This strategic planning document prepared by the Office of Institutional Research and Planning at Dalton State College (DSC) identifies significant demographic, economic, educational, political, social and technological trends, issues, and priorities impacting institutional planning for 2000-2003. The report describes institutional mission and…

This report to the Santa Monica College (SMC) Board of Trustees focuses on the college's programs and achievements, especially as they relate to community development, and proposes a new city government and school relationship with respect to educational finance. The report proposes creation of the Santa Monica Educational Authority (SMEA), a…

The Texas Community College Teachers Association (TCCTA), formerly known as the Texas Junior College Teachers Association (TJCTA), publishes the TCCTA Messenger newsletter four times a year to cover events, legislation and TCCTA activities affecting Texas community colleges and their faculty. This document contains four newsletter issues…

This document proposes a model for operating state aid that provides a more equitable and rational system of state aid appropriations that would primarily benefit rural and low socioeconomic area community colleges. Operating state aid is appropriated on the basis of a statutory formula that uses the previous year's appropriation and growth in…

In the process of re-evaluating the measures for the performance indicators approved last year, the Planning and Development Division at Truckee Meadows Community College (TMCC) (Nevada) decided to consolidate some performance indicators and make slight word changes to others. The number of indicators was reduced from 48 to 37. The measures for…

This Report on Local Investments of Partnership Funds has been created to show how California Community College districts have been using their Partnership for Excellence dollars for the 1998-99 and the 1999-00 fiscal years. Each district's page includes information separated into the six PFE goal areas: (1) Transfer; (2) Degrees and Certificates;…

This document presents the guidelines for the California Community College 2000-2001 State-Funded Telecommunication and Technology Infrastructure Program (TTIP) Program. The 2000-2001 State Budget Act contains $44.3 million for expenditures on the TTIP. The Act provides that $31,600,000 be allocated to colleges for the following purposes: (1) data…

This document contains the four Faculty Association of California Community Colleges (FACCCTS) newsletters published during the 1998-99 academic year. In the September 1998 issue, faculty members talk about what shared governance means and how to improve it on individual campuses. The issue also features Gray Davis' plans for the community…

Explores the effects of changing tuition rates on open-door policies at U.S. community/junior colleges. Assesses nationwide tuition trends and analyzes the relationship between tuition rates and enrollment levels. Points to continuous tuition increases since 1951. Concludes that further increases could close colleges to those unable to afford…

Provides a brief overview and critique of the Brookings Institute study, "Financing Community Colleges: An Economic Perspective," by David Breneman and Susan Nelson. Refutes the study's conclusion that most students would have a better chance of earning a bachelor's degree if they started at a four-year college. (CRB)

Analyzes social, political, and economic factors affecting community college development, including economic decline, increased state control, reduced appropriations and discretionary income, loss of diversity and autonomy, demographic transitions, and technological changes. Recommends a strategic management approach to issues of mission and…

The Principal of Rawlins Upper School and Community College in Leicestershire, England, documents the recent effects of retrenchment on his school and questions the government's claim that state funding cuts would not harm the academic program. (SJL)

Relates the question of whether community colleges should provide continuing or community education to issues of educational finance. Contrasts the public's demand for continuing education with its unwillingness to provide financial support for these programs. Urges community colleges to act as a viable, responsive part of the community. (AYC)

Details the establishment of the $750,000 James N. and Helon Y. Allison Endowment Fund and the Allison Chair of Journalism at Midland College in Texas, the first endowed chair in a community college. (AEA)