WOODLAND HILLS : Pierce College Cancels Summer School Session

For the first time, Pierce College officials have canceled summer school to save money rather than risk having to cut classes during the regular school year.

Because of declining state funding, the Pierce summer school session would have been reduced to 40 classes from the 120 or so usually offered. So the school’s Faculty Senate and academic department administrators agreed this week to use the anticipated $120,000 savings to pay for regular classes rather than spend the money on a slimmed-down summer school.

“During the fall and spring semesters we offer about 4,000 classes, so the summer session makes up only about 3% of our total offerings,” said William Norlund, the school’s vice president of academic affairs.