State budgets likely to squeeze 2-year colleges/Chronicle of Higher Ed
November 4th, 2008http://chronicle.com/weekly/v55/i11/11a00103.htm?utm_source=cc&utm_medium=en
“When students are pushed from the universities to community colleges, they push some community-college students out,” said George R. Boggs, president of the American Association of Community Colleges. “Those students just don’t go to college, or they can’t get full class schedules, and it just stretches out the time to a degree.”
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An on-going problem for timely completion/transfer is the non-availability of sequential sections semester to semester. Faculty often decide in departments what they want to teach rather than what needs to be taught for timely program completion. Another factor is counseling appointments. A first semester student may not receive a timely counseling appointment, and thus enroll in classes which do not directly benefit program completion/transfer. A basic four semester general education advising guide (on-line/hard copy) could enhance student completion rates and reduce student dependence for counseling appointments. Students would benefit from a more user-friendly model than the IGETC as posted in schedule of classes.
Another factor is cutting class sections under the state growth allocation which directly translates into lost revenue for the institution. That’s a no brainer.
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