How will passage of the bond help prevent significant tuition increases?
More students require more classrooms, more laboratories, more technology, more parking and more equipment. Every institution handles the needs associated with growth differently. Some colleges and universities are forced to implement enrollment caps, some simply raise tuition by a thousand dollars or more, while some have significant endowments that allow programs to be developed and facilities to be built with minimal additional expense to students. Accessibility and affordability is something the Maricopa Community Colleges take seriously. In order to keep classes small, keep educational quality high and keep job training current, the Maricopa Community Colleges use a number of resources to fund the programs, services and facilities required by a growing student population. Those resources include tuition, property taxes and state funding. Additionally, general obligation bonds provide funding for the construction of classroom, lab and instructional buildings and equipment to meet t
