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CNC Hikes Tuition

By 250 News

Friday, January 30, 2009 02:49 PM

Burns Lake, B.C. - The College of New Caledonia Board passed a motion to raise tuition and mandatory fees by 2% at its meeting in Burns Lake today. 

CNC says the actual tuition hike will depend on the provincial government, but the board says, based on talks with the government, the board believes it will be in the neighbourhood of 2%.  President John Bowman defends the increase.

"CNC remains the least expensive rural college  in B.C. when it comes to tuition and fees.“  "When you look at fees for all universities and colleges  in B.C., CNC remains the second most affordable.”

If the government allows colleges and universities to raise tuition by the estimated inflation rate of two per cent, CNC students will see their tuition rise about  $4.57 for a university transfer/ business course and about $56 for the entire 10  month power engineering program.  The student registration fee will go up about  30 cents, to $15.30 per
year and the tech fee will increase about 10 cents per  course to a maximum of 50 cents per semester.  Tuition fees at CNC for 2008-09 are $2,286 per  year, based on five university transfer arts classes.

The increase will take effect starting on  August 1, 2009 or later.

 


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Comments

Comment Posted by: Windigo on January 30 2009 5:24 PM
Why would anyone hike training fees right now other than greed?
Comment Posted by: lunarguy on January 30 2009 6:23 PM
To cover the cost of operating the college ?

I guess the government could kick in more dollars to operate the college as well.

The tuition covers less than 30% of the cost of running the college.
Comment Posted by: tinyapplecork on January 30 2009 9:17 PM
Student debt is 13 Billion dollars and rising thousands per minute...the province has not been funding our educational institutions adequately contrary to all the propaganda by the Ministry responsible for post secondary education.
Guess front end staff at admissions and registration will now have to allocate more time spent on rolling change now that the registration fee has increased by 30 cents. That alone will have an undesired affect on staff productivity which I suppose the Board has already considered and factored into their operating costs.

Students in business or other courses will actually be paying more than the annual projection of tuition reported here because generally speaking, most business students will have 3 labs in a year.

I will just round the increase to $5 for illustration. $5x13 (10-3Cr courses + 3 labs) = $65

Currently, one year is $2700 including fees. So students will need to find that extra money from somewhere within their already meager budget. Since we are not in an inflationary period I don't see how the Board could use that logic to justify the increase. There needs to be more of a united effort from the Board, students, staff and faculty to pressure the Province to cough up and properly fund our educational institutions! Personally, my opinion is the Campbell caucus should take a wage roll back. This would show British Columbians they truly care about our economy and our tax dollars!
Comment Posted by: lunarguy on January 31 2009 7:15 PM
Debt in general is rising. I had a student loan and am thankful for it, but got a job, lived sensibly until I paid it off. Too many people now a days figure others should pay for it. Mine and your taxes pay for 70% or more of the cost of running post secondary education.