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Gov. Butch Otter is calling for a $1.05 million supplemental appropriation for enrollment growth at the College of Western Idaho, “and yet other higher ed facilities, we’re not addressing enrollment growth,” JFAC Co-Chair Dean Cameron, R-Rupert, just pointed out to the governor’s budget director, Wayne Hammon. “Help me understand your methodology there.” Hammond responded, “The governor supported the supplemental for CWI because of the tremendous growth there, nobody expected. Quite honestly, a million dollars is not enough … It’s just getting started and it’s doubled and tripled, the growth that they’ve had. … Now, all the institutions have some growth, some of them significant growth. We wish we could fund them all, but we can’t, so it just comes to a matter of we did what we could.”
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moscow_minidoka on January 12 at 10:29 a.m.
Dismantle CWI and allow BSU to go back to being the premier community college in the state.
Don_Sausser on January 12 at 2:36 p.m.
Moscow, “Dismantle CWI and allow BSU to go back to being the premier community college in the state.”
It wouldn’t work, MM. North Idaho College is and has been the “premier community college in the state” :=)
LarrySpencer on January 13 at 10:58 a.m.
Don, I think you meant North Idaho College is the prima donna community college in the state, right?
Heck, they must be important, they have answered a lawsuit by claiming that the Idaho Constitution does not control their actions, or at least that they are not bound by Article 8 Section 3 of it like all the other political subdivisions of the state are.
Then again, they even claimed that they are not a political subdivision of the state……
So now I want to know why a community college that claims it is not a political subdivision of the state is getting state dollars in the first place. Anybody know the answer to that one?