With the sliding scale, you are invited to identify for yourself how much you can contribute for a course, between $0 and $10 per hour, based on what works for you. The three prices you often see associated with our course fees represent a variety of options available to course participants. The first price (usually $0) is there to remind everyone that we have full scholarships available to anyone who needs one. The middle price is what we consider to be the total cost of the course. The third price covers the cost of the course and includes extra dollars which we then use as scholarship funds for others.
When you are deciding how much to pay, know that we really do leave that decision up to you, and we invite you to base that decision on what you feel is comfortable to you at that time. Often, we see CCLC participants decide to place themselves at difference places on that spectrum at different times. Know that we are absolutely serious about the availability of scholarships – we work hard to raise them, and we want people to use them.
It's our goal to make our courses as accessible to as many people as possible. It's also our goal to invite people to contribute what they can for a course in order to make it possible for us to offer a diversity of programming, pay our instructors a fair wage for their work, and sustain the operations of the Center.
To offer a course costs the CCLC more than $40 per hour. That includes an instructor's wage, building utilities and maintenance, and advertising and preparation work in the part of our staff. If six people participate in a course that averages out to $7 per hour per person.
If you have further questions, please call 733-2233 or email for more info.