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Heisner, J. D. – Instructor, 1979
Descriptors: Decision Making, Nontraditional Education, Opinions, Public Education
Peer reviewedLombardi, John – Community College Review, 1979
Discusses the ramifications of Proposition 13 in light of cut-backs to community college personnel, programs, and services. Underscores that no aura surrounds the community college. Stresses that the days of unlimited availability of funds for community colleges have ceased. (CM)
Descriptors: Budgeting, College Administration, Community Colleges, Educational Finance
Miles, Leland – National Forum: Phi Kappa Phi Journal, 1982
The plight of private colleges that cannot pass inflation on to the taxpayer as the public institutions can is discussed. A proposal is presented that the four-year public sector be redefined as one that receives not more than a 50-percent tax subsidy. (MLW)
Descriptors: Access to Education, Educational Finance, Financial Support, Higher Education
Koltai, Leslie – 1979
For the Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD), the year after Proposition 13 was passed was one of almost constant reappraisal of priorities, of shifting programs and services to make the most of every available dollar, and of nearly constant uncertainty. Some of the effects of Proposition 13 were reductions in the numbers of part-time…
Descriptors: Budgets, Community Colleges, Declining Enrollment, Educational Vouchers
Download full textCloud, Robert C. – 1989
An overview is provided of trends and issues in the financial support of Texas's community colleges. Part I provides introductory comments on the functions, enrollments, and costs of the state's public community college system. Part II reviews nationwide trends in the state and local support of two-year colleges, effects of declining revenues,…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Finance, Educational Trends, Finance Reform
Wallace, Thomas P.; Greer, Darryl G.; Mingle, James R.; Novak, Richard J. – Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, 1992
This paper contains three articles which present the opinions of the authors on public college tuition and state finance. The problem addressed is the large increase in tuition charged by public sector, four-year colleges coupled with the effects of fiscal constraints facing the states. After an introduction by Richard J. Novak, the papers are:…
Descriptors: Budgets, Educational Finance, Finance Reform, Financial Problems
de la Garza, Leonardo – 2000
This paper explores the ways in which community colleges in the United States are financed. It offers a historical overview of community college financing in the U.S., arguing that from their inception, they have operated on the premise of providing wide access to higher education through public funding at little or no cost to students. The paper…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Community Colleges, Educational Finance, Expenditures
Harcleroad, Fred F., Ed. – 1979
Proceedings of a conference on financing postsecondary education in the 1980s, sponsored by the Center for the Study of Higher Education of the University of Arizona in close collaboration with the Education Commission of the States and the National Association of College and University Business Officers, are presented. Contents are as follows:…
Descriptors: Accountability, Budgeting, College Administration, College Planning
