Eastern Gateway campus to become branch next year


YOUNGSTOWN

Eastern Gateway Community College President Jimmie Bruce is reorganizing the college with plans to turn the Valley Center downtown into a branch campus in 2017.

As part of that process, five positions were eliminated: operations manager at the Valley Center, dean and director of enrollment management, a student services specialist and an administrative assistant.

Bruce met this week with employees at both the Valley Center and the Steubenville campus to explain some of the changes.

He said the decisions were based on money.

“We’ve struggled with the budget this fiscal year,” he told Valley Center employees Thursday. “We started in a deficit situation.”

Enrollment also didn’t meet projections, Bruce said. Eastern Gateway’s total enrollment is 3,100 students.

While more students are taking classes, there are more part-time than full-time students, so they’re signing up for fewer classes.

The elimination of positions has nothing to do with performance, he told employees.

Read more about the situation in Friday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.

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