Pasadena City College Research Articles

Review: Pierre Koenig: A View from the Archive, by Neil Jackson

Review: <i>Pierre Koenig: A View from the Archive</i>, by Neil Jackson

Teaching the ‘people’s music’ at the ‘people’s college’: Popular music education in the junior college curriculum in Los Angeles, 1924–55

Abstract The historical foundations of formal popular music education in post-secondary institutions in the United States has rarely been explored. This article provides an overview of the seminal popular music courses and degree programmes at three post-secondary public institutions, from their establishment in the 1920s until the 1950s. Several important music educators responsible for these innovative programmes are profiled, including band director Audre Stong at Pasadena City College, department chair Leslie Clausen at Los Angeles City College and band director Dwight Defty, who introduced the first popular music degree programme, Modern Music, in 1936 at Long Beach City College. Factors that led to the introduction of popular music in the curriculum included the expansion of vocational education in California public schools, softening the boundary between highbrow and lowbrow musical traditions in the Los Angeles music scene, strong local public school music education and the democratic movement towards student- and community-centred education.

Review: Sant Khalsa: Confluence

Sant Khalsa: Confluence PASADENA CITY COLLEGE CENTER FOR THE ARTS PASADENA, CALIFORNIA FEBRUARY 18-APRIL 1, 2016 Confluence, by Southern California based artist, educator, and activist Sant Khalsa, was a modest and intelligently exhibition of selected works spanning from 1989 to 2015. Centered around theme of and its relationship to American West, work on view comprised a personal investigation of spiritual, economic, and environmental concerns around as they pertain to landscape that surrounds her. Khalsa has turned her camera toward changes in landscape over years, poetically and systematically documenting results of fires, floods, and drought. The sixteen black-and-white photographs from larger series Paving Paradise (1990-2012) were shot along ninety-six-mile length of Santa Ana River (a river that flows from San Bernardino mountains to Pacific Ocean). The photographs trace changes in natural landscape due to both environmental and human conditions. As indicated by title, series is critical of what Khalsa terms constructed settings within natural world. Each photograph elegantly captures environmental changes--for example, contrasting dry riverbeds to trees surrounded by flooded waters. The series also documents human presence in landscape, as evidenced by digging equipment, tire-scarred hills, and barricade tape protecting dilapidated houses. Khalsa's disquieting images track these changes over time, depicting river as, according to artist, a place of community, economic resource, recreational site, natural habitat, sanctuary, and both source of life and destruction. (1) The flow of as well as its lack, is a vital issue for desert communities in and around Southern California, and Khalsa's series of photographs Western Waters (2000-2010) calls attention to its commodification. Installed in a loose grid expanding across gallery wall, sixty black-and-white photographs document small stores where is sold in Arizona, New Mexico, Southern California, and Southern Nevada. Arranged to follow Khalsa's road trips through states, layout was clearly a reference to mapping and in direct contrast to photographs of Ed Ruscha and Bernd and Hilla Becher, to whom this work pays homage. The black-and-white photographs depict storefront businesses where is sold. Khalsa positions her camera directly in front of buildings, making straightforward images usually devoid of people, and hones in on each enterprise's name, price of its products (be they pure or ice), and whether they are available inside or outside store. Some storefronts display handwritten signs while others promote good water, land, to go, the wagon, or cactus water through more formal and bombastic typography. Khalsa is fascinated by irony of these enterprises when is available for free from tap and is thoroughly invested in why and to whom is sold in these communities. The has been filtered to taste better, and through that process (a reverse osmosis system), chlorine, fluoride, salts, and other minerals are removed, which might or might not result in health benefits for consumers. …

When Weaknesses Become Strengths

When Weaknesses Become Strengths

Institutional Profile: Stem Cell Training at Pasadena City College: Providing Pathways to Careers in Stem Cell Research

