Gov. Brown's plan for online-only community college provokes pushback

[TexasTowelie]

Leaders within the California Community College system are objecting to Gov. Jerry Brown’s push to create a new online-only community college.

Both faculty leaders and some members of the Board of Governors — the group that oversees the 114-campus system — said the process for creating an online college is rushed and expressed skepticism about the merits of a fully online college program.

Members of the Board of Governors voiced their concerns this week during their bimonthly meeting.

The faculty pushback surfaced in several resolutions approved at the Academic Senate of the California Community Colleges meeting November 2 through November 4.

Board of Governors member Geoffrey L. Baum said that, if the system pursues a statewide online college, California should ensure more low-income workers vying for credentials have access to fast internet so that students “don’t have to stand outside the door of the library in order to try to access [their courses].” Responding to testimony that more learners are relying on smart phones for their online needs, he added, “a phone is not a classroom.”

Read more: http://www.ocregister.com/2017/11/16/498426/

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1. I took online classes...

and I loved it. I met people from all over the world and I could attend class when it was cunvient for me. I never had to worry about parking and if I was still in my jamies,no one cared.