This report provides a historical overview of Austin Community College (ACC) (Texas) from 1972 until 2000, reviews the institution's mission statement and goals, and offers other general information about the college. Highlights include: (1) total education and general revenues for fiscal year 1999-2000 were $86,197,547, while total expenditures…

The 2000-2001 Kentucky Community and Technical College System (KCTCS) Profile outlines institutional characteristics and facts. It includes strategic plans, goals, history, enrollment rates, KCTCS districts and colleges by district, and information about the Board of Regents and Foundation. Profile highlights include: (1) fall 1999 credit…

This report provides data on the 1999-2000 cost allocation schedules of Wisconsin's technical colleges. Cost allocation information is used to calculate the distribution of state aid to the colleges and prepare financial and enrollment reports, including state statistical summaries and reports on the financing of Wisconsin's technical colleges.…

This article provides insight into the California state budget process and gives an overview of California's growing deficit. The author examines the decline in personal income gained from stock options and capital gains as a means of illustrating the economic factors that resulted in a $28 billion deficit. Next, the author turns his attention to…

This report presents the Michigan State Board for Community College's public policy agenda for 1998. It presents five goals, which are supplemented with accompanying issue statements, policy statements, and objectives. Goal one: there should be increased access to community college education through comprehensive services for all Michigan…

This report presents Westchester Community College's Strategic Plan for 1997-2002. Included are the following: a list of the Strategic Planning Committee members; an executive summary; an overview of the planning process; an institutional profile; a demographic and economic outlook for 1998-2008; and a summary of the focus-goals and objectives in…

This paper consists of several short essays on seven different state community colleges. The first essay, entitled, "Michigan Community Colleges: Is Proposal 'A' Harmful or Helpful?" explains how Proposal A was initiated to provide local property tax relief to homeowners and to equalize funding of rich and poor public K-12 school districts. The…

These four consecutive issues of the quarterly newsletter, "Board Focus," distributed by the Community College League of California, are dated spring, summer and fall 1997, and spring 1998. The spring 1997 issue discusses the "town vs. gown" conflict, which entails trustees balancing their obligations to operate the college on…

This report presents the results of the Guilford Technical Community College financial statement audit for the fiscal year ending on June 30, 1998. Guilford Technical Community College is a component of the State of North Carolina, thus the authority to audit is granted by Article 5A of G.S. 147. The accounts and operations of the institution were…

This report summarizes recent actions and decisions by The Alabama College System. Discussed is the Board's recent revision of the mission statement of the College System to emphasize institutional effectiveness. A description is provided of recent institutional consolidations and mergers, and schools that were re-designated as community colleges.…

This report focuses on adults on public assistance who enrolled in community and technical colleges (Washington) in the fall quarter 1997. Comparisons are made to adult recipients of public assistance enrolled in community and technical colleges in the fall quarter 1996. Major findings are as follows: (1) the enrollment of welfare recipients fell…

This document presents Prince George's Community College's (PGCC) institutional accountability report. It summarizes the following: (1) the college's mission, aspirational goals, significant trends in academics, demographics, and finance; (2) institutional assessment of instructional budget, African American full-time faculty, and students in good…

This study examined the institutional capacity and financial base of rural community colleges to provide access and economic development. It employed the U.S. Department of Education's Integrated Postsecondary Education Data Base System (IPEDS) Finance Module to compare revenue and expenditure categories for fiscal years 1992-93 and 1996-97 for…

Considered the needs of the elderly in educational programming efforts and outlined specific objectives designed to remedy those needs. (Author/RK)

Discusses specific court cases that are concerned with systems for financing education and the change in the methods and formulas used to allocate financial support. (Author/RK)