PORTLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE THEATRE ARTS PROGRAM ...

campus options, student schedules and travel time inhibited student
success. In that regard, Cascade is actively trying to meet student needs
with performance options in the Cascade area. This could take place in
newly developed spaces or neighborhood partnerships. This idea has
active support and leadership of current Dean Daniel Wenger and would
likely create a need for additional instructors that would enhance student
exposure to ideas and activities.
With TA sharing space in the MAHB with the multimedia department,
a cross collaboration has been a natural outgrowth that has benefited
students and serves to fit a film acting focus that is recognized by faculty
at PSU as serving their new film acting program. We see many PSU
students taking advantage of screen acting as well as multimedia courses
at Cascade. A Cascade student and PSU film major recently relayed
a suggestion by a PSU acting faculty that he stay an additional term in
the Cascade acting program to be better prepared for his upper level
courses at PSU. This could lead towards an official transfer reciprocal
agreement with PSU.
ROCK CREEK: For the past few years, Rock Creek has tried a variety of
times to offer classes. In reviewing the needs of the program and of the
students, we are returning to a set schedule that will build-up across the
academic year. For example, following the Sylvania pattern, RC will be
offering only TA 141 in the Fall. Winter will offer TA 141 on a different day,
possibly, and a combination of TA 142/143 at the time that TA 141 was
offered in the Fall. Then in the Spring, we would return the TA 141 to the
Fall time slot and offer TA 142/143 in the time that TA 141 was offered in
the Winter. The hope is that RC can gain a solid base of students moving
through the courses.
More collaboration between campuses would be useful. As a campus that
is offering shadow-box theatre, it would be a good idea to invite instructors
such as Dan Hays and Frances Marsh to give a lecture to students
how this can be accomplished with the resources. Using such Portland
resources as Sylvania instructor John Duncan, who has a theatre group