Associated Students Meeting: June 7, 2017 – PCC Courier

Relevant points have been bolded.

"Outgoing president Julia Russo goes over the results of a student survey that was emailed to students during this semester – 24,616 total. Only 1,220 students filled it out (5%).

• +49% Students will benefit from an increased amount of water filters on campus.
• +39% of students would like for the library hours to stay open later
• +61% of students do have internet access off campus
• +51%f of students will benefit from using a resource center or a liaison dedicated to undocumented immigrants; 49% wont.
• +58% of students have never experienced problems with discrimination on campus
• +30% of students occasionally have problems with purchasing required textbooks
• +32% of students spend more than $250 on textbooks per semester
• +75% of students have not dropped a class due to cost of textbooks
• +50% of students doesn’t use public transportation (600 people)
• +47% of students doesn’t use public transportation, while +18% thinks that spending between $76-100 on a bus pass is too much
• +90% of students still haven’t heard of the Open Educational Resources (OER) program
• +93% of students have used textbooks from the OER program"