Thank you for reporting on our local community college, Pima Community College. You are right in describing PCC as a local treasure. It has been for more than 55 years now.
It is sad learning the details of how programs at PCC designed to lift the most vulnerable among us are being targeted for defunding. There is a pattern here: target Medicaid, food stamps, education for the purpose of clawing back the funds in order to finance huge tax cuts for the wealthy and make life even more difficult for the vulnerable. We need to talk again about lifting all boats and less about eliminating the vulnerable.
Pima Community College is not the only community college in the state facing these drastic cuts. I currently work at Central Arizona College and formerly worked at Mesa Community College., and along with other two-year colleges in the state -- and the nation -- both are having financial problems due to cuts from the current federal administration.
Many of the community colleges and public universities in Arizona, like PCC, are "Hispanic-serving institutions" facing difficulties because of cuts to this group of schools. (There isn't really a Hispanic/Latino equivalent to Native American tribal colleges or HBCUs, historically Black colleges and universities, to which the administration is diverting some funds.)
When are Democrats and supporters of education and humanity going to tell it like it is. Republicans are raising your taxes by defunding education. Cutting Medicare will kill children. We have starving children in America. The First Amendment is first for a reason. Support Free Speech! (The sticker about assignation is horrible and only turns people off, stupid).
Thank you for reporting on our local community college, Pima Community College. You are right in describing PCC as a local treasure. It has been for more than 55 years now.
It is sad learning the details of how programs at PCC designed to lift the most vulnerable among us are being targeted for defunding. There is a pattern here: target Medicaid, food stamps, education for the purpose of clawing back the funds in order to finance huge tax cuts for the wealthy and make life even more difficult for the vulnerable. We need to talk again about lifting all boats and less about eliminating the vulnerable.
Pima Community College is not the only community college in the state facing these drastic cuts. I currently work at Central Arizona College and formerly worked at Mesa Community College., and along with other two-year colleges in the state -- and the nation -- both are having financial problems due to cuts from the current federal administration.
Many of the community colleges and public universities in Arizona, like PCC, are "Hispanic-serving institutions" facing difficulties because of cuts to this group of schools. (There isn't really a Hispanic/Latino equivalent to Native American tribal colleges or HBCUs, historically Black colleges and universities, to which the administration is diverting some funds.)
https://www.bestcolleges.com/news/trump-admin-ends-grants-minority-serving-institutions/
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/magazine/trump-community-college-anti-dei.html
When are Democrats and supporters of education and humanity going to tell it like it is. Republicans are raising your taxes by defunding education. Cutting Medicare will kill children. We have starving children in America. The First Amendment is first for a reason. Support Free Speech! (The sticker about assignation is horrible and only turns people off, stupid).