The passage of House Bill 161, "Snow College Richfield Campus", in the 2003 General Session, transferred the operations of the Central Applied Technology College from the Utah College of Applied Technology (UCAT) to Snow College. The branch campus located in Richfield has a strong curriculum in applied technology and technical courses with open-entry, open-exit, competency-based applied technology education programs that emphasize short-term job training or retraining for the job market. This campus is assigned to act in the same capacity as UCAT by serving secondary and post-secondary students within the region.
During the 2015 General Session, the Legislature appropriated for Fiscal Year 2016, $1,325,800 from all sources for Snow College - CTE. This is a 2.4 percent increase from Fiscal Year 2015 revised estimated amounts from all sources. The total includes $1,325,800 from the General/Education Funds, an increase of 2.4 percent from revised Fiscal Year 2015 estimates.
In addition to statewide compensation and internal service fund cost increases, the following appropriation adjustments were made during the 2015 General Session:
CTE Headcount, CTE Membership Hours
Snow College tracks both the number of students (headcount) and their memberhsip hours in the Career and Technical Education program.
COBI contains unaudited data as presented to the Legislature by state agencies at the time of publication. For audited financial data see the State of Utah's Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports.