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<h3><a href="#CaliforniaGovernor">California Governor Seeks Deep Budget Cuts and 
  Doubling of Tuition at Community Colleges</a></h3>
<h3><a href="#HCCProject">Governor Patton recommends HCC Project for ARC funding</a></h3>
<h3><a href="#Davisaims">Davis aims to improve OCTC's curriculum </a></h3>
<h3>&nbsp;</h3>
<p><i><a name="CaliforniaGovernor"></a>The Chronicle of Higher Education<br>
  January 24, 2003</i></p>
<h3>California Governor Seeks Deep Budget Cuts and Doubling of Tuition at Community 
  Colleges</h3>
Just as they were preparing for sizable midyear cuts in state appropriations, 
community-college leaders in California were blindsided this month by a second 
dose of bad news. Gov. Gray Davis proposed doubling tuition and slashing the colleges' 
funds again in 2003-4 to help offset what is expected to be a $35-billion state-budget 
deficit. 
<p>Take almost the entire undergraduate population of the University of California 
  -- some 146,000 students -- and that is how many people will be shut out of 
  the two-year colleges, those officials say, if the governor's proposal is approved 
  by the Legislature this summer.</p>
<p>The state's community colleges enroll a total of about 2.4 million students.</p>
<p>The plan would reduce appropriations for community colleges by some $530-million, 
  or 10.5 percent. Although the state's two other systems -- the University of 
  California and California State University -- sustained cuts of their own, community-college 
  leaders point out that those institutions are raising tuition and those dollars 
  will stay on the campuses, helping to offset the cuts the governor has proposed 
  for them. Community colleges must give their tuition dollars to the state. The 
  net result has community-college leaders crying foul.</p>
<p>Even Thomas J. Nussbaum, chancellor of the 108-college system, who is usually 
  reserved in expressing opposition to the state administration, is speaking up. 
  &quot;We have a struggling economy and a huge need to create additional jobs, 
  and the community colleges are the state's largest work-force providers,&quot; 
  he told The San Diego Union-Tribune. &quot;So what are we doing here?&quot;</p>
<p>Leaders of every state agency say they were prepared for significant cuts, 
  but community-college officials say they were caught off guard by what they 
  see as the disproportionate cutting of their budget. The proposal has sparked 
  a vigorous political debate, with community-college leaders and others accusing 
  the governor of making the state's neediest residents bear the brunt of the 
  budget crunch.</p>
<p>&quot;Give me a fair cut and I'll take it,&quot; says Kevin M. Ramirez, president 
  of Sierra College, who is also president of the Chief Executive Officers of 
  the California Community Colleges. &quot;But don't aim at students who are already 
  marginalized by higher education. That's a classist mistake.&quot;</p>
<h4>'Pay More, Get Less'</h4>
<p>The spending plan could actually lower appropriations for community colleges 
  below what state law allows. It would reduce reimbursements for full-time-equivalent 
  students to $4,026, from $4,684. The governor, who had cut community-college 
  tuition twice during the economic boom of the late 1990s, has also proposed 
  raising tuition to $24 per credit hour, from $11. </p>
<p>&quot;He's proposing to ask students to pay twice as much and get a lot less,&quot; 
  says Scott M. Lay, director of state-budget issues for the Community College 
  League of California, which represents presidents and boards of trustees.</p>
<p>When community-college tuition was increased in the early 1990s, enrollment 
  fell roughly 1 percent for every dollar that tuition rose. Estimates of how 
  many students would either drop out or choose not to enroll because of the new 
  tuition proposal and reductions in programs have varied from 45,000 to nearly 
  three times that number.</p>
<p>The governor, a Democrat, acknowledged that his proposal would keep some students 
  out of the two-year colleges. Accordingly, he cut their state appropriations 
  for 2003-4 to take the decline into account.</p>
<p>Presidents of two-year colleges are calling the plan the toughest financial 
  challenge they've ever been through. </p>
<p>Many had already decided to suspend dual-enrollment programs, which allow high-school 
  students to take college classes, and to eliminate most, if not all, of their 
  summer courses after Mr. Davis last year called for a 10-percent cut in the 
  $6.5-billion designated for community colleges in 2002-3.</p>
<p>Now, with the governor's new budget proposal for the next academic year, community-college 
  leaders are predicting significant reductions in their academic offerings and 
  possible faculty and staff layoffs.</p>
<p>At Sierra, Mr. Ramirez says, he has already eliminated 350 course sections, 
  cut most courses that did not enroll more than 20 students, deferred capital 
  expenditures, and imposed a hiring freeze. After the governor's announcement, 
  the college's Board of Trustees voted to tap half of the institution's $7-million 
  in reserves to avoid layoffs.</p>
<p>At Cabrillo College, the president, John D. Hurd, says he has already frozen 
  hiring, clamped down on equipment upgrades, and cut back on weekend and evening 
  hours in the library and computer labs. </p>
<p>If the governor's proposal goes through, he estimates, the college would lose 
  4 to 6 percent of its $50-million operating budget, which would mean letting 
  go of adjunct instructors and reducing by up to 10 percent the number of classes 
  the college offers.</p>
<h4>Protests Expected</h4>
<p>Legislators are expected to be busy hashing out the governor's midyear cuts 
  through the end of the month. Meanwhile, community-college officials are mobilizing 
  their constituents and calling for organized protests of next year's budget 
  proposal at the state Capitol.</p>
<p>Mr. Ramirez says he used his college's convocation last week to advise students 
