Community-College Leaders Grapple with Budget Cuts, Accountability, and Competition

Autor/inn/en	Blumenstyk, Goldie; Sander, Libby; Schmidt, Peter; Wasley, Paula
Titel	Community-College Leaders Grapple with Budget Cuts, Accountability, and Competition
Quelle	In: Chronicle of Higher Education, 54 (2008) 32, (1 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-5982
Schlagwörter	Community Colleges; Competition; Accountability; Budgeting; Retrenchment; Administrators; Meetings; Student Recruitment; School Community Relationship; Data Collection; Institutional Mission + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Community college; Community College; Wettkampf; Verantwortung; Meeting; Tagung; Data capture; Datensammlung
Abstract	The pressures on community colleges have mounted for years; they must balance: competition from the growing for-profit-education industry, demands from lawmakers for more accountability, and the shifting needs of an increasingly complex student body. Most recently, intense financial pressure has been added to the mix as states once again face billion-dollar deficits. Those strains were the main topic as hundreds of community-college leaders met for the annual meeting of the American Association of Community Colleges. The conversation centered not so much on the woes themselves but on what to do about them. Examples included upping the ante on recruiting to make up for budget shortfalls, improving service and community ties to compete with for-profit colleges, and collecting better data to show how two-year colleges are fulfilling their missions. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10