“...after the steep enrollment declines this year and funding for community college faculty and staff pay raises...”
Did you catch that. They have enrollment declines but still want massive pay raises.
Eventually when NO ONE is attending these junior colleges then the staff will want millions in wages to sit and do nothing because we know they sure as hell aren’t teaching anything worthy.
I was teaching at a local community college a few years ago and the new administration made a comment that the biggest problem for the college was high enrollment and they actually took steps to discourage enrollment.
Apparently, the money needed to accommodate all of those pesky students was cutting into the money they needed to hire more administrators.
The administration seems to think that the purpose of the college is to provide a platform for hiring friends to unnecessary administrative jobs.