The Biological Technology Program at Pasadena City College (PCC) offers specialized stem cell training that provides pathways for students to careers in stem cell research. Training in stem cell culture techniques was added to the biotechnology curriculum at PCC in 2005 in response to the anticipated need for skilled stem cell technicians after the passage of a statewide ballot measure funding stem cell research efforts in California. Students who receive stem cell training at PCC reflect California’s diverse workforce, including first-generation college students, high school students, individuals pursuing a second career, women re-entering the workforce, displaced workers and veterans. More than 50% of the students who join the Biotechnology Program for stem cell training have already earned their Bachelor’s degrees and are acquiring additional skills to secure employment or improve their applications for graduate and professional schools. The mission of the PCC Stem Cell Training Program includes: preparing students for careers in stem cell research, both in academia and in industry; working to ensure that students are competitive in applications for postgraduate programs; facilitating internships and advanced training opportunities in the stem cell field; and providing a well-trained workforce at various educational and technical levels to the local stem cell research community.

Making prealgebra meaningful: It starts with faculty inquiry

AbstractIn this chapter, the authors describe their efforts, as codirectors of Pasadena City College's Teaching and Learning Center, to increase success rates in prealgebra and address issues of equity and access through a faculty inquiry‐based process.

Joint Maneuvers

With half the students seeking a transfer degree to five-year design schools and the other half looking for basic vocational instruction to pursue careers in the construction industry, teaching at community and junior colleges presents a unique opportunity to combine design and construction issues in a single assignment. This article documents a class taught in the Architecture Department at Pasadena City College. Working in groups of three for an entire semester, students with different backgrounds and interests merged their skills to produce a single structure that was both conscientiously designed and properly constructed.

Emergent design evaluation: A case study

Emergent design is an evaluation approach that begins with a loose participatory framework, which is utilized to define the roles and interactions of those involved, but not to prescribe the evaluation process as a whole. This article describes an emergent design evaluation that took place at Pasadena City College. The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the applicability and utility of an emergent design evaluation, as well as illustrate the process that evolved. The article outlines the extant literature on emergent program theory and emergent design evaluation, provides an overview of the program, discusses critical points in the evaluation and program processes, and concludes with a reflection on the process.

Molecular Science: Network-Deliverable Curricula

The Molecular Science systemic reform project, which has just begun its third year, is developing network-deliverable curricula for the first two years of Chemistry.1 The goals of the project are to prepare students who have a deep understanding of chemistry concepts and principles, have learned collaboration skills, can use the modern-technology tools of the chemist, and can write about chemistry. In addition, the project is integrating technology and telecommunications into the instructional process and shifting the instruction from lecture to active student learning. Faculty from six institutions (Crossroads School, East Los Angeles College, Pasadena City College, Mt. San Antonio College, California State University, Fullerton [CSUF], and the University of California, Los Angeles [UCLA]) form the core of the project. This cross-section represents the common and shared responsibility that exists for teaching the first two years of chemistry and the diversity of students in the nation.

Macbeth And The Consciousness Of Evil

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsJill O'Hora GeareJill O'Hora Geare, Ph.D., is an associate professor of English at Pasadena City College in California. She is currently working on a book-length study of projection and anima issues in Shakespearean tragedy.

Glenn Schroeder Dumke 1917-1989: A Remembrance

FIRST MET GLENN in 1940, almost fifty years ago. He had graduated from Occidental College in 1938 and was working toward a doctorate in history at U.C.L.A. In those postdepression years he thought it wise also to complete training for a general secondary teaching credential, lest he not be hired by a college or university. His student-teaching assignment was at what was then Pasadena City College, where I was enrolled.

Televising Microscopic Images for Instructional Use in Geology

This article describes the uses of a television camera mounted on a petrographic microscope in the Pasadena City College geology program. We have found that the televising of microscopic images is extremely effective for instructional use in geology, especially in introductory courses.

