I will continue the current Boards financial approach to maintain a healthy reserve and a balanced budget.
As a trustee, I will continue the current Boards financial approach to maintain a healthy reserve, but there are critical issues that need to be addressed that directly affect the quality of education students are receiving. From my experience at PCC, I understand that full-time professors are choosing to teach too many sections as a means of giving themselves a pay increase. That practice is robbing opportunities from the non-tenured, adjunct faculty. It is understandable that the economy is in a rough position, but we need to stay focused on our mandate to educate students. When professors deliberately overbook themselves, they often don't have adequate time to meet with students during office hours or to offer individual comments on graded papers. The quality of education is suffering due to a deliberately high student load per professor. In the meantime, the adjunct faculty is not getting the opportunity to teach, learn best practices, and prove themselves as the next generation of professors. It is already difficult to teach the normal four college classes; so let's reorganize with a focus on high quality education. As a trustee, I want the students and the college to thrive. This is critical to recruiting and retaining the best faculty possible over the long term.
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