No Tuition Hike at CNC

Friday, March 25, 2011 04:31 PM

Prince George, B.C. - The Board of Governors for the College of New Caledonia has voted 6-2 against the proposed 2% hike in tuition fees for the 2011-2012 school year.

The student union is ecstatic, saying "Education should not be a debt sentence".

The tuition hike was one of the proposed measures the College was examining to deal with a $1.8 million dollar shortfall in funding.

The rejection of the tuition increase will leave the College with having to come up with some other way to make up for the loss in approximately $119 thousand dollars the increase would have produced.

The tuition hike was just one of several items suggested which, when combined, would have left the College with a deficit of about $218 thousand. With no increase in tuition , that deficit is now in the $340 thousand dollar range.

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