Niagara College President Sean Kennedy was interviewed by the St. Catharines Standard discussing the College’s finalized 2025-26 budget and business plan.
In the interview, Kennedy cited past growth and financial stability as factors that helped the College limit deeper cuts during what he described as an “extraordinarily challenging budget process, unlike any that the College has been through before.”
“It was a balance of taking our time to make sure that we really took a strategic approach in investing, to continue to stabilize and grow our enrolments while also looking for every reduction that we could that enabled us to minimize the people impacts through our budget process,” he said.
Throughout the article, Kennedy speaks to the financial challenges caused by declining international enrolment, the strategic use of college reserves to protect jobs and programs, and plans to stabilize and grow through new programs, capital projects, and increased domestic recruitment.
The May 24 article syndicated across the three Niagara dailies (Niagara Falls Review, St. Catharines Standard, and Welland Tribune)
Read the St. Catharines Standard article here.
