College of the Redwoods (CR) Nursing students in their final semester in Spring 2023 are fighting a program structure change requiring all students to be on campus for lectures.  This is in opposition to the handbook designed specifically for their cohort which states that all lectures will be attended via Zoom.

This change was mandated to students with just 2 weeks notice.  If this program change stays some will lose jobs, houses, vehicles or ruin their financial reliability because of inability to pay loans due to said job loss, or required reduction of working hours in order to attend the added in-person requirement.  Others may have to drop out because of child care or other family obligations that were already tailored to fit the program's structure that has been in place since the start of their cohort.

The school year has already begun and valuable time has passed because of faculty's refusal to address and consider the hardships that exist for students in these situations by coming up with a solution.  CR's mission is to see their students succeed, and this has proved to become the very opposite of that mission, creating requirements and mandates that these nursing students did not initially sign up for and are making it MORE difficult for them to succeed.