NMSU GRANTS FALL 2013 CONVOCATION STATE OF THE COLLEGE Felicia Casados, President Friday, September 6, 2013 NMSU Grants CCEDF Capital Outlay Presentation August 27, 2013 New Mexico Community College Statewide Service Areas NMSU Grants (2) Encompassing 4 tribal communities, i.e. Laguna Pueblo, Acoma Pueblo, parts of Navajo Nation (To’hajiilee and Thoreau), and parts of Zuni Pueblo and four large public land bases (3) McClure Hall as it looked when I arrived 8 years ago, 1 of 2 existing 1960 Job Corp facilities, used as campus academic space – Phase I: (closed for a year) - interior gutting/renovation A YEAR LATER Phase II: exterior walls built around it/insulated/exterior was ‘rebuilt’ (4) McClure Hall today!! (5) Fidel Activity Center – our second metal sided remaining 1960 Job Corp building (6) (7) NMSU-Grants Annual Enrollment & FTE Year Enrollment (Headcount) FTE % Change (FTE) 2012-2013 2818 618.47 -13.4% 2011-2012 3193 713.84 -10.3% 2010-2011 3844 795.55 1.2% 2009-2010 3673 785.93 25.6% 2008-2009 3098 625.90 22.8% 2007-2008 2027 509.54 7.5% 2006-2007 1741 473.87 6.0% **2005-2006 1544 446.84 0.1% **I arrived 7/2005 (8) Dual Enrollment Students do not generate tuition support since tuition is waived but they do generate Student Credit Hours/SCH which adds value to our formula but they are also our pipeline so worth our investment! GED Programs at NM community colleges are the ‘safety net’ for high school drop outs, young ones as well as adults. In June 2013 we had 79 GED graduates; as many as our Associate degree students!! (9) YEAR Dual Enrollment Students GED Students 2012-2013 247 344 2011-2012 196 342 2010-2011 211 421 2009-2010 215 342 2008-2009 148 271 2007-2008 118 168 2006-2007 78 151 2005-2006 32 126 While Cibola County is not losing population, growth is very low (less than 1%), therefore our strategy to grow enrollment has been to turn back our focus on our service area by focusing on student populations and their interest in accessing higher education opportunities: YEAR Dual Enrollment Students GED Students 2012-2013 247 344 2011-2012 196 342 2010-2011 211 421 • 2009-2010 215 342 2008-2009 148 271 2007-2008 118 168 2006-2007 78 151 2005-2006 32 126 Dual Enrollment Students utilizing our grants to support Summer Dual Enrollment Academies • General Equivalency Diploma (GED) • Our students interested in BS/BA Transfer Program via distance (10) NMSU Grants Associate Degrees & Certificates Awarded Academic Year Associate Degree Certificate Total Awards 2012-2013 74 30 104 2011-2012 65 42 107 2010-2011 81 57 138 2009-2010 70 81 151 2008-2009 69 76 145 2007-2008 83 85 168 (11) Most Common Degrees Degree Certificate 2012-13 2011-12 2010-11 2009-2010 Associate General Studies 26 16 25 19 Associate of Arts 13 10 12 14 Associate of Science 6 7 5 0 Associate Early Childhood 4 4 2 4 Associate Computer Technician 1 3 4 5 Associate Social Service 9 5 11 4 Associate Pre-Business 1 7 6 3 Associate Criminal Justice 4 3 3 4 All Others 10 10 13 17 Total Associates Awarded: 74 65 81 70 (12) NMSU Grants Associate Degrees & Certificates Awarded – 6 year span (13) MCCLURE HALL HOUSES NMSU Bachelor of Science (BSN) in Nursing Program delivered @ NMSU Grants 2+2 Program Model NMSU School of Nursing delivers instruction via live ITV with clinicals done locally NMSU Grants provides the Associate of Science (with Nursing pre-requisites) + NMSU School of Nursing provides the BSN over 4 Semesters NMSU Nursing Program accepts 8 new Nursing students each Fall for NMSU Grants Nursing cohort Students in Grants graduate with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing Cibola General Hospital contributes $80,000/year to support NMSU BSN delivery @ NMSU Grants Supports salary of NMSU Clinical Nursing Faculty in Grants Silver Linings has also provided NMSU SON $30,000 to support BSN Deliver in Grants (14) NMSU Grants provides NMSU BSN Program (at no cost): • Two (2) classrooms, i.e. ITV classroom dedicated to BSN students & Nursing Skills Lab • Clinical Nursing faculty office • ITV studio equipment • IT Tech support • Testing Center services Grants Campus Master Plan 2014 - 2015 NMSU Grants CCEDF Capital Outlay Presentation August 27, 2013 Grants Campus Short Range Plan NMSU Grants CCEDF Capital Outlay Presentation August 27, 2013 Grants Campus Long Range Plan NMSU Grants CCEDF Capital Outlay Presentation August 27, 2013 Basic Community College Philosophy: • Open admission – accept students where they are at academically. • Keep tuition low to encourage ‘access’ to a college education. • Provide both Career/Technical and Bachelor degree transfer programs • Career/Technical programs are expensive to startup. (18) NMSU Tuition Rates by Campus NMSU Campus Cost of Tuition by Credit Hour (In district students) Cost of Tuition per Semester for Full-time Student (12+ credit hours) NMSU Grants $ 70.25 $ 891 NMSU Carlsbad* $ 37.00 $ 530 NMSU Alamogordo $ 76.00 $ 960 Dona Ana $ 58.00 $ 780 NMSU $ 259.20 $ 3,110.40 Low tuition because of 3 mil passage (19) Tuition at other New Mexico 2-Year and 4-Year Campuses School Credit Hour Tuition Tuition/semester for full-time student (12-18 credit hours) Two-year Schools CNM $ 48.25 $ 579.00 UNM Gallup $ 71.00 $ 852.00 UNM Valencia (Los Lunas) $ 65.05 $ 780.60 NM Highlands (Las Vegas) $ 166.67 $ 2,000.00 Western NM (Silver City) $ 196.80 $ 2,361.60 NM Tech (Socorro) $ 238.08 $ 2,857.00 New Mexico State University $ 259.20 $ 3,110.40 University of New Mexico $ 285.25 $ 3,223.35 Four-Year Schools (20) New Mexico Branch Community College Act • • • • • • • NMSU Grants was created in 1968 (45 years of operation) from a request of the Grants/Cibola School District to NMSU, utilizing a 1960 era Job Corp facility/property. NMSU Grants was created under the NM Branch Community College Act which required local voter support of 1 mil for operational support. NMSU Grants generates between $200,000-$220,000 from our 1 mil of annual property tax support; the amount fluctuates annually and is only acquired ‘if property taxes are collected’. NMSU Carlsbad who is only about 20% larger in student population than NMSU Grants generates $1,200,000/mil/annually and 5 years ago NMSU Carlsbad voters approved local election increase from 1 mil to 3 mil in return for lowering tuition rates (that is why they have lowest NMSU community college tuition rate, a slide I will show you later). NMSU Carlsbad now generates $3,600,000/annually from their local 3 mil support. NMSU Grants pays annual overhead fee of $220,000/year to NMSU (and % is going up annually), so basically our 1 mil covers our annual NMSU overhead fee. NMSU Carlsbad pays about $400,000 in annual overhead to NMSU, leaving them $3,200,000 additional annual funding (from their 3 mils) to support their campus capital needs (and other needs). (21) New Mexico Branch Community College Act • • The Regents of NMSU are our ‘Governing Board’ and The NM Branch Community College act requires that the local school board, in our case, the Grants/Cibola County School Board acts as NMSU Grants ‘Advisory Board’ with two (2) major responsibilities: 1. Approve NMSU Grants annual budget; and 2. Approve (or disapprove) ability for NMSU Grants to seek local election to increase mil or local general obligation bond or both. • When the Grants/Cibola School Board is ready to approve NMSU Grants to seek a local election to expand our mil and/or local GO bond, we must pay for the cost of local election and can not use college funds to pay for such an election (which can cost upwards of $25,000+). • To date, Local School Board has been hesitant to allow NMSU Grants to seek expanded mil support (1-for political reasons/they are voted in and no one likes their property taxes to go up) and 2-they have not wanted it to negatively impact their own efforts to pass their own local GO Bond renewals which is how they have been able to renovate/rebuild their schools along with their K-12 capital