State fails at funding community colleges: official - LEVI PASCHER , The Leader Herald

The 2014-15 state budget could boost base aid to Fulton-Montgomery Community College by about $125,000. However, David Morrow - the college's vice president for administration and finance - said that estimate is based on the college's enrollment staying at the current figure of about 2,130 full-time equivalent students. FM President Dustin Swanger said the increase of will help, but the state still isn't funding community college's to the level they should and previously promised. "The state should be funding us at 33 to 40 percent of our budget and they're funding us at about 24 percent of our budget, so they are way behind where they should be," Swanger said. He said the original funding formula for community colleges was split into thirds with each portion of the budget coming from the counties, state and students. http://www.leaderherald.com/page/content.detail/id/563407/State-fails-at-funding-community-colleges--official.html