Enrollment decrease drops $70,000 budget ax by Ril• Holling5wonh All I 1.6 percent reduction in full-11me academic
on the assumpuon that enrollment wouJd remain con-
enrollment will require a S70,000 reduction in nCllt scmes1er's spending, according to Owen Cargo!, dean or instruction. Speaking 10 the NIC Board ofTrustees at itS regularly scheduled meeting on Sep1. 1.0, Cargo) said that 1,987 full-time academic students enrolled at NJC this semester compared 10 2,249 1ha1 we-re enrolled la.s1 year, a decrease of 262 ~•udents.
stant this )'ear. Si net fuU-tirnc instructors are under
The voca1ional-1echnical school also showed a reduc1ion in enrollment. There arc 270 students enrolled in 1ha1 program, down 3.5 percen1 from 1he 280 who were in regis1cred in 1hc 1983-84 semester. Cargo!, who sa1 in for NIC Prcsiclen1 Barry Schuler. 10Jd 1he board 1hat 1hc 1984--85 budget was prepared
contract for nm semester, 1he Si0.000 shonagc created by the eoroUmem drop will ha\ c to be made up nc:x1 semester v..ith a reduction in salaries for part· 1ime instructors. Cargo! poimed out tba1 althouith the actual head count had decreased 11.6 percent. full-time cqujvalen1 (FTE) showed a 7.2 percent decrease. FTE is arrived a1 by dividing the total number of credits b, the total number of students. The board also appropiated SS0.000 to S60.000 to purchase a 47-pa.sscnger bus to be used 10 transport the NIC athletes and choir. Cargol 1old the board 1hat Schuler asked tum 10 recommend 1he purchase of the bus because it was unponant for the safet~ of the naff,
facuJry and studentS. Cargo) said that Empire Lines had bid S65.000 to transpon the NIC students the 37.000 miles that the scheduled tra~el required this year. The yearly cost of maintaining and operating the bus is estunated at SJS.000. and the annual estimate of insurance is S8i0. The cost of hinng a driver is no1 included in the maintellllnce and operation estimate. Cargo! said. Board member Robcn Ely said that after two years of operation the bus would provide an annual savings of SJ0.000 and tha1 it was false economy 10 have to u.\e a chaner scn-1cc conti nued on page 2
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Student's work goes on display A ccramu;) !>Clllpture e,hib11 b) an 'IIC )tuJent i, curttnLt, on dJ~la) m 1hc u~t3Jr;. gaiter)' of the C-A Building ,\ ccordtng to art ln\tructor L1!>11 Daboll. the \\Ork of L:!\Cme \\'hcatlcv 1> ..,,. ubcrant and 1,mclc~ " · "B) looking at her worl. you would thml. that \he w:u a ,h .iciofil ~ou~ woman." Daboll said, adding that Whc:uley is in her )i\t1es and still going ,1roag Daboll \31d that mnnv of the pil'l.-es done b, \\ hc;ittt, U)cd the "rol.u pr-<" "L .h,ch Daboll d~Cl'l'beJ as dipping the -culpturc · tn cold' wa1t>r :, half hour atter it . .... n,u """'" placed in the kiln.
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