2006-08 Classified Senate Officers

June Cressy
President

I started at City College as a returning student in 1989.  I started as an hourly the same year.  When I was forty I walked across the stage at the Organ Pavilion and got my associate’s degree.  In the past seventeen years I have been a City Times writer and editor, a classified senator, a mentor, a tutor, a City Works contributor and student and staff editor, all while working full-time in the duplicating department.  City College is very important to me.  The work that we do as classified staff of this community is important work.  When Desiree asked if I would be willing to run as president of the classified senate I had mixed feelings.  I wanted to help continue what she and the senate had started by increasing our participation in the campus community and at the district after a dormant period.  As a member of the accreditation standard that dealt with governance and leadership, I had spoken with classified people about their concerns with our place in this organization and shared governance being shaky, at best.  The Institutional Assessment Committee of which I am a member is working with faculty and beginning to work with staff on how to look at what we do within our area of expertise and see what we do, how we are doing, what else we might try to accomplish that task or duty in the most effective way, and how that new approach works.  I knew if elected, I would have work to do.  I also knew that I would continue to encourage staff, including our senators, to participate in important committee work on campus to both give classified input and help keep each other informed of the larger picture of which our work is an essential part.  We all get a chance at coming up to bat.  Thanks for mine, and I offer you yours.  The classified executive board is open to all input, suggestions and offers of help from you.  It’s a team effort.