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Davis Technical College asks for growth funding after enrollment surge, highlights Title IX shared-service
Summary
Davis Technical College told the legislature it met several performance metrics, increased FAFSA completion and used growth and performance funding to add faculty, expand programs and fund a shared Title IX investigator with Weber State; college leaders requested continued growth funding to meet rising demand.
Darren Brush, president of Davis Technical College, told the Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee that Davis Tech has met multiple performance metrics and is seeking ongoing growth funding to serve rising enrollment.
Brush said the college increased FAFSA completion by more than 19% compared with the prior year, enabling more than 500 additional students to receive financial aid. He told the committee Davis Tech collected about $3.3 million in tuition and awarded nearly $2.2 million in financial aid in the past year.
The nut of Davis Tech’s budget request, Brush said, is instructional capacity. He told legislators that nearly three-quarters of a million dollars in growth funding awarded last year was used to hire additional full‑time faculty in programs showing…
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