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*ne Community Coilt# Azle Malinao-Alvarez Emerald Lane Community College is one of Oregon’s 17 community colleges experiencing a lack of state funding. Colleges face poor funding ■Community colleges, competing with K-12 and University aid, take their woes to an emergency board By Andrew Adams Oregon Daily Emerald State community colleges might have to cut their budgets if a request for more state funding to cover higher enrollment is not ap proved by the Legislature Emer gency Funding board. Representatives from Oregon’s 17 community colleges came be fore the emergency board with a request for a $16 million increase in their budget to cover a 4-per cent growth in enrollment. After the request was made, the board chose to defer its decision until June. Lane Community College Presi dent Jerry Moskus said the finan cial situation for his school, and the rest of the state’s community colleges, is precarious. “We’re suffering from a lack of funds, and the emergency board could have helped us,” he said. Moskus said LCC had to cut $1.6 million from this year’s school budget. The school elimi nated some programs from the adult high school, and the student day-care center was closed for a period before other funds could be found. LCC’s budget is stable now, but Moskus said the school faces a $3.5 million deficit next year. Un less the state provides additional funding, more cuts will have to be made, he said. Community colleges are facing deficits, Moskus said, because the community college is the “middle child” of state schools that does n’t get the attention of its older and younger siblings: higher educa tion and K-12. Rep. Leslie Lewis, R-Newberg, the chairwoman of the education subcommittee for the emergency board, explained why the board deferred until June. She said K-12 schools had a more immediate need for funding than communi ty colleges, and some of the $12 million that has been placed in re serve for K-12 schools may be opened up for community col leges if the K-12 schools don’t need it. Lewis also said the fundamen tal reason the emergency board had never previously raised fund ing for enrollment was because it is the responsibility of each school system’s administrative board. ‘To fund for enrollment growth would be a big policy change,” she said. Currently Oregon’s three school system’s budgets are provided by the state Legislature in lump sums that are determined by the current rate of inflation and the average cost of living. Each school sys tem’s administrative board then Turn to Colleges, page 6A LOOKing f or a grear Hangom this summer? THEN HEAD TO MT. HOOD COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOR... summer college 2000 MORE CLASSES! MORE POSSIBILITIES! In just one summer you can take care of an entire year’s worth of Science, Humanities/Social Science credits OR complete a major portion of your language requirements at MHCC’s Summer Language Institute. It all transfers toward your degree! Registration begins May 30. • Classes begin June 19. Summers at Mt. Hood Community College are SIZZLING! @MT. HOOD COMMUNITY COLLFGE • GRESHAM, OREGON CALL 503-491-6422 FOR MORE INFORMATION. 0089971 SWING INTO SPRING! SPRING RATES M-Th $1619 holes} $29118 holes] Students and Seniors life F-Sun $18 [9 holes] $34118 holes] Students and Seniors mm aa**m stu,,ert **d Check out Traditions Restaurant now open for Breakfast, Lunch, & Dinner m EMERALD VALLEY G O L L U B 83301 Dale Kuni Rd. Creswell, OR 97426 CALL 541.895.2174 FOR TEE TIMES ftcholas Niclc/^ x Robinson Theatre ^ Part I: May 18, 25, June 1@ 7 May 20, 21, 27, June 3@ 1 Part II: May 19, 20, 26, 27 & June 2, 3 @7 May 28 @1 it UTBox Office: 346-4191 EMU Tickets: 346-4363 Hult Center- 682-5000 00944S clothes, wall art & more! 8 a.m - 4 p.m. ] Public is welcome to buy 1st Annual ’ Residents’ Yard Sale Sat MAY 20th at the Bean Basketball Courts ^ (15th & Moss) i \ appliances ' ‘ J5346-0929 m Sponsored by University Housing & Campus Recycling ^patien^ tor a Clinical Trial Do you have... ASTHMA SYMPTOMS that wake you up at night, cause you to seek medical treatment because you can’t breathe, or otherwise interfere with your daily activity? If so, and you are between 15 and 65 years old, you may qualify for a medical research study to test a medication to treat asthma. Benefits of being in the study include free study medication, study related physician visits, and lab work. To find out how you may participate in this study contact: 683-4324 Allergy & Asthma Research Group 1488 Oak Street, Eugene ^ 488 Oak Street, EugeneQj? e/e#-ral NeGe* Kraig W. Jacobson, M.D. • Robert F. Jones, M.D. Advertise your events in the Oregon Daily Emerald. We have special university rates.Call 346-3712
