadioKAOS (talk) 23:34, 18 September 2012 (UTC)

Infobox

For some reason most of the info in the box doesn't show. Help, please! Yopienso (talk) 10:54, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, Dwpaul! Yopienso (talk) 19:17, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

Name change

The IP is correct that P-dub has now come more firmly under the aegis of UAA, but the name change isn't official yet. Story. YoPienso (talk) 00:38, 6 October 2015 (UTC)