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College of Western Idaho tells JFAC rapid enrollment is straining capacity; EWA amount limited by 3% cap
Summary
At a Joint Finance-Appropriation Committee briefing, CWI President Gordon Jones and LSO analyst Kevin Campbell outlined rapid enrollment growth, program wait lists and how a 3% cap limited the college's enrollment workload adjustment (EWA) to $265,000 even though the formula produced a larger figure.
Kevin Campbell, a budget and policy analyst with the Legislative Services Office, told the Joint Finance-Appropriation Committee that the College of Western Idaho’s (CWI) budget request and background appear in the committee’s legislative budget book and that the college’s FY2024 state appropriation was $20,816,700.
Gordon Jones, president of the College of Western Idaho, told JFAC the college is seeing rapid growth across programs. “We are up this year 13% in our academic enrollment,” Jones said. Jones and the LSO noted differences in how enrollment is counted: Campbell said CWI reports nearly 22,000 for‑credit students and more than 30,000 students served in the 2023–24 academic year; Jones later said CWI serves “over 31,000 individuals.”
The growth has produced capacity constraints in several career and technical education (CTE) and health programs. Jones said the college has “almost a hundred people on our nursing waiting list” and “a 1,000…
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