funding in past few years. (22) Issues • • • • • • (23) In our 45 years of operation, NMSU Grants remains at 1 mil of local tax support; we have not requested increased mil support from our service area since it was created in 1968 and has never utilized its local GO bond capacity. As many of you know, as large tracks of land (contiguous to tribal lands) are bought by tribal communities it continues to eventually erode the local property tax base. NMSU Grants has local bonding capacity of $6,563,000 but we have never utilized it because local GO bonds must be paid back and we have not had a revenue source to cover this debt service. For NMSU Grants to utilize its local GO Bonding capacity it would require added mil support to pay for a local GO Bond (it is much like a mortgage). Our Higher education ‘capital outlay’ process is very different than K-12 system. K-12 has a much more defined and planned way in assisting public schools with capital needs largely due to lawsuits school districts brought to State Public Education Department in the past. In this economic era, our current Governor and Higher Education Secretary have said ‘no new facilities for higher education’ at this time!! Issues • The primary method NMSU Grants has to receive capital outlay funding is every other year via the State General Obligation Bond for higher education. State GO Bond support for our campus has averaged about $1,000,000 every other year (so say $500,000/year); we have used the State GO Bond funds to renovate our existing facilities that were in desperate need of renovation when I arrived 8 years ago. • Four years ago the State GO Bond was failed by NM Voters (Cibola County did pass it) for only the second time in its history and it paralyzed our ability to move forward on much needed renovations to our campus. • As you all know, public lands and tribal lands do not pay into property tax system. • But tribal communities do vote in local property tax elections even though they do not pay property taxes. (24) Issues • • • • (25) The Higher Education Capital Outlay Committee which we present to annually in August (comprised of 4 State Agency representatives, i.e. Higher Ed Department, Legislative Finance Committee, Department of Finance and Administration and Energy & Minerals Department) has made it clear to us that no new higher education facilities (in future after new building moratorium is lifted) will be considered for NM college campuses without local capital support for those facilities. They are not requiring a $1 to $1 match but they want a substantial commitment from local community before they will agree to support any new construction on our campuses. NMSU Grants has been working towards building a new Child Development Education Center in order to tie it into a learning lab with our Teacher Education Program; replacing two decaying portable buildings currently used for the largest state licensed child care center (Small Wonders) in Grants serving 50 children, infants thru school age, managed by a local nonprofit but housed on NMSU Grants campus/facilities. NMSU Grants pays for all child care center utilities and cost of maintenance. A few years ago mold was discovered in the floor of the infant room and it had to be replaced. In 2012 we receive $35,000 in legislative support for preliminary planning and design for a new Child Care Education Center facility. We now have a $5,700,000 price tag to construct this facility, expanding current 55 child care slots to 80 (based on Small Wonders waiting list). Child Care facilities/services support student retention and area employment (allowing parents to work). • (26) Child Development Education Center Preliminary Estimated Construction Cost: $5,700,000 Expanding child care services from: • Current 55 children (20/school age/20 toddlers/20 infants) to 80 children (24/school age, 20/preschool, 16 toddlers/and 20/infants) and Tie-In as Learning Lab for campus Teacher