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Butte College campus bustles between classes on February 12, 2020. Photo by Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters
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Rarely are college bean-counters skeptical of receiving more money, but a plan to give California’s community college system hundreds of millions of dollars for faculty is dividing finance officials and professors.
For college financial officials, the new money would come at an inopportune time: Enrollment plunged across the 116-college system by 11% last fall as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. With fewer students to teach, financial officers worry that committing $170 million to hire 2,000 more full-time faculty now, per a budget blueprint approved by key legislative panels in late May, will lead to problems later.
Daniel Alvarado’s pre-pandemic path was bright.
The first in his family to go to college, the Cathedral City native was in his sophomore year at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Majoring in English and French, he had scholarships to pay his tuition and an on-campus job writing a column for the school newspaper to help make ends meet.
His plan was to graduate in 2023. Then COVID-19 struck and the state shut down in order to curb the spread of the virus.
“At first it seemed like the worst thing that could happen was leaving (school), but little did I know that was just the beginning,” he said.