Financial angst

student, I am unable to afford to purchase a professional’s time. It is amazing that the Student Health Center offers this, not only because of affordability, but because other students have nowhere else to go,”

Tarifa said.

ARIELLE

The Financial Aid Office waiting time continues to be a pressing issue for the student body. Students said they wait about two to four hours at a time, and have had to make multiple trips to complete their applications.

According to Director of Financial Aid Anafe Robinson, this is the first time Pierce College has experienced long lines weeks into semester. Robinson said the lines are due to a number of variables, the biggest being the crossover to the new student information system.

“The change to the new system has created new system challenges for us, which takes us longer to actually navigate through the pages to assist the students,” Robinson said. “It isn’t that we don’t know what we are doing, it is that the new system requires us to look through more pages that we didn’t have in prior years.”