January 26, 2018--
Students at LBCC find a way to make their tuition for school more affordable. These approaches include work study jobs, grants, scholarships, and tax paying jobs away from school. For many students, financial restriction is the very element that keeps them off a college campus.
On Wednesday, Jan. 16, the LBCC Board of Education held a budget meeting that highlighted the future plans with spending, budget assumptions, and college growth. The meeting was presented by Jess Jacobs, the director of accounting and budget. The highlight of the presentation featured a temporary tuition hike.
In the new 2018-2019 budget outline, a large budget increase for the second biennium grows from $48.4 million to $50.5 million. The board did not announce any significant budget cuts for any LB programs. The hike is expected to increase LBCC students by roughly 4 percent. Though Jacobs said in the board meeting that “The current model for 2018 will show tuition hikes fall in the coming years.” The model that was presented by Jacobs shows an initial four percent increase in the tuition of students but is followed by a steady decrease to 3.5 percent.
Javier Zepeda, a transfer student at Oregon State who studies humanities said of the tuition hike, “It’s certainly frightening, but I would imagine the officials using money funded by the state moving forward. Possibly the reason why they’re proposing a decrease in tuition hikes.”
Last year, a similar budget meeting was held that approved the tuition hike to five percent, but backtracked on this approach. For now, the college is faced with a four percent tuition hike, but that is expected to decrease in the future years.
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