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College of Western Idaho tells JFAC growth strains classrooms, seeks enrollment workload funding
Summary
College of Western Idaho President Gordon Jones told the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee the college is seeing double‑digit enrollment growth and capacity constraints in nursing and CTE programs, while the Enrollment Workload Adjustment (EWA) payment to the college is limited by a 3% cap.
College of Western Idaho President Gordon Jones told the Joint Finance‑Appropriations Committee on the college’s budget day that CWI is experiencing rapid enrollment growth and faces capacity constraints in health and technical programs.
The college asked the committee to consider the FY 2026 base request and explained that a formula‑driven Enrollment Workload Adjustment (EWA) produced a larger entitlement than CWI received because a 3% cap set by the State Board limited the amount the college could apply to its base budget.
Jones told the committee CWI saw roughly 13% academic enrollment growth this year and that the college serves “nearly 22,000 credit students and more than 30,000 students” in the 2023‑24 academic year. He said “we have almost a hundred people on our nursing waiting list” and “a thousand students total on wait lists across all of our programs,” singling…
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