Great Basin College expected to avoid layoffs

ELKO -- Great Basin College will have to further reduce its 2008-09 budget by 2.7 percent and some furloughs will be necessary but it should be able to avoid any layoffs, college president Carl Diekhans said.

The college is in better shape than other schools because of a 9 percent increase in enrollment, he said.

The bad news, he said, is that the classified employees must take one furlough day a month beginning July 1. And regents also have decided to form a committee to determine how professionals could take a similar cut.