No matter which way you run the numbers, the math isn’t working out for Linn-Benton Community College. Due to state budget cuts and increasing enrollment, LBCC has found itself with an overabundance of students, and an underabundance of money with which to provide services for those students. This has lead to longer lines at the Registration counter, difficulties in providing enough basic classes for students, and higher demands on an already short-handed financial aid staff. According to the Albany Democrat-Herald, tuition at LBCC has doubled in the last nine years, from $39 per credit in 2001 to $72 per...
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