Adjusting College Costs for Noncredit Enrollments: An Issue for Data Geeks or Policy Makers?

Autor/inn/en	Romano, Richard M.; Kirshstein, Rita J.; D'Amico, Mark; Hom, Willard; Van Noy, Michelle
Titel	Adjusting College Costs for Noncredit Enrollments: An Issue for Data Geeks or Policy Makers?
Quelle	In: Community College Review, 47 (2019) 2, S.159-177 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0091-5521
DOI	10.1177/0091552119835030
Schlagwörter	Paying for College; Noncredit Courses; Enrollment; Computation; Community Colleges; Expenditure per Student; Error Correction; Data Use; Outcome Measures; Accuracy; State Policy; Community Needs; Vocational Education; Basic Skills; Labor Force Development; Policy Formation; Full Time Equivalency; New York; New Jersey; California; North Carolina + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Studienfinanzierung; Einschulung; Community college; Community College; Korrektur; Ausbildung; Berufsbildung; Basic skill; Grundfertigkeit; Arbeitskräftebestand; Politische Betätigung; Kalifornien
Abstract	Objective: In the first study of its kind, the impact of excluding noncredit enrollments in calculations of spending in community colleges is explored. Noncredit enrollments are not reported to Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), but expenditures for these efforts are. This study corrects for this omission and provides new estimates of spending on community college students in four states. Method: Data on noncredit enrollments were made available from four states--New York, New Jersey, California, and North Carolina. Interviews with campus and state officials within each state helped us verify the findings. In addition, Delta Cost Project data were analyzed and adjusted to account for noncredit enrollments. Results: Our analysis indicates that the expenditure per full-time equivalent (FTE) student measure, which researchers typically use, seriously overstates the resources that community colleges have to spend on educating students; however, great variations exist within and across states. Conclusion: Community colleges are underfunded to an even greater extent than standard IPEDS analyses indicate. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01