June 11, 2008

Rising Cost of Gas Pinches Rural Community Colleges

By Libby Sander

The 230 miles of West Texas highway linking the plains of Lamesa to the hill country of Junction is familiar terrain to area college students accustomed to traveling long distances to attend classes.

But with gasoline prices averaging $4 per gallon, students in the community-college district that stretches between those two West Texas towns, like their peers in other rural communities, are feeling the sting.

Sensitive to their enrollment numbers and the plight

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