Education isn’t a business

I am disappointed at how the Fresno State administration is dealing with the budget crisis. The price of tuition is continually rising and at the same time the selection and quality of classes is going down.

This semester I had a hard time getting enough units to become a full-time student. When I did, most of my classes were crowded. I am in a critical thinking class with nearly fifty students, and the professor told us that an effective critical thinking class should have about fifteen students. This seems to be a little bit out of hand if the professor is not able to educate us because of the class size.

When I registered for the spring 2011 semester I was glad that I easily signed up of a full load of classes, but none of my required science courses were available when it was time for me to register. I will either have to be enrolled at Fresno City College and Fresno
State this semester, or just Fresno State and risk having to spend an extra semester trying to get a degree.

With the quality of education going down and the prices going up, it seems to me that education is being treated more like a business than a way to improve our society.

Peter Harmon
Pre-nursing