Official Ballot Statement

	Official Ballot Statement
               Statement of EDWARD (SANDY) HAY, Candidate for
                           Governing Board Member
   Occupation: College Teacher/Consulting Geologist
   Age: 62
   Education and Qualifications: A.B., M.A. University of California,
   Berkeley
   Student learning must drive all District and campus decisions.
   Educational quality is the key criterion by which we judge success.
   Current Board emphasis is on the "Corporate Model". This model is
   appropriate and desirable for profit-oriented enterprises, but for
   colleges, an emphasis on seat counts and bottom lines often diminishes
   student success.
   The current trustees spent millions of taxpayer dollars on hired
   consultants who negotiate with faculty and staff, and conduct studies
   having little to do directly with education. Instead, I would have
   urged investment in ways to enhance student learning.
   Our colleges are overwhelmed with students needing basic skills.
   Recent emphasis, however, has been on expensive information technology
   without clear understanding of how it serves needs of students. I
   believe that students benefit most when actively engaged and
   challenged, and I believe that technology holds the promise of greatly
   assisting skilled classroom teachers, but only when the power of
   technology is focused by the creativity and guidance of skilled and
   dedicated classroom teachers. Foothill-De Anza must find such talent
   to augment their full-time faculty, as well as provide considerably
   more support to current part-time instructors.
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