Discrepancies in Los Angeles Community College District Course Offerings Found

When students had problems matriculating through District colleges, one professor sought answers. What she discovered is shocking.
By: Yolanda Toure
 
LOS ANGELES - Nov. 7, 2014 - PRLog -- "After learning from my students the difficulties they had trying to matriculate through the Los Angeles Community College District system I decided to research the problem,” said Los Angeles Trade Technical College Adjunct Prof. Yolanda Touré. On Wednesday, October 8, to a packed house of the Los Angeles Community College Board of Trustees Meeting held at Los Angeles Trade Technical College, she addressed the Board, all nine LACCD Presidents, faculty members and students.

  “My team and I spent four hours comparing the course offerings on all nine Los Angeles Community College District websites,” said Prof. Touré. The LACCD’s colleges are: East Los Angeles College, Los Angeles City College, Los Angeles Harbor College, Los Angeles Mission College, Los Angeles Southwest College, Los Angeles Trade Technical College, Los Angeles Valley College, Pierce College and West Los Angeles College. “The results were  confusing at best,” she admitted.

   Prof. Touré found several glaring discrepancies with course offerings between the nine college websites. “We saw a number of issues that went far beyond our initial investigation. We learned that our Business Departments are not standardized. Some colleges include C.A.O.T under Business and others are separate departments. Four campuses offer, what we are calling a traditional business curriculum. That’s where the vague similarities end. LATTC had probably one of the most robust course offerings and was comparable to Pierce College before our Department began downsizing. The departments are so different and they are grouped under a variety of department headings with little uniformity within the District. Business should be referred to by the same name regardless of the campus. Business, Business Administration, Business Technology, etc. makes comparisons confusing,” she said.

  At a time when most Trade Tech students say their number one reason for returning to college is to start a business, Prof. Touré can’t understand why pieces of the Business Department are being syphoned off to other Departments that have absolutely nothing at all to do with business. “This is the time when the Business Departments of our colleges need to be reconfigured for uniformity, supported with cutting edge marketing and strengthened,” she said. “This is the only way that we will graduate successful entrepreneurs.”

 The veteran instructor felt a sense of duty. “I had to bring these problems to the Board of Trustees on behalf of all students,” Prof. Touré said. We must provide LACCD students better service for their futures—and their investment.” She believes that the Board of Trustees and the Presidents of the nine LACCD colleges will handle these oversights and make the necessary corrections in an expeditious manner. “My 31 years with the Los Angeles Community College District gives me reason to hope for a better outcome.”

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