The college’s expenditure appropriation is sourced from the tuition it collects from students who pay $90 and $180 for each of their credits.
NMC President Carmen Fernandez said they conducted “extensive budget deliberations that linked budget allocations to program review activities, [NMC’s] five-year strategic plan and…institutional priorities.”
The information technology department will get significant increase from $152,474 last year to $454,555 in FY 2009.
The office of institutional effectiveness will also receive a higher appropriation — from $3,103 to $52,618.
The budgets for two key departments were reduced — academic programs and services — from $665,937 to $226,992.
“It was reduced to a large extent because the funds that had previously been used to pay for adjunct instructors and for instructors who teach overload classes will now be sourced from the local budget appropriated by the CNMI Legislature,” Fernandez said.
The appropriation for the finance and administration services department was reduced from $1.784 million to $1.701 million.
The allocations for other key departments are as follows: board of regents — $37,086 from FY 2008’s $30,778; office of the president — $149,365 from $124,886; institutional advancement — $31,205 from $23,379; Rota instructional site — $54,961 from $64,400; Tinian instructional site — $42,970 from $46,274; faculty senate — $150 from $1,065; staff senate — $310 from $900; community programs and services — $121,724 from $114,939; and student services —$226,277 from $189,126.
