You have /5 articles left.
Sign up for a free account or log in.
Mark Ojakian, president of the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities system, told state legislative leaders in a letter that he is "increasingly concerned about the viability" of the funding source for a debt-free community college program the state approved with legislation this year.
The last-dollar program is set to start in fall 2020, but the legislation enacting it requires Governor Ned Lamont to determine if new lottery revenue can be used as a funding source. Even if those funds could be used, Ojakian said in the letter, the enabling legislation wouldn't occur until next May.
This would leave little time for marketing the program, he said.
The Board of Regents submitted a request last week to Lamont to include $20 million in the fiscal year 2020-21 budget adjustments schedule, $2 million of which would go toward marketing, $1.4 million for advisers and $16.6 million for student grants.
