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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED145918 AUTHOR:
TITLE: Methods of Two-Year College Finance in Selected
States. A Supplement to Financial Support for the
California Community Colleges, Commission Report 77-3.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1977
NOTE: 59 p.; For a related document see ED 142 263. Some
pages may reproduce poorly due to small size of type
ABSTRACT: In order to analyze the California system of
community college finance within a national context, a
review of recent literature was followed by an intensive
study and survey of eight states, chosen to illustrate
alternative solutions to California financing problems.
National trends among community colleges that emerged
included (1) the development of distinct purposes and
identities; (2) funding mechanisms which increasingly
resemble those of four-year institutions; (3) legally
distinct governance and funding; (4) budget review
procedures with line-item appropriations; (5) an increasing
state share of support with decreasing local support; and
(6) the development of the "community college" concept with
a wide variety of programs, courses, and activities. Levels
of support for students, the arguments and consequences of
state/local funding, the variety of finance mechanisms,
finance formulas related to affirmative action, and the
issues of educational equity and tuition and fees were also
explored. Two major conclusions were drawn: before adopting
any finance system a state must (1) decide the basic issues
of mission, breadth of offering, and student body
composition, and (2) recognize the great force among two
year colleges of tradition and local circumstances. The
survey questionnaire and details of the Florida cost
analysis model are appended. (RT)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Community-Colleges; Equal-Education;
Expenditure-Per-Student; Fees-; Financial-Policy; Models-;
National-Surveys; Program-Costs; State-Programs; Tax
Allocation; Tuition-; Values-
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Educational-Finance; *Educational-Trends;
*Financial-Support; *State-Aid; *Two-Year-Colleges
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