  and faculty members to lobby their state representatives to oppose the cuts.</p>
<p>In the summer of 2001, Mr. Davis had proposed cutting $98-million from the 
  community-college system's budget. He later restored about one-third of that 
  after an aggressive lobbying campaign by the colleges. That success has officials 
  optimistic about persuading lawmakers to restore some of their funds. State 
  Sen. Jack Scott, a Democrat and the chairman of the education subcommittee of 
  the Budget and Fiscal Review Committee, has promised to try to help mitigate 
  the cuts.</p>
<p>&quot;But the reality of the state's budget does not bode well for us,&quot; 
  says Mr. Hurd. &quot;We're cautiously optimistic.&quot;</p>
<p>The proposal needs bipartisan support to make it through the Legislature. Many 
  Republicans have already vowed to oppose the plan because it also calls for 
  tax increases for California's wealthiest residents. </p>
<p>What's more, some economists say the governor has overestimated the deficit, 
  which may help the community colleges make a case for minimizing the cuts.</p>
<p>&quot;Still, for every dollar we want to restore,&quot; says Mr. Lay, of the 
  community-college league, &quot;we have to find that money somewhere else.&quot; 
</p>
<p>The Legislature is supposed to approve the annual budget by the end of June, 
  but did not do so last year until September because of wrangling over the governor's 
  proposals. Budget discussions are expected to last until the end of this summer 
  as well.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><i> <a name="HCCProject"></a>News-Journal<br>
  January 21, 2003</i></p>
<h3>Governor Patton recommends HCC Project for ARC funding</h3>
<p>Gov. Paul Patton and the Department for local Government announced on January 
  3 that a $316,000 Hazard Community College construction project is one of 19 
  that will be recommended for funding to the Appalachian Regional Commission 
  (ARC). If the grant is approved, Hazard Community College will construct office, 
  classroom and meeting space on the first floor of the Clemons Center for use 
  by the University Center of the Mountains. The 19 projects total $5.8 million 
  in ARC funding requests.</p>
<p>Full project applications for funding will be forwarded to the Federal ARC 
  office in Washington, D.C., for final approval. Projects can begin when final 
  approval is received and grant agreements are signed.</p>
<p>Gov. Patton said, &quot;The ARC has been a partner in progress with state and 
  local governments for more than 35 years. I'm pleased that through this partnership 
  we are able to recommend federal funds be directed to these projects.&quot;</p>
<p>Gov. Patton said thousands of Kentuckians would directly benefit from the federal 
  dollars. The nine water projects and four wastewater projects that will be funded 
  will deliver or improve drinking water and sanitary sewer service to more than 
  6,600 households, two schools and one juvenile correctional camp.</p>
<p>&quot;These projects also will influence the creation of hundreds of jobs by 
  providing site and infrastructure development to industrial sites,&quot; the 
  Governor added.</p>
<p>The Kentucky Department for Local Government administers projects funded through 
  the Appalachian Regional Commission.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><i><a name="Davisaims"></a>Messenger-Inquirer<br>
  January 22, 2003</i><br>
</p>
<h3>Davis aims to improve OCTC's curriculum <br>
  <font size="3">Making the Grade</font></h3>
<p>Fran Davis won't be at her normal post as head of library services at Owensboro 
  Community and Technical College this semester, but she'll still make an important 
  contribution to the college. </p>
<p>A semester-long paid sabbatical will give Davis time to explore what businesses 
  and industry in the Owensboro region require from graduates in terms of information 
  gathering skills, said Davis, 62. </p>
<p>The information Davis gathers will be used to adjust curriculum at OCTC next 
  fall. </p>
<p>Often, Davis said she sees students come into the library thinking they know 
  how to find information and &quot;grab the first thing they find, thinking that's 
  good enough,&quot; Davis said. &quot;Or getting something off the Internet, 
  thinking it's accurate. </p>
<p>&quot;It's been a concern of mine for many years, knowing that we're entering 
  the information age,&quot; Davis said. &quot;I just don't feel that we are meeting 
  that challenge head on. I know we are not preparing our students for everyday 
  living and I'm not sure we're preparing them for the workplace.&quot; </p>
<p>Her sabbatical, which ends July 1, will include talking to local businesses 
  to find out what sort of information-gathering skills are needed, Davis said. 
  But her research will also include &quot;industry, health care, farming . . 
  . I want to try to get across the spectrum of the work force.&quot; </p>
<p>Davis will share her research with her colleagues at OCTC and, depending on 
  what she finds, &quot;I hope to make changes to the curriculum, making the curriculum 
  more relevant for what students need. We're preparing them for jobs, but also 
  for life.&quot; </p>
<p>Information literacy &quot;is something that cuts across disciplinary boundaries,&quot; 
  said Greg Labyak, dean of academic affairs at OCTC. &quot;It impacts a variety 
  of classes. Clearly, accessing, using and communicating information are important 
  skills to a lot of employers. Fran wants to get more specific information about 
  what those needs are and share that with the faculty so we can work toward having 
  them acquire those skills.&quot; </p>
<p>A native of Arkansas, Davis earned a bachelor's degree in elementary education 
  in 1962 from Oakland City University in Oakland City, Ind., and a master's degree 
  in library science in 1978 from Indiana State University. </p>
<p>Davis earned a doctorate in higher education from Southern Illinois University 
  in 1992.<br>
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