Only 2%? That’s under inflation.

It’s a privilege not a right to attend post secondary. If you want to attend then plan, budget and work for it. That’s what we all have to do.

Meanwhile Germany just abolished tuition fees altogher.

http://thinkprogress.org/education/2014/10/01/3574551/germany-free-college-tuition/

Want better employed citizens? Give them free education. Return on investment is far greater then the cost.

2% is the max they can raise their tuition in one given year. SURE would be nice to get adequate funding for our post secondary institutions. IF you put limitations on an annual increase at least have the kahunas to properly fund these post secondary establishments.

Still among the lowest rates in the province. CNC’s tuition rates have been lower than the provincial norms since the late 80s when the province stripped the autonomy away from the college boards to set fee increase at the board level.

OK P Val if you insist. Just bear in mind the Premier Clark is still screaming for more Foreign Temporary Workers to fill the skilled jobs for her LNG dreams. I wonder where the tax base will be to pay for the infrastructure required to support your ‘golden years’.

clark won’t be around when I am in my golden years

What a joke. This is nothing but the daycare center subsidy. When the Board magically found a way to keep the daycare open and underfunded, you knew this was coming.

Posted on Saturday, October 4, 2014 @ 6:41 AM by Jimmy Hughes

When the Board magically found a way to keep the daycare open and underfunded, you knew this was coming.

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What? You mean people are expected to pay for getting what they wanted?

The new president Reiser can look into solutions based on merger to reduce CNC administration costs. If he and CNC community are open to such solutions then one can recommend him to look into 3 cost cutting merger scenarios, instead of rising tuition:

1) Merger of CNC with other colleges in the North (e.g. Northern lights C.)
2) Merger with Northern research universities like UNBC and TRU
3) Merger with BCIT and becoming BCIT north branch

I like the 3rd scenario more.

Prof, nothing wrong with BCIT, but the role of the community college is to be responsive to the educational needs of the community. As a polytechnic institution, BCIT doesn’t follow that mandate and doesn’t have to, since there are other community colleges in the immediate geographic location. As a branch campus for BCIT, CNC would not live up to its mandate.
It’s difficult to say whether there would any saving of economies if CNC merged with Northern Lights and Northwest. At best, they might be able to save some money by firing two presidents and a couple of VP’s. Maybe you could let go of some instructors and use technology to broadcast classes to the various campuses, but the track record for that sort of learning environment is spotty at best and not terribly popular among instructors and students.
Merging with UNBC or TRU would bring in some of the same issues as merging with BCIT, not to mention that community colleges and universities follow very distinct models of operations. Besides, if you merge with a university, with tuition at twice the cost, how does that serve community education. Furthermore, such a move would rob CNC of its own separate identity, which would make the potential savings of rather meaningless value.
Nope, far better for the college to take a serious look at its administrative structure with an eye to ridding itself of a lot of directors and managers, not to mention all the administrative assistants each director and manager has. Just like the city, the RCMP, and the worst example of all, Northern Health Authority, CNC has become top-heavy with administrators. You want to save significant money? Start here.

Both CNC and UNBC face major financial problems which are hard to resolve on their own. They need adequate guidance from outside by a more financially responsible ‘parent institution’ (i.e. scenarios 2, 3). Will those in power relinquish the power and reduce their secretaries and budgets? I doubt it because they are addicted to overspending and such a belt tightening will be dominated by lots of internal politics without the presence of an external guiding ‘force’.

The restructuring gap between CNC and NLC is smaller than CNC and BCIT and the gap gets larger as we consider merging CNC with TRU and much larger in the case of CNC and UNBC. Note that the Okanagan university college model before its merger with UBC worked adequately for Okanagan community and it could be adopted for CNC (scenario 2), but UNBC has been mismanaged in a greater scale than CNC; and UNBC will resist fiercely to the presence of more competitive TRU in its CNC backyard.

Most of the colleges which started after CNC have grown into more mature university colleges in BC and CNC’s progress has been frozen in time. The 3rd option could be the less riskiest solution on the table in terms of chance of success and in line with natural progress of CNC. The issue is worth some consideration and it can be better discussed in a smaller forum and face to face.