Larger Class Sizes
Overflowing classrooms and overwhelmed professors are hallmarks of today’s budget-cut-ravaged public higher education system. In Iowa’s state university system , all three major schools have seen a decrease in smaller classes (those with 30 students or fewer) and an increase in classes with more than 30 students, which some officials there have
pinned on budget cuts. Classes that once offered students a chance for discussion and meaningful interaction have morphed into stale lectures with little room for individualized attention or feedback. That’s what happens when schools offer the same number of seats, spread across fewer classes.
