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• Cuesta College cuts deep to narrow $3 million budget gap

  Cuesta College cuts deep to narrow $3 million budget gap

  A proposal that will cut $3 million from Cuesta College’s 2012-13 budget — eliminating 26 positions and laying off 16 people — was approved 4-0 by the college’s Board of Trustees on Wednesday.

• Layoffs, pay cuts likely to rock Cuesta

  Layoffs, pay cuts likely to rock Cuesta

  Eliminating 50 positions at Cuesta College, asking employees to take pay cuts and reducing the number of courses offered to students are among a series of severe budget cuts put forward by the college to contend with a $3 million deficit.

  Cuesta President Gil Stork unveiled the plan Tuesday but has not yet specified which positions will be cut. The budget cuts will be taken to the Board of Trustees on April 4.

  The 50 layoffs will affect management and classified workers and part-time faculty and will save the college about $1.4 million in the 2012-13 year.

• Cuesta College may ask voters for a bond measure

  Cuesta College may ask voters for a bond measure

  San Luis Obispo County voters could be asked to approve a bond for Cuesta College as soon as the November election to help repair aging buildings and failing technology and pay down outstanding debt.

  On Tuesday, the Board of Trustees unanimously authorized Cuesta College President Gil Stork to draft a contract to hire a consultant to poll the community on its support for a general obligation bond measure.

  Trustees, who in June would have to approve the contract of up to $40,000, would use the results of that poll to decide whether they’ll place the bond on November’s ballot.

• Cuesta College could be closed if accreditation requirements aren't met by November

  Cuesta College could be closed if accreditation requirements aren't met by November

  Cuesta College has until November to fix problems noted by the agency responsible for accrediting community colleges or it will lose its accreditation and possibly face closure, school officials announced Monday.

  The college must improve in three key areas — planning and assessment, technology resources, and financial planning and stability — or its accreditation will be revoked.

  It must also make preparations for closure, as required by the commission, should the college fail to meet the requirements. In that process, the dissolution of the college and its resources will be explored, Cuesta President Gil Stork said.

• Special report: Cuesta College’s accreditation crisis

  Special report: Cuesta College’s accreditation crisis

  Cuesta College finds itself fighting to keep its accreditation because of years of volatile leadership, which resulted in a lack of high-level attention just as the standards got tougher. That’s the conclusion drawn from interviews with more than a dozen past and present college administrators, faculty and staff.