Annual Clark College address set for Thursday
Clark College President Bob Knight will give his 2010 State of the College address Thursday against a backdrop of record student enrollment and likely state budget reductions.
The speech begins at 11 a.m. in the Gaiser Student Center on Clark’s main campus, 1933 Fort Vancouver Way.
Doors will open to the public at 10:30 a.m., with first-come, first-served seating for all guests.
Parking maps and driving directions are available at http://www.clark.edu/maps/.
Guests should expect parking to be very tight.
Knight will discuss budget challenges and Clark’s contributions and accomplishments over the past year.
He also will make the rounds at the school’s other sites: the Columbia Tech Center building, which opened last September; the Town Plaza training facility; and Clark’s classroom building at Washington State University Vancouver.
Prior to Knight’s keynote address, Clark student ambassadors will collect nonperishable food donations that will go to Share Vancouver, provider of emergency shelter and other services for the homeless.
Donations also will be taken from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday at Clark’s Welcome Center, located in the basement level of the Penguin Union Building, adjacent to Gaiser Hall.
As part of a Children’s Hunger Initiative, Share operates a “backpack program,” in which food is supplied after school on Fridays to more than 650 children in 28 regional elementary schools. Absent the food-filled packs, many children might go hungry during weekends.
For that effort, foods such as granola bars, fruit rolls, canned tuna, soup, cereal, crackers, peanut butter, jam and juice boxes are especially welcome, Clark officials note.
