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Budget increases cost of next yëar's cred
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Frank Jordan
T he C lackamas P rint
The Clackamas Board of
Education has approved a $3
per credit hour increase to take
effect fall term 2004, boosting
the cost per credit hour to $54.
Although this cost is high,
the price is still below that of
Chemeketa CC in Salem,
Portland CC and Mt. Hood CC
in Gresham, according to a
memo sent to all staff mem­
bers by College President Joe
Johnson.
According to Johnson, the
current Clackamas CC budget
has stabilized for the time
being. Funding
for
all
Oregon cointnunity colleges
has stabilized and some modest
gains in funding at the state
level to community colleges are
expected.
Clackamas is also in the
process of filling more than 20
positions that had been put on
hold because of budget con­
cerns. All of the new hires are
within budgeted resources.
Students will pay roughly
the same amount of money to
attend any of the Portland
metro area community, col­
leges, because although CCC’S
tuition rate is lower, the fees
charged by Clackamas are high­
er than neighboring colleges,
offsetting arty tuition savings.
In other college news, mold
has been removed from the
Harmony Center building and
the necessary repairs and
remodeling work is ongoing at
the present time, which will
soon enable the college to re­
inhabit about two-thirds of the
present Harmony building.
The college cannot afford to
remediate the other one-third,
but continues to seek state
funding for a new facility at
Harmony, because future
growth cannot be accommo­
dated at the present site.
Phone-a-thon volunteers
dedicate time, raise funds
to offset tuition increase
Tuition only small slice of
Clackamas' financial pie
Jennifer Trank
T he C lackamas P rint
ISAIAH CREEL
C lackamas P rint
ASG representative Chris Kidby (left) and Fellowship
of Christian Athletes member Jeff Steiert made phone
calls yesterday in the Gregory Forum to help cover
the rising costs of tuition. In addition, each volunteer
earned $20 for their club.
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Most Clackamas students
would be surprised to learn that
tuition dollars account for less
than a quarter of the financial
resources used to run the college.
According to Dian Connett,
dean of instructional services,
tuition is projected to provide
only 23 percent of the general
fund next year.
According to the proposed
2004-2005 budget, property tax
should provide 27 percent, state
resources nearly 40 percent, and
fees, interest and miscellaneous
revenue (like bookstore sales),
will make up the rest.
Although
tuition
has
increased steadily over the past
few years, and will continue to
do so reaching $55 per credit
hour by ‘05, and student enroll­
ment has increased, the amount
of funding provided by the state
is virtually the same as it was in
1999.
This means that tuition dol­
lars now make up a far greater
percentage of the overall fund­
ing needed to operate the
school.
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The college’s strategic finan­
cial plan reveals that in 1999,
state payments provided over
$14.5 million for the college*
while tuition accounted for less
than $4.5 million. Projections
for ‘04-‘05 show $14.4 million
anticipated from the state and
$8.5 million from tuition. ■
“Next year we are projecting
$8.5 million in tuition, but just
instruction is going to [cost]
$16.4 million,” said Connett.
“We could. put every dollar of
tuition in instruction and we still
wouldn’t cover it. Instruction
[which will be allotted 45 percent
in £04-‘05] is. truly just what’s
happening in the classroom.”
Other fund requirements
include library and computer
costs, financial- aid services,
counseling, advising, registra­
tion, insurance and maintenance
of college buildings and equip­
ment, grounds maintenance,
campus additions and many
other expenses.
The college anticipates that
over $36 million will be required
to maintain and operate the col­
lege next year, over four times
wbat will be collected in tuition
payments.
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