NORWICH – Chenango County officials are considering a change to an existing agreement with the SUNY Morrisville Norwich campus that would lead to a nominal increase in taxpayer costs of sending high school students to on-campus college classes.

The current agreement, which allows high school students to take credit courses at SUNY Morrisville’s Norwich campus at a subsidized cost, simply doesn’t suit today’s budgetary restraints, said Campus Director Lindsey Lefevre.

She appealed for an amendment at a meeting of the county’s planning and economic development committee last month.

“In 2017, SUNY changed their policy so that we’re not able to charge a differential tuition rate for students sitting in the same course,” Lafevre said. “So basically, in order to sustain this program and have students on campus, we have to have a separate cohort. And in order to pay the instructor and not subsidize tuition to SUNY, we had to up the rate $25 per credit.”