Education Program (27) Outreach Strategies Utilizing our federal grants to provide computer technology/GED services to our more rural areas: Site Service Grant funding source: Pinehill (Ramah Navajo) Oso Vista Ranch Project 13 computers (8 laptops/5 desktops) US Depart of Education, Title V - Hispanic Serving Institution Thoreau (Navajo) 13 computers (8 laptops/5 desktops) US Dept of Education, Native American Serving Non-Tribal Institutions & Title V Acoma Pueblo Education Center 15 computers (7 desktops/8 laptops) 1 FTE GED Instructor Tutors US Dept of Education, Native American Serving Non-Tribal Institutions To’hajiilee (Navajo) 23 computers (15 desktops /8 laptops) 1 FTE GED Instructor Tutors US Dept of Education, Native American Serving Non-Tribal Institutions Laguna Pueblo GED Program 8 laptops US Depart of Education, Title V - Hispanic Serving Institutions Acoma Public Library 8 laptops & Storage/power cart US Depart of Education, Title V - Hispanic Serving Institutions Laguna Public Library 8 laptops & Storage/power cart US Depart of Education, Title V - Hispanic Serving Institutions (28) Pinehill (Ramah Navajo) Community Computer Lab (13 units) funded by our US Dept of Education NASNTI grant (29) 2014-2015 Capital Outlay Request(s) BY PROJECT 1. Infrastructure upgrades and replacement: • Martinez Hall Faculty Office Renovations • Campus Classroom Building Upgrade, i.e. Energy Controls, Lighting Upgrades, Finishes Upgrades • Campus Parking, Lighting and Landscaping 3. Construct Child Development Education Center TOTAL: w/Child Development Education Center (30) TOTAL $ 1,363,000 $ 230,000 $ 330,000 $ 803,000 $ 5,700,000 $ 1,363,000 +$ 5,700,000 2014 State GO Bond Proposed Projects Faculty Office Renovations $230,000 (31) Campus Parking, Lighting and Landscaping - $803,000 Current Project(s): Phase III Library Renovations (we hope it will be the final phase) (32) NMSU Grants Library Renovation (33) NMSU Grants Library Renovation (34) Phase I & II Library Renovations (completed) (35) Moving into Library Renovation Phase III 2012 State GO Bond - $1,000,000 ($800,000 available for construction) (36) Future Projected Capital Needs Project(s) 2015-2016 Infrastructure Upgrades and Replacement $ 2,065,000 Arts & Sciences Center Planning & Design $ 200,000 Martinez Hall Admin Office Renovations $ 800,000 Information Technology Upgrades $ 295,000 2016-2017* *GO Bond Year Infrastructure Upgrades and Replacement $ 965,000 Fidel Center Restroom Upgrades $ 230,000 Campus Grounds Master Plan Implementation $ 165,000 Alternative Energy Technologies $ 1,000,000 Information Technology Infrastructure Upgrades $ Arts & Sciences Center $ 6,000,000 TOTAL BY YEAR: (37) $ 3,360,000 85,000 $ 8,445,000 Future Projected Capital Needs Project(s) 2017-2018 Infrastructure Upgrades and Replacement $ 1,100,000 Alternative Energy Technologies $ 1,000,000 Information Technology Upgrades $ 2018-2019* *GO Bond Year 85,000 Infrastructure Upgrades and Replacement $ 1,100,000 Alternative Energy Technologies $ 1,000,000 Information Technology Infrastructure Upgrades $ TOTAL BY YEAR: (38) $ 2,185,000 441,000 $ 2,541,000 NMSU GRANTS IS RESOURCEFUL… by budgeting allowable construction costs into our federal grants Example: Our Student Success Testing Center Interior Renovation (Summer 2013) $55,000 - Funded by: US Department of Education Native American Non-Tribal Institution 5-Year Grant (Year 2) (39) NMSU Grants Engineering Lab Creation: Funded by our US Dept of Education Title V Hispanic Serving Institutions Grant ($80,000/renovation) + Additional Equipment: $50,000 (ITV/specialized equipment) & Santa Fe Community College sharing of their Carl Perkins Career Technical Grant (for lab computers) ($30,000) (40) Our new MAC computer lab funded by our US Dept of Education Title V H.S.I. grant in 2012 (41) Rural Students/Staff/Faculty Deserve Quality Facilities too!! We have used our capital funding wisely!! Serving Cibola County for 45 years!! (42)