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NMC-Rota deserves better
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Posted on Apr 07 2005
I am a graduate from NMC-Rota and I am surprised at how, instead of getting better, it’s getting worse. In an article on Marianas Variety dated March 28, 2005, the silence was shattered by unsatisfied students from NMC-Rota. According to Mr. Frank Sobolewski, there are only two full-time instructors who are employed at Rota-NMC, and this alone threatens accreditation by the WASC.
In the NMC seeks funds for Japanese teacher article on the April 5 edition of the paper, the governor agreed to supplement a Japanese teacher’s pension. What about supplementing Rota-NMC’s shortage of teachers? I remember taking classes in Rota-NMC and having an instructor fly from Saipan to Rota every weekend to teach the class that I was enrolled in. This does not make sense. I think this kind of arrangement becomes more expensive in the long run compared to hiring a full-time instruction/professor residing on Rota. I find it hard to believe that there is nobody qualified to fill in this position. What about finding ways to provide (or at least help) Rota-NMC with proper and functional facilities in order to make it competitive nationwide?
We at NMC and the CNMI cannot hold our heads up high with this unsolved problem floating over us. We are active contributors to the CNMI’s welfare and I believe that we deserve better than what we are being given in the present time.
Antenille M. Mendiola Gilita
Honolulu, Hawaii
