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     New school term begins with picket signs at convocation (click for picture)
Focus on the College of Marin Career Education Programs:

"Excellence abounds in all of our Career Education Programs.  The next time you go to a dentist-it will probably be a COM Dental Assistant attending to you, or go to Kaiser-it will be a COM Medical Assistant assisting you. Thousands of COM Automotive Technicians are serving us in the entire north bay-look under your hood and the COM graduate is the one who will take care of that problem for you. When you go to Court-it is the COM Court Reporting getting 225wpm at 98.8% accuracy for the court system-taking care of you. Local businesses abound with graduates with excellent communication, business, and computer skills, from our Business and CIS majors. The landscaping design you used on your property was from a COM graduate, if you have had a fender bender and your automobile came back looking almost new it was an Auto Collision repair graduate from COM, the websites and multi-media that we use is often from our own graduates as professionals behind the scenes.

 Excellence abounds in our graduates out in the community as a result of the “excellence” in our faculty, and tireless support services that come from Student Services.  This commitment from the Instructional faculty, Counseling and Library faculty all contribute countless hours above and beyond what is required to ensure student success.  Our faculty has always put “Students First”-thus the impact on all of our lives in the local community."

--Letta Hlavachek, Career Counselor 8-18-2008


  Action Meeting on September 11th to vote on dues increase and update unit members on contract negotiations. We will meet in Fusselmann Hall 120 at 3:30            [View Flyer]  
  Board approves revised Salary Schedule - As part of their compliance with the arbitrator's ruling in the Retirement Incentive Arbitration, the College Board approved the revised Schedules that took effect on July 1, 2006. The district is still working on preparing checks for back pay due unit members for work performed during the 2004-05, 2005-06 and 2006-07 terms.   [View New Salary Schedule]  
  Negotiation at Impasse - Mediation with the District is underway.  Read all about it in the latest Union Press newsletter and view a recap of the articles the District has opened in their demand for take-backs.  
  District Lawyer Paid $ 400,000.00 to negotiate?...or is it to litigate? The District's lawyer has been hired to do both jobs since April of 2006! The District has failed to complete even one of the three contracts it has been negotiating for more than a year. Is this taxpayer money well spent?                 [View Flyer]