A2- The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, March 26, 2003 College boosts tuition fees and closes one campus | NORTHWEST COMMUNITY Col- lege is boosting tuition rates by 40 per cent and is cutting spending — including shutting one campus ~ {o close a gap between revenue and expenses. But it is also using some of the money it has to mount new programs in hopes of attracting more students for its new budget year beginning April 1. The 40 per cent tuition hike will push the cost of a normal academic course load over the school year to more than $2,500, not including stu- dent and other fees. It comes on top of last year's 20 per cent increase. Scheduled to close is the col- lege’s Masset campus, leaving with one campus on the Queen Charlotte Islands at Queen Charlotte City. [t will leave the college with nine campuses. The college did receive an unan- ticipated $300,000 grant from the provincial government last week to From front spend as it sees fit. But it will be used to offset a $225,000 cut in the capital spending portion of the money it gets from the province, says college president Ste- phanie Forsyth. She noted that the grant is a one- time even. All told, the college is getting ap- proximatcly the same amount of money — $16.4 million-— this. year as it did last year from the province. ~~ Bur it has to cope with’ ‘inflation and salary and benefit cost increases without a corresponding lift from the province, The college will also have to enrol more students than it did“ last © year or face a budget c cut in future years. New programs to altract more stu- dents include an associate degree in criminology, more late spring and summer university credit courses, three programs concentrating on aboriginal land stewardship, hospi- tality and public administration, early childhood education, culinary arts management, cooking and tour- ism management. “It is essential for us to expand our program offerings to address the training needs of our communities as they shift from a resource-based to a more diversified economy,” said Forsyth. The college also received $75,000 to help it prepare for the ‘provincial governments new appren- tice training regime it wants to intro- duce. In addition to closing one cam- pus, the college wil! also trim travel budgets, consolidate its Houston campus into one building and cul some employees’ hours during non- peak periods. While the college managed last year’s budget without having to close any campuses, it did cut 33 million from its spending. That came with layoffs and service cuts. Skeena-Bulkley Valley created constituency association for the Canadian Alliance party. “It’s part of the death spiral we're in because of our inability to create posal for ignoring geogra- phical and historical ties - and for defying logic. Skeena-Chilcotin would have been an L-shaped ri-- ding that stretched from Fraser Canyon — an hour north of Hope. The commission’s re- commendations now head to a parliamentary com- mittee. Burton said the re- vised electoral boundaries could be in place by June | of 2004. It’s not known if they’ll be in place in time for the 2004 federal election, jobs.” Sexton remains critical of the commission’s deci- sion to change Skeena’s boundaries due to a popu- lation drop he says is tem- porary. “This has come about ° because there’s been a downturn in our economy.” Once the job siluation ° improves, people will move back, making the boundary change unneces- sary, he added. Still, Sexton thinks the commissioners were lis- tening — and taking notes. “It does make a lat more sense than what they proposed, even though it will make accessibility to. “It does make a lot more sense than what they proposed, even though it will make accessibility to the MP more difficult for some people.” the MP more difficult for some people.” He said residents of Burns Lake and Fraser Lake will face the added inconvenience of travel- ling to Smithers, Terrace or Prince Rupert to visit their MP instead of Prince George. “They're going to have to go somewhere where — they don’t normally go.” Sexton doubts the pro- posed riding of Skeena- Bulkley Valley would stand up to a court chal- lenge because the argu- ment can be made that the riding will be too large for an MP to provide effective representation. There aré a number of . legal precedents, he said, pointing to a number of se- -parate cases where the courts have ruled ridings can deviate from popula- tion requirements by as much as 30 per cent. The population of Skee- na-Bulkley Valley would be just eight per cent below the federal require- ment. The commission has upheld its recommendation to eliminate the Cariboo- Chilcotin riding presently held by Alliance MP Phi- lip Mayfield and merge it into neighbouring ridings. Critics had assailed the commission’s earlier pro- the Yukon border to the LEASE FOR: $397 per month for 36 months, downpayment $4,156 nurcinst: 90,040) includes $1,145 air tax & freight Simon Fraser University’s Program in Liberal and Business Studies 1s a part-time Bachelor of General Studies Degree completion program for mid-career adults. 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