i went to this school, sounds terrible, should devote more resources into classes, getting people ready for transfer, and tech programs like rad tech, pharm tec,etc. rad tech in almost every CC in the US is so inundated with applicants that wait times is like 4-8 years because most colleges accept 20-30 applicants at any given time, if you dont want to pay for more expensive but quicker program at a university.
alot of people have what i call “academically trapped” , staying in the school for 4-10+years without much movement in thier career path, because some of the class shouldnt be as hard as some private universities.
You mean the classses are easier at a private university?
Yes, the college should she single handedly fix the entire nations transportation issues by fucking over it’s current student base dependent on cars.
It’s a bold strategy cotten, let’s see if it works out 🙄
Winston was frustrated that the college is building the new parking structure out of funds earmarked for student facilities and campus improvements. “The city should be investing that money in making the transit that already exists more attractive to students, not making it easier to drive to one of the most transit-rich campuses in San Francisco,” he said.
It’s actually one of the most transit-rich campuses in all of North America. For readers unfamiliar with the area, the campus is a six-minute walk from the Balboa Park BART, Muni M Ocean View and Muni J Church train station (see map below). It is also served directly by the Muni K Ingleside and multiple bus lines.
This is a community college. There are tons of others all across the country that offer equally valuable degrees, which are completely car-centric. If someone is already driving to this college from outside the city where they arent served by transit, they can very reasonably enroll in a different college with better parking and drive there instead. Or if they need to go to this CC, and they need to drive to leave their house, then they can park at a commuter transit station and take transit to the college.
It is the nature of making the world a better place that sometimes, some people will be inconvenienced. There may even be some people who will have their entire lives derailed because this parking garage isn’t built, because they are barely scraping by to get to night classes after working their fast food job every day - and that sucks! But building the parking garage costs taxpayer money which could be used in much better ways to help people, and the existance of the parking garage will induce more demand, making everyone else’s lives worse.
Sensible government policy doesn’t get attached to individual sob stories, because any action (or inaction) will create an unfortunate outcome for someone. Instead, a sensible government looks at the big picture, the whole population, and the long term, and asks what is in everyone’s best interest on net.
This is as neive as expecting corporations to be benevolent to you.
Without laws and regulation nothing will change. Barking up the wrong tree here.
They will lose students and consequently funding when students leave for schools that better fit their needs.
Laws and regulations on what? The area is already served quite well by transit, and has proposals coming down the line for more and better - see article. And as another commenter pointed out, the college actually has long wait lists for many classes - if some students head elsewhere, that is probably better for everyone all around.
And this isn’t calling someone out for failing to recycle their beer cans. It is a $50 million, taxpayer funded, permanent structure. It won’t do anything to improve students lives for several years. And long term, the best thing that can happen to it is that it gets demolished when transit becomes indisputibly the better option, and the expected case is that it keeps inducing demand for decades to come.
I’m all for creating systematic change. But if all you do is wait and wait and wait for the legislature to pass the perfect laws and regulations to solve everything and make everyone happy and also give you a dick-sucking unicorn, then nothing will ever change. Incremental change that happens bit by bit, one block at a time, gives us something we can actually accomplish right now, which is the only time when anything ever gets accomplished. And also creates more spaces, more examples for people to see, of how the world can be different and their lives could be better, which is what gives you the political capital to write better laws.