Friday, September 21, 2018

Budget cuts underway at Foothill Published: 12 September 2018 - Adanya Lustig, Los Altos Town Crier

Foothill College is in the midst of a three-year process to slash the school’s budget by $6.16 million, a reduction aimed at alleviating the Foothill-De Anza Community College District’s $17.6 million deficit by 2020. A total of $1.75 million was cut from the 2018-2019 budget, and the district proposes to eliminate an additional $4.41 million from the 2019-2020 budget. The deficit occurred because the Foothill-De Anza district is losing students, a phenomenon Foothill President Thuy Thi Nguyen attributes to the strong economy. “Unfortunately, in California there’s this general rule that when the economy is good, enrollment at community colleges goes down,” she said. https://www.losaltosonline.com/news/sections/schools/209-school-news/58497-budget-cuts-underway-at-foothill