Community college turns away students.SALISBURY Salisbury, town and district, England Salisbury (sôlz`bərē) or New Sarum (sâr`əm), town (1991 pop. 36,890) and district, Wiltshire, S England. , N.C. -- The financial situation at Rowan-Cabarrus Community College is bad enough that it will turn away students for the first time in its history. College President Richard Brownell said Tuesday the college has tried to maintain the community college policy of not turning away any student. But it is coping with a 23 percent enrollment increase in the past two years, a flat budget and prospects of returning about 4 percent of its funding to balance the state budget. "We face such extraordinary high demand that it exceeds our ability to meet it," Brownell said. "The only recourse The right of an individual who is holding a Commercial Paper, such as a check or promissory note, to receive payment on it from anyone who has signed it if the individual who originally made it is unable, or refuses, to tender payment. is to place a cap on enrollment. We have to start turning students away." Audrey Bailey, a spokeswoman for the state Community College System, said the announcement appears to be the first of its kind. Rowan-Cabarrus enrolled the equivalent of 1,701 full-time students Full-Time Student A status that is important for determining dependency exemptions. An individual enrolled in a post-secondary institution may be eligible for certain tax breaks. Notes: The full-time status is based on what the individual's school considers full time. on its two campuses this fall, a 15.5 percent jump from last fall. Many students are part-timers, meaning that about 4.600 individuals are taking at least one course at the school this fall. Enrollment at Rowan-Cabarrus has jumped because of huge layoffs in the two counties and a rapidly increasing population. Brownell said the school would evaluate each of its high-cost technical courses and low-cost liberal arts liberal arts, term originally used to designate the arts or studies suited to freemen. It was applied in the Middle Ages to seven branches of learning, the trivium of grammar, logic, and rhetoric, and the quadrivium of arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music. classes, then decide how much to limit enrollment while remaining true to the community college mission of improving workforce training. It will begin turning students away before the start of the spring semester se·mes·ter n. One of two divisions of 15 to 18 weeks each of an academic year. [German, from Latin (cursus) s in January. Community College System President Martin Lancaster Harold Martin Lancaster (born March 24, 1943) is the President of the North Carolina Community College System and former Chair of the National Council of State Directors of Community Colleges. He was also United States Representative from North Carolina from 1987 to 1995. said the choices confronting Brownell and other campus administrators represent the tough budget decisions made every year. "Colleges have always managed within their, resources," Lancaster said. "Very clearly, we will not have the money to provide every class to every student who wants to take them -- even in good years." Last spring, Central Piedmont Community College Central Piedmont Community College (CPCC) is a large community college located in Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. The school was founded in 1963; it is the result of a merger between Mecklenburg College and the Central Industrial Education Center. in Charlotte canceled 250 summer classes to save more than $400,000. Statewide, enrollment at community colleges was up 10 percent this fall, meaning about 840,000 people take classes at one of the 59 schools. |
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