Breuder could use an Elvis announcement

In his Trib letter today, lamenting likely reduction in state funding to colleges while touting College of DuPage's massive building campaign and huge surplus, COD President Robert Breuder made this astounding statement:

"With state funding dwindling and caps on our ability to raise taxes, community colleges, like our four-year counterparts, have consistently raised tuition. But College of DuPage reduced tuition this spring for the first time in our history".

That is utter sophism, the use of false arguments to deceive people. Dr. Breuder has been, for his entire six year tenure at COD, a champion tuition increaser. Just last Spring he proposed a huge $6 per hour increase, which was mercifully reduced by the COD Board to $4, still outrageous with COD's massive surplus. Then when Breuder's disgraceful email surfaced showing his cynical ploy to extract $20 million from the state with no approved project booked, he road into the next Board meeting on a white horse, trumpeting a $2 tuition decrease. But he spent a full 10 minutes droning on how his magnanimous action could put the College at risk if the economy sours. The Board wisely doubled his belated initiative to aid students into a $4 reduction, thus wiping out Breuder's entire $6 tuition proposal from just 6 months earlier.

Dr. Breuder is leaving COD early, but not early enough. Today would be a great day for the Board to announce that Dr. Robert L. Breuder has "left the building...for the last time."