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Koh, Jonathan; Katsinas, Stephen G.; Bray, Nathaniel J. – Journal of Education Finance, 2019
This study examines patterns of state financing in public community colleges. The focus of the study is to not only show the disparities that exist across the 50 states in terms of fiscal capacity to provide funding for community colleges, but also in the effort that is exerted to fund community colleges. The study combines the Bureau of Economic…
Descriptors: State Aid, Educational Finance, Community Colleges, Fiscal Capacity
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Koh, Jonathan P.; Katsinas, Stephen G.; Bray, Nathaniel J.; Hardy, David E. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2019
This chapter reviews multiple variables across all public community colleges, and unveils marked disparities in public funding between and within the states at community colleges of different sizes and geographical settings.
Descriptors: State Aid, Public Colleges, Community Colleges, Financial Support
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Bray, Nathaniel J.; Johnson, Shonteria; Katsinas, Stephen G.; Shadduck, Peggy – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2019
This paper presents the results of an exploratory study of a professional development-based effort at one of the nation's 14 federally designated Historically Black Colleges and Universities community colleges. Course revisions included introductory courses in its Natural Sciences department. The goal was to improve students' critical-thinking and…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, STEM Education, Black Colleges, Community Colleges
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D'Amico, Mark M.; Morgan, Grant B.; Katsinas, Stephen G.; Adair, J. Lucas; Miller, Michael T. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2017
Noncredit community college enrollment accounts for approximately 40% of all enrollment in the two-year sector, or five million students (American Association of Community Colleges, 2016). Yet, this population is seldom discussed in the higher education literature due to inconsistent definitions, funding, and data reporting at the state level.…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Noncredit Courses, Enrollment Trends, Funding Formulas
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D'Amico, Mark M.; Morgan, Grant B.; Katsinas, Stephen G.; Friedel, Janice N. – Career and Technical Education Research, 2015
Using multi-year data captured by annual national surveys of state community college directors, the study examined relationships among factors related to workforce education in community colleges. Variables of interest were related to the following categories: state and federal funding for workforce development, workforce development delivery in…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year Colleges, Labor Force Development, National Surveys
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Katsinas, Stephen G. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2015
Established in the 1920s, the Education Policy Center (EPC) is the oldest center or institute at The University of Alabama. Our work centers on four interrelated areas: (a) access and finance of public higher education, (b) college completion, (c) Pell Grants, and (d) rural community colleges. As place-based institutions with service delivery…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Access to Education, Community Colleges, Grants
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Murphy, David S.; Katsinas, Stephen G. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2014
The topic of budgeting and financial resources often strikes fear in the hearts of community college administrators and faculty, as they believe it is an arcane and complex art understood only by accountants and financial specialists. This chapter attempts to demystify the basic concepts involved in budgeting and addresses approaches to budgeting,…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Budgeting, Educational Finance, College Planning
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D'Amico, Mark M.; Friedel, Janice N.; Katsinas, Stephen G.; Thornton, Zoë M. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2014
Since the initiation of performance funding in Tennessee in the late 1970s, approximately 30 states have, at some point, attempted a funding model that includes performance on a set of indicators. The purpose of the present study was to capture the current status of performance funding in public statewide community college systems and to assess…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Funding Formulas, Educational Indicators, School Surveys
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Katsinas, Stephen G.; D'Amico, Mark M.; Friedel, Janice N. – Educational Considerations, 2014
This article presents results from the 2012 National Survey of Access and Finance Issues conducted by the National Council of State Directors of Community Colleges (NCSDCC), an affiliated council of the American Association of Community Colleges, and includes a comparison of survey results from previous years dating back to 2003, with the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Public Colleges, Educational Finance, Community Colleges
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D'Amico, Mark M.; Katsinas, Stephen G.; Friedel, Janice N. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2012
Since the beginning of the Great Recession, many community colleges have experienced significant declines in state revenue, increases in enrollment, higher tuition, and flat or declining state student aid. These conditions have also occurred in an environment of heightened accountability with pressure to advance a student success agenda and to…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Student Financial Aid, Educational Finance, Privatization
Katsinas, Stephen G.; Kinkead, J. Clint – Online Submission, 2011
At the 2009 meeting of the Association for the Study of Higher Education's Council on Public Policy in Higher Education, Pat Callan, President of the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, asserted that Master's Colleges and Universities (MCUs) are the most understudied sector of American higher education. This paper described how…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Classification, Community Colleges, State Colleges
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Katsinas, Stephen G. – Community College Review, 2008
Raymond J. Young (1923-2007) played a key role in the post-World War II development of community colleges in Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, and elsewhere. This article describes his scholarly and professional contributions in developing "bottom-up," grassroots citizen's participatory studies that led to the establishment of 60 community…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Change Agents, Community Action, Community Development
Katsinas, Stephen G.; D'Amico, Mark M.; Friedel, Janice N. – Online Submission, 2011
Unemployment rates continued to fall slowly as the economy gains strength following the longest recession in over half a century. This report addressed the challenges of the community colleges attempting to reach the unemployed and underemployed. Responses from a survey conducted by the Education Policy Center at the University of Alabama, were…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Expectation, Business, Leadership
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Rankin, Kristie R.; Katsinas, Stephen G.; Hardy, David E. – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2011
Drawing on Rankin's 2008 study and literature on retention and community colleges, this study presents perceptions of community college Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) and Chief Academic Officers (CAOs) in relation to issues affecting retention and access. Childcare, transportation, and funding concerns are examined. (Contains 2 tables.)
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Deans, Administrator Attitudes, Academic Persistence
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Kennamer, Mike; Katsinas, Stephen G. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2011
The $17.2 million Rural Community College Initiative (RCCI) demonstration grant program funded by the Ford Foundation which ran from 1994 to 2001 represents the largest philanthropic project specifically aimed at rural community colleges in United States history. While a good deal of literature has been published about this initiative, much was…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Grants, Educational History, Reflection
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