SCHUBERT BELIEVES THE NEEDS OF ALL OF BLINN CAMPUSES NEED TO BE CONSIDERED

  

A bill filed by State Representative John Raney would require the Blinn College campus in Bryan to have representatives if the bill should become law.

Raney says he is working to see that the Bryan campus has appropriate representation and funding. He believes that too much money is being spent on the Brenham campus, which enrolls fewer students than the Bryan campus, but is receiving more of the funding, according to Raney.

District 13 state representative Leighton Schubert believes that all of Blinn College and their campuses should be looked at as a whole.

 

House Bill 2621, filed by Raney in the past two weeks and the third concerning Blinn College would require the college to add two board members which would be appointed by the Brazos County Commissioner’s Court to serve staggered six-year terms.

The current board has seven members, all from Washington County. However, the Bryan campus has the largest numbers enrolled.

Schubert believes the representatives would be better off being elected, instead of being appointed.

 

Raney says he is working to see that the Bryan campus has appropriate representation and funding. He believes that too much money is being spent on the Brenham campus, which enrolls fewer students than the Bryan campus, but is receiving more of the funding, according to Raney.

Schubert does, however agree with Raney that a breakdown of expenditures by campus should be available on the Blinn College website.