Heartland Community College President Rob Widmer said HCC has received about thirty five cents on the dollar in promised state aid in the last two budget years.
The state share of HCC's budget is about ten percent of the total.
Other community colleges with different tax bases could be as much as forty percent state funded. Widmer said others have less of a share of state funding than Heartland.
Widmer told GLT the college submitted a budget that counts on additional aid, though educators have to wait until after the election to see whether it will materialize.
Heartland recently cut down all the ash trees on campus. More than seventy were infested with the Emerald Ash Borer. HCC has begun a "Plant It Forward" campaign to raise donations to re-tree the campus. Widmer said there is early enthusiasm for that effort.
At the campus on Raab Road in Normal, the fall term is well under way. In this quarterly conversation with GLT's Charlie Schlenker, Widmer said enrollment is level, just what he had hoped.
