With the economic downturn, skyrocketing enrollment growth is a fact of life at community colleges as are classrooms bursting at the seams from the increased demand. This certainly seems to reflect our situation here at TCC. In this week’s Chronicle of Higher Education, http://chronicle.com/weekly/v55/i29/29b01101.htm there is a story on the phenomenon, and some of the measures that the colleges are taking to address the rising demand and the pressures on resources (like space and faculty) including more classes, weekend sections, more on-line and even 24/7 scheduling, but this raises an important question for us:
What role should the faculty be playing in the formulating of the policies addressing these demographic changes?
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
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