<p>nysmile, you’re overlooking the obvious. A hiring freeze may not decrease the number of classes being taught, but it can certainly decrease the number of classes available to a given student if the student body is increasing in size without a commeasurate increase in instructors. That’s exactly what has happened at my school.</p>
<p>You may not know any people who had trouble graduating on time because of lack of course availability, but I know dozens. Of course student demographics affect graduation rates, but didn’t it ever occur to you that a student who’s working their way through school is more likely to have to drop out if they can’t get into sections of required courses that don’t conflict with their work schedule?</p>
<p>I’m sure the situation varies across the SUNY system, but your reasoning is flawed.</p>
<p>As for this vote being representative of student desires… I have to laugh, knowing how ridiculously stupid many of our student government presidents have been. It’s not like we’re talking about a system-wide referendum here; take this vote with the large grain of salt it deserves.</p>