"People who want to take hobby-type classes at Modesto Junior College, such as cooking or aerobics, increasingly are signing up through the community education program, paying a little extra money to keep classes that otherwise might fall to budget cuts.
As the state's financial crisis squeezes community colleges' course offerings, many are eliminating classes that are not required for students to transfer to a four-year university or earn a certificate.
To save such classes as exercise, music, photography and sewing, community colleges are restructuring and moving them to community education programs."
