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By JOSH GRAY Carol Carder is Pima College’s Marketing and PR Coordinator for the Center for the Arts and Pima Arts. Carder moved here, from the Midwest where she worked in the marketing department for another college, to be close to her daughter. She has been with Pima for 14 years now. Q: What do you do at Pima? A: What I do is promote the Pima Arts. I work very closely with the Pima Art’s faculty and performance directors and promote their events that are held at the Center for the Arts. I also work with the Center for the Arts to promote what they do for the college. So, I work for two aspects; I work for the Pima Arts and the Center for the Arts. Q: Why Center for the Arts? A: I am an Arts major myself, both digital arts and visual arts. I’m very passionate about the arts I love ...

By KYLE KERSEY Kenneth Vorndran has been an instructor at Pima Community College for 15 years, but in the mid ’90s, he found himself at a crossroads. A veteran Maryland high school English teacher of over a decade, Vorndran had come to realize that it wasn’t a job he wanted to do for the rest of his life. “It wasn’t about the students as much as it was about the systems,’” Vorndran said. ‘“A teacher’s day at the high school level is consumed by hall duty and lunch duty and parent teacher conferences and pep assemblies and, ‘Oh, can you check the bathroom closest to your room between classes to make sure people aren’t smoking?’ and principals reading a book in the summer and deciding ‘We’re going to do everything different this year’… It’s not really a heartfelt thing.” He needed to mak...