Cochise College braces for big cuts
Aid will be at 1989 level
Sun, 01/30/2011 - 12:01am
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SIERRA VISTA — As community colleges across Arizona experience double-digit enrollment growth, Gov. Jan Brewer’s proposal to cut nearly half of their state aid for next year is forcing many to re-evaluate their core mission to serve all eligible students seeking a higher education.
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The overhaul of college and university education is long over due.
Institutional empires built upon the backs of public funding will be a thing
of the past. It is time to look beyond the “Pedagogy of the Oppressed”
and cerebrate a new Pedagogy that successfully links education, the economy
and student. Seize the opportunity.
Looks like the bad economic situation is truly taking its toll.
We need an educated workforce! Cutting funds to education helps only in the
very short term. In the long term - long here meaning only five or six years
- it will damage out state, reduce our local workforce, increase the rolls of
those who need some kind of assistance programs (and those programs are being
cut). This is very, very poor decision making by our governor and
representatives. We will all pay for their bad choices.
Cochise College has 1 statistics course, 3 economics courses, and 30 art
courses. Do you think we could make some cuts without damaging our work
force? Who is making the bad choices?
We have already paid for bad choices Auntie Em
Classes that teach, “Johnny has 2 dads”, “Barney’s gay & it’s O.K.”,
Diversity, & building a “paper chains of expression” are not going to create
an appealing workforce in our state.
Here’s an ego deflated moment for you. Here is a 2nd grade computer test for
Chinese students. I’ll bet 100% of your “Paper Chain of Expression” students
would fail this test.
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