[tubebender]

Any day now, community colleges here may begin telling faculty members that they cannot be paid and students that summer classes are canceled.

It is already happening in Humboldt CountyStory

[Grampa Dave]

Good! Probably a very large % of the full time employees do little if anything re real work in providing educational courses for the students.

Personally, I'm tired of paying taxes for the courses which are often hobby courses. Let the students pay full bore costs for art, photography, wine making, how to paint your house and how to compost courses. My wife gets no tax $'s in her RN CME courses re the cost of the course. The actual costs are bore by the RNs. The costs vary depending on the instructor, cost of meeting room and those expenses. Costs have risen each year. As a result the good courses are sold out, and the crappy ones never sell out even at lower costs.