The Kaskaskia College Board of Trustees voted to maintain tuition rates for the 2022-23 school year with no increase at the regular monthly meeting in the college’s Lifelong Learning Center.
KC President George Evans feels holding cost to students down is important.
“It’s been a challenge obviously you know you always wish you could have more additional funding sources but we want to make sure that when we run the institution we’re not running it on the backs of the students that come here saw us being able to secure additional grant dollars and continue to lobby for additional state funds is, is beneficial that’s what one of the reasons why I would be able to keep tuition down but we’ve also been very very fiscally responsible so I’m very proud of the group here to making sure that we they know that we’re a strong steward of taxpayer dollars.”
The cost of tuition and fees for in-district students will remain at $152 a credit hour for the fourth year in a row. For out of district in-state, the rate will be $251 per credit out. For those out of state or country, the rate remains at $411 per credit hour.
Results of two student satisfaction surveys were presented by IT Business Analyst Lauren Myers. Evans is pleased to see the surveys, one in-house and one national, showed a positive view of the college from the student body.
“I’m very impressed with the survey you know it’s always good to put yourself against a compare yourself to the national averages and when you see that we’ve exceeded in every, in every aspect, that tells us what we’re doing something right here at KC but it is also equally important to know that our students feel safe here, they feel that the facilities are in good shape but they also equally feel like they’re getting a very good value and they’re intellectually challenged, so very proud of that.”
In the overall impression of the college, 88-percent of the students ranked the college as good or excellent in the internal survey and 82-percent in the national
survey. Around 90-percent of the students in each survey said there was effective assistance in admissions. The college did significantly better than the national average of all community colleges in every category.
A new club, Campus Ministries International, was approved by the board. The group will be part of an organization represented at approximately 4400 institutions nationwide.
n other action the board moved: To employee Holly Sallee as Executive Director of Development, Nathan Gibbs as Warehouse and Distributions Instructor, and Zachary Ricke as IT Systems Administrator; to accept the retirements of Susan Batchelor, Vice President of Student Services – effective 6/30/22, and Sandra Neabuhr, Transitional Academic Advisor- effective 5/31/22; and to accept the resignations of Wesley Lindsay – Grant and Contract Accountant, Lisa Szatkowski – Human Resources Coordinator, Michelle O’Laughlin – Director of the Trenton Education Center, and Shelby King, Grant and Contract Accountant.
