Sixty Gavilan College students and eight staff members
– on vacation time – boarded a bus at 6:15 a.m. to join 13,000
other protesters in a march from Raley field to the state Capitol
building, according to a statement from Gavilan College.
Sixty Gavilan College students and eight staff members – on vacation time – boarded a bus at 6:15 a.m. to join 13,000 other protesters in a march from Raley field to the state Capitol building, according to a statement from Gavilan College.
The bus, funded by the Gavilan College Associated Student Body, is expected to return the marchers to the Gavilan College Gilroy campus at 5 p.m.
The goal of the rally is to communicate the importance of higher education in California and to ask the legislature to refrain from making further cuts, according to Gavilan. Community Colleges Chancellor Jack Scott was set to address the crowd.
State funding for higher education was reduced in 2009-10, reducing class offerings and raising fees. Gavilan College was forced to cancel Winter Intersession classes, reduce hours of service in the tutoring center, outreach, and other student services, and cancel the annual GavFEST open house for the community.
For more information on the March in March rally, go to www.studentsenateccc.org/.
