CBC Hit Hard by State Budget Cuts

Ouch. CBC has just announced what I’d call massive cuts to both staff and educational programs based on decreased state education funding.

For 2010, the school’s operations budget has been cut by almost $3.5 million. Here’s what that means:

• enrollment will be cut by “up to one thousand” FTE students
• 55 staff and faculty positions will be eliminated – nine are F/T faculty, 27 are F/T staff positions, and 19 are part-time positions
• four educational programs will be discontinued – Autobody, Paralegal, Human Services, and daytime Fire Science

CBC is also losing almost $17 million from its capital construction budget. The Social Science and World Languages Center, which was due for construction in 2011, is history. Not gonna happen. The funding is completely gone. Other construction projects had their budgets cut, so CBC will have to make up those losses in other ways.

Wow. Can’t even imagine what the campus is gonna be like tomorrow as the news spreads around.

[where: Columbia Basin College, 2600 North 20th Avenue, Pasco, WA 99301]

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