Pima Community College's five-member governing board has two open seats this election cycle.
There are two open seats on Pima Community College’s Governing Board this election cycle. In each nonpartisan race , two candidates are vying for the available volunteer six-year term on the board.The college, which serves around 17,000 students in Southern Arizona, is at a crossroads.
“I’m running for re-election because the job’s not done,” Clinco said. “We’ve built these world-class facilities but we still have to build the best-in-class programs to serve the students of Southern Arizona.” If elected, she intends to bring her math background to the board’s analysis of data about student success so that it can make the most informed decisions. “You can’t expect the board to make sound decisions if what they’re interpreting through faulty graphs and data is making them believe something is true that really isn’t,” she said.
She also said she’s both heard from voters and experienced firsthand the frustration of the enrollment process — the registration website is not intuitive and the in-person process is often long and tedious. Those are both things she’d want to address if elected because, she said “Enrollment isn’t going to go up if we’re putting up these kinds of barricades.”
Taylor praised Lambert’s Centers of Excellence for meeting some of those workforce demands, but also said the college’s focus on recruiting students in the high schools and those who want to transfer to a four-year university would remain a part of his plan to increase student numbers. “The younger they are, the bigger spark they seem to have about their excitement for the world,” Pierson said. “It seems like a lot of the young people today don’t have quite the same spark in terms of what they see as opportunities. That’s something that concerns me and I think that’s one of the areas Pima Community College could have a big influence.”
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