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Allegations made against the new PHIT center
Joel Paramo
Issue date: 2/7/07 Section: News
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The new PHIT program has taken the spotlight at Bakersfield College.
According to Alan Crane, legislative liaison of the SGA at Bakersfield College, the new PHIT program has infringed on the right of the student body violating section 51023.7 of Title 5.
It states, "the Board of Trustees shall establish procedures to ensure faculty, staff, and students; the opportunity to express their opinions and to ensure that these opinions shall be given every reasonable consideration. That the college shall be governed by three governance systems, the first one stating that collegial governance system in which the college shall rely primarily upon the advice and judgment of the Academic Senate and its representatives."
"That health center fee is being charged to provide for a mental health physician on campus or to beef up our health center and to provide for the building of a health center on the Delano Campus," said Crane. "That money was not to be used to buy weights and not to renovate those facilities."
Though according to Mildred Lovato, vice president of student services, and Bill Andrews, president of Bakersfield College, the program is useful and will hopefully reduce health fees for student later on in life by practicing preventative health.
"I met with the dean of students and addressed it with an internal auditor to make sure that we were using funds appropriately," said Lovato.
Andrews agrees, "The center was already run through with an auditor John James, there is completely nothing inappropriate about this program," said Andrews. "It's there to hopefully help reduce student health fees later in life through preventative health."
It's a requirement that all students attending Bakersfield College pay the student health fee upon enrollment, though, according to Lovato, most students weren't taking advantage of what it had to offer. Lovato says she has 'single handedly' devised a more useful way of spending the money students pay and incorporated the new PHIT program, it stands for, preventative healthcare information and training.
According to Alan Crane, legislative liaison of the SGA at Bakersfield College, the new PHIT program has infringed on the right of the student body violating section 51023.7 of Title 5.
It states, "the Board of Trustees shall establish procedures to ensure faculty, staff, and students; the opportunity to express their opinions and to ensure that these opinions shall be given every reasonable consideration. That the college shall be governed by three governance systems, the first one stating that collegial governance system in which the college shall rely primarily upon the advice and judgment of the Academic Senate and its representatives."
"That health center fee is being charged to provide for a mental health physician on campus or to beef up our health center and to provide for the building of a health center on the Delano Campus," said Crane. "That money was not to be used to buy weights and not to renovate those facilities."
Though according to Mildred Lovato, vice president of student services, and Bill Andrews, president of Bakersfield College, the program is useful and will hopefully reduce health fees for student later on in life by practicing preventative health.
"I met with the dean of students and addressed it with an internal auditor to make sure that we were using funds appropriately," said Lovato.
Andrews agrees, "The center was already run through with an auditor John James, there is completely nothing inappropriate about this program," said Andrews. "It's there to hopefully help reduce student health fees later in life through preventative health."
It's a requirement that all students attending Bakersfield College pay the student health fee upon enrollment, though, according to Lovato, most students weren't taking advantage of what it had to offer. Lovato says she has 'single handedly' devised a more useful way of spending the money students pay and incorporated the new PHIT program, it stands for, preventative healthcare information and training.
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