The timing was deliberate....to cause maximum harm to their students....to their own customers.

Who else does it harm?

At the same time these tax payer subsidized community colleges , facing declining  enrolment, are barely solvent , facing an operating deficit of $420 million by 2024-25 and a cumulating $1.9 billion deficit in 8 -10 years...and they are intending to give pay raises of 20-40-50% to their College Presidents and senior staff ?

Let them sink or swim according to their own merits, let the laws of supply and demand of the free market reign and put an end to this sense of entitlement in the public sector with their plundering of the increasingly strained tax payers’ pockets.