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The numbers above show cost per credit hour over the last 10 years. As you can see, cost per credit hour has more than doubled in a decade.
Joshua Dillen Co-Editor-in-Chief Budget season is in full bloom on campus. As the fiscal year ends and funds are increasingly harder to find, the Board of Education approved a $5 tuition increase at last month’s meeting. A full-time student taking 15 credits at Clackamas will see their tuition rise by $75 a term starting this summer. Currently students pay $79 per credit at Clackamas.
Beginning summer term this means tuition will be $84 per credit. According to oregon.gov, the state average tuition per credit is $85.94 at Oregon community colleges for the 2012-13 school year. Elizabeth Lundy, vice president of Instruction and Student Services, said it is hard for administrators the board and the budget committee, to make decisions like this. She also had concerns about the impact this has on students. “Trying to keep the balance in terms of how much is reduction and how much of it is shared to the students and how
much of it is trying to come up with increased revenue given that we’ve been doing this for so many years [is difficult],” said Lundy. She also said that the college has always tried to keep budget impact on students as minimal as possible and the tuition increase was actually a smaller part of the current year’s budget process than they had planned. “We’ve always tried to keep the impact to students below a third of whatever the budget actions are. I think this time we are at about 26/28 percent of the budget actions coming from that tuition increase, so that was
helpful,” said Lundy. Mt. Hood Community College is currently $89 per credit, while Portland Community College is $82. The most expensive tuition at a community college in Oregon is $94 at Clatsop, while the best deal is at Umpqua, where students pay $75 for each credit hour. Out of state and international students will fork out an additional $15 per credit hour increase this summer. Their cost for 15 credits will go up from $3,510 to $3,735.
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Trying to keep the balance in terms of how much is reduction and how much of it is shared to the students.” Elizabeth Lundy VP of Instruction & Student Services
Please see TUITION, Page 3
Teamwork meets success at Pacific NW relays
Andrew Millbrooke Sports Editor
points, ahead of Clackamas (91) and Warner Pacific (49). Forbito signed at CSULB to throw the javelin, her specialty, but she has proven to be a force in multiple events for the Cougars this season as she prepares for the heptathlon at the NWAACC Multi-Events Championships on April 29 and 30 at OCHS. The heptathlon combines seven track and field events over two days of competition. It was a meet to remember, as Forbito won the javelin, while placing second in the 100-meter hurdles and shot put. Forbito unleashed her javelin 148’3 to improve her best by almost one foot. Forbito is ranked among
the national leaders in the javelin. She ran the hurdles in 16.42 seconds and threw the shot 29’6 3/4. Although she set personal bests in each event, Forbito is always seeking improvement. “It was a really ugly throw,” said Forbito of her javelin toss. “So, once I get it right down the point, it’s going to go a lot further.” Forbito took a couple tenths of a second off her hurdle time, but she saw room to improve there as well. “It was a good day,” said Forbito. “But I messed up on the eighth hurdle in the highs, so once I get that taken care of too, it will be a really good time.”
Cody Britt (far left), Seth Buck (26) and John Koch (right) compete in the 800 meter sprint medley last Friday at the fifth annual Pacific Northwest Relays.
Forbito even had time to help hold the starting blocks for teammate, Shelby Grubb, in the men’s 110 hurdles, immediately after her hurdles race had ended. Teamwork like that was not in short supply during the event, as three teammates contributing to the team total in the field events, turning those events into a relay as well. “That is really what this event is about,” said Forbito. “Even when you are throwing or doing the shot put, it’s a relay. So it’s top three, you add up the scores and that’s how they score the meet. This meet is based on teamwork.” Please see RELAYS, Page 6
Andrew Millbrooke The Clackamas Print
While some athletes were using last Friday’s fifth annual Pacific Northwest Relays at Oregon City High School as a training ground, others were certainly up for running faster or throwing farther than they ever had before. In cloudy and drizzly conditions, Clackamas sophomore Tiffany Forbito, an Oregon City grad and recent Long Beach State signee, had a memorable performance with three personal bests. “For us, it’s really cool. We
put a lot of emphasis on the idea that it’s a scored meet against other colleges,” said head cross country and distance coach Jerret Mantalas. “We want to try and go out and do as good as we can and beat as many schools as we can. Obviously it was a little smaller meet this year, but we wanted to go in there and win it on both sides.” Clackamas competed well against four-year NAIA schools Warner Pacific College and Corban University in a meet that consisted of 11 relay events, five running and six field. The CCC men won with 119 points, ahead of Corban (84) and Warner Pacific (82). Corban’s women won with 108