It s not impossible in this day and age to go to college seven days a week, said Chuck Laws, director of the Quad-City Graduate Center, Rock Island. People have such easy access to information now. We used to be limited at what we could do or offer. Now, we have more than 70 graduate programs linked to the graduate center. Besides the graduate center, the center offers classes in 34 locations across the area.
Age is no longer a barrier to getting a degree.
People in their 50s and 60s sit in our classrooms, he added. The biggest worry for most people in the education field is the shortage of good teachers coming up through the ranks. The money is not there to attract young people to the field, especially on the Iowa side. We re inadequate with teachers salaries in Iowa, said Dale Barber, superintendent of Pleasant Valley Schools. If it wasn t for the high-paying job in the field of education I currently enjoy in Arizona, I d leave this area in a heartbeat to return to Davenport.