[quote=scaredyclassic]mt san jacinto, cc in riverside, just had a bond measure on the ballot for about 300 million for new facility upgrades.
i voted against, ebcause, i dont know, it looked pretty nice when i went to visit a couple years ago. doesnt seem liek they need a construction project seems like they need to just run more classes with more profs. they’re barely paying these teachers anything. just keep the place running doubletime. am i out of line witht hat suggestion. jeez. you got a room, the library is unebelievably gorgreous, just fucking have some goddamn classes!!!! and stop building shit…and the shamelessness the way the ballot is tied to educating returning veterns.
come on…
ah, i guess it’s ok, dumber ways to spend 300 million than a college renovation[/quote]
SWC recently completed the multimillion-dollar renovation of Devore Stadium.
Many of the SUHSD schools use SWC’s auditorium and will also use this new stadium due to having no like facilities of their own.
Yes, scaredy, most of the CA CC’s instructors are “adjunct” instructors (who work a FT job elsewhere or are collecting a pension). They are actually paid by the class taught (as a yoga instructor at a gym would be, for example)!
I believe it is the duty of CA CC’s to prepare FT college freshman and sophomores for CA university admission. Since many CC campuses likely can no longer achieve this on a consistent basis with their many (expensive) classrooms sitting empty due to lack of (cheap) staff, it’s well past time to let the cat out of the bag and tell HS seniors the truth: that they would be MUCH better off applying for university NOW and getting the h@ll out of dodge if that’s what it takes to begin university classes right out of HS.
Bakersfield, Merced and Fresno are actually downright cheap to live in! (No, my kid isn’t attending those campuses but has friends that are.) As you know, several other UC/CSU campus locations only have a slightly higher off-campus cost of living than the above three. I’ve seen the recent improvements of Fresno State and the new UC Merced campus and they are both beautiful and state of the art!
Returning veterans should just enroll in UC/CSU (even if they have to move their families near campus). Many already have college credits from their shipboard and field assignments. They don’t need 60 core units to get admitted and can get admitted under different criteria. They have CalVet or Chapter 35 aid and/or the Montgomery GI Plan. Any UC/CSU would be most happy to have them and would assign them their very own personal academic advisor. As it should be.
I can see no good reason for a returning vet to waste their precious time after leaving active duty service (when many already have children to support) playing endless games at a CA CC unless they are dreaming of becoming an auto alignment specialist or going into construction trades.
