Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Late spring classes

This blog has been created in an effort to save the Aviation Maintenance department at West LA College in Culver City. We have been informed that the administration of the college is canceling next semester morning classes as well as the full summer semester. This has been done with out any input from the students.
Two things must be stated first; the aviation industry is in critical demand of A&P mechanics. WLAC Aviation facility is one of the best facilities in the nation.
West LA College Aviation has been underutilized for many years. The fault must be directed towards the Administration for not realizing the need of A&P mechanics by the industry and its obligation to develop the facility that they administer.
By playing petty "academic" politics to try and close and minimize the schools great potential they have hurt hundreds of students that are trying to improve their career options.
I will continue to update this blog ,but I welcome everyone to post (vent) their comments on this blog.
I recommend that everyone let both Dr. Matteo and Dr Rocha of the administration how you feel about the current situation with the school.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

What you are saying is completely hustified and real. Right now the sustainable growth that the aviation industry is witnessing demonstrates the need for A & P mechanics. The administration's attempt to destroy the program is abvious, is is simply unjust and spitepul to cancel classes before they even give students an opportunity to enroll. Based on their presumptions that students will not fill classes gave administration the perogative to cancel second session classes. If it wasn't bad enough that they cancelled summer classes completely! We had alternatives for them that would not incur more costs to the college but they would not even consider them. It is a sad day for aviation, the progression, leaps, and bounds that aviation is seeing is not enough to convince our administrators to even give the students an opportunity to enroll. The program's stellar grades, and and completion rates were not enough to convince our decision makers at a time when we are suposed to reward those who excell in academics. Anybody please reply anonymously to this blog, your discussion and opinion is helpful to everyone trying to make sense of this absurd act by the WLAC administrators.