Dear Editor,

The San Ramon Campus is a beautiful college and clean environment that captures everyone’s attention to register for this campus.

In the Diablo Valley College Pleasant Hill campus, the students have to spend $40 for a parking permit each semester. But, in the San Ramon Campus, the parking is free for the students, which is a huge deal for them.

It is giving them the opportunity to save more money for a semester. Despite the beauty of this college, good environment and free parking, San Ramon Campus is not adding more classes for the students.

However, Las Positas College in Livermore is near the San Ramon Campus. Therefore, it gives the students the opportunity whether or not to register at the San Ramon Campus. On the other hand, they might not have time to commute to the main campus in Pleasant Hill.

Commuting to the main campus in Pleasant Hill with the huge traffic is torture for a long semester. In Spring 2013, the San Ramon Campus failed to offer the communication courses such as Argumentation and Debate, Voice and Diction, and Journalism in fall 2014.

We have to consider that the communication major is a broad major and has been growing over the past few years. During my interview with the senior dean of San Ramon Campus, Kathleen Costa, I have shared my concerns about this issue. Her response was, “When the classes are filled, there are more demands for more classes.”

However, we have to consider that the San Ramon Campus is a new college that has been growing over the past few years. The population of the campus is 3000 students per semester. The students are demanding classes in the fields of science, English, and computer information systems, due to their demands of their registration in the San Ramon Campus.

As a result, there are limited classes offered for the communication and journalism majors for Spring 2015. The district bond measure for June 2014 election stated, “On behalf of Contra Costa Community College district, we thank voters for your support of measure E, a $450 million facilities bond measure passed on June 3rd, 2014.” As a result of the passage of these measures, Contra Costa College had constructed math and science buildings at Los Medanos College, constructed the new student service in Diablo Valley College, and built the San Ramon Campus in 2006.

On the behalf of all the students in the San Ramon Campus, I am hoping that one day the campus will expand and construct new buildings for the students of the San Ramon Campus.

~ Shayda Hadjarasvadi

DVC student