latimes.com: The school's governing board has approved a plan to offer certain high-demand classes for a higher price when the regular classes have filled up. It's believed to be the first such scheme in the nation.
Friday, March 16, 2012
Santa Monica College to offer two-tier course pricing
latimes.com: The school's governing board has approved a plan to offer certain high-demand classes for a higher price when the regular classes have filled up. It's believed to be the first such scheme in the nation.
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I think the governing board of the Santa Monica Community College deserves a lot of credit for trying to do something about this unfortunate situation. While this may not be the best solution, it is a solution that they can implement and test out right away. I honestly don't know if this two-tiered system will be for the better or worse. It seems like a good way to help out some students who need the community college credit before they can move on to bigger, more specialized programs. It is good in that it will provide more classes and will mean that less people will be turned away. It seems as though a valiant effort is being put in to ensure that students with financial hardships will still be able to enroll at the school. What seems weird to me is that the more expensive classes will pretty much be the same as the less expensive ones in terms of content and caliber. This basically means, to me, that people who can afford the expensive classes can pay more in order to get themselves off of waitlists and graduate or move on sooner.This is certainly an unfair advantage to students who can't afford the higher-tier classes, but at the same time it would be wrong to miss this opportunity to provide more classes. The Santa Monica Community College has been put in an awful situation and I applaud the school's board for doing everything they can in an attempt to provide reasonably-priced education for as many students as possible.
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