Henry wrote on February 09, 2009 02:26 PM: This reporter Richard Lake has a policy of see no evil when it comes to NSHE which is the biggest black hole when it comes to the taxpayers' money.

Never seen him write a bad word about any NSHE institutions. For example the fact that the 6 year graduation rate of Nevada State College is only 16% never crossed Richard's lips.

Scott Miller wrote on February 09, 2009 08:46 AM: get_the_math_right: I knew that but was too lazy to do one more arithmetic operation. My point is it is not even close to 19.000.

Chris: you propose an interesting explanation, but that is not what the article says, please read the section I quoted originally. It clearly says FTE rose to 35K students.

All that being said, I think the continued corruption at CSN should give anyone pause before raising the amount of money spent there. However, the proposed budget it not workable either.

CSN Faculty wrote on February 08, 2009 08:20 PM: I started working at CSN more than a decade ago and was told then that we had 35,000 students. That number has never been changed. Now they claimed it just increased to 35,000 in a year?

Hmmm, in addition to VP Bob Gilbert's self-proclaimed innocence, VP Patty Charlton Dayar's supposed non-involvement since she only signed off all Gilbert's expenses, and VP Mike Richards' promise not to become CSN president, now we know even a claim of student number has been tempered with.

So which one is true? What we have learned for over a decade that CSN always had 35,000 students? Or what CSN administration told RJ that we just jumped to that number after a 10% increase? And are there anything else CSN can offer than lies, lies, and LIES?

Josh wrote on February 08, 2009 03:23 PM: Chris, a lot of students that are wasting tax payers' money alongside with corrupt CSN administration.

Jim Rogers BOUGHT his way into this NSHE Chancellor position. His employment and endearment of CSN previous president Richard Carpenter, and now illegally hiring Mike Richards, is the root of the causes of NSHE problems. Jim Rogers must go, so NSHE can clean house.

Woops wrote on February 08, 2009 02:44 PM: That's a baseline of 31,818 students (a increase of 3,182 students).

Get_the_math_right wrote on February 08, 2009 02:26 PM: 10% of 35,000 is 3,500 not 19,000.

The article stated that CSN enrollment grew 10% to ~35,000 (part time) students. Then the baseline was:

35,000 ÷ 1.1 = ~3,119 students,

not the 3,500 the math challenged Scott Miller calculated. In any case, if those CSN students want to improve their marketable skills, they should enroll in those trade schools you see advertising on TV. NV taxpayers should not be supporting this unnecessarily wasteful entitlement program.

Chris wrote on February 08, 2009 01:56 PM: Scott Miller--you are misunderstanding the information the RJ is providing. There are approximately 35,000 students attending CSN this year, but on a 'full-time equivalent' basis, they represent approximately 19,000 full-time students. The 19,000 is not the increase, but the full-time equivalent. Either way you quantify them, that's a lot of students.

Steph wrote on February 08, 2009 12:15 PM: We have a first rate community college and a third rate university.

Fund the community college.

Scott Miller wrote on February 08, 2009 12:10 PM: One major reason I do not take the RJ seriously:

"CSN, the largest educational institution in the state, has seen its full-time equivalent enrollment shoot up nearly 10 percent this spring over last spring to about 35,000 students, the equivalent of 19,000 full-time students."

10% of 35,000 is 3,500 not 19,000.

Nice try though.

HelenWeils wrote on February 08, 2009 09:31 AM: Cut "the culture of pizza" and "the beatles", raise tuition to cover actual costs, quit expecting non student taxpayers to pay for it.
It's called "personal responsibility"

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