Friday, April 3, 2009

key elements and course of action

Salt Lake Community College's portable classrooms are enough out of the way that they cause students attending these classes problems when they could potentially be saved from the hassles. When students sign up for classes, they assume that the school has set up the rooms so that they are able to be easily attended. This is not the case with the portable classrooms.  The portable classrooms cause students to have a hard time getting to their classes because of the awkward placement of these portables, discouraging students from making it to their classes when they should be encouraging attendance.  The walk to and from the portables to the main campus, depending on the length of the class, can account for half of the class itself.  The parking situation is enough of an ordeal itself, but on top of having to finding an extra parking spot for having driven to the portables, students have to take two left turns across two busy streets.  

Parking at Salt Lake Community College's Redwood Campus is enough of a problem as is, so initially, it would not seem to make sense to move the portables to the main campus areas parking lots.  But if SLCC were to take the money that they would be making by ensuring students stay at their school because of their easy, pleasant experiences at the campus to build a parking structure, it would be making the most of the limited space that SLCC has. By doing this, the school would be making attending classes for students easier both by making finding a parking spot easier and by having the portable classrooms located to the rest of it's buildings.  This would help to encourage students to continue attending classes at SLCC instead of dropping them half way through the semester and not enrolling in the next one because their experience was not enjoyable.

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