State board mulls community college strategies
Monday, December 1 | 1:06 p.m.
THE COLUMBIAN
Facing a bleak state budget for 2009-11, Washington’s community college leaders must pursue aggressive cost-cutting while they attempt to keep expansion plans afloat.
Survival options top the agenda when Clark College hosts the monthly meeting of the State Board of Community and Technical Colleges this week.
The state board will gather 2 to 5 p.m. Wednesday and 8:45 to 11:45 a.m. Thursday at the Ellis Dunn Community Room in Gaiser Hall, 1933 Fort Vancouver Way.
Members will discuss probable spending cuts of 20 percent or more, and explore use of Certificates of Participation to fund capital projects, in place of traditional state capital budget construction bonds.
by John Mills : 12/1/08 11:47pm - Report Abuse
Sorry, the State Board no longer cut's it and they need to go. Too many folks drawing huge salaries and benefits that make the call about folks that are just trying to learn something in order to pay their bills and just get along. Screw the expansion for right now - this is about people, not things.Something has to be done about the incredible and unnecessary costs that so many CCC administrators have become to depend on in order to keep the cost of education so high along with their salaries. Not sure how to go about a major, affordable revamp of the insane money grubbing, snout in the trough, mentality, but I will be working on that. When you cut education for any reason, you cut the mulitplier effect and if you do not know what that means, you are part of the problem because it affects the economy.