Clackamas debates tuition raise for summer

There is good news and bad news. The bad news is that tuition is possibly going to increase in the next year. The good news is that it won’t be by much.

Clackamas Community College is debating a $2 increase in tuition and an additional $1 fee increase for the 2010-11 year. This will come to a maximum increase of $30 extra per term for students taking 15 to 18 credits.

Since 1999-00 school year, the cost of tuition has literally doubled after several small increases, and two large increases of 24.39 percent in 2003-04 and 16 percent in 2009-10.

The big thing that Clackamas’ administrators have to keep in mind is how they receive the funding that they do. According to the Recap of Funding Formula/Revenue diagram provided by Courtney Wilton, vice president of college services, which compares 2007-08 to the 2009-10 school years, the state support and property taxes that provide the largest chunk of the school’s funding has dropped by 10 percent.

What this means to the students is that the college has to make up for its lost financial backing, which gives some context for increasing tuition from $57 a credit hour to $72 since 2007.

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