Panic Attack
The campus faces serious challenges — which everyone, perhaps even the faculty senate, will resume talking about when the Board of Trustees next meets on Jan. 9. But Bobbitt speaks encouragingly. “Up until now, we have not eliminated any programs, we have not eliminated any services, and everything you can come here for you can still come here for,” he said. “The community should not worry about the college going away. And I know what my job is. My job is to carry us forward.” That is, until a new president is found and hired sometime this May or June.
And it’s easy to imagine that, if a rainbow is to be found hovering over the stormy campus, it might very well come in the form of those same wonderful — but worried — faculty. “One thing you’ll learn about the faculty out here,” said Mayer, “is you’re totally committed.”
Butler — a former diesel mechanic who discovered his love for mathematics at a community college in Santa Rosa — put it more intimately. “When I say `we’ [when talking about CR], it’s because I have a big investment in CR, and in the financial health of the community,” he said. “About 10 to 12 years ago I had a student come to me. He was taking an algebra class. He was going to get a certificate in electronics. He was in a halfway house and was getting his life cleaned up. He started [to get into math], fell in love with it. And now he’s a tech in the research and development lab in Berkeley. Now here’s a guy who was living in the bushes behind Monkey Ward, who’s now at UC Berkeley. And that’s a typical story. That happens a lot. And that’s the reason we get up and go to work every day — we’re changing the world.”
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