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Community colleges cite record enrollment, wait lists and unmet business-and-industry training funding
Summary
The Kansas Association of Community Colleges told the budget committee enrollment has surged at many community colleges, wait lists persist for in-demand programs, and about $56 million overall (across two-year sector) remains absent from the House budget bill, including requests for business-and-industry partnerships and cybersecurity funding.
Heather Morgan, executive director of the Kansas Association of Community Colleges, told the House Committee on Higher Education Budget that community colleges are experiencing "unprecedented growth" and that many institutions have reached record enrollments.
Morgan said community and technical colleges together serve more than 100,000 students statewide on a headcount basis and that community colleges perform roughly 70% of the state's technical education. She told lawmakers that 34% of community-college funding comes from local property taxes and only about 16% comes from the state, and she described a set of supplemental and recurring requests not…
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