Legislative pressure advised
State funds available for colleges
Editor's note: This is a continuation of a
series dealing with community colleges by
Dr. Edmund J. Gleazer, Jr. which appeared
in the Bridge; Portland Community College's
student newspaper.
It is possible for community colleges to
get state legislatures to appropriate more
money to cover college operating costs
according to Dr. Edmund J. Gleazer, Jr.,
president of the American Association of
Community and Junior Colleges.
In a recent series of articles, Gleazer
outlined his proposals for keeping the com­
munity colleges open to all students, not
just those of the wealthy and middle classes.
In the spring of 1976, a 28-year-old stu­
dent at Florida's Miami-Dade Community
College headed an informational program
that moved the Florida legislature to appro­
priate an additional $12 million for the
state's community colleges.
He formed the Florida Committee for
Educational Stability which asked the state
legislature to reassess current priorities with
regard to community colleges and to see
the colleges as an investment rather than as
an expense.
In their statement to the legislature, the
committee said that since students were
being denied educational opportunities for
the first time in the history of the state of
Florida, and since this would result in an
educational elitism that would deny oppor­
tunities for poor and minority groups, the
legislature should expend its energies to
find a means to reinstate higher educational
opportunities for all its citizens.
This statement and the efforts of the
479,000 people represented by the com­
mittee caused the legislature to re-examine
its priorities and reappropriate the $12 mil­
lion from existing funds, thereby helping
the community colleges without raising taxes.
Other states could conceiveably accom­
plish the same results and continue to make
higher education available to all.
In some states, community colleges have
continued to serve increasing numbers of
students even though resources have re­
mained constant.
To do this, they have cut back on main­
tenance and counseling services, retiring
teachers have not been replaced and the
salaries of faculty and administrative ser­
vices have been frozen.
Through all this some policy makers have
said, "We knew there was a cushion in your
budget."
Now the leaders of these institutions are
saying that they must cut back on enroll­
ment and let the legislators feel the pressure.
Harry Provence, Chairman of the Co­
ordinating Board, Texas College and Uni­
versity System, has said that it is imperative
for the education community to reassess
their patterns of education before non­
educators do it.
He feels that it is necessary to center
concern on the "nation's need for a broad
and diversified program of educational op­
portunity rather than on the survival or
even the well-being of community colleges."
The nation's 25-year-old goal of pro­
viding appropriate education up to the
limits of every individual's potential is now
under question, according to Provence.
In acknowledgement of common interest,
the "American Association of Community
and Junior Colleges and the American Vo­
cational Association are developing jointly-
sponsored activities which will lead toward
more effective relationships between voca­
tional schools and community colleges in
the provision of educational opportunity,"
wrote Provence.
In this way other institutions andi
zations can take the load off comii
colleges in helping to educate the An
people According to Provence, ",,
a good time for those who have c«
values and commitments to stand tog?
The 65 million Americans whoi
presented in the membership of the
unions and their families may be a pa
force in making educational oppor
available to all.
"Community colleges are involve
growing way as an educational resou
that large segment of our population
in turn the union membership can b
source to the community college
interpretation of the worth of its pi
and in the generation of necessary su
said Provence.
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A meeting was held recently by the
financial aid department to determine what
grades are expected of students receiving
financial aid.
Kitty Sellman and Marty Siemroth, stu­
dent representatives to the financial aid
department, proposed a satisfactory pro­
gress chart which was accepted by the
Financial Aid Committee.
This chart consists of a minimum amount
of hours a student must complete and pass
in order to receive financial aid. The state
recommends that a student receiving mone­
tary assistance take at least 12 credit hours
but nine hours is the actual minimum accep­
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By the first term, nine credit hours must
be taken and passed if a student wishes to
continue receiving financial aid. The second
term 18 compiled hours is expected; third
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completion of his eighth term the student
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"There is a financial aid committee to
whom students can appeal any decision
made by the financial aid office," said
Hoodye.
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