In all honesty, I'm the wrong person to be complaining about courses being cut at SLCC. My goal at SLCC is to get generals done, decide where in the world I want to take my life, and then go to a four year college to get a degree in whatever that may be. I don't plan on staying my entire college career, and it is doubtful they will be cutting classes I need. However, I want to help the best I can, but the odds are against the students.
Since the economy has gotten worse, SLCC has suffered and the only way to continue running is to cut expenses. Expenses include teachers, funds, and courses. Cutting courses will make getting a degree in an "unpopular" field will be hard for students who can only go to community college.
I think the best thing to do is leave at least a few available classes in every subject. Maybe students could have a vote on which classes to cut? Or what if the faculty provided us with options on where the students want to pull funds. We could vote on what we think is important and isn't. I doubt it would happen, the it's best we can ask for. More than likely, the administration will decide on the matter.
How does everyone else feel about that?
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I think you are right about how the decision of cutting classes is going to go-I don't it's fair at all. I know several people who signed up for classes this semester and when they went to class found out it was canceled and no longer available! How upsetting is that, you know exactly what career you want to go into and find out they no longer have classes and you need to change your career choice-that isn't ok! I understand that the economy is in a rut but the last thing they should take away from is the schools!
ReplyDeleteI am also in a same postion as ZeldaGirl im leavig slcc as soon as fall semester but the future students that are coming in shouldnt have to suffer
ReplyDeleteThat sounds like a good idea. We don't need 50 math professors, or writing, or science etc; and what are students to do if classes pertaining to their major classes get cut? Just put that on hold?? It's nonsense. The vote sounds fair!
ReplyDeletethat would be the ideal way to handle the situation, letting the students decide what they want or not, but it doesn't seem very realistic. cutting the number of classes instead of courses would also make sense for them to do. maybe they could cut costs in ways that don't affect the classes being held somehow?
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