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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
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