Too many students to teach

Jack Howard

In Wick Sloane's article, she laments that her community college is over populated and can't accommodate the growing demand of a community college education. She cites her personal experience of having to teach a writing composition class at midnight because all other sections are more than full. Sloane continues to lament as she goes on to accuse bigger colleges of taking an unfair portion of the available federal aid that a community college student could not receive. One of Sloan's proposed solutions is to build more building to house more classes. While this is a possible solution to the problem, I think there is a more practical solution: online classes.

Online classes would be a much more effective and cost saving solution to the problem. Getting more federal funding seems like a long term solution to the problem, and would be very difficult. Online classes would require very little infrastructure. This saves money and time. It seems to me online classes are a very practical solution that many other colleges and high schools employ to compensate for a higher demand for education.

Another form of support would be to attempt to lobby for more alumni involvement and support. Many colleges such as Georgia Tech have a very large alumni following that gives countless dollars to the school. Maybe if the community college attempted to create a sense of lifelong attachment to their school among its students, it would have greater success in obtaining alumni donations. This would bypass the need for federal assistance.