The Mathematics Laboratory and the Single Student

Ralph C. Williams, Professor of Mathematics at Pasadena City College, received his Ph.D. in 1966 from the University of Southern California. He has taught mathematics in Pasadena schools since 1946, has been a teaching consultant for many districts in Southern California, and is the author of several mathematics texts. During the past three years, he has concentrated on developing a personalized system of mathematics instruction at Pasadena City College. For as long as most of us can remember, the standard organization of the elementary mathematics instruction has been the classroom, a chalkboard, and a group of students called the class. Currently there are numerous experiments under way in alternative modes of instruction, many of them concerned with individualizing the instructional program. Among these is the mathematics laboratory. Pasadena City College opened its Math Lab to the individual student in the fall of 1970. This report deals with some of the background that led to the formation of the Lab and happenings now taking place as it moves into its second year. The Lab at Pasadena City College is in a slightly modified classroom. The room was the largest one available and was originally designed for adaptive changes. Twelve carrels were outfitted with cassette tape players and headphones. Four television monitors are mounted on the walls with the audio wired to headphones. The cost of equipment and room modification was shared by the district, two grants from NDEA Title III, and modest contributions of my own. If the equipment were purchased today it would cost less than $7,000. The remodeling was priced at about $2,000. The Laboratory, modified and equipped for operation, cost less than $10,000 over the cost of the existing room. According to the department chairman, the Lab has made possible a savings of $21,000 in instructional costs this past school year over the cost for the same number of students enrolled in regular classes. Three separate programs are carried on in the Lab. The Lab is open ten hours a day. Students from any course in the

Evaluation of Staff Performance

Because nurses in the state of Washington wanted explicit information to help them evaluate work performance, evaluation criteria and guidelines were developed. Here are the results and how they have been used in two hospitals. MISS KIMBALL (B.S., Emory University; M.N. University of Washington) is the director of nursing at Northwest Hospital, Seattle. Wash. She is a member of the Council on Practice of the Washington State Nurses Association. MRS. PARDEE (A.A., Pasadena City College, Pasadena, Calif.; B.S., University of Minnesota; M.N., University of Washington) is coordinator of nursing research at University Hospital, Seattle, and is clinical assistant professor at the University of Washington. MRS. LARSON (B.S., M.A., University of Washington) was a hospital epidemiologist at the University Hospital and recently left Seattle to live in Bethesda, Md. Copies of the evaluation forms used at the hospitals can be obtained from Miss Kimball at Northwest Hospital, 1551 N. 120th, Seattle, Wash. 98133, and from Mrs. Pardee at University Hospital, 1959 N.E. Pacific, Seattle, Wash. 98105.

The role of the nurse in a comprehensive health care services delivery structure.

1Associate in Arts in Nursing from Pasadena city College; a Bachelor of science in Nursing, magna cum laude, from the University of Washington; and a Master of science in Public Health Nursing from the University of Minnesota. She is Persently serving in the position of Research Fellow on the faculty of the School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota. 2Bachelor of arts Degree from Charles Buls Teachers College, Brussels, Belgium; a Master of science Degree in Business Administration from the University of Minnesota; and a Ph.D. in Hospital and Health Care Administration also from the University of Minnesota. He is presently serving as an Assistant Professor in the Program in Hospital and Health care Administration at the University of Minnesota.

Who's Committed? Who's Involved?

i ~~~~ If learning is dependent upon the active involvement of the learner, how can we as teachers structure the learning environment to optimize the quality and efficiency of learning? The following paragraphs describe a teaching strategy I have been using at Pasadena City College which aims at success by using peer groups and questions designed to raise the level of thinking. In the fall of 1969, I was assigned two classes in beginning algebra, Algebra I. Students in these classes are notoriously naive mathematically and often have demonstrated a previous lack of success with algebra. My goals for the classes were: 1. 100% mastery of the basic concepts of Algebra I; 2. Raising the level of thinking; and 3. Developing positive attitudes and enjoyment of mathematics.

Guidance In Groups. A Resource Book for Teachers, Counselors and Administrators

Journal Article Guidance In Groups. A Resource Book for Teachers, Counselors and Administrators Get access Guidance In Groups. A Resource Book for Teachers, Counselors and Administrators. By Margaret E. Bennett, Psychologist, Pasadena City College. Supplemented by “A Human Relations Program” by Celia F. Johnson. Cloth; price $5.50. Pp. 411. McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, 1955. Physical Therapy, Volume 36, Issue 7, 1 July 1956, Page 499, https://doi.org/10.1093/ptj/36.7.499 Published: 01 July 1956