To be fair, former SBCC President Dr. Andreea Serban did not “hack away” at the college’s beloved Adult Ed program, per your SBCC Promise story . She was required to convert formerly state-funded, noncredit continuing education classes to fee-based community service classes.
I am certain Dr. Anthony Beebe, the new SBCC president-elect, was also faced with the exact same challenge to his own highly regarded continuing education programs at San Diego City College as a result of the post-2008 changes in state funding for these programs up and down the state.
Today, the current fees for similar continuing education classes are set by the instructors using a mutually agreed formula between themselves and SBCC's new Center for Lifelong Learning, since state funding was never restored for these programs.