The Alamo Colleges work on a budget that consists of many factors, some items we need and some items we want; still, there are guidelines that need to be followed before one can obtain some extra money for technology.
This college, especially because it houses the largest group of the 60,000-plus students in the district, needs money for technology to improve student success. But, for some reason, we cannot get funding because there isn’t enough to go around the five colleges and district.
The faculty and staff at this college, however, are singing and dancing for it, literally.
Employees of this college are putting on a talent show and silent auction to raise money for technology. Three winning departments will each get a projector valued at $2,000.
This is sad.
Once again, the faculty and staff are doing something proactive while the district does a song and dance.
These people work hard in the interests of our students, but because the district shorts this college when funding, they have to give up what little free time they have to perform in a fundraiser in which they hope to cover the cost of three projectors.
What’s efficient about that?
Other colleges do not have as high a ratio of tenured faculty members and are housed in newer campuses than this college, but the district always seems to find money for those colleges. Here many of our needs go unmet.
Northwest Vista released 45 computers once their warranties had expired; how much did it cost to replace them?
Something has to change.
For years, there was no money for equipment, but plenty for technology. Now that well has dried up also.
The students of this college deserve more. The chancellor wants the Alamo Colleges to be national models.
Well, this isn’t the way to achieve it.
What’s the value of a college that cannot fully support academic and student success anyway?
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