Faculty salaries in the 1980's at comprehensive two-year colleges in the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) states (i.e., Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia) increased significantly but did not keep pace with…

Designed to assist individual two-year institutions in analyzing their financial performance in relation to regional and statewide norms, this report presents comparative financial statistics for the 1989-90 fiscal year derived from a sample of 531 public community and junior colleges. The three main sections of the report present, respectively,…

Accountability mandates from accrediting agencies and state government require community colleges to report student graduation and transfer rates. State reporting systems maintained by the Maryland Higher Education Commission (MHEC) provide one means of computing these measures. MHEC used fall enrollment and degree data to determine graduation and…

Comparative financial information, derived from two national surveys of 531 public community and junior colleges, is presented in this report for fiscal year 1989-90. Chapter 1 provides guidance on using the report to compare institutional statistics with national and peer group norms, and discusses limitations of the data. Chapter 2 summarizes…