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Wednesday, April 17,2013
W hat does a $5 tuition
increase m ean to you?
Clackamas students will have to pay $5 per
credit hour more fo r tuition starting this
summer. The Print asked some o f them what
they think o f this increase.
“If the $5 dollars is actually going
to something beneficial for us or
remotely beneficial for the school so
that way they can continue teaching
us then I guess I can understand that.”
-Marcell Richard, 23, student
“I’m not too worried about the bud-
get going up $5. It seems obsolete.”
-Clark Sides, 19, student
“Frustrated, I guess, that prices keep
rising for school when in order to get a
good paying job you have to go to school
and pay for it. Most of us take loans out
in order to pay for it and by raising that,
it’s just having us pay back more money.”
-Danai Yost, 25, student
“I guess it’s still pretty cheap here but
it sucks that the price is going up. I mean
“Well, I just transferred here from
PCC, so it’s cheaper here, I think, hope­
fully. But $5 isn’t that much. So hopefully
it doesn’t make everything worse for me.”
-Allison Howbert, 21, student
it’s only five Bucks so it’s n o t’ filceO t’s a
dramatic amount, but it kind o f sucks.”
-Cole Rogers, 20, student
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TUITION: higher costs, empty pockets
Continued from Page 1
Dwindling state support is
a serious concern for college
administrators after a serious
recession. Courtney Wilton, Vice
President of College Services is
familiar with this trend for adult
education funding in Oregon and
the rest of the country.
“Community colleges ih
Oregon are getting the same state
budget as they did either 12 or
14 years ago. And at the same
time there is like 50 or 60 per­
cent more students,” said Wilton.
“What’s happened in Oregon —
it’s happened across the nation.
It’s pretty dramatic here. They
[the state] have reduced their
funding of higher education to
make their budget balance.”
While this tuition raise has
been approved and is part of
the college’s increased revenue
in the future, administrators and
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is voted on to be adopted at the
June 26 board meeting. A bud­
get document will be available
on or after April 25 at the col­
lege’s Business Office in Barlow
between the hours of 8 a.m. and 5
p.m. for anyone who is interested
according to CCC’s webpage at
http://www.clackamas.cc.or.us/
BudgetCommittee.aspx.
Wilton said this year’s bud­
get has not been an easy task to
work on, but he is confident the
changes will not impact students’
lives too dramatically.
Janet Paulson with public
affairs at the college pointed out
that students’ needs are a priority.
“I think a very strong guiding
principle is to make changes that
impact the students in the least
so that students can accomplish
what their educational or train­
ing goals are. That’s really an
important factor guiding deci­
sions here,” she said.
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Community Center, Room 127
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will discuss the budget. The May
board meeting in the Community
Center on May 8 at 5 p.m. will
allow the public to comment on
the proposed budget before it
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