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Valley College students planning to enroll for the 2009 Winter session should make other arrangements to receive their transferable units, as admission to all winter classes have been closed.
"The fact that now I have to wait until Fall 2011 as opposed to Fall 2010…It'll be fun, another year at Valley," student Gohar said. "It's gonna take me longer to get the classes I need to transfer."
According to Academic Affairs, Valley is offering 122 sections this winter session, opposed to the 248 they offered last year.
Community colleges are funded by the state according to their full-time equivalent student count, or amount of full-time students the campus has enrolled per semester. Any students, sections, or classes that this funding does not cover are left to the college to pay for.
"If you have more (sections) than what the state will fund, the college eats the cost," administrative analyst for Academic Affairs, Duane Martin, said.
Spring 2009 will also see a drop from 1,759 sections down to 1,650 sections according to Academic Affairs. The drop in sections will not coincide with the amount of students that are enrolling at Valley. The "one seat, one student" goal at Valley is now approaching 20,000 students, which is roughly 40 percent of the expected enrollment, according to Martin.
"The more that you delay, the less chances that you will have to capture your desired schedule," Dean of Enrollment Florentino Manzano said. "You may not get your desired schedule, you may have to work with what we have, and that's life and it's really tough, but it might very well be necessary for people to juggle some things."
According to the admissions office, students will still be able to add winter classes at the start of the session. Students trying to add must bring the add card, with their admission application, to the admissions office no later than Jan. 11; no late add permits will be accepted.
"It is with great sadness that we have made cuts to both winter and spring class offerings," Valley President Sue Carleo said. "With the cut we received earlier this year, all community colleges have been downsized. As a result we cannot continue to offer the same number of classes as we have in the past. We will do the best we can to meet the program needs of all our students with the funds we have. We ask students to enroll early and to recognize that each seat in every class is important to someone meeting his or her educational goals."
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