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College of Eastern Idaho urges $2M of the governor’s CTE funding to relieve capacity limits and fill waitlists
Summary
College of Eastern Idaho President Lori Barber told JFAC the college faces severe capacity constraints — about 465 CTE students were unplaced in fall 2024 — and asked that at least $2 million of a proposed community‑college CTE fund be allocated to CEI.
Lori Barber, president of the College of Eastern Idaho, told the Joint Finance‑Appropriations Committee that rapid regional growth and employer demand have left CEI operating at, and in some cases over, physical and instructional capacity.
Barber told the committee CEI grew from roughly 700 students when it was Eastern Idaho Technical College to about 3,600 degree‑seeking students and more than 14,000 workforce‑training students. She said the college’s credit headcount rose roughly 273% since 2017 and that the campus built in 2007 now serves nearly four times the credit headcount it did at that time on the same…
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