Time to wipe the smile off the governor's face. It is time for students to join in "feedback" to the governor and the state legislature, as legislative deliberations begin in Carson City.
Governor Sandovol's budget proposal includes the need to increase community college tuition and fees by a minimum of 73%, from $69.25 per credit hour to at least $119.48 per credit hour. To meet the governors deep cuts CSN and other schools could potentially close campus locations, potentially shut down select services, decrease course sections, potentially decrease faculty and staff, set minimum entrance requirements and cap enrollment numbers.
The Governor’s Recommended budget includes a reduction of support for the College of Southern Nevada in each year of the biennium of:
These proposals come after major cuts impacting the school over the past four years. Keep in mind that the impact under previous Governor Gibbons , "the education governor", have already crippled CSN and changed the texture and nature of eduction in Nevada. Over the past three years...
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Governor Sandovol's budget proposal includes the need to increase community college tuition and fees by a minimum of 73%, from $69.25 per credit hour to at least $119.48 per credit hour. To meet the governors deep cuts CSN and other schools could potentially close campus locations, potentially shut down select services, decrease course sections, potentially decrease faculty and staff, set minimum entrance requirements and cap enrollment numbers.
The Governor’s Recommended budget includes a reduction of support for the College of Southern Nevada in each year of the biennium of:
o FY 2011-12: ($15,485,182) plus
o FY 2012-13: ($26,762,251) change from FY 2010-11 levels
These proposals come after major cuts impacting the school over the past four years. Keep in mind that the impact under previous Governor Gibbons , "the education governor", have already crippled CSN and changed the texture and nature of eduction in Nevada. Over the past three years...
· Seventy percent of CSN’s budget is from the state. Students pay only a small percentage.
· Registration fees have increased by 26.48% since 2007, a rise of fourth of all tuition and fees.
· CSN has reduced staffing by 5% since 2007 and student enrollment has increased by 12.6% (FTE), with for the first time last year, large numbers of students unable to get classes.
· CSN is the largest higher education institution in the State of Nevada – with headcount enrollment per semester of 44,000+
· CSN receives the lowest amount of general fund support per student FTE in the state..
CONTACT YOUR STATE ASSEMBLY PERSON AND STATE SENATOR TODAY AND TELL THEM TO INCREASE FUNDING FOR THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF SOUTHERN NEVADA AND NOT TO CUT ANY HIGHER EDUCATION FINANCING.
If you do not then the consequences will live on long after this legislative session. It is in your hands.