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City OKs land deal for new facility

MATC faces funding cuts, looks to strengthen partnerships

+ more local headlines and the latest in sports.

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By Cole Bertelsen

The Manhattan Area Technical College saw an 11% decrease in state and federal funding starting July 1.

“We were reduced about a million dollars out of a $9 million budget,” said James Genandt, the college’s president for the past decade. “That’s a hurt. I had to do a reduction in force with some staff.”

Genandt said MATC receives 35-40% of its funding from the state, with the remainder coming from tuition, fees and fundraising.

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Officials on Monday said MATC opened an office in the Fort Riley Education Center in October and has begun offering “career-focused education opportunities directly on post.”

MATC and Fort Riley officials signed a memorandum of understanding in June to allow the college to offer classes with financial aid options including tuition assistance, VA benefits and other funding sources.

It currently has a 19-credit-hour welding certificate course with two timeline options. The first allows students to take it as a 16-week evening course, with semesters beginning in January and August. The other is an accelerated, eight-week daytime course. MATC offers two of the eight-week courses per semester, with the next session beginning March 24.

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