Riverland News
Riverland President's Column--October 2010
Several community colleges have chosen to remove the word “community” from their official names. Riverland Community College, however, works hard to retain the community part of its name. Perhaps this name-change trend relates to college marketers’ need to make a college title's length more manageable or a clever strategy to mask some outdated stigmas community colleges face.
Office of the Chancellor to reduce its budget by $4.2 million, includes eliminating 41 positions
The Office of the Chancellor for the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities will reduce its budget by $4.2 million and eliminate 41 positions by July 1, 2011. The budget change is due to an anticipated reduction in state funding for fiscal year 2012, and it comes on top of budget reductions to the system office made in five of the past 10 years. This represents a 10 percent reduction from the current fiscal year.