College Won’t Offer Night Classes
Posted: November 2, 2009 at 4:29 a.m.
BENTONVILLE — NorthWest Arkansas Community College won’t o◊er overnight classes any time soon, o◊cials said.
Several community and junior colleges around the country are experimenting with classes starting at midnight or later, but there doesn’t appear to be a demand in this region, said John Tuthill, associate vice president for learning.
Early evening classes are popular, but those starting after 7:30 p.m. don’t usually fill up, Tuthill said.
“Nobody’s even asked about holding classes later than that, as far as I know,” he said. “It’s a concept that’s been around for a long time, but very few places get much interest in it.”
The same can’t be said for daytime classes at NWACC. The 7,000-plus students manage to fi ll nearly every available classroom space on campus throughout the daytime hours, both at the main Bentonville campus and at satellite centers throughout the region.
“We’ve got a major space crunch issue,” Becky Panietz, college president, told trustees earlier this year.
The majority of the 1,195 community colleges in the nation are seeing a similar problem as enrollments climb, according to the American Association of Community Colleges. Nearly half of all college undergraduate students are enrolled in community colleges.
News, Pages 3 on 11/02/2009
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