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The numbers above show cost per credit hour over the last 10 years. As you can see, cost per credit hour has more than doubled in a decade.
Joshua Dillen
Co-Editor-in-Chief
Budget season is in full
bloom on campus. As the fiscal
year ends and funds are increas
ingly harder to find, the Board
of Education approved a $5
tuition increase at last month’s
meeting.
A full-time student taking 15
credits at Clackamas will see
their tuition rise by $75 a term
starting this summer.
Currently
students
pay
$79 per credit at Clackamas.
Beginning summer term this
means tuition will be $84 per
credit. According to oregon.gov,
the state average tuition per
credit is $85.94 at Oregon com
munity colleges for the 2012-13
school year.
Elizabeth Lundy, vice presi
dent o f Instruction and Student
Services, sa id -it is hard for
administrators the board and
the budget committee, to make
decisions like this. She also had
concerns about the impact this
has on students.
“Trying to keep the balance
in terms o f how much is reduc
tion and how much o f it is
shared to the students and how
much o f it is trying to come up
with increased revenue given
that w e’ve been doing this for
so many years [is difficult],”
said Lundy.
She also said that the college
Jias always tried to keep bud
get impact on students as mini
mal as possible arid the tuition
increase w as actually a sm atler
part of the current year’s budget
process than they had planned.
“We’ve always tried to keep
the impact to students below
a third of whatever the budget
actions are. I think this time we
are at about 26/28 percent of
the budget actions coming from
that tuition increase, so that was
helpful,” said Lundy.
Mt.
Hood
Com munity
College is currently $89
per credit, while Portland
Community College is $82. The
most expensive tuition at a com
munity college in Oregon is $94
at Clatsop, while the best deal is
at Um pqua, w here students pay
$75 for each credit hour.
O ut o f state and interna
tional students will fork out an
additional $15 per credit horn-
increase this summer. Their cost
for 15 credits will go up from
$3,510 to $3,735.
Trying to keep the balance
in terms o f how much is
r e d u c tio n a n d h o w m u ch
o f i t is s h a r e d to th e "stu
dents"
Elizabeth Lundy
VP of Instruction
& Student Services
Please see TUITION, Page 3
Team w ork m eets success at Pacific NW relays
Andrew Millbrooke
Sports Editor
a
the national leaders in the jave
lin. She ran the hurdles in 16.42
seconds and threw the shot 29’6
3/4. Although she set personal
bests in each event, Forbito is
always seeking improvement
“It was a really ugly throw,”
said Forbito of her javelin toss.
“So, once I get it right down
the point, it’s going to go a lot
further.”
Forbito took a couple tenths
o f a second off her hurdle time,
but she saw room to improve
there as well.
“It was a good day,” said
Forbito. “But I messed up on
the eighth hurdle in the highs,
so once I get that taken care
of too, it will be a really good
time.” )
Cody Britt (far left), Seth Buck (26) and John Koch (right) compete in the 800 meter sprint medley last Friday at the fifth annual Pacific Northwest Relays.
Forbito even had time to
help hold the starting blocks
for teammate, Shelby Grubb, in
the men’s 110 hurdles, imme
diately after her hurdles race
had ended. Teamwork like that
was not in short supply during
the event, as three teammates
contributing to the team total in
the field events, turning those
events into a relay as well.
“That is really what this
event is about,” said Forbito.
“Even when you are throwing
or doing the shot put, it’s a
relay. So it’s top three, you add
up the scores and that’s how
they score the meet. This meet
is based on teamwork.”
Please see RELAYS, Page 6
Andrew Millbrooke The Clackamas Print
While some athletes were
P using last Friday’s fifth annual
ÿ Pacific Northwest Relays at
Oregon City High School as
a training ground, others were
I certainly up for running faster
or throwing farther than they
ever had before. In cloudy and
drizzly conditions, Clackamas
sophomore Tiffany Forbito, an
Oregon City grad and recent
Long Beach State signee, had
a memorable performance with
three personal bests.
“For us, it’s really cool. We
put a lot of emphasis on the idea points, ahead o f Clackamas (91)
that it’s a scored meet against and Warner Pacific (49).
Forbito signed at CSULB
other colleges,” said head cross
country and distance coach to throw the javelin, her spe
Jerret Mantalas. “We want to try cialty, but she has proven to
and go out and do as good as we be a force in multiple events
can and beat as many schools as for the Cougars this season as
we can. Obviously it was a little she prepares for the heptathlon
smaller meet this year, but we at the NWAACC Multi-Events
wanted to go in there and win it Championships on April 29 and
30 at OCHS. The neptathlon
on both sides.”
Clackamas competed well combines seven track and field
ainst four-year NAIA schools events over two days o f com
amer Pacific College and petition.
It was a meet to remember, as
Corban University in a meet
that consisted of 11 relay Forbito won the javelin, while
events, five running and six placing second in the 100-meter
field. The CCC men won with hurdles and shot put. Forbito
119 points, ahead of Corban unleashed her javelin 148’3 to
(84) and Warner Pacific (82). improve her best by almost one
Corban’s women won with 108 foot. Forbito is ranked among