Rural Community Colleges Face Financial Squeeze
SNYDER — The coffers at Western Texas College are about as dry as the windswept West Texas plains that surround it. Reductions in state financing have been a literal drain — last year, the college cut costs by emptying its NCAA competition-sized pool.
“We have a large hole that used to be a swimming pool,” said Mike Dreith, the college’s president. “And we have a beautiful room designed to be a planetarium. It’s a nice, circular storage room now.”
Any more cuts would certainly mean faculty layoffs, said Patricia Claxton, the college’s chief financial officer. “We are already to ...
Comments (2)
BiffTannen
Why do you have to go to college for auto mechanic/technician? Granted it is more difficult to be a shadetree mechanic than it used to, but a college education?
sean1957
Biff, it has become very complicated to become a mechanic. Where do you want these people to learn? At the Dodge place on your truck?
I am wondering where these cuts in education are going to end? When we pass Mississippi in the race to